7.18.2007

Interweb moratorium.

So now that some douchebags have leaked HP7 onto the internets, I'm seriously stopping my surfing/reading for the next 3+ days, and maybe I won't even listen to the radio either or watch ESPN, and only watch WSOPC tonight, because for reals, if I am spoiled, I will kill someone. My friend Liz has an even better take on what she would do (which also involves violence): http://urbanhonking.com/liz

This morning on Matty in the Morning, they were just talking about the fact that the book had been leaked, and I said to Chris, "You better shut that off. SHUT THAT OFF RIGHT NOW! Matty is a misanthrope! He doesn't care if he ruins it for everyone!" I got very nervous.

Unlike a lot of my friends/coworkers in the biz, I am not doing a re-read of 1-6. In fact, I've only ever read each book once (er, maybe I read the first one twice). I have a "thing" where I tend to read the newest book within about a month of its coming out, and I feel completely sated for a few years until the next one comes out. Ms. Rowling does enough recap for me and I can always look online or ask someone if I can't recall a particular character's function, death, parents, or whatnot.

So seriously, I may not be here for a few days. I feel like I can barely watch a Red Sox game on our local station for fear of the RemDawg innocently saying something about Neville Longbottom that he heard from someone who heard from someone else, and then having him laugh-wheeze about it for twenty minutes.

I'm hyperventilating just thinking about it.

Clearly, I'll pretty much be asleep for the next three days.

2 comments:

Liz said...

I'm so paranoid. Even the reporting on the leaking makes me nervous.

Amanda said...

after tonight, no more internet for me, either. i'm even going to the grocery store tomorrow so i don't have to go out over the weekend and accidentally overhear some conversations ruining the book for me. now the problem i face is trying to read the book and enjoy it, and not just read it to rush through it. also, i hope whatever you read on EW didn't actually ruin it for you. media blackout begins... now!