Nothing much happens when you’ve not got work or class to attend. I’ve been hanging around my apartment each day, reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix like mad and occasionally doing the dishes. I can have a completely empty sink then make one meal, and it’s full again; dishes are a perpetual chore for me. Todd and I will be going to his parents’ house this weekend, which means I’ll be reading even more Harry Potter because I tend not to be online a lot there.
I need to get this fifth book reread and get going on the sixth one so that I’m prepared for the movie and seventh book. I’m so incredibly excited about the movie coming out and I keep watching the trailer, which has been updated on the official movie site, I saw yesterday. I was also able to download a neat wallpaper of one of the original movie posters, and I just love the slogan “The rebellion begins.” It just adds to my excitement that I’ve gotten to the part in the book where Dumbledore escaped the Minister and his goons in flashy style, and Fred and George have begun wreaking havoc. Every time Umbridge and Fudge get taken down a peg or two, I cheer, “Yeah, bitches!”. That’s me, alone in my apartment, cheering on fictional characters in a book.
Contrariwise, I’ve got some anxiety about the seventh book. I’m sad that it’s the last book in the series, and also that Dumbledore appears to be dead. I keep hoping he’ll spring back in the seventh, and that his death was all part of some elaborate plot to trick Voldemort, something like that. That would also clear Snape, who I was fond of before and would like to be fond of again.
Kathy from work emailed me today; she has already returned to Lexmark for her co-op position. She says we’ve been moved to a different lab that’s much smaller, which actually perks me up. I was kind of dreading going back to work, knowing that I’ll go back to having 8 hours to fill with work, and just wanting each day to be over so I could have some free time. Now that I’ll be in a smaller lab, though, she says we can talk as loud as we like and the atmosphere is just more comfortable. I think I’m more suited for a relaxed atmosphere rather than a corporate one; small, personal groups of people I know, rather than bunches of people in the same room as me, but whom I’ve never met, doing jobs I’m unfamiliar with. I’m also happy with the idea of a change. I know I’ll be doing new work when I return, but just relocating makes me more excited about coming back.