7.16.2005
'arry Potter
This is the first year that I've gone out of my way to get the next Harry Potter instalment early. I, and apparently 600 other people, reserved the Half-Blood Prince and went up the borders in Wilver Spring to pick it up. It wasn't too much of a wait, and I did get to take one plastic wand to the lost and found and then 2 searching small children to the lost and found to retrieve it (I guessed they were looking for it as a 10 year old girl in a hat and cape marched purposefully by, trailed by a 7 year old boy who was trying to keep up and saying "well, where are all the places you've been?").
The only other eventful aspect of the evening was killing one roach and then having another one crawl out from behind the booth in the first place we went to eat (the sushi place by the Macaroni Grill in Silver Spring). Despite having already placed our order and the hostess's assurances that they were "beetles" (um, yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah, of the cockroach variety), we left.
And then, imagine my surprise when I discovered the misuse of 'site' on page 10, only a couple of minutes into my metro platform reading! How many editors read this book? It's on page 10 fer cryin out loud! I was a little irked at the idea that I'd stayed up until 2 in the morning in order to buy a book with such an obvious mistake (but not irked enough to scan the page in at 3am to show you). I figure the UK readers are all over that, barring the chance that it's only an error in the US (Scholastic, that would be educational-books-for-kids-that-aren't-supposed-to-mix-up-site-and-sight) edition.
So there's that. And now, to bed, perchance to read.
The only other eventful aspect of the evening was killing one roach and then having another one crawl out from behind the booth in the first place we went to eat (the sushi place by the Macaroni Grill in Silver Spring). Despite having already placed our order and the hostess's assurances that they were "beetles" (um, yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah, of the cockroach variety), we left.
And then, imagine my surprise when I discovered the misuse of 'site' on page 10, only a couple of minutes into my metro platform reading! How many editors read this book? It's on page 10 fer cryin out loud! I was a little irked at the idea that I'd stayed up until 2 in the morning in order to buy a book with such an obvious mistake (but not irked enough to scan the page in at 3am to show you). I figure the UK readers are all over that, barring the chance that it's only an error in the US (Scholastic, that would be educational-books-for-kids-that-aren't-supposed-to-mix-up-site-and-sight) edition.
So there's that. And now, to bed, perchance to read.
