Introduction

[Jeremy Welsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 9753

Hello.

I guess I will follow the trend and send an email off to the list to introduce myself.  I, too, am a recent subscriber, prompted to enter the fray by the Salon.com article (Salon, quite possibly, is my favorite internet site; intelligent, fresh, humorous . . . ).  And after two days of being subscribed, I am just amazed by the volume of emails that I get!  I come into work with four complete Digests waiting for me.  Rather incredible . . .

Just a bit of background.  I am a 25 year old architect and urban designer here in Pittsburgh, my home town.  Last Christmas, after getting somewhat sucked-into the growing media hype that surrounded the first two Harry Potter books, I asked for Year One.  Well, I might have been the only fan down at Phish's Big Cypress Celebration reading Harry Potter between sets (it made for an interesting combination of images and feelings); it didn't take me long to be hooked.  I came close to finishing the book driving/sitting in the traffic jam on the way out of the concert, and a day later, I had to go track down the Second Year in Sarasota.  Which I finished in a day.  I guess I liked the books . . .

As a youngin', I really enjoyed works of fantasy (particularly Tolkein and the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy).  I have really enjoyed finding a series that takes me back to those joys of my youth; a fantasy series that is fun, somewhat light, humorous, and easy to read.

As I said above, I am a bit amazed by the volume, and the intelligence, of emails that I have been receiving.  While I don't think I am obsessed as some of you out there ; ) , I think I do need to pick the books back up again and read them through for the second time.

I know I am jumping into this a bit late, but I was wondering how many of you went to one of those Midnight sales of Year Four.  My fiancé and I went to a bookstore that evening, after a Phish show, and we were blown away by the number of kids and adults filling the store.  It was Midnight!  Shouldn't have all those kids been in bed?!  ; )  Needless to say, I was a bit tired and decided not to wait the two hours it would have taken to get the book.  I picked it up the next day . . .

Thanks for reading and take care!


jeremy welsh

"I call Architecture frozen Music."
     -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832)