"I'm Gonna Learn How to Fly (High!): I Feel it Coming Together..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

*third, and undoubtedly last, computer snatch*

^_____^ I have Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel! A beautiful hardback copy from the Sewanee bookstore. I am broke now, utterly so, but it is nice to have such a beautiful-looking book. Of course I shall have no time to read it at least until I'm home again, alas.

Is to-day Ll's birthday? *gasp* This is what I hear! Well, in case my card hasn't come-- *pounces* ECSTATIC NATAL DAY, LL! ^_____^ <3 you ohsomuch. 'Trice wishes you happy birthday, too.

H'm. I hope my letter to Harbert gets there soon.

...Also Sir Andrew's. Sir Andrew's is awfully important, and I want him to have it.

And Horatio has a poem for Hamlet. ^_^ Andrew, Andrew is a boy in our class who is so clever but who dislikes me, I think, alas, but that's not the matter, it's that Andrew wrote a beautiful love poem, and Horatio sent him a very respectful letter requesting that he be allowed to quote the text for Hamlet, and Andrew said that was quite all right, so! But Horatio must wait until he is home, for I have not the poesie with me, and anyway amn't home yet.

To-morrow night is the final night, and the dance, but it will take us a little while to get home, because the drive is so long. I expect to be back by Tuesday.

I love you all so much. I have sent letters when I could, and postcards, although postcards here are too expensive to send really, and I have missed you terribly and thought of you often, but I do assure you all is well here. Once again I hope that as I have not forgotten you, you have not forgotten your Soujin.

And now I must dash to conferences. To-day I (with a group) eat dinner with a guest author! Eep. o_o And then there are student readings, and readings by the author, and after everything else, as if that wasn't enough, there's Casino Night (o_o I have not the faintest idea, I assure you) and *flail* So! I must be off to get everything done.

Should I write my roommate a poem? She is the sweetest girl in the world, and done so much for me in all this time. 'Tis worrisome she might not realise how much I owe her and how grateful I am over it all. Ought I? I might, if I could.

But for the present, valete!

Comments

[erinpuff]

Of *course* I haven't forgotten you! I got your letter the other day and it filled me with loved-ness and love.

I, as patiently as I can, which is not very, await your return. :)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Of course you haven't forgotten me! We are soulmates. We miss each other on the same days!

I, not very patiently, am waiting to glomp you. ...! Which I can do now, I have just realised. *GLOMPGLOMPGLOMP*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Yooouuuuuu! *clingglomps* I got home from England to THREE pieces of absolutely wonderful mail from you-- the letters, Horatio's card, and your package of Croce. Thank you so, so much! I adore the CD, perhaps more than I should. Hamlet says "Time in a Bottle" reminds him of Horatio and makes me play it over and over again.

Eeee! Poem for Hamlet! He's working on a poem for Horatio, but since I'm also in the middle of three fics [that's a lie; I've only started two], one of them for you [I started! I swear!], it may take awhile.

*frets* I hope our my letter gets to you before you leave. Will they forward your mail? I also have more postcards to send you, because I kept falling asleep while writing postcards in London and eventually gave up.

*bounces* I loooove you! I can't wait until you are home and will tell us all about... well, everything!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Yes, meeeee! *clingsback* Oh, hurrah! Me so v.v. glad! Croce is just the most wonderful thing ever. ^_^ *dies*

Eeee, yes! --Aww. <3 He's such a darling. A mad darling. Yet again, though, take your time, take your time, both of you.

It did! It did! But I hope they do forward, because I have apparently only got a little part of the mail people sent. Eeepostcards!

I love you tooooooo! And I am home! So in a moment, I shall make a post and tell you about, well, everything! ^___________^

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Agreed! *beams* It's horrible! He also adores "Alabama Rain"...

*pats Hamlet* He babbles about Horatio all the time, so I figure it's only fair to let him write once in awhile.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Isn't that funny. Horatio likes--well, okay, frankly, Horatio prefers Ella Fitzgerald; but of Jim Croce he's particularly fond of 'Operator' and 'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song'.

Awww! *pounces him* So sweet! Of course.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

And Hamlet prefers 80s music (...what?), but he does like Croce. *grins* They're so silly.

If you get to pounce mine, I get to pounce yours! ^-^ *pounces Horatio and snuggles apologetically*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*dies* They so fun when they get opinions and tastes regarding modernisms. And silly, ay.

Horatio: *smiles and hugs rather, being Good That Way*

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. I love it, though.

*adores both of you*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I can only agree.

*and both of us adore both of you! what coinkidink!*

[julietveiled.livejournal.com]

Tuesday! Ai! Seems unbearably close to be yet so far! EspeciallyasIgointoCrazyWeekonMonday,augh! I've missed you so so so adjectively much, dear thing - and oh, the postcard you sent me made me SO happy and it's so randomly Russian (not YOUR text, but the stuff on the card) that it adds to it. ...or...I don't know, something. Er.

