Like a Good Book

So the vacation's over, and I'm back at work.

Yesterday went by in a blur of tiredness and heat. The flight was horrible, the worst flight I remember - for one thing, the plane that was supposed to take us was stuck in Tel Aviv with mechanical problems, so another plane had to come. This little fiasco delayed the flight from 23:15 to 2:50. We only took off at 3:00 a.m., and the inside of the plane was hot and dry. Throughout the vast majority of the flight I was taking very fast and shallow breaths, because it hurt me to take deeper ones, and the amount of water I had to drink was immense, with the flight attendants being less than nice. To top it all, after we landed we got stuck in the plane for another 20 minutes or so, because the operator of the sleeve through which we were supposed to descend the plane just didn't show up...

Took us another 45 minutes or so to finish everything we needed to, and we stepped outside into our parents' arms.

After saying goodbye to Mel, we went home, and I spent the day drifting in and out of sleep, watching T.V. and reading. Of course my sister and my Brother in law came over to say welcome, and I gave them what I got for them, after which I resentfully took the dogs out (my mom spent no access time in letting me have that particular job), and then I went to sleep, trying to dose off when inside my inner clock it was only 21:00.

When I did fall asleep I went into a very deep and dreamless sleep, from which I only awoke at 8:15, when my mom came into my room. It took me a few minutes to understand that I'm late in waking up, and I was very tired. It was only 6:15 in the morning for me, after 3 weeks of enjoying the luxury of waking up when my body wanted to and staying in bed stretching for a good time after.

Luckily, even though my brain was still fuzzy my body kicked into auto-pilot and went through my morning ritual - breakfast, coffee, brushing teeth and shower. It was only after I finished my shower (with cold water) that I truly was awake, and then I knew I had to hurry, and I rushed through finding clothes that were already dry from yesterday, getting dresses, putting on my make up and getting a bag ready with everything. I was out the door 3 whole minutes before my normal schedule, so yey.

Got here today to find out that Racheli and Lily are both not here - Racheli is fasting (it's the 9th od Av) and Lily slipped on Thursday and cracked her pelvis as it seems, so she's at home, resting. Yael, the girl who substituted me is here,and so is Ika, Dovi's secretary (Dovi is the CEO of Yediot Books).

I brought DH with me for another round, and after I finish it I'll lay off HP for a while to get ahead on my other readings,and then I'll probably go for the entire series again. No doubt, DH is my favorite of the books, and is a superb finale for the entire story.

As the banner said, before the release - "7 books, One story, The final Countdown".

The countdown is over, and the end has come, with a bang. I'm so happy I was a part of it.

More later.

The only bright spot of the day is...

I got an "E" on my grade 3, W.O.M.B.A.T, and I have the diploma to prove it.

I have now three "E"s in all the grades. I have to say I'm more pleased about these grades than I am about my real degree grades...

I got out of the building for five minutes and almost melted to death...

I'm also tremendously bored since Motty is abroad and I haven't a thing to do. I grabbed HBP in Hebrew from the library and I'm reading it happily, translating it as I go to what I remember from the English version.

Mugglenet has a piece on J.K. Rowling's plans for the night of the release of Deathly Hallows - 1700 people will be lucky enough to get a signed copy of DH from her hands, and 500 of these will attend a midnight reading.

I squeaked so hard at seeing this my brother came in and started imitating me in amusement.

The problem? The raffle is only open to inhabitants of the UK and Ireland.

How annoying!!!!!

Very funny video, posted at the Harry Potter community I'm a member in...

Edit: Sorry, you guys, I didn't realize the post was members only until hagar_972 made me see it!

The link has now the site of "The Potter Puppets Pals", so just click on the main screen there - "The Mysterious Ticking Noise"... LOL!

At 5:30 this morning Dolce woke me up so I'll let her out of my room. I was sleepily staggering to the door when a huge flash of light and a very large "Booom!!!!!!!" echoed and shook my windows. It was followed by a constant ringing of all the phones in the house (four of them) that subsided after a few minutes. The amusing thing was that both my dad and my brother went on with their sleeping without even moving a toe... Dolce ran and hide and when I opened my door Bono was there, looking very frightened (as much as I could see without my glasses). I couldn't sleep well after that, I could feel my heart pumping really fast, and when I woke up I did everything in half-speed.

Yesterday Udi had his boot-camp finishing ceremony, which was (as was expected) very tedious, but at least it wasn't very long. The weather could not have been more un-decisive, as it was raining heavily at one point and hot and sunny the next.

I over page 200 in HBP, and as soon as I'm finishing that I have "Black sun rising" waiting for me at home, and a whole lot of planning to get started on, and I really should buy tickets to the concert, but I'm still waiting to see if anyone else wants to come with us (Mel and I will be going, Ayala told me last night that they can't come).

Because my scream was quite loud.

Tori has a new album and tour!

I am seriously considering going to the London show, and stay in England for the DH festivities.

Plus - my player totally knows what I was screaming about - four Tori songs in a row...

Happiness!

Edit: Make that five...

Don't know why. I keep having annoying dreams as well, and I woke up today at 5:00 a.m. completely energetic and ready to get up, and after having gone back to sleep had problem waking up at 7:00.

Some sport made me feel better, but still - and my stomach seems undeceive if it wants to hurt or not.

Arg.

Spent last night at my aunt and uncle's at their Shiv'a (my aunt's father passed away), feeling half there and half somewhere else. Perhaps the lunar eclipse messed with my system.

Good news - Beitar only just scraped a score of 1:1 with Ashdod, so it's now only two points between it and Hapoel. One good Saturday and Hapoel is on first place, and I do hope it'll happen, we haven't won the championship since 2000.

I'm in the middle of OotP now, but my pace isn't very fast, but no matter - the longer it takes me, the shorter the time to wait 'till DH. Plus - there's a new Mugglenet podcast out, so I have something to do when everyone leaves this afternoon.

Still feel weird.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

21/7/2007 Is the release date for "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"!!!!!!!


I'm so psyched!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The last time this happened I jumped up and down for five minutes straight around the house and I can't do it here!!!! AAAAArgh, frustration!

I hate bispecific antibodies, I hate cats and dogs who live together and I hate Alzheimer's disease.

On to other news, my mom bought appares. No, that's not a typo, It's apple and pare combined. It's good, and weird, and bizzare. I like it very much...

The W.O.M.B.A.T results are in, and I continue to get a good grade in them - got an "E" last time and got an "E" this time as well. I intend on getting an "O" in the last exam. If you have no idea what I'm talking about you're not a HP freak who reads JKRawling.com. Can't help you there, because you'll only get bored...

"Stand by Me" is on. I love that movie.

"What's up with you and that Conni Palermo chic?"
"I've been dating her over a month now and all she lets me do is feel her tits"
"That's because she's a catholic, they're all like that. If you want to get laid you gotta get you a protestant.
Jew is good"

So funny...