Gronk.

Must find directions, check weather (seriously why do LA and San Diego not have the same basic weather?) shower and head to LA. Which will be fun once I get there but right now just sounds like too many hours in the car.

I have the audio versions of the HP books (excepting the new one) so I guess I can just think of it as spending a few hours reading. At over 70 mph.

But only after another cup of coffee because I don't know what I want to wear today much less tomorrow.

Sorry your evening didn't go well, bt.

Okay, since I'm a complete moron about the international dateline and all that jazz, bt, was your first speed dating evening a weekday and this second on the weekend? Maybe you should just stick to weekday ones, because it sounds like the numbers are more managable.

Yep. I think it's more that it was a different company running it. But yes, any further speed dating will be through the services of the first company.

Hooray for Billytea and his moves.

Well, quite. I got an email back from Bec about the lack of responses from the first event. It helped a lot. So question: just how weird would it be to tell some woman you're interested in, "I'm a great guy and make a wonderful partner, but don't just take it from me, here's my wife's number"? Because, as she put it, she's my biggest advocate. (And I'm hers too, of course.) And that's nice, but I can see no good way to make that work for me, on a first date at least.

It's a good thing I'm busy w/ errands and chores today, or I'd be going nuts waiting for HP. Also, I'm in the middle of Michael Chabon's Summerland, so that takes away some of the anticipation as well.

I've had a haircut already this morning, and I'll be going in for a Bobbi Brown makeover at the local mall this afternoon. Whee!

I don't think that would work on ANY date, BT! Nice of her to offer, though.

Sorry your evening didn't go well, bt.

Oh, it's ok. I'm only out large wads of cash. At least my self-image hasn't taken a beating. That's what tomorrow is for!

I don't think that would work on ANY date, BT! Nice of her to offer, though.

Hee. That's what I figured. But it's nice to know my personal life remains odd. ("Relationships, much like Australian animals, come in three varieties: venomous, odd, and sheep.")

sorry it didn't work bt.

and people are just odd about being mean p-c.

DH and I went to B&N for HP. they gave out numbered wristbands for yellow for reserved and orange for non reserved. We were reserved - and because they called everyone up in groups of 20 - we were out of there in 45 minutes ( our number was 239)

Too bad about the second speed-dating event, BT.

This is what I looked like about an hour ago, when my hair was bleached and standing straight up.

and people are just odd about being mean p-c.

I think the Bitches would appreciate my friend's take on it:

Spectral Bovine: People are fuckheads.
Spectral Bovine: It even mentions the page.
mineownaardvarks: Oh for crying out loud.
mineownaardvarks: Why would someone do that?
mineownaardvarks: Seriously.
mineownaardvarks: What would be the pleasure someone would get out of that?
mineownaardvarks: Hate.
mineownaardvarks: Maybe it's the Pope. :-P
mineownaardvarks: "In a statement Saturday, the Holy Father condemned the books as wiles of the Devil, adding 'Also, in book six, Hermione dies, and Seamus Finnegan is the Half Blood Prince. So ha ha.'"

Later:

mineownaardvarks: Maybe this is the terrorists' new diabolical plan.
mineownaardvarks: "What are they celebrating?" "A new book-- there are bookselling parties everywhere, joy and capitalism unabated..." "SPOIL IT FOR THEM."
mineownaardvarks: Then they get back to bin Laden and are all proudly, "We told them X happens!'" and bin Laden is like "YOU FOOL! I HAVE NOT GOTTEN THAT FAR YET! MY AMAZON.COM COPY ONLY ARRIVED THIS MORNING!"

DH was thrilled at the B&N crowd - because there had to be at leasst 400 people buying books.