I have another letter for you that I'm posting to your home address, so I thiiink it should be waiting for you when you get home, provided I get around to stamping and posting it in time... *bounces - with Z* *finds a trampoline to make it more efficient* I can't wait until you're home, too! or either! ...eep!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it? It feels that way to me, too. *ignores fact that to-day is, in fact, factually Tuesday* Me too! Missed you, I mean. --Yay, postcard. ^_^ Thrift store postcards so fun. Bwee. Yay.

Hurrah! I think I've got it, and many, many *hugs* and *snuggles* You poor darling thing. *loves you*

...ooh, trampoline. May I play, too?

[weaselwoman13.livejournal.com]

Ooo, my mom said "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel" was excellent and that I had to read it (which I will eventually when I'm not in the middle of sixteen other books at once). Ah, don't you just love beautiful books? Unfortunately mine tend to get so much abuse that they don't stay beautiful for long!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

That's what anima_mecanique and snowyofthenight said, too! We shall see. ^___^

I do, I do. They're so shiny and pretty and new... But old books, and abused books, have a good deal of character, so that's all right.

[metaphora.livejournal.com]

Wednesday was! :) And thank you much, dear thing! Shall actually mail your and Bossuet's letters when I manage to mail everything I should, (which is quite a lot by this point, actually) and shall continue to watch my post box like a hawk. Except.. I amn't a very good hawk, at all. So just watching. Er, right! ♥♥♥

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Ah, Wednesday. Alas, off was I!

Oh, mail for me! *squeals again* Thank you so much! And Patrice is v. happy, indeed.

Has it come yet? Mail to and from Sewanee so bizarre. ;_;

[metaphora.livejournal.com]

It's all still good! But haven't yet bought stamps, even though I've said for the last two weeks that I would, I haven't, but really, honestly will do that and send things tomorrow now that I've actually finished replying to all my letters, and have to buy stamps anyway to write thank you letters to people I don't know who dontated to LSM for me to be poor and come. Er, anyway. No mail from you, yet, but I know they're incredibly prompt with the mail here, so it should. Soon. Maybe? :> Wah.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Okay! Thank goodness. ^_^ I was afraid the letters just didn't come. That's quite all right.

Ohhh! I hope it comes soon! *flail*

[allyness.livejournal.com]

Aww, that'd be sweet, to write her a poem =D
And of course we haven't forgotten la Soujin.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*wibbles* it would have been. I didn't turn out to be able to do so, though. *loses*
Oh, squee. ^__^ I knew I could rely upon you.

[bewareofitalics]

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel! I got that for Chanukah and haven't read it yet, but it's next on my list after Harry Potter 5 (must reread in preparation!), Harry Potter 6, and Around The World In Eighty Days. Last night I finally finished The Mysterious Island, and I loved it. And then of course I was stupid enough to read the introduction and find out that Jules Verne was an anti-Semite and aaaargh... but lovely book anyway.

I got your postcard and it made me all grinny. Olivia is shaking her head over poor, doofy, claustrophobic Sebastian. And Peter says that of course he can fly in a cave, as there is absolutely nothing he can't do.

And Sir Andrew, hearing that he has a letter, is sort of nervously hopping up and down. (So I take it my package got to you on time? Whew!)

*hugs* *and eagerly awaits Tuesday*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*dies* Ah, the reading lists. Such fun. BWEEE! You done with TMI! Now go be Ayrton or Mr. Cyrus on DF. What did you think? Isn't Harbert lovely? And Pencroff? Ooooh! *sigh* Jules Verne was also scarily religious. I like to ignore these points.

Bwee! ^__^ *pets Olivia* Sebastian is mostly recovered by now, but he keeps looking at me suspiciously and asking am I sure I won't drag him into any more small spaces? And Jack is very comforted to hear so.

*melts* (Yes! <3)

^____^

[bewareofitalics]

Yes, I am! Maybe after LA? Cause I'll have internet, but I'll be really busy and likely won't have time for a new character... They're very lovely! They all are! Yaaaay! Sometimes it's best not to poke into biographical details. *sulks*

*so didn't get idea for Sea Fairies/Twelfth Night crossover with caves* *and Sebastian and Antonio getting fishtails* *nope* *heh... heh...*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^____^ Okayyyyy. But if you can, please do. *adoring puppy eyes of emotional manipulation* Joy! I knew you'd think so! Yes. Alas. *hugs* And, er, my Jules Verne? Tries not to be. Mostly he's just like one of his characters. I would smack him for it if it weren't a good thing.

*snork* Gay Mermen Extraordinaire instead of Gay Pirates Extraordinare!

[bewareofitalics]

Must...resist...puppy...eyes...

Bwaha. Exactly.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*puppy eyes just like Sebastian!*

^_____________^

[shawk.livejournal.com]

Now, how could we forget you? :)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You might! If I was gone long enough!

[shawk.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that! ;)

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You might!

[shawk.livejournal.com]

Doubtful at best.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*wibbles* Promise?

