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How did the Captain come to fall down the hatchway?
In the "Alien Encyclopedia" I bought at Goodwill t'other day, I have discovered another great mystery of the unknown: Why, for its illustration of the "Mulder" entry, does it have a drawing of Scully in a very short bathrobe and Mulder wearing only a towel??
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stellar_dust, I sent her half-a-dozen letters from 1804 while we were in Ohio, and once I've copied something to external storage I clear it from the primary drive. (I *am* working on an account of our trip home through Kentucky, to be entitled "Highway L-8", which will go up on e2 if I ever actually finish writing it.)
Were I still writing my sister letters, an account of the past week would go something like this:
Since our return from S------ Manor, Mother and I have been busily occupied with visiting and working on the townhouse and garden. We called twice at Aunt and Uncle C----'s house and saw little Miss Grace who is already walking and will be an absolute terror in a few weeks! Last night we attended Mrs. R---'s card-party. She was occupied at the whist table much of the evening, but having, despite Mother's coaching, still very little skill at that game, I played vingt-et-un and Lottery Tickets with Mother and Mr. and Mrs. T----- and young Mr. Paul. Our last game became so lively I am not even sure who won!
I returned home to find that my circulating library has piled up, and I have been reading and catching up on the correspondence. I still find it delightful to have novels and books delivered to my door, and to join in the lively community of discussion around them with other young ladies. I am very glad I succumbed and subscribed, tho' it does use a great deal of my time."
Okay, my regency-speak is getting quite a bit off. Having exhausted Jane Austen last week, in an attempt to stay in-period I've resorted to re-reading the scattered Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin novels lying about the house. And oh, how I feel for poor Lieutenant Hornblower, every time he tries to respectfully suggest a course of action to Lieutenant Buckland and Lieutenant Bush and has to explain in great detail to his superiors a plan he thought self-evident--- VBS is coming up, and I've had to sit through some really excruciating meetings where I suggest something obvious and then ten minutes later the grown-ups work out the point after discussing it endlessly.
Oh, and speaking of VBS, poll!
[Poll #324279]
Whee! I just bought a copy of the Kalevala in Latin!
Oh, hi. Mom and I have been home for over a week now, I just haven't got around to writing in my journal 'til now. If you want an account of our trip, you'll have to ask
stellar_dust, I sent her half-a-dozen letters from 1804 while we were in Ohio, and once I've copied something to external storage I clear it from the primary drive. (I *am* working on an account of our trip home through Kentucky, to be entitled "Highway L-8", which will go up on e2 if I ever actually finish writing it.)Were I still writing my sister letters, an account of the past week would go something like this:
Since our return from S------ Manor, Mother and I have been busily occupied with visiting and working on the townhouse and garden. We called twice at Aunt and Uncle C----'s house and saw little Miss Grace who is already walking and will be an absolute terror in a few weeks! Last night we attended Mrs. R---'s card-party. She was occupied at the whist table much of the evening, but having, despite Mother's coaching, still very little skill at that game, I played vingt-et-un and Lottery Tickets with Mother and Mr. and Mrs. T----- and young Mr. Paul. Our last game became so lively I am not even sure who won!
I returned home to find that my circulating library has piled up, and I have been reading and catching up on the correspondence. I still find it delightful to have novels and books delivered to my door, and to join in the lively community of discussion around them with other young ladies. I am very glad I succumbed and subscribed, tho' it does use a great deal of my time."
Okay, my regency-speak is getting quite a bit off. Having exhausted Jane Austen last week, in an attempt to stay in-period I've resorted to re-reading the scattered Hornblower and Aubrey/Maturin novels lying about the house. And oh, how I feel for poor Lieutenant Hornblower, every time he tries to respectfully suggest a course of action to Lieutenant Buckland and Lieutenant Bush and has to explain in great detail to his superiors a plan he thought self-evident--- VBS is coming up, and I've had to sit through some really excruciating meetings where I suggest something obvious and then ten minutes later the grown-ups work out the point after discussing it endlessly.
Oh, and speaking of VBS, poll!
[Poll #324279]
Whee! I just bought a copy of the Kalevala in Latin!
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I've had a request or two to post the full text of your letters. Any opinion on that?
Oh, and - because the Alien Encyclopedia *knows* X-Files is all about the UST. d-; And MSR.
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ficromances from the circulating library somehow got first priority.You can post full-text as long as you a) discreetly ---- out all the last names and b) think you can actually transcribe my handwriting with any accuracy. If you want e-mail them to me and I'll check 'em over and post 'em here, backdated . . .
It's a scholastic kids' book! And the MSR isn't mentioned at all in the entry!
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To the last: X-Files is also all about the subtext.
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The rest of the book is reasonably logical . . well, for a volume which postulates that Teletubbies are the result of unsucessful hybridization experiments on human fetuses, anyway.
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I'm tempted to iconize the upper right corner.
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Look, Scully dressed like an Austen heroine! :runs away:
Oh, and you can post 'em either way, I've no preference. If I ever get done sorting them, I was going to post a whole bunch of old stuff like that, including old CMST letters and stuff. Who was interested? People who read both journals?
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Look, Scully dressed like an Austen heroine!
I noticed. I don't really get the naked!sunglasses!Mulder either. hehehe.
Mm Hmm
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I buy every latin-language book I find cheap. I have yet to find anything that was actually originally latin.
Completely Off-topic
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