I just discovered this in [livejournal.com profile] haro's post, and thought I'd pass along the news: there's a new international teaser for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! It's still ultra dark (until the end... whut?) but doesn't focus so much on the memory storyline.

I'm still trying to figure out what the deal is with Ginny standing in a puddle wearing her dressing gown. Also, the scene with Harry running through the field reminds me of Mulder and Scully running through the corn field in the first X-Files movie. Are there bees in this adaptation?

Now I'm all psyched for this movie, but it won't be released until next summer. Why, Warner Brothers, why?

I was looking at my giant list of books I've read this year, and I realized there is no HP on it, which seems kind of wrong. I did read individual chapters for the Deathly Hallows reread at the Sugar Quill, but that's it! I feel like I should remedy that, but I'm ready like ten other books right now. (Okay, if I take out the class one's I think it's really only four.) Maybe I'll watch OotP tonight. That'll be a good, quick HP fix. :)
LOL. My boss just accidentally called me from her desk ten feet away from mine. This is the most exciting thing to happen yet this morning. The semester ended yesterday, so we have no patrons. Even if we did, the circulation system is down for a software upgrade, so we can't do much for them anyway. (There are bins of books waiting to be checked in on Monday morning. Yay!) In the meantime, I'm again reading random things in the papers. I do have a book to start, but I'm suffering from short attention span always lately.

I've got a follow up from yesterday's Talula, etc. story. From the Times, more truly awful baby names! Anyone else think Tackle Feigenbutz would be at home inside a Dr. Seuss story?

People are actually writing viruses for Macs these days. Guess I'll have to actually get a virus checker again eventually.

I've also been trying to follow some of the goings-on at the Lambeth Conference. This is all kind of a big deal in the world of Christianity, and the US Episcopal Church is right at the center of a potentially schism causing controversy. Today it's reported that an Anglican "inquisition" could become reality if a new proposal is approved.

And finally, the new X-Files movie opens in the US today! Maybe I'm just travelling in the wrong circles, but I don't feel like there's been a ton of hype for it, which may be a good thing. I don't have any concrete expectations, other than wanting to see some more Mulder and Scully chasing weird paranormal stuff, so hopefully it won't dissapoint.
Here's what's going on today in handy list format:

1) I have my car back! The coolant now stays in the radiator.

2) The Library of Congress has selected the new United States poet laureate. Her name is Kay Ryan, and she "has a distinctive and widely imitated style that involves steep enjambment, carefully positioned but irregular rhymes and a kind of off-kilter aphoristic wisdom." Definitely a writer I'll be looking into.

3) David Duchovny has a blog, and it's kind of amusing. There are at least a couple X-Files fans among my friends who may appreciate random comments like this: "patrick stewart was the first internet sex symbol with hair but pileggi always thought it was him."

4) We have cable! I think we're supposed to only have about 20 channels, but we've actually got 74. Way cool! This means I can watch the Food Network again. Right now they're making pie. I want a pie.

5) I've recently watched "The Ambassadors of Death," "Inferno," and "Terror of the Autons." I'm really digging the Pertwee era and the whole UNIT family. All three of these were good stories, and "Inferno" is especially enjoyable. (It has an alternate universe with Evil!Brig. He has an eyepatch. Awesome.) Jumping to the future, "The Creature from the Pit" has plenty of cheese, but is still pretty darned entertaining.

6) [livejournal.com profile] d4ni thinks I should be packing--or should have done so two days ago--but my flight's not for another thirteen whole hours. I say, what's the rush?

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