And I read these things for fun...

You know you're a lame fangirl when you check a 1962 book entitled Fundamental Principles of Transitors out of your university's engineering library just so you can better mock your fandom's back-canon.

The biography (with patent information and tech specs!) of G. H. Curtiss has nothing whatsoever to do with Tony Stark, though beyond the fact that Tony almost certainly hero-worships him. Curtiss was legitimately kickass and fascinating on his own merits (I will spare y'all the squeaky noises of bliss over ailerons vs. wing-warping and how cool they are).

Because my mommy loves me

Thanks to my mom, dad, and sister each buying a copy (Sarah while she was stuck in the Miami airport Saturday on her way back from Costa Rica, waiting for a connecting flight to DC), I now have Deathly Hallows.

It is the last instalment of HP I will ever get, and so, rather than doing the mainline the book in five hours thing I did for OotP, I am savouring it. I haven't even opened the cover yet; I'm still "admiring" the ugly orange coverart.

I'm going to read it slowly over the course of the next week or so, so if I don't comment on any of your journals, that's why (I'm only reading comicstore_news and marvel_slash until my Potterdammerung experience is over).

I may post periodic annoyed updates, though, if it turns out CAPSLOCK Harry is back or something.