IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!

It storms on this lovely Saturday evening, at around six o clock here on the east coast. Excellent, most excellent.

Many of you may ask, "Excellent?! Whyso? It's raining." I promptly reply: because, eighteen hours ago, at the stroke of 12:01 Eastern Standard Time, the registers at Waldenbooks, Borders, and Barnes & Noble, among other many booksellers, began to tally up the totals on hundreds of thousands of copies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

At the mall, in the Waldenbooks there, I was first in line at eight o clock in the evening to receive the purple, fancy tickets that told one and all I would be the first to receive a copy of the long-awaited sixth book in the Harry Potter saga.

Mother drove me home, then, and i started reading it at about 12:15 AM this morning, falling asleep at around 3 and reading throughout the day, sporadically, for about 15 minutes at a time. I'd say it's taken me about 5 hours to get through the first 144 pages of the thick, hardback novel. Never fear, here comes the gauntlet: I'm not going to stop except for the bathroom and food/drink until the last page has been read.

Buwahahaha. Next up: I've done it!!!!!!!!!