Not listening - lalalalalaa!
Joining the conformity forum… Yes, let’s talk about Harry Potter along with the 687 other blogs you’ve read since Saturday. I wasn’t a fan for a long time. I didn’t start reading the series until after book four had made it to paperback and even now I’m probably a mediocre fan at best. I usually wait to see the movies when they’re on DVD and I’ve never had the urge to sew Hogwarts robes or join the block party when each new book comes out. However, I love reading and I appreciate that I can always count on the HP books to deliver a great read. I’m starting to go a bit nuts because I don’t have book seven yet and every time I log onto the internet or pick up the phone or go out in public I feel like I’m playing Russian Roulette. Someone, somewhere is going to let something slip and I do not want to know what happens. I want to experience it myself and savor the delicious tension with every turn of the page as I wait for the logic to unfold. Why haven’t I trotted right out and bought the book? With most of our expendable income going to hospital bills and lawyers, I don’t have $30+ to plunk down for a book right now. Also, I have approximately eleventy-hundred other things to accomplish this week and I really don’t have time to become immersed in a book - which is exactly what would happen, my willpower being what it is. So I wait. I’ve placed a hold on a copy at the library and I’m currently number 973. I figure it’ll be at least six weeks before my number comes up and in the meantime, I’m walking around with my fingers in my ears. Random List of Grievances 1. Why does the neighbor send her daughter over to swim in a bikini with no sunscreen when it’s 100 degrees outside? This is the neighbor with the horrible barking dogs (we’re trying to play nice) so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but still. What is this, 1942 when mothers parked their kids in the sun for a daily nap? I think not. I made her use my sunscreen; no second degree burns on my watch please. 2. Why the zipper seal on a new package of socks? Who is storing their socks in this flimsy little bag and needs to be able to seal them in? Anyone? 3. Nonsenseical sign in the window of the Wal-Mart bakery: “Tortillas will be given out in the order they are received.” Our Wal-Mart makes fresh flour tortillas in the store and they are darn good and usually sell out almost as soon as they’re cooked. People actually gather outside the bakery waiting for the tortillas to hit the sales floor so I can understand the need for some sort of distribution policy. But this sign? I’ve analyzed it in every way I know how and I still can’t make sense of it. Plus now I’m angry at Wal-Mart for wasting my time and my brain power with their puzzling logic. 4. Hey, Craigslist guy with the writing job? Asking me to rewrite all 50 pages of your report and calling it an “application test” isn’t nearly as sneaky and brilliant as you think it is. Go find someone else to exploit.
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July 25th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Costco. $18.95, I think it was. I walked in the day after and there was a huuuuuuuuuuge display FULL of books.
Sure, it’s still $18.95, but that’s a lot cheaper than the $34.99 suggested retail.
This one, I’m reading aloud with my boys. We’re all experiencing it together. We’re about a third of the way through. In the meantime, I’m with you… I walk around in the world with my fingers in my ears shouting “LA LA LAAAAA! I’M NOT LISTENING!”
July 25th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
I remember that craigslist guy. He tried it on me a few years ago. God I’m a sucker. Great post.
Mike