Don’t expect to hear much from me for a couple of days. Harry Potter comes first. He’s ahead of work, sleep and the boyfriend right now. Especially since the boyfriend had the whole day off and finished the book already. Not that I won’t finish it before I go to work tomorrow afternoon. I’ve got 14 hours until I work again and only 407 pages to go. Sleep be damned.

I did get my copy at the local Barnes & Noble midnight release party. They had a system set up where you could pick up numbered wristbands yesterday at 4 pm. I got in that line since I had the afternoon off, waited for about 25 minutes (and got a little bit of sun), picked up wristband numbers 51-55 and went home. My friend Brian & I showed up at the store around 11 pm, wandered around, got a Polaroid taken, Brian put on a sorting hat (he’s now a Hufflepuff) and they then sorted wristbands 1-50 into a line at the front of the store and 51-100 into a line at the back of the store. We were maybe 6 or 7 people into the back of the store line so we were out the door with books in hand by 12:05. How awesome is that? And it probably sucked to be the person with wristband number 872.

Amazingly I only read the first 5 chapters last night and went to bed by 1:30. However, I woke up at 7:15 this morning with the boyfriend and started reading. We both sat in my living room reading for 4 hours straight this morning. We kept intermittently giggling at different parts in the book but I couldn’t ever tell him what I was giggling at since I was ahead. Then I took a nap for a couple of hours and he kept reading. The nap was kind of a necessity if I wanted to even moderately function as a restaurant manager tonight. My huge Starbucks Dulce de Leche latte was also a necessity this afternoon.

I’m such a dork. Time to go…it’s time to start Chapter 18 and time to hope that I can force myself to bed rather than finishing the book tonight.

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