The coolest Potter news since the announcement of the release date!

I was listening to PotterCast today, like I always do, and I had noticed in the show notes that Melissa had a big announcement. Being that I am quite in awe of Melissa, I was rather curious to hear what it was.
So. Get this: Melissa Anelli, of PotterCast and The Leaky Cauldron, is writing a book. Now, the staff of MuggleNet also wrote a book, which rather interested me, which is full of their opinions on what happens in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I didn't read it, but I was quite impressed that they did that.
But no. Melissa is writing a book on the experience of being a Harry Potter fan. The entire fandom, from the podcasts to the Wizard Rock (Potter-themed music). John and Sue will be starring in it... as will Dawlish.
This is just so awesome, because we've all gone through this same experience. This is a book I'll want to read, when it comes out in November 2008.
Oh, and the blog challenge for this week, courtesy of John Noe, is to design the teaser poster for the movie based on Melissa's book. That was a joke, and as it happens I have no idea what to put on that poster anyway.
So, I am so excited about this. Congratulations, Melissa! This totally made my day.

Aaah...

I just had to come in here and mention that I've been working full long days (till somewhere between 7 and 11) in school on backdrops and costumes for our Purim play. Sooo much work...

This was my day

Oy, oy. First of all, I'm so stiff from my PE running Bagrut yesterday. Moving is painful.
That said, my grade is putting on our Hachtara, this massive Purim thing by the 12th grade, on Monday, so there was almost nobody in class because everyone was working on it. The few classes I was in were a joke because there were like 5 girls in there, so the teachers just talked to us about whatever was on their minds.
After that, during my free class, I had my 2nd 1st driving lesson- I finally switched teachers, and it's kind of hard to tell how good it was because I need to get used to the teacher and the car...
When I went back to school I didn't even have classes, because everyone was working on decorating the school. I joined them, so we just painted for the rest of the day.
This was my day. What else is new? My obsessions you may have seen in my previous posts are doing well, I'm over the HP date thing (at least for now), and my latest thing is listening to old PotterCasts and MuggleCasts, because they used to be so little...
Shabbat Shalom!

The Wizard of Oz: Followup

I watched this movie tonight because I've become somewhat obsessed with the other side of its story. I wanted to sit there watching it and just see it completely differently, because I love Elphaba and Glinda and the wizard is a jerk.
So... the first conclusion I came to is: I hate old movies.
Next, every time I saw Elphie in the movie, I had to keep repeating to myself that she's annoyed and misunderstood. I hated that. I love her, which is just another reason I have no desire to watch that movie too often...
And Glinda! I so prefer the dumb blonde. In the movie, she's this queen-like thing and never says anything like "The 'Ga' is silent."
The wizard was great. He is and will always be the idiotic phony he is. We don't like him.
BTW, I really liked the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. In Wicked the book, they were almost irrelevant, in the musical *ahem* less so. (This is the only thing I didn't like about the musical...) So there wasn't much for me to complain about regarding them. They were cute.
Anyway, that's it. Not really my thing...

Euphoria

I love that word.
Today I handed in my very last Beintchumi. Ever. And don't go telling me about all those papers I'm going to have to write in my future school career, because I couldn't care less about them right now. I also functioned today on 3.5 hours of sleep, after going to bed last night at 3, got the paper printed even though the printer was acting up, and had time to get lost in town during my free class to bind it.
But now, I'm freeee! The euphoria came a bit late because I was falling over and because of that stupid printer, but I'm really free! Now for all of the things "I'm going to do after the Beintchumi..."
For one thing, I never ever watch movies. I'm watching a movie tonight- The Wizard of Oz, which I've wanted to see again ever since the summer, when I got a *ahem* new perspective after reading Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and especially after seeing the musical.
Anything else? Oh, we started advertising our Hachtara at school. More on that later...

It's really ending now!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is coming out on July 21st, 2007.
Let me rephrase that. My obsession is ending on July 21st, 2007.
I'm going to go sit in a corner and cry.

EDIT:I need to vent more. You should have seen me just now, walking around my house like a zombie. I'm really deppressed, and the weirdest thing is it was completely unexpected. I was always the person who said, "HP will be over, and I'll get on with my life. There are other things."
Scratch that. I was almost crying...
This summer is going to be insane. A movie, THE book 8 days later, and all those conventions you hear about... Oy.
OMG, this is making me tired now. I'm probably not finished venting yet, but that's all I have for now.
No, wait, I have more. Just think, if Harry dies (which is NOT happening!), he will be DEAD in 6 months.
Sorry about the mood...