Geeky Yet Waterproof

As you probably know, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Seventh, the Long-Awaited, the Final Harry Potter Book, was released by J.K. Rowling to us humans today, July 21st 2007, at midnight. So naturally, as most of the known world was partying and drinking lots of caffeine late into the night, we weren’t about to miss the last Harry Potter book release party.

Borders was a (magical) jungle. When we walked in, the first thing I saw was a line stretching from the front of the store to the back. It was the coffee line.

I saw a lot of people I knew, including four Bearcats and a lot of people from the North High School swim team. Though I noticed most of them immediately, they didn’t all recognize me at first sight in my black robe, carrying my Magical Chopstick (10″, and phoenix feather, btw).

But just because we were at the release doesn’t mean we got the book on the first try… To be able to get a Harry Potter book, you had to be wearing a plastic bracelet of one out of six colors. There was one line for each bracelet color, but they were doing just one line at a time.
We didn’t know what order the colors were going in, but people kept looking at our green bracelet and wincing. We had only been waiting for about an hour, but since I had morning practice the next day, we took it as a sign that it was time to give up and come back in 12 hours. Which we did, and we now have two Harry Potter books (that is, until we have to deliver one to a friend tomorrow who was too lazy to get it himself!).