When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, I lived in Korea. There is a fourteen hour time difference between Seoul and Omaha. I went to the book store on the day it was released, like when the book store opened and bought my copy. I started to read it on the bus ride home. When I got to my apartment, I read it that day plus the day after. I was determined to be the first in my family to have finished the book. I ordered take out from the restaurant on the first floor of my apartment building and snacked on stuff I already had. The book came out on a Saturday, which is unusual because books are normally released on a Tuesday. I had no contact with the rest of the world, well accept for when I skyped my mother on our weekly calls. I read the 700+ page book in two days. And that was all I did that weekend. When I finished book, I couldn't actually see that well, like everything was a blur for the two days that followed. It was the last time I read a large book within the span of days. I never read that book again. And besides the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson, probably one of the last large books that I read and not listened to on audio.
So I made some changes in plan for my birthday. I decided to get a room at Aksarben Suites. I’ll spend the day in Aksarben and pretend that I traveled. What I will have, I’ll decide tomorrow, although I suspect that it will be Pickleman’s pizza. I’ll read and chill. Maybe I’ll take a bus to the Dundee Dell. So many things I can do. For coffee, I’ll go to the Starbucks on 90 th and Pacific. That one has the Verismo coffee machine makes an excellent cup of coffee. I can even take an early walk at the lake as I make my way to Aksarben.
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