eyes crossed
So I disappeared on Friday for the Harry Potter release and have resurfaced a little more than 24 hours later. With a stop at the beach where I totally underestimated the strength of the sun and now look like a lobster.
I work 2 blocks away from the Scholastic headquarters in SoHo, NYC and wandered over on Friday to see that they had taken over the street and totally decked it out HP style. There were themed booths for press check in (The Daily Prophet) and Owl Emporium, whole nine yards. I decided to skip that experience mainly to avoid the little children. But still cool.
Went to B&N with some friends. By the time we got there at 10:30ish, then line was through the store, into the stockroom, out the back door and down the block. I was pretty close to the head of the section that was around the block and it was funny as hell to see peoples faces as they came out and saw the line. Unfortunately, I stayed on line while my friends wandered off and got stuck standing next to a squealing bunch of teenage girls. God I hope I wasn't like that as a teenager.
Saturday off to Long Beach with a friend. It was hazy and foggy for hours, so I never expected for my face to get burnt as badly as it did. I think I sweated off most of my sunscreen on my face because I had only put on lotion with SPF rather than Coppertone Sport. Oh well, my bad. It looks better today and I'm sure will be pretty ok by tomorrow. The rest of me is just sort of tan.
Finished HP at about 11pm yesterday. Hmmmm.
Soooooo.
Where's my fighting between Draco and Harry? Only one good fight? That's just not fair. I know she needed Draco for other stuff, but I missed Draco's snarky mouth and the fights between the Slytherin's and Griffindor's. Harry's obsession with Draco just wasn't that fleshed out, but I did agree with Harry's annoyance with Ron and Hermione's dismissal of his worries.
Dumbledore! How could he have made such an error in judgment?!?! I kept hoping that he was right about Snape despite all appearances to the contrary, but ack! I am not (too) ashamed to admit I cried like a baby at the end. How many more people does HArry have to lose?
Ahh, but how happy am I that my prediction about Harry and Ginny came true? She's perfect for him and the descriptions on Harry's inner turmoil over his feeling was hysterical at times. SQUEEE!!!!! Even the ending didn't piss me off, because it's so Harry. Sadness.
As for the Ron and Hermione thing, its nice to see that Hermione is as human as the rest of them, and that Ron is as dense as teenage boys usually are. And Ron's "relationship" with Lavender just made me want to gack. But at least Ron got some practice snogging. Poor boy.
As usual, I will be rereading.
Sadly, today I must clean. And I have got to put the A/C on because its so damn hot in my apartment that the only thing I really want to do is veg on the sofa and be slug-like.
Ugh.
I work 2 blocks away from the Scholastic headquarters in SoHo, NYC and wandered over on Friday to see that they had taken over the street and totally decked it out HP style. There were themed booths for press check in (The Daily Prophet) and Owl Emporium, whole nine yards. I decided to skip that experience mainly to avoid the little children. But still cool.
Went to B&N with some friends. By the time we got there at 10:30ish, then line was through the store, into the stockroom, out the back door and down the block. I was pretty close to the head of the section that was around the block and it was funny as hell to see peoples faces as they came out and saw the line. Unfortunately, I stayed on line while my friends wandered off and got stuck standing next to a squealing bunch of teenage girls. God I hope I wasn't like that as a teenager.
Saturday off to Long Beach with a friend. It was hazy and foggy for hours, so I never expected for my face to get burnt as badly as it did. I think I sweated off most of my sunscreen on my face because I had only put on lotion with SPF rather than Coppertone Sport. Oh well, my bad. It looks better today and I'm sure will be pretty ok by tomorrow. The rest of me is just sort of tan.
Finished HP at about 11pm yesterday. Hmmmm.
Soooooo.
Where's my fighting between Draco and Harry? Only one good fight? That's just not fair. I know she needed Draco for other stuff, but I missed Draco's snarky mouth and the fights between the Slytherin's and Griffindor's. Harry's obsession with Draco just wasn't that fleshed out, but I did agree with Harry's annoyance with Ron and Hermione's dismissal of his worries.
Dumbledore! How could he have made such an error in judgment?!?! I kept hoping that he was right about Snape despite all appearances to the contrary, but ack! I am not (too) ashamed to admit I cried like a baby at the end. How many more people does HArry have to lose?
Ahh, but how happy am I that my prediction about Harry and Ginny came true? She's perfect for him and the descriptions on Harry's inner turmoil over his feeling was hysterical at times. SQUEEE!!!!! Even the ending didn't piss me off, because it's so Harry. Sadness.
As for the Ron and Hermione thing, its nice to see that Hermione is as human as the rest of them, and that Ron is as dense as teenage boys usually are. And Ron's "relationship" with Lavender just made me want to gack. But at least Ron got some practice snogging. Poor boy.
As usual, I will be rereading.
Sadly, today I must clean. And I have got to put the A/C on because its so damn hot in my apartment that the only thing I really want to do is veg on the sofa and be slug-like.
Ugh.