Friday night

[tesseract197]

*jumping on the thread several days late because she absolutely 
cannot bear keeping quiet any more and her RL friends, family and 
coworkers are sick and tired of hearing her rant*

My Friday night here in northwest Missouri will go something like 
this:
~~Work until 11:30. The earliest I'd be able to leave is 11:15, and 
my boss is already worried that I won't be able to make it even that 
far--she's got this crazy idea I might be distracted or something.
~~Drive to the Hastings store 10 minutes away and wait for midnight.
~~Pick up 2 preordered copies of OotP (1 for me, 1 to send to my mom 
in central Ohio--that's a whole big saga) and accompanying free 
chocolate. My friend in south Texas says her Hastings is giving out 
Chocolate Frogs, but we Missourians just get Hershey bars--harrumph.
~~Drive to my apartment 10 minutes away.
~~Read OotP until I fall asleep. I'd like to make the first read-
through last a week or so, but realistically speaking I'll probably 
devour it in a few days. It would be even faster, but I have to make 
time for work (curse my nights-and-weekends schedule) and sleep.

This plan doesn't leave much time for socializing, which is fine by 
me. I just want to buy the book, get it home and start reading with 
as few distractions as possible (although I wouldn't turn down 
freebies if offered). I think I'll stop by Hastings tomorrow to ask 
about their plans, just so I know what I'm getting into.

So that's my private OotP release ritual. It shall commence in less 
than 4 days. Yayyy!

Tess
who is concerned beyond words at the idea that a fellow shopper 
might blurt out spoilers while waiting in line to pay. People suck.