Twilight

So my fiance (and I) are obsessed with the Twilight series... ok she is way more obsessed than I am, I just really liked the books. She even bought The Host (another book by the same author) and enjoyed reading it despite telling me it was more of a script for a low budget television special for the sci-fi channel. I especially enjoy the almost daily reminders and teasings of how she is going to marry Edward Cullen or Rob Pattinson (the actor that plays Edward Cullen). It almost makes life worth getting up every morning to enjoy. So here is how the twilight bug got into our lives...
Not so long ago, I was an ESOL teacher for a public school district in South Carolina. Part of this fabulous job of mine included administering an end of the year assesment of the English proficiencies for our students that speak other languages. I was given a certain amount of time to test every ESL classified student within the district and of course that meant trying to coordinate six different schools and 200+ students to take this test. Long story short, I had a student miss the test on the day I was testing at her school. So I return the following day to make sure she took the test. Turns out, she was at school the first day I was testing and missed the announcement to come take the test because she was nose deep in some book. Naturally, I had to inquire about the book since it was so good that she missed a test for it.
It was Twilight, and since she was the only person taking the test that day, she lent it to me while she was testing and due to lack of monitoring numerous students and a lack of other reading materials with me, I started reading it. Honestly, the next thing I know she is telling me all about this world of forbidden love and vampires and werewolves while bubbling in her answers to the test. After the test had finished, I immediately went to the school library and checked out the last remaining copy of the book and picked up where I left off earlier. Over the next few days I had acquired all three (then released) books of the series and was quite noticably reading them all over the house.
My finace was very skeptical of me and these books at first, since we share little in common as far as reading preferences and genres. Then, it was time for the fourth book to come out. I was halfway through the third book at this time because I did not want to read too fast and have it end abruptly for me. The local Barnes and Noble was having a midnight release party for the fourth book which was a Vampire prom theme. My fiance was not yet a convert to the series and talked me out of going. We both now regret that decision. Less than a week later, she had become a full fledged member of the cult of Cullen (not really a cult to my knowledge but she would know if there was one). We have now seen Twilight too many times to count both in theatres and online. She keeps daily checks on the movie and author's websites and rereads the books from time to time. We both agree that the fourth installment lacked a certain something... like it was written by someone other than the author of the first three books. Anywho, we anxiously await the soon arrival of Twilight on DVD (apparently we pre-ordered it). I think that things worked out pretty well overall and there is something of a story there to tell the grandkids one day.