Nosing around YouTube, I also was amused by Barack Girl vs. Giuliani Girl

This is going to be the craziest election ever.

Before going to WeightWatchers for my weekly weigh-in, I blogged about how I was going to wait patiently for our British edition of HP7 to arrive. It's a good thing I did, because I ran by the grocery store to pick up something for lunch afterward, and I nearly bought a copy spur-of-the-moment. But then I reminded myself of what I'd just blogged, and that I could buy three brand new paperbacks of my choice for that price instead of having two copies of the same book.

Susan! The Canadian edition is identical to the British, and doesn't have to come over ocean! Course, I'm still not getting mine till I get to my parents' place in a week t twitch. twitch

Yeah, no idea why DH didn't order from Canada rather than the UK. That's why we have the British editions in the first place--we were in Victoria for our honeymoon, and we bought the first two books there. DH has a stronger collector/decorator gene than I do, or something, so he likes having all our editions match.

DH has a stronger collector/decorator gene than I do, or something, so he likes having all our editions match

Oh, I sympathize mightily. All of my Buffy DVDs, except for season 5, got ripped off and I've been replacing them slowly. The newer DVDs come in slimline packages and my S5 is in the floppy fold out package. It grates.

Well, I have to admit that I'm holding out on buying all the Sharpe books as opposed to getting them from the library until Bernard Cornwell stops writing them, because I figure then his publisher is bound to put out a nice, matching, beautifully packaged boxed set, which I can shelve beside my Aubrey/Maturin boxed set. As is stands now, the series has at least three different cover styles, one of which I really dislike, and some are MM while others are trade pb, so they'd look sloppy on a bookshelf. I did, however, buy a few of my favorites when he was keynote speaker at a writers conference I attended so I could get them autographed.

It probably just shows I'm less invested in HP than in Sharpe or Aubrey/Maturin.

What drives me batty is when they make a movie of a really good book, and you can only afterwards find it with movie tie-in covers.

Totally. Only one of my autographed Sharpes has Sean Bean on the cover, for, lo, I am shallow when the guy is sufficiently hot.

That's so cool about Emmett!

Still reading past page 500 now, still enjoying the heck out of it.

I am pleased to report that following his dissertation defense yesterday, Bob Bob is now Dr. Bob Bob!