So, as I begin to write this blog post, it’s 10:52 PM on a Monday night, and I’m just biding my time until midnight.  Why, you may ask?  That’s because, at midnight, the final book in Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games trilogy comes out, and I have pre-ordered it for delivery on my Kindle.  I want to get an hour or two of reading in tonight if I am able.

I’ve not been this excited about the release of a book since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out back in 2007.  The Hunger Games ranks right up there in my list of favorites along with Harry Potter and the Fablehaven series.

While I’m waiting, I’m doing laundry, doing dishes, and listening to the audiobook of You Suck by Christopher Moore…a very funny novel that is basically what Twilight would have been if it were written by a sarcastic sex-crazed frat boy instead of a sexually frustrated suburban housewife with attachment issues.  (In all honesty, Stephenie Meyers is a really nice person, and pretty cool in real life, but sometimes, reading the Twilight saga is enough to make me sprout breasts.)

And I’m blogging.  Because, seriously, if you’re lame enough to be waiting up until Midnight for a BOOK, then you might as well cement your lameness by writing a blog post about the fact that you’re waiting up until Midnight for a book.

I thought about writing an epic rant about the jackbags who are trying to stop the building of an Islamic cultural center near ground zero, but I feel like this topic has been played out in the media far too much.  I won’t write a full-blown rant, but I would like to say a few things.

• If you are one of the mindless masses campaigning against the building of an Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero, you should be ASHAMED of yourself.  Ashamed. 
• If you’re a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and you’re campaigning against the building of an Islamic cultural center near ground zero, you should be ashamed of yourself, and then you better go repent.  LEST member of the LDS church forget, less than 40 years ago, it was still officially legal to kill a Mormon in the state of Missouri.  If you’ve been in the church for any amount of time, then you know what can happen when we start being prejudiced based on religion.  And for a group of people who make up less than 2% of the population of the United States,  you should be fighting for these Muslim’s rights as though they were your own…because one they were your own rights that needed fighting for, and almost certainly they will be again. 
• Islam does not equal terrorism.  Saying that an Islamic center shouldn’t be built next to Ground Zero is like saying that Marriage should be made illegal in Utah and Arizona because there are a few polygamists living there. 
• Seriously?  SERIOUSLY?  With all of the problems going on in the world, THIS is what we’re going to focus on?  Whether a group of Muslims can take an abandoned Burlington Coat Factory building and turn it into a community and cultural center two blocks away from the site of the world training which, by the way, you can’t even SEE from ground zero, is really the MOST important thing we can be dealing with?  How about working on joblessness, or homelessness, or lambasting Dr. Laura for saying the N-Word on the radio.

Okay.  I’m stopping now.  Seriously, though, if another person sends me an invite on Facebook to join another Anti-Muslim group, I might have to look up their address and firebomb their house.  Oh wait.  Then they’ll probably start discriminating against gay Mormons.  Oh.  Wait.  They already do that.  Nevermind.

*Rant Mode Off*

Eliza?  Where the hell are my slippers?

Anyway, um, Mockingjay.  Can’t wait.  I will probably be worthless at work tomorrow.  Which, let’s be honest, isn’t a huge step from how I am most of the time.  This new job has me feeling more than a little inadequate…something that I’m not used to feeling at work.  In my personal life and human relationships, yes.  But not at work.

Whew.  This blog post got all angsty all of a sudden.  I think I need to go sit in a hot bath with a cold popsicle.  (And no, that’s not a euphemism for anything.  You’ve got such a dirty mind.)

To all of you Hunger Games fans, here’s to a fantastic Mockingjay Day!