still here...

[derien]

I know I need to sit down and make some entry every day.  If you read eor's journal you already know that one of the major news items (aside from the loss of the kitty) is that he came through his ear surgery okay.  But now has a cold, poor dear.  I do hope he doesn't sneeze and blow out the new eardrum. :(  *nervous*

The whole waiting for the surgery and getting him home again thing was epic, while I was in the middle of it.  I'm not sure I could make it interesting to read, but when I have time I may try to relate it. 

I did get quite a good way into "Mike," by P.G. Wodehouse, which is surprising me by being quite different from anything I've read by him before, but really compelling, despite the fact that the plot is all wrapped up with cricket, which I know absolutely zero about.  One thing I find amusing and cool is that all these boarding school boys, when they want to talk to each other, invite each other for tea.  If they're out they go to tea shops, but sometimes they go back to their rooms, where they have little burners and kettles.  It's just funny how cultural differences can surprise one.  I'd have never imagined that. 


My personal big news du jour, though, is that I've been chosen for special training, and will be sent on the government's dime to spend time in a classroom in DC.  I'm kind of psyched. :)  Among my classmates will be Donatello (DD), jaylow (RH) and Rev. Ricco (RP), as well as C. Swagger.  AM shift is sending Crockadile and possibly LD (what should I call her?  Hm.  Firecracker.  Yup, that'll do.  I'll know who I'm talking about.  She's short and has red hair - dyed, but still, she totally had the attitude for it, she takes no shit from anybody.)  I'm sure they picked one other person from AM, but I can't recall who it is.  Probably a newer person who I don't know. 

The bad news du jour is that BuddyBoy is no longer working with us.  And I know no more than that.  And I don't have his email address - So, BuddyBoy!  Write to me!  It's all hush hush, as usual.  If the suits would just come in and say "so and so will no longer be here," or "so and so will be gone for a few weeks, but will be back" it would make us all feel so much better.  We can understand they can't legally tell us why, but having people disappear is so disconcerting.

Comments

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Go you, special training :D That's pretty cool!

[derien.livejournal.com]

I am kinda psyched, but more for the actual training than what I'll be doing with it. :)

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

Stalky & Co. do that too! The tea thing, I mean. It is so cuuuute and also they all have dirtywrong schoolboy sex afterwards of course.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's all your fault, but I can really imagine Stalky & Co. having the dirtywrong schoolboy sex, and I can't quite picture Mike and Psmith doing it... but I so WANT to. But Psmith is so ... something. He's all noble but trying to not be percieved that way, and likes Mike an awful lot, and Mike likes him an awful lot, but Psmith always has on his 'I'm too cool for all this' face, which makes people hard to get close to. I'm trying to think of how to get past all that. I know he wants Mike bad, but he won't admit it. Er, as you can see by the one short I already wrote. What I need is some idea of sexy Greek texts he might read. Then he could have the book, but when he's not around Mike could possibly pick it up and start doing translation on that because Psmith seemed to find it more interesting than their usual homework...

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

*makes oooh! noises*

I want to read your fic, but I haven't actually read any Mike 'n' Psmith books -- only short stories with Psmith making the occasional appearance. :( So I'm putting it off till I do read books with Mike 'n' Psmith in.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I went ahead and wrote it without knowing any Greek texts to base The Book on, I faked it. I think it would have more verisimilitude if I had more knowledge.

I think eor downloaded "Mike" off Gutenberg... yes indeed, he says it was available in html, that's why he did it first, as an experiment (learning to use the ebook).

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

I think I might've downloaded it, too -- I downloaded a bunch of Wodehouses of Gutenberg one time, and now I've forgotten which folder I put them in. But I shall go look! And read Mike, yay.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Just to warn you, "Mike" is rather long (oh, sounds like a bad joke, there...) and Psmith only comes in halfway through. But I really liked the whole story quite well.

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

I never mind long with Wodehouse. :) (Which also sounds like a bad joke, eep.)