Bit of Ivory

After I take my shower and don my Hogwarts T-shirt and Ravenclaw necklace (I’ll put on my Ravenclaw uniform closer to The Time), I’m going to make Harry Potter cookies. While listening to the CoS soundtrax. I’m sitting here looking at my HP calendar (which today has Harry and Ron trying to get through the barrier to Platform 9 3/4), not even believing that it’s FINALLY HERE, and that in a scant few hours, I will be holding new canon in my hot little hand. I slept very badly last night (although I had the oddest dream about me being a witch and flying at Emporer Gregor’s wedding– I have NO IDEA where that came from), so I’m exhausted, but I just know that I’m going to be staying up as late as possible reading this book. I doubt I’ll stay up all night– my body just shuts itself down when I get this tired, no matter how much I’d like to stay up– but I have no doubt that I’ll finish it before I go to sleep tonight.

Let’s think here. I finished GoF at about 7:30 on July 8. Now, that was with having read through chapter 8 in the back room at Deseret Book on July 7, then reading through ch. 10 before I went to bed– but I had to work at our Harry Potter Party that day, and only got through about ch. 12 at work after it all calmed down, so I wasn’t even 1/3 of the way through the book as of 3:00. I read the whole rest of it in 4 and a half hours. Add 164 more pages to that, and I really think I’ll be done with the whole book by no later than 8:00. That’s my guess.

O my gosh, I can hardly type. I’m getting WAAY too excited here. Must calm down. Must calm down. Must. . .

Oh, heck. There’s no point in even trying.

*Does Happy Snoopy Dance*

Oh, AtE 43 was good. But between reading the epilogue and reading new canon– canon wins.

EDITED to add:
And I’d really better prepare my Primary lesson today. There’s no possible way I’ll have time to do it tomorrow. Oh, trying to teach a bunch of 7/8 year olds when I’ve been up all night reading canon. . .Primary is going to be INTERESTING, that’s for sure.