Friday night

[Jennifer Piersol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David" <dfrankiswork at n...>
wrote:

<snip>

> Does that make me hopelessly anti-social?  I mean, 
> there's all this hoopla with muari (or is it mauri) 
> which loads of people want to do, and I wondered 
> if I was abnormal here.  Or are there others like 
> me?
> 
> David

I guess I'm anti-social, too.  The California group 
is setting up a buying (and reading) party, but I 
just can't bring myself to drive 3 hours and then 
stay up until midnight after all that stressful 
driving (I swear, one of these days, Los Angeles 
traffic is going to give me a stroke).  Not to 
mention the fact that I certainly will NOT want to 
read the book when I get back to the place I'm 
staying, whether it be at the agreed-upon HPfGU-
sanctioned (hahaha) reading site, or my sister-in-
law's apartment.

No, instead, I'm going to my local Evil!Borders 
with my sister and one of my good friends, we're 
going to pick up our copies with a minimum of 
hoopla (but a maximum of free gifts... I hope!), 
drive home and read if we want to (oh, I'll want 
to - but I doubt my sister will).  The only reason 
I'm willing to even take them is because I'd feel 
slightly sheepish at what has been advertised as a 
children's party alone and without my children 
(who will be in bed, like all good children SHOULD 
be... <eg>), but more importantly, I've been 
having a hard time driving at night lately.  My 
eyes have been hurting and I get those halo 
thingees when oncoming cars have their headlights 
on.  And as that's usually the case at night... ;)

(btw, anyone have any idea what this could be 
caused by?)

So I'm also avoiding a "public" pre-book get-
together.

Hey, maybe we anti-social party poopers should 
all get together sometime....

-Jen