30 July
This one'll have to be fast, because I have to leave the house soon. Usually I write the night before I post, but recently I've gotten lazier and lazier and sometimes wait until the morning.
Which would have worked except for the fact that the power went out overnight which meant that my alarm didn't go off. Well, it would have, had I waited, but it would have been about 5 1/2 hours later.
However, the PSEG man came to check the meter this morning, and though I didn't let him in (I guess my doorbell isn't working again) I heard him telling Cynthia that I wasn't home.
I thought "Gee, I usually get up around the time that the PSEG man comes, I wonder why my alarm didn't go off? I'd better just lie here for another ten minutes before checking," and when I did it was about 40 minutes after I wanted to get up.
So that's why it's gonna be a short entry. And even shorter now that I've spent so much time explaining about how short it's gonna be!
So yesterday I read the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone so named because they thought that Americans wouldn't understand the term "Philosopher's Stone".
I started in the morning and finished in the evening, riveted the entire time. When I finished it, I began it again right away (something I never do). I thought about it all day at work, I read it walking down the street (something that I'm extremely good at) and walked past my doorway twice.
I really loved it alot and can't wait to read the other two, but I don't understand at all why it is such a worldwide phenomenon when Diana Wynne Jones, in my opinion the greatest fantasy children's book writer ever (yes over Eager and Nesbit and Dahl and Lewis), is not.
I cannot imagine any Harry Potter lover not also loving The Lives of Christopher Chant or Witch Week or The Magicians of Caprona or Howl's Moving Castle! Let alone my two favourites, The Homeward Bounders and Fire and Hemlock.
Hey you, yes you with the British copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban because you couldn't wait for it to be published in the States, ever read Charmed Life? Go on, do yourself a favour, you'll love it!
That's it, gotta go. I'll tell you about Harold and Maude tomorrow.
O yeah, and of course I'll never be truly happy until Melody starts writing her journal again, too!
Today's horoscope:
You need a little drama in your life--a little magic, a little escape from everyday life. Be sensible about how you get your kicks.
One year ago today:
"But I want a SNAAAAAACK!!!!!"
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