Temporary Goodbye/What I did Friday Night

[Tyler Hewitt]

Hi All
Only read about 7 chapters of OoP so far, so upon reading the subject
lines of the last two digests have decided not to read mail from this
list for a bit. I am leaving for England on Monday and was planning on
setting my preferences to this list and the HPFGU main list to no mail
while I was away, I'll just do it a day earlier than I had planned.

For those who haven't read OoP yet, and those who want something else
to discuss (yeah, right!) I'll ask: What did you end up doing Friday
night?
Here's what I did: I went to see the new Hulk movie (go see it, it's
much better than I expected, Ang Lee gave it a very unique visual
style). The film let out around 11:50pm, so I wandered down the street
a few blocks to the big Borders Books on Chicago's Magnificent Mile to
see what was going on.
It was barely contained chaos. People everywhere, mostly adults, not
very many in costume. Borders had a color-coded bookmark system to get
reserved copies of OoP to people. They would announce which of the
four floors your color needed to go to pick up your book.
Unfortunately, the sound system in the store could not be heard above
all the people, so they would announce something and no one would hear
it. It was kind of nuts, so we only stayed about 10 minutes and then left.
Spent the rest of the evening (and a night of surprisingly troubled
sleep) thinking that I could have bought a copy there and had several
hours of reading time in before my copy from Amazon.com arrived on
Saturday afternoon. Imagine my surprise when a postal delivery person
popped a copy into my mailbox before 10:00 am Saturday. Mail usually
doesn't arrive until mid afternoon here. It wasn't the usual delivery
person, so I asked her if delivering Harry Potter books was her job
for the day. Sure enough, the mini-van she was driving has packed with
what must have been several hundred white Amazon.com boxes (by the
way, the Amazon.com shipping boxes were specially printed for this
book, a nice little item for the collection).
So, I brewed up a batch of iced tea, grabbed the book, and spent an
enjoyable couple of hours sitting in the backyard reading. 
My partner is taking a turn with the book now, I couldn't shut up
about it so he's trying to catch up to me.

Anyways, enough rambling. Happy reading and discussing, everyone. I'll
tune in after I return July 6 to catch up on the latest theories.

tyler