My Favorite Books: Part 2. The Harry Potter Series

Greetings from Roma! This is my fifth full day in Rome, Italy, and I’m finally updating this blog, and more specifically, my long and laborious 7 part post on my absolute favorite books! In case you’re dying to know why I haven’t posted about Italy on this blog yet, since I have been here a full five days, I shall kindly direct your attention to my Fraternal-Twin-Blog (it’s not really a sister site, since I am the sole contributer to both of them…) at 

www.juliaromesitalia.blogspot.com

I know, I know. I misled you in the previous post. Well, if you’re my friend on Facebook, you’re aware that I mislead people about blog posts all the time. I keep promising specific updates and then I ignore my self-imposed deadlines and update at other, sporadic moments. For this, I apologize. In a perfect world, I would follow through on my promised updates in a timely fashion, but apparently I cannot blog in a perfect world and the world keeps getting in the way. I am sorry about this, though, since I don’t like breaking promises.

Going to Italia

I can’t sleep.

There are several factors contributing to my temporary insomnia; one is that I feel terrible about not updating in so long, particularly after I promised you all multiple updates! I could cite multiple factors leading to this failure, such as Hell Week after Hell Week of papers being due, nightly symphonic rehearsals, getting ready for juries (oh God, the angst in getting ready for juries), and preparation for finals…or I could just apologize and move on.

And move on we shall, for the next several weeks for me and for you, dear readers, are going to be a whirlwind of excitement. At 5:45 in the morning, I am going to wake, shower, clothe myself, and drive to the airport. Once there, after going through security and waiting through terrible lines in the ever-busy airport (note the intended sarcasm) of the delightful town At-Least-It-Ain’t-Alternating-Between-105-Degree-Weather-and-”Small”-Tornado-Storms-Within-Just-Three-Days-Like-Two-Weeks-Ago, I will be boarding a flight and heading off into the great blue-ish sky toward the place I’ve been longing to go to for the last five years—Italia!!!

That’s right, I’m flying to Italy. Tomorrow. Maybe (just maybe) that’s the reason I can’t sleep…

Quick Update

Hey guys! Thanks so much for being so supportive and amazing with the blog so far! Any time I see someone has commented, or someone mentions it in conversation, my mood is instantly brightened (and that's something I've needed this last fortnight.)

I finished all my research papers and presentations, and now, about 20,000 words and a great deal of sleep deprivation later, I'm all caught up until Juries next Thursday, and all my finals (starting from tomorrow til next Saturday.)

Unfortunately, I'm a little swamped right now with getting ready for all of that, in addition to Professional Symphony Orchestra rehearsals that take up my entire evenings all this week, and so I'm not quite finished with my next post.

However, I promise to have it uploaded sometime on Saturday! And, in addition, I will have an additional post up sometime that next week, so you don't have to wait an entire fortnight until the next post!!!

Sorry about the delay! I haven't forgotten about everyone reading this blog! Your patience shall be rewarded soon!

Until then,

Julia