So. I went to that release party I was talking about last night for Mockinjay. It was kind of awesome. I doubt there were even a dozen people in attendance, but Kayla and Emily and I had a good time. Well, I had a good time, haha. I don't know about the other two.
We got there a little before 10 and they had these "training stations" set up. We grabbed a "passport" that we had to get stamped and then went around to the stations, which were water, medicine, food, weapons and matches. The only one that didn't really do anything was Medicine - we just went up to the cash desk and got a stamp. But at Water we had to answer a trivia question successfully (mine asked who Katniss' stylist was. Easy.) At Food we got to make like Peeta and decorate cupcakes, which fun AND delicious (thought not so good for ze diet). Weapons was one of the most fun stations - we had to play these games. One was a version of tic tac toe where we had to bounce ping pong balls into cups of water set out. THAT was super fun. And the other game I tried was to retrieve two pennies from the toes of pantiehoes, while the pantiehoes were on my arms. We couldn't use our hands at all to get the pennies, or to get the pantiehoes off, so that was really kind of awesome and fun. Oh, and it was timed. We had to do it under a minute. The other game was like a cup stacking game, kind of. There was a pile of cups, all blue except one red one, and you had to basically reverse the order of the cups before the minute was up. I didn't do that one. And then at Matches, which I think should have been the Camouflage station, we made masks or headbands. Or rather we decorated them. That was kind of awesome. Mine is purty. It's hanging on my wall of stuff, along with my Mockingjay pin (which I bought last night).
After we had done all of the stations, Kayla and I decided to write some Nerdfighter notes and put them in John's books. I love writing Nerdfighter notes. Then we wandered and I grabbed Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (because I didn't own them yet...bad!) and then we went back and played the tic-tac-toe ping pong again, this time against the other "Tributes" so that we could possibly win the signed copy of Mockingjay. (Neither of us won). All in all, a good night, despite an obnoxious girl who had to one-up everyone and had to have her say in everything. But she was easily ignored.
After we got our books, we got home, made a cup of tea, and tucked in to our books. Well, Kayla tucked in to Catching Fire, me, Mockingjay. I only read for a couple of hours last night, but finished it about half an hour ago. I'm still processing and absorbing everything that happened. There were some tears and a lot of exclamations - sometimes one followed the other. But I predicted what was going to happen in a few parts, which was sad. I hadn't done that before. And some other things I figured would happen, but was in denial about, and then it happened and I was heartbroken. Well, I'm still heartbroken about some things actually. (Hell, I'm heartbroken about one of the deaths in Catching Fire. And in The Hunger Games. So I think this one will stick for a while)
And I think I'm going to end it abruptly here because I've run out things to say. XD May the odds be ever in your favour!
Reading: Mockingjay, though technically I just finished it.
Writing: Nothing at the moment.
Thankful for: Good literature than ensnares you and doesn't let you stop reading until you're done, and even then doesn't let you go.
Listening To: Give Up The Ghost - The Remus Lupins
(I'm not very good at doing that little segment, I seem to always forget XD)
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