No T-BAY Weather Warning? (actually a Thankyou Note)

[grannybat84112]

No: HPFGUIDX 61110

Hello.

I'm one of those annoying people who logs in regularly to read HP4GU 
but who never posts. I'm stumbling bleary-eyed and hesitant into the 
light of day in order to say what needs to be said:

Thanks.

As of next Saturday I will have been unemployed for an entire year. 
During this time HP4GU and the release of OOP have been the only 
consistent beacons of humor and hope for me. I have been continually 
engrossed, thrilled, and cracked up by the speculations, 
relationships, and character development in Theory Bay. The 
personalities, literary allusions, and quality of writing is just too 
compelling to give up.

The Good Ship LOLLIPOPS. The Elkins and her hobbyhorse, Affective 
Fallacy. The Crouch Family Saga. Captain Cindy growing more and more 
beligerant as she runs up her bar tab at George's. Occasional filks 
(the Azhkaban Tango and Marina's Model of an Antihero Archetype had 
me rolling in the aisles.) The Memory Charms Symposia at the onshore 
museum. The proliferation of pins, badges, thongs, rubber duckies, 
GARBAGE SCOWS, hovercrafts, notes in bottles, kayaks, trimarans, 
destroyers, and all the rest of the SHIPs, flotsam, and jetsam. 

Saturday morning I will pick up the copy of OOP that I reserved 
months ago from the local library. (I'm #42 out of 350 reserves; the 
city system has ordered 60 copies. Good book elf, clever book elf!) 
As eager as I am to delve into the next installment of 
Snape's^H^H^H^H^ Harry's life, I can't help but feel a pang of 
sadness that the devastation of Hurricane Jo will sweep so many of 
the T-BAY denizens out to sea.

That being the case...where is the Emergency Weather PSA? No sirens 
from the Safe House? No epic description of the Big Bang battening 
down the hatches? No breathless last-minute thoughts from the senior 
residents as they heave sandbags and bolt for high ground? No 
haunting word picture of Stoned Harry serenely skating over the dark, 
angry waves, secure in the knowledge of his place in literary history?

I'm shocked.

But then, maybe you're all exhausted from moderating the flood of 
posts from last-minute newbies. Or you're carefully conserving your 
strength for the reading marathon to come.

;)

Thanks for being there. I look forward to reading all of you after 
the list re-opens.

Happy OOP Day.


Grannybat
returning to her state
of Deep Lurk