Hehe, sorry for the bad pun… But I’ve spent all day getting ready for Hurricane Isabel and I just couldn’t resist. Of course, I also spent two hours or so trying to buy some basic black shoes, but that’s beside the point. 🙂 I finally did find some comfortable shoes at Lord & Taylor, and wouldn’t you know it, they were also having a sale! I got designer leather shoes for about 50% off. Not bad, eh? And really, shoe shopping for two hours wasn’t so bad, because most of that time was spent driving from one store to another. And that made me happy.

The rest of the time I also ran errands looking for batteries, buying some milk, that sort of thing. And then this evening we all went outside, picked up all the miscellaneous bits and bobs that could become projectile weapons in the wind.

One bright, happy thing that will be happening tomorrow will be the coming of my dear friend Amber, my partner in crime and travel. She actually went with me to London for the first time. She wasn’t planning on coming until Friday originally, but because of Isabel all of her business plans have been cancelled. So she’s coming over a day early so we can both bury ourselves in the basement during the storm, eat candy, and watch movies for as long as the power will allow. It’ll be great! Then, hopefully, everything on Friday will have calmed down. Then I have to go to my meeting with Dean, and then we’ll probably end up going to a dance that evening. It’ll be grand, and it’ll be fabulous to see her again. It’s been two whole years since we last saw each other. I’m curious to see if she’s changed.

Another bright, happy thing – Steven has digitally recorded ‘The Little Prince’, then burned it onto a CD for me. I’m watching it on my computer right now! I really love this movie. Tomorrow, if I have time, I’ll mess with the audio and create Mp3s of all the songs. You know what else is nice about this? Now if I ever meet anyone who can’t find a copy of the film, I can make a copy of my CD for them, and then everyone can enjoy it. I just love it, it captured the spirit of the book so well. Even the songs, their lyrics, they fit as well as if Antoine had written them himself. For example, “This world is an ocean without any shore when you’re on your own.”

And besides that, I just realized how remarkable it is that they found such a little boy to play the Prince. I just watched the part where he explains why he left his planet, his history with his rose. It’s remarkable that such a young child could capture the remorseful, reflective, meloncholy tone, married perfectly with that half sad, half inspirational look on his face. Everyone should see this movie.

Finally, the last bit of wonderful news, I’m going to be interviewed tomorrow by Aaron Berman of Gannett News Service for a column that will appear in dozens upon dozens of newspapers around the country. It’s about teens and technology – Mr. Berman emailed me today about it. He interviewed me a while ago about the whole PotterWar thing. He remembered me, I remembered him, and it’s working out quite swimmingly. It made my day, honestly – it’s just fun, and makes me smile. That’s always a good thing, don’t you think?

Well, as I have to get up quite early to pick up Amber, I think I’d better get some sleep. Thankfully my headache has decided to go on holiday this evening, leaving me free. Hooray for that. Now I just have to rip myself away from this movie. That will prove to be most difficult.