Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Huh, I'm rather proud of myself. Salon has a review of HP7. The first page is kinda spoilerly (and there are warnings), but they make a serious warning about the second page which will discuss everything including the last page. I decided not to.
Of course, I may cave like a souffle in an earthquake before I actually get the book, but for now I don't need to know.
I'm totally avoiding all reviews until I read the damn book tomorrow!!
We still had people putting the book on reserve last night, and when we had our 8:00 pm cutoff (dictated by the home office), the complaints were loud and vociferous by people who came in/called up afterwards. We're still handing out copies to people who come tomorrow without a reserve, it's just that they're going to have to wait a bit until the reserved people get theirs first.
My shift tonight is 10 pm-2:30 am, and I'm hoping we manage to get through the line by the end of it. We'll have all the registers hopping at midnight and someone bringing up boxes of books for us to just take out, scan the barcode printed out next to the registers, process the transaction, and move on to the next person.
I've got my broomstick end done (lots of raffia tied together and stiffened up with some cardboard shoved down the center and Elmer's Glue drizzled around to keep it in place, I hope). I'm heading over to Target at lunch to pick up some headbands to finagle a way to keep it on my head until midnight at least.
I got an e-mail yesterday from the local bookstore where I have a ticket for the festivities and they've sold out of tickets for their event, which includes a magician and a costume contest. I just got a ticket because I've never done the late night thing and I wanted to see the costumes. Now I feel guilty that I've kept a kid from going.
In case people don't read B'crazy - there is either one jackass with multiple logins or a group of people currently spamming LJ comments with highly detailed HP7 spoilers ("X dies on page Y" type detail), so click with care if anyone on your flist has HP interests listed.
t taps foot, glares at clock
Cool your jets, Nymphadora....
t runs away in the face of pink-haired fury
The Chicago Tribune's "cultural critic" is in London right now and will be picking up a copy at midnight GMT. She has a 12:01 am Central time deadline to read and post her review of the book on the Trib's webpage.
Don't call me Nymphadora! Hee.
I think I need to make a broom.
I've removed "harry potter" from my interests and had my comments set to friends-only to keep the spoiler trolls away. And I've avoided looking at other people's comments, if possible. Assholes.