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How to Survive the Next Seven Days Waiting For The Release of The Towers of Midnight

I know. I know. The wait must be killing you by now.  Try to relax.  November 2^nd will be here soon, and there are plenty of things we can all do to occupy our time until then.

So before you lose your marbles, consider the following 25 suggestions:

1. Wash the spears. You will need them when Tarmon Gai’don begins
2. Take your wolf brother for a nice relaxing walk
3. Raise the banner of Malkier in your backyard and see who shows up
4. Make an apple pie since you have plenty on hand now.
5. Fantasize about what Ajah you’ll join one day [Note: I would be Brown Ajah, no doubt]
6. Play Snakes and Foxes with your best friend until one of you wins
7. Take a camping trip to the parking lot of your local bookstore
8. Tease your boyfriend with your best Tinker shawl dance
9. Tease your girlfriend with your best Tinker shawl dance and hope she doesn’t dump you
10. Book your hotel room for JordanCon
11. Start your own Ajah
12. Practice your juggling and other gleeman’s skills
13. Adopt a piglet and name it Mat
14. Eat every meal this week with sursa
15. Scribble the Dragon’s Fang on your sibling’s door
16. Reorganize your RAFO cards
17. Look for the Waygate that opens up to the Tor offices thinking that you’ll be able to steal a copy of Towers of Midnight
18. Start your Wheel of Time costume for Halloween (I’m going to be a Tinker!)
19. Teach your dog to obey commands in the Old Tongue
20. Play Magic: The Gathering (Maybe the extra practice will give you the edge you need to beat Brandon on tour)
21. Practice your sword forms
22. Go to Starbucks and attempt to order kaf
23. Hunt down the remaining renegade Black Ajah
24. Attempt to trick your crush into a Seanchan marriage
25. Ignore me. You’re going to keep drinking and keep bloody gambling. No woman is going to walk into your life and start telling you what to do.

Laura Fitzgerald is the Internet Marketing Assistant at Tor Books and Sitter for the Ochre Ajah, an Ajah she made up while waiting for Towers of Midnight.  The Ochre Ajah is dedicated to improving the taste of muffins and other baked goods through the One Power.  They are currently accepting petitions from hopeful aspirants on the Tor Books Twitter.


Lord have mercy on me, a (geeky) sinner.

Relevant Reading
The Wheel of Time, wikipedia entry
Official Tor.com Website for Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
Tor.com Towers of Midnight Newsletter
Brandon Sanderson, recipient of Jordan's mantle
Dragonmount, a WoT Community
Encyclopaedia WoT, exactly as named
I Have Read Towers of Midnight, a review from DM