Yesterday, I went to the park and finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Although I hate to admit it, this left me feeling in need of a bit of a sulk. ( ? )

So I guess that it was lucky that I happened to notice that Harry and the Potters were playing at the University Bookstore this afternoon. It was a great excuse to go to the U-district; and I'm glad that I took it. The band is so completly great. Kind of like Weezer if all of their songs were about the trials and tribulations of Harry Potter instead of Rivers's latest emotional crisis. Yeah, I know! Wizard rock! awesome.

The bookstore was packed with fans. Including a girl with a furry hat with a lion on top. Kids who knew all of the words and swarmed the brothers at the end to get their signatures on CDs or T-shirts. The merch table was mobbed; even I bought a "Save Ginny!" T-shirt. Because how could I not?

Even though I'd been cheating a bit by reading some of it on the internet, I was excited when I arrived at my desk to find that the new Harry Potter had arrived (in amazon.de packaging). I was a little surprised to find that I'd already read more than a hundred pages on the computer screen, but I'm looking forward to reading the rest in book format.

After work, I went to Ralph's to hang out with some 'bloggers. It was fun, and I took home some sort of laptop desk that promises to be my laptop's new best friend.