How I feel

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 61321

I have been trying to express how excited, and happy, and frustrated 
I feel at waiting for OoP.  The day is here at last -- unbelievable, 
no?  I can't remember if I was this excited on GoF day, but I think I 
was.  And then I remembered the post that Neil made that day, almost 
3 years ago, back when HPfGU was a smaller, cozier, and very 
different place, and I realized that he, as usual, said it all:

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Original Yahoo! HPFG Header:
No: 3561
From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Okay, it's started!
Date: 7/8/00 12:36 am (ET)

It's now around 5.40am here in London, and I'm wide awake, like a 
seven year-old on Christmas Eve, mind racing like a souped-up 
Hogwarts Express, nerves tight enough to snap in half...

It's gone midnight in some US states, so some lucky people now have 
their copies of GoF! I just checked my harrypotteranonymous e-mails 
and Lori (author of PoU, I believe) posted a message, just after the 
strike of 12, saying she'd got it. First across the line...

Okay, it's time to start lining my nest, ready for the reading
event. Better catch some shuteye too, or my eyeballs will look like
peeled tomatoes by 8am.

A toast: -

All raise your glasses - "to the boy who lived!"

Neil
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--Joywitch, who wants to hear what Neil has to say about OoP almost 
as much as she wants to read it