WARNING: Spoilers
I went to National Bookstore in SM at around noon today for the sixth installment in the Harry Potter series and was surprised at how easy it was to secure my copy. I had at the very least expected having to fall in line with other fanatics but the store counter devoted to distributing hardbound copies of the Half-Blood Prince was strangely empty.
I’m having another serious episode of acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) . When this happens, I drop everything that I’m doing or I’m supposed to do and take a rest.
Unfortunately, today is the exception because although I asked to be excused from work a problem at the office demanded my presence for a short while. Acid reflux notwitstanding, that had to be taken care of ASAP.
In 2003, the first time I learned I had the ailment, I had already been hoarse for three months. The doctor told me that the acid component of the liquid that made its way back to my esophagus from my stomach, which is what acid reflux is all about, had reached and inflamed my larynx or voice box.
My son Dylan had to use his fingers to paint a picture using watercolor in school today. He did not have any watercolor and brush and forgot to ask me to buy him these things. His teacher told him and his classmates the other day that they were going to need the materials for an art project today.
His babysitter, who brings him lunch everyday, told me when she came back home at around 2 p.m. that Dylan had to share his seatmate’s watercolor but since there was no extra brush he improvised and used his fingers.
Five more days to go before the release of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I can’t wait to find out who the half-blood prince is. JK Rowling said in an interview last year that it’s not Harry Potter or Lord Voldemort.
In the meantime, I am forced to make do with Dan Brown’s Deception Point and John Grisham’s King of Torts.
(How could a Canadian bookstore have mistakenly sold 15 copies of the book before the July 16 release?)
A dog has been terrorizing our neighborhood recently. I have been hearing horror stories about this dog from my son’s playmate but because I’ve since realized that this boy makes up stories I now take all that he tells me with a little more skepticism and a little less credulity.
Just this morning, the dog left a child’s red short pants on our doorstep. I don’t know if it was in some strange and perverted way the dog’s way of making amends or taunting me. After all, just two days before, the dog chewed on and broke the straps of my favorite pair of sandals.
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