This a big day, a HUGE day, one of the most important days in a few years, easily eclipsing the election last November. What's going? Harry Potter is released at midnight. I will be at a bookstore with all the little kids getting my copy. Maybe it sounds cheesy to do that, but I'm a big fan of the books, and a big fan of books in general, and this is the literary event of the decade, I want to be involved in my own small way. Any fan of literature should feel the same. A lot of the little kids reading Harry Potter never liked reading before, and hopefully some will be inspired to start writing themselves, perhaps becoming the next great American novelist.

It's also a busy weekend for me. The plan: Take a nap when I get home, watch a little TV, go get the book, read the book, go to sleep at 9 am when I finish, wake up by 5 pm Saturday and go to my Aunt and Uncle's house for an engagement party, then take the groom and some other guys to the free Weezer show downtown, then a taxi to the Pink Pony, then sleep, then lunch plans on Sunday, and probable plans that afternoon, too. And Sunday evening I have about an hour's worth of homework to do.