Well, I just finished reading Order of the Phoenix

THAT. FUCKING. BITCH.

I'm never reading another Harry Potter book as long as I live. I can't fucking believe what an atrocity this fucking 5th book was, nor can I believe I wasted my whole Sunday reading that pitiful excuse for a continuation of a good story.

No spoilers here. Just know that I'm fucking pissed off. I'm not kidding, I'm not sure I can even think of any of the other Harry Potter stuff again without wanting to hurl all of the other books into a bonfire or something. What a LOAD OF CRAP. I hope she dies.

For the record, I was right about every single thing in the book EXCEPT the one most important thing. I just can't fucking believe it. I had heard the predictions and the "spoilers" about it and just ignored them because it didn't make any fucking sense...

And as I was just saying, too... there are good moments in the book, that is true - but a LOT of it was gut-wrenchingly painful to read. I mean, sure, we're all used to reading about people being mean and/or unfair to Harry but for crying out loud, 600 pages of it is more than anyone should have to take. Bleh. I really don't think the ending or the few cool scenes (or the Weasleys) make up for the rest of it.

So usually I'd write an entry about what I did today, but since basically I woke up, read the HP book, went to M+J's house, read the HP book there too, went to dinner at Bluwater with Megan, Josh, Justin, Colleen, Cory, Heidi, and Eli... came home, read the HP book some more... finished at 3am... I have nothing to say about today. And never in my life have I wanted to throw a book into a fire after reading it as with this one. Except Eli needs to finish it and Megan wanted to borrow my copy too.

The odd thing is that tonight at dinner I was remembering how the last Harry Potter book came out on July 8 2000 or so... the same week I started playing DDR (on that July 4th at SVGL with Tim Showalter). On the night HP4 came out I was in downtown Palo Alto with Tim, and Erik Ogan and Matt Andrews and some other people and we were all like "why is there such a big crowd at the bookstore?" and it was because the HP book was out... except I ended up ordering it off Amazon along with a copy of Mastering Regular Expressions. Yeah. Anyway, I dunno, it feels like I've been playing DDR forever, it's funny to realize that it's been 3 years, and also 3 years since the last HP book. And do we have to now wait another 3 years to find out how she's going to make up for this pile of crap? I have to wonder if I care anymore. And I'm sure in a few days I'll have calmed down, but for now I just hate J.K.Rowling with a passion.

Hi

My first question is, who the heck are half the people who replied to my last entry? They're not on my friends list or friends of friends... I'm just kinda curious, like did someone go forward my last entry around, or do people just go read random journals and then comment on things like that? (I don't mind random people commenting, it was just a little weird...)

My second comment is... later today sometime I'll post a (spoiler-filled) real commentary on why I hated the book. I've still been thinking about it and I still hate it.

monday

I was SO tired at work today. People noticed and asked why and I said I was up late reading HP5 and they'd be like "oh how is it?" and I'd be like "sucks ass" and they'd be like "You're kidding," and I'd be like "No..."

Anyway, work went okay other than being tired. After work I rode the bus home partway with Mark, then we split ways so he could go home and I could go play DDR at the Seattle Center, where I saw Steve and Michele breaking in Michele's new shoes, and then I played a few sets of DDR, wherein I got 4 new Heavy AA's, I'm up to 93. It was kinda funny 'cause one of the arcade guys wanted to play with me, and he was like "how hard songs can you do? I always play on Heavy" and I'm like "shrug.. I'm not great, but we'll see" and then we played 5 songs and he failed every single one of them and I got AA's on half of them. Shrug. (I mean, he was picking stuff like Saints and CSFILSM... I dunno.) I stopped in McDonald's for a sandwich and then caught the bus home and now I'm going to do laundry.

BTW, I'm almost definitely driving up to Vancouver BC for Wednesday to hang out with zqfmbg and fuj. Anyone want to come along for a day of Bemani fun?

My tearing-apart-HP5 entry will be written while I do laundry, I think.