sing ho! for the life of a bear

[melannen]

All right. I'm off on my expotition, late as usual. At this point I'd probably get there quicker waiting to take the bus, rather than getting lost in College Park trying to find the metro, but hey, it's more fun this way.

If I don't post again by tomorrow morning, you'll know I got eaten by the Great Beast of Columbia. (. . . and what would that be, anyway? Baltimore's would be a pack of giant wharf rats, obviously, and New York's is an albino alligator. DC doesn't have much of a Below, being built on a swamp. Maybe an ancient and evil osprey?)

You know, part of what decided me to get a journal in the first place is so that if I decided to go on a trip one day and never came back, people would notice quickly and know where to find me. I think this is the first time I've actually used it for that. Hm.

Comments

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Sigh, I did have Talking to Dragons here.. easy to find when it's not what you're looking for :-P And her signing line probably wouldn't have been that long.. oh well.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Oh well. Do you have the original edition of Talking to Dragons? Mine is the pre-retconned one that gets Cimorene's backstory wrong.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

No, it says it's the Enchanted Chronicles Book 4 and its LOC call number is PZ8.W92Tal 1993. So not the original edition.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I've wondered how different it really is; I've never read the EFC version. Mine's dated somewhere around 1985.

[aelkiss.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we could trade the next time you go home..

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I just googled randomly to figure out the isbn, and the only copy of the old version I could find online was selling for £26. Wow, I wonder if it's actually rare.

[speakerender.livejournal.com]

But if you were going on a trip and never coming back and did not want to be found, would you post? And if not, then doesn't it defeat that orginal goal? *Grin*

[melannen.livejournal.com]

The idea is if I was planning to come back, but got dragged into an underground kingdom by goblins or seduced into a vampire brothel or something. q-:

If I was *planning* to disappear and never come back, I would post something to that effect on the journal, to keep people from coming after me. Or at least post something to ensure you were looking in the wrong places. So it would still come in handy.

exactly

[speakerender.livejournal.com]

So then telling us, doesn't really mean you told us. Cause for all we know it might be a misdirection.

Re: exactly

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Wow, you don't trust me at all, do you? q:

Re: exactly

[speakerender.livejournal.com]

Trust you to do what?

Re: exactly

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Little old me says she's going to go wandering all alone and defenseless in the big mean city, and then disappears, and you assume it's all an elaborate plot on my part?

I'm hurt. Or flattered. One or the other.

so...

[speakerender.livejournal.com]

So which is it?