So how will you be reading?

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

I am having a really hard time getting any work done.  I just read a 
major spoiler, which I don't believe, and the (supposed) first two 
pages of HBP, which *looked* right, but are so totally unlike 
anything else at all in the other 5 books that I have my doubts.  I 
also know where a certain someone (a member of this group, I 
believe) has posted a (locked) copy of the first chapter but I'm 
going to be a good girl and not use any one of several methods I 
have thought up for viewing it.  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

Here's what I *am* going to do:

I'm going to sit here for the next 4 hours and do my work!  Next 
week is going to be the Week From Hell at work, with 7 meetings 
already scheduled.

Then, I'm going to go home.  Amy's going to meet me at the train 
station, we're going to have a quick bite to eat, then we're going 
to go see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Since I love Roald 
Dahl, Tim Burton, and Johnny Depp, this would ordinarily be an 
incredibly exciting event all by itself, but then of course after 
the movie, we will go home, pet the dog, put on our pointy hats, and 
head over to our friendly neighborhood independent bookstore and 
push all the little kids out of our way to be as close to the front 
of the line as possible so that we can get our books on the stroke 
of midnight.  Well, actually, Amy probably won't let me push them, 
but maybe I can distract her.

Then, we'll rush home, toss our pointy hats and the rest of our 
clothes to the floor and hurriedly put on our pajamas.  We'll run 
into the bedroom, where there will be a cat snoring at the food of 
the bed  and a dog snoozing on the floor.   Then, we will curl up in 
bed with a bowl of popcorn, bag of pistachios, and box of chocolate -
- we'll tear open our books and then WE'LL GET TO READ Harry Potter 
and the Half Blood Prince!

Well, if we don't fall asleep first, that is.  Maybe we'd better 
stop for coffee somewhere along the way. 

BTW, I hate all you people who live further east than I do who will 
get to read HBP in just a few hours.  I'm not talking to any of 
you!  (Until Sunday or so, anyway.)

Joywitch Z. Curmudgeon