Anne it looks wonderful! I'm so jealous that you can wear that style.

Anne, that's a FANTASTIC cut on you! Very swanky -- like a lounge singer (NOT a lounge lizard -- big difference). It's so sleek and dramatic -- I love it!

Aiyeee! Anne you look insanely hot. Somebody should be kissing you right now.

I keep trying to tuck my hair behind my ear, then realizing there is no hair there to tuck.

That's right - I still don't have any pictures of your haircut either.

Thank god for Jessica and Anne.

Went to see "Mad Hot Ballroom" tonight--SO CUTE! And I kept picturing Fay saying "Bless!" because the children were so adorable and funny and OMG are they going to be embarassed in ten or fifteen years when their date finds out they were in that movie. Heh.

Also: hardly anyone I know has been on IM today, and I think it's because they were/are all off reading that book! Hmph.

I'm online! Because I finished the book this morning. =)

Not that... we... really talk much. Maybe I should lurk less.

Hee. Well, I'm mostly mad because one certain person is, I suspect, reading the book and thus not online. But it has been amusing to look at the list, and see that it's much smaller than usual, all of today. :)

I'd talk to you, but I think I'm going to sleep now...must get up and buy Harry Potter in the morning! Or, something.

meara, I didn't mind going to the company picnic today at all. It gave me an excuse to miss my 30th high school reunion. No way am I going to admit to being that fucking old by actually going.

Since DH has this thing about all our editions matching, we're still a week or so away from HBP, because our copy shipped from England this morning. I saw someone reading it at the ballpark before the game tonight and was filled with mad envy.

Tonight was the game with the USS Mariner blog people. One of the main posters there writes for Baseball Prospectus, so we had a pregame event featuring a Q&A with M's GM Bill Bavasi and Jim Caple from ESPN. I like Bavasi better than I did before--he answered two hours worth of questions well and seemed to have a good sense of where the club needs to be and what it'll have to do to get there. Caple brought four bats with him--Louisville Slugger saves the specs on all the bats they make, so you can order anyone's bat. He had replicas of Joe Jackson's, Honus Wagner's, Ty Cobb's, and Babe Ruth's. Ruth's was closest in look, weight, and balance to a modern bat. Jackson's weighed a ton and was almost as thick at the handle as it was at the hitting end. I took an experimental swing with it (heck, we all did, with all of them). Now, granted, I am female and out of shape. But still, I can swing an ordinary baseball bat with no difficulties. Not this one--it felt like it was pulling my arms down rather than serving as an extension of my arms.

He'd let the players use them in batting practice, and Beltre and Spiezio hit some balls out of the park with the Wagner bat. Ichiro wouldn't use them, because he didn't want to mess with his rhythm by using equipment so different from his usual so close to game time.

All in all a good evening, even if I only heard half the Q&A because Annabel wasn't in a mood to sit quietly in our laps.

Susan, I feel your pain, though mine is coming from Canada, as they have the UK cover and text, and there's no ocean between.