My T-shirt

I forgot about the T-shirt I got yesterday. It's awesome! It says Yogipie. It's purple and brown. I would love to have 5,000 of them to give out to random people. Methinks that would increase readership more than one-thousandfold. I think I should update more speedily.

-Yogipie the Readerless

Harmonica

I wish I knew how to play the harmonica. And yet even if I knew how, I don't think I would be very good at it; my lungs are phenomenally weak. I might learn how to play anyway, because the harmonica is such an awesome instrument. Lately I have been really into these songs:"Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles, "She's not There" by Santana, and the Monk theme by Jeff Beal. This post was pretty random. I will be back later with more to talk about... hopefully.

Table of Harry Potter Statistics

I "learned" how to do this with HTML. Oh yeah, and my hardcover HP collection is complete now that Deathly Hallows has been added. Don't ask me why there's a mile of empty space there; just scroll through and examine my handiwork!

Book	# of Pages	# of Chapters	Average # of Pages per Chapter
Sorcerer's Stone	309	17	18
Chamber of Secrets	341	18	19
Prisoner of Azkaban	435	22	20
Goblet of Fire	734	37	20
Order of the Phoenix	870	38	23
Half-Blood Prince	652	30	22
Deathly Hallows	759 (including Epilogue)	36 (excluding Epilogue)	21 (excluding Epilogue)

SPOILER ALERT

I finished Deathly Hallows Sunday night; sorry I'm so late, but as time is no longer my goal I feel free as a... damn, I've got nothing (Don't you hate it when your similes elude you?). ROSA I thought it was an excellent read, certainly epic, and certainly exciting enough to keep slow readers up in the wee hours of the morning. The body count, however, was tragically, unnecessarily, and yet unsurprisingly high. I simply don't think J.K. needed to kill off so many friends to satisfy her readers. I created a neat circuit today, using an electronics kit. It made a whistling or beeping sound when the lights went on. I thought it would be cool to have several different circuits in several different rooms all set at different frequencies, and use the fuse box as a musical keyboard.... Tomorrow I am going to buy myself a customized airbrushed T-shirt bearing the name Yogipie; it's going to be awesome!

Copperfield's

I went on a trip to Copperfield's Books today. I finally pre-ordered Deathly Hallows, which was long overdue. I'm also going to the party. I got a spiffy bookmark of the 4 house logos. I bought hardcovers of Sorcerer's Stone and Prisoner of Azkaban. The only one I still need is #4. This is a little late, but I'm really excited that Monk and Psych have started their new seasons on USA. I love watching those shows every Friday night.

Life Sucks

I've given up on my goal of blogging about Deathly Hallows. After all, the book is released five hours earlier in England... plenty of time to finish it.

Various Topics

1. I started my own "library of favorites" for contemporary literary classics, and thus I have started to pursue new copies of all my favorites so I can keep them forever, but my mom thinks this is a silly practice and that I should, I dunno, hunt down battered old paperbacks at garage sales and read them once and then donate them to charity or something. ROSA Okay, so that might be an exaggeration of sorts, but that's her state of mind. My point of view is that in this ever changing, tragic world of ours, I really take solace in reliability and stability.

2. I've been rereading the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud. Excellent fantasy series, and if you haven't read it you have to do so or you're a... how to put this nicely... SATANIC PIG-HATING COMMUNIST!

3. I treated myself to a shiny new hardcover copy of the original Chamber of Secrets for my library. No more of this silly Anti-Illustrationist movement.

4. I got seventy dollars and several euros richer yesterday; it's pretty happy.

5. Due to said new funding, more Harry Potter hardcover purchases may be on the way.

6. The movie adaptation (if you could call it an adaptation) of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is absolutely terrible. You have this overly and overtly opinionated and unheathily adverbial blogger's advice not to go see it, and his word that unless by chance of stupidity and ignorance, you haven't actually read any of the books, all parts of the movie will disappoint except - I almost regret saying this - the brilliant, spot-on portrayals of Luna Lovegood and Dolores Umbridge. ROSA I would almost see it again just to see Luna say her lines again, which, by the way, are almost all intact from the canon... Seriously, weird in exactly the way I imagined her to be in the book. Oh, and in the chance of said stupidity and ignorance, SIRIUS BLACK IS MURDERED BY BELLATRIX LESTRANGE AT THE END.

7. ROSA is a new good friend of mine, a novel sort of punctuation mark if you will, a running joke, but the kind that isn't funny. The first person to email me telling me what the mark does will win a great big sundae on me.

GREEN

With Live Earth having been (admittedly) a while ago, It's the least I can do (or is it?) to tell you that you can make a difference!!! Join the Alliance for Climate Protection. Small things add up, so try your best to uh, be green!

Back to the Blog

I haven't blogged in ages, and not since I went camping at Yosemite with the YMCA and my friend Caleb. I found lookalikes to a friend's mom, Shia LaBeouf, and my sister's friend. I saw a black bear rip open a log. I hiked Vernal Falls and Yosemite Falls. But none of that matters. My life will have neither meaning nor purpose until Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released. My goal is to be among the first to blog about it, but I doubt that's going to happen, and for two good reasons. One, people have probably already blogged about it, and two, some people, like my sister, can read a book like that in something like four hours, a superpower I, sadly, do not have. I'm going to see Order of the Phoenix on the 14th, which sounds exciting if inaccurate and superficial (sorry, I had to vent). Wikipedia's list/ dictionary of Harry Potter spells is horribly full of holes; it does not even come close to sticking with the canon it specifies. On a completely different note, tracing someone's genealogy back thousands of years is not quite as easy as it sounds, even when that person comes from the house of Levi.