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Well, now that Obama has been elected President of the United States, I figured that I should just start getting on with life as usual. I am so sick of Bush I want to shoot my head into the ground, BUT I figured that would be rather stupid considering we just elected a new president. But ugh -- four MONTHS till he gets into office? I tell you what, I may not have voted for him, but I still can't wait to see how we start changing things around.

Anyway, after my political rant, I figured I'd put something happier onto my blog -- tomorrow after school I am taking my learner's permit test at the DMV. It's all very complicated, but they're all assuring me that it's not . . . I kind of don't believe them.


Also, yesterday I bought a book called "Harry, A History" by Melissa Anelli, who (for those of you sadly Harry Potter deprived fans who don't know) is the webmistress for the Leaky Cauldron, the most successful Harry Potter website in the world wide web. (Well, one of two, the other being Mugglenet.com. I'm actually not sure which is more popular.) I only got it yesterday, but I'm already careening through it like it's made of banana peels. (I mean that in a good way.) It is a FANTASTIC book -- not only is it interesting to read her interviews with people who've had a hand in publishing the books and people that oppose the books, but it's also like reliving the entire experience. (The memoir starts with her friend Sue Upton [another Leaky staff member] waking her up shrieking in excitement about the release of the Deathly Hallows publication date, and takes you through many flashbacks of Melissa's entrance into the Harry Potter fandom and the people she meets along the way.)

Also, Melissa got on the front cover of USA Today, along with Obama and McCain. Reading her blog for the book, she says that she laughed so hard that she almost fell off the bed when her sister told her.