[shawk.livejournal.com]

Promise.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Okay. *feels much better*

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

o, sweet soujin, she doth teach the torches to burn bright -- wait.

be thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow, thou shalt not -- wait.

i love you. please come home. the children miss you, by which i mean the puppets. ros is happy enough that you're enjoying the boat, but prom almost started talking like epi yesterday, and now he's afraid of himself. 'course, the man was alone on a mountain for a thirty years, sometimes i think he's kind of ... you know. northerly.

i also think it's darling that you want to write your roommate a poem. ^_^

account mix-up? i saw no account mix-up! ... rosencrantz loves you, too, though ... but he has no opinion on prom's northerliness.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Wait! Wait-- Don't stop! How do those go?

I love you too; I long for you. Let Ros know that there was a shy quiet girl and I gave her my printed boat on the last day because she was so shy and quiet, but I still have the one which is not printed, and I shall print another, and--it will all be all right. Oh, dear! Epi is a little worried about Prom, but not really, because he knows very well that Prom will always be all right.

Even if he is northerly.

I wanted to! I tried! I only managed a few verses, though, and 'twasn't very good. I have her e-mail address, however, and shall try again presently. *hopes*

*giggles and squees very softly*

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

-- o, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! / it seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / like a rich jewel in an ethiop's ear; / beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! / ... did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! / for i ne'er saw true beauty till this night ...

i always thought it a terribly pretty piece of verse, even if romeo is a spaz and you should never believe anything he says. he's pouting at me now because he knows it's true.

--if thou dost marry, i'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. get thee to a nunnery, go. farewell!

XD XD XD i fail.

oh, but that's very sweet of you -- of course it'll be all right! ros supposes boats are meant to be shared, anyway, aren't they, unless they're very small boats, which it was, a bit, but seeing as there're so many of them, or, that there could be, it's like a very large boat ... or, at least, it could be. and now he's gone down a very complicated train of thought on how much a boat may or may not like a nutshell, but never mind that. XP ros is silly. and i'm a very shy quiet girl myself, so ... so yesh. i think that's very sweet of you.

prom will always be all right because he is northerly. and prom is such a silly nickname. i love it. ;P

*gasp-glomps* i just thought you were darling 'cos you wanted to. actually trying to do it, that's, like, woah. i'm about to pinch your cheeks, or sacrifice a virgin for you, i'm not sure which.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's awfully nice! Thank you! Even though you're completely right and Rome is the worst spaz imaginable... ^_^

Also, I lose at Hamlet for not knowing that. Ouch.

*blushes* Oh, thank you! And thank him! Perhaps he is a little silly, but it is the best kind of silly in the world. *pounces and loves desperately*

You're right. And-- *dies a little* I know. Wonderful.

Oh--it's not...! I'm not...!

...

The virgin, please.

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

romeo: *what, just 'cos he falls madly in love with a girl he knew for ten minutes at a party and proceeds to get everyone around him killed and then himself -- sulks prettily and goes to get some pastries from ragueneau maybe.*

well, i've been obsessively listening to the hamlet radio-plays lately, so, all sorts of odd lines are sticking in my head. XD illegally downloaded radio-plays, might i add. i still fail.

*love and pouncing all around, even from silly ros, and in some ways sillier kylee*

zara-z and i were discussing preparing said virgin sacrifice in the chat last night -- we considered putting out an ad in the personals. "female seeking female -- virgin, willing to be sacrificed." of course, because typo demons happen, that got misspelled as 'vigin,' but would a vegan sacrifice would suffice, if no virgins are available?

zara-z was also fretting quite a bit about the fic she was writing for you, which i thought was darling, but shh.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*too busy giggling to answer, but Ragueneau thinks this is a good idea*

Eeewow. Hamlet radio-plays? Lucky lucky lucky. *dies*

Bweeeee! Pouncelovefest! ^___^ *pounces and loves you both*

A vegan might, for probably she would be natural and organic mostly due to her diet. Vegetable-nurtured. *nods* Would do.

*squibbles* She is. Gah. So much. *feels very unworthy*

[little-lady-d.livejournal.com]

bbc radio-plays, nonetheless! ^_^ and i love them, though i fear it may unforgivably geeky of me ... i mean, i used to think 'to be or not to be' was just whiny. (but it's pretty whiny, really!)

*hee hee~!*

a wise motion from our beloved soujin ... just for that, you get two vegan sacrifices. ^_^

you are so gah. and you-plural. if you were a couple, i would 'ship you madly.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

That so very, very wonderful. If thou'rt a geek, thou'rt the best kind of all (yes. it is *no pity*).

^___^

Ooooh. Wisdom, verily, pays off. *eats wax beans to purify self in preparation to receive sacrifices*

This, also, so not true. But I ship us as a couple, too. ^_~

[sirius-meihim.livejournal.com]

Hey you. C'est Laura. Remember me? ^_^ Bop! You've been friended!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Now, honestly, do you suppose I could forget you?

*friendsback*