last day in carbondale...for a couple days, anyway

today i feel: pretty good
today i'm hearing: panera's trendy environment
today i'm thinking: free wi-fi is the best wi-fi

My interweb is still being angry at my Carbondale apartment, so I moved shop elsewhere: namely, Panera (or St Louis Bread Company if you're a true believer). But I did have a blog readied yesterday, and I'd like to share part of it. I'm a little attached to this part, you see. I hope you all have a wonderful day today. Tomorrow, I head back north for a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to the time away from the theatre. Never thought you'd hear me say that, huh?

Anyway, here's what I wrote yesterday. Enjoy.

I finished it. Last night. Two days before Harry’s twenty-seventh birthday, I finished the seventh book. And despite what everyone else might be saying (or what I might say in the near to far future), I felt it was a perfect Potter ending.

I think every generation has a defining book of their childhood. I can’t say, precisely, what it is for everyone, but I think I can safely assume that for kids my age, it was Harry Potter. We were the kids it was written for. You go through the ages Harry is when the books come out, and that’s the ages we’ve all been. Or fairly close to, at that. I can remember kids reading these books from third grade on to now. They brought us together. They were the face of our generation. And ten or twenty years from now, I’m sure I’ll see some little girl in my kid’s first grade class named ‘Hermione’. And I will roll my eyes and remember that I’m as big a dork as her parents.

These really are the stories of my childhood. And now, they’re done. I guess it’s time to start growing up now.