Traci’s store alone has taken approximately seven hundred pre-orders for the new Harry Potter book. Amazon currently has it listed as their number one seller. My company has taken approximately ten thousand pre-orders nationwide. On Wednesday I asked the head of my company’s warehouse, “Where are you going to store ten thousand copies of Harry Potter?”

He just looked at me sheepishly, as if to suggest, “In the delivery truck?”

And we’ve still got another week left before the book is released.

What if this book is crap? There are going to be a lot of dissatisfied customers out there. But they’re so sure it’s going to be good, they’re willing to order it weeks in advance just to be the first ones to read it.

If I were JK Rowling, I would make the sixth book exactly one page long (with very thick covers), and that page would simply say, “Ha ha… Sucka!”

I think that’s the most unprepared I’ve ever been for an audition.

I wasn’t even planning to audition. I just went along with Claire to keep her company and because I had nothing better to do. Claire was trying to talk me into auditioning, but I didn’t want to. I didn’t bother printing out a headshot and resume for myself, nor did I practice a song.

When I got there, I decided I might as well sign up to audition since I had to wait for Claire anyway. I looked in my music folder to find a song, and I found a headshot and resume still in there from my last audition.

I didn’t wear contacts like I normally do for an audition; I was wearing my thick, black glasses. I didn’t even bother taking them off when I sang. Also, I didn’t have an appropriate song. I should have sung something very traditional and British, but instead I sang “Marriage Proposal,” a song that’s contemporary and Jewish.

So of course, I got called back.