BookJumper

Yay for faerie hugs, always make me loved those do!

I'm ok thank you, trying to juggle househunting and dissertation writing, it's not the easiest thing in the world but I think I'm more or less on top of it, thanks to a lot of caffeine and, of course, faerie hugs.

How's you? I hope everything inside and around you is as pink and fluffy and lovely as you deserve it to be xxx

A-hem.

I do humbly beg for forgiveness, my dissappearance was inexcusable, particularly given the tantalising promise "I'm on a writing spree, I'll email you updated chapters within the week".

I tell a lie, it is excusable, in a petty, pragmatic sense - I'm trying to juggle househunting (I need to move out of my current living arrangements by the end of the week) and dissertation writing and they don't pair up well so I have been a wee bit stressed of late, not much writing has been happening and I've been fairly rubbish at keeping in contact with people.

Updated chapters will happen... eventually (just so you don't get too hopeful and I end up letting you down again).

How's you?

Hello,

I'm feeling a bit bleh to be quite honest (mainly due to uni worries) but I still realise the myriad ways in which I am lucky to have the life I have so I should not mope; however I take the liberty to as I know people here are (like you) lovely and will listen - that's all I need really.

That and hugs, which is why it's good I'm going home next week - I'll be studying/melting/receiving jaw treatment while there but I'll also be receiving mummy hugs/cooking/belated strawberry & cream birthday cake, so all shall be well I am fairly easy to cheer up.

Hope you're having a lovely day and that your cheque-bringing inspiration has returned home

I hope your cold is getting better and you can get back on track soon. It's nice you like your job so much btw, it's all about enjoyin what you do and making the tiredness worthwhile x

My own appreciation of all things pink, quite coincidentally, is fairly recent - I blame the UK and university life. Before I hit my 20s I would not be seen dead in a skirt, never mind a pink one; now I seem to own little else...

No previous ST experience?! My oh my, you are right - we do need to change that!

As a plain clothes trekkie I'd particularly recommend The Next Generation (Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard is the "oh captain, my captain..."), and Enterprise (Scott "hasn't changed a jot since Quantum Leap" Bakula rocks my socks, as does the truly inspiring theme tune: *hand on heart*... I can reach any star, I've got faith, faith of the heart...).

The very first series (which follows the adventures of Kirk, Spock & Co.) is brilliant if you don't mind model ships held up with string and fairly silly alien monsters - the budget was what it was, bless them. Voyager is more of an acquired taste so I wouldn't recommend it to a beginner, while Deep Space Nine I could never get the hang of. The films are very hit and miss, and as such probably only of interest to the seasoned trekkie - let us say that what you just saw at the cinema was the exception.

Oh good I hope "Hercules" has the same mind-blowing, heart-rending, life-chancing effect on you as it had on me, or at least that you enjoy it very very much. If you do I might start a thread listing literary oddities by me recommended; they seem to be in demand...

Thank you it worked, a great time was had actually - Star Trek was everything I hoped it would be and then some!

Hello

My jaw's much better thank you, although when I go home next week I'll be upgrading my brace to a more intense which (I'm guessing) will be just as agonising as the current one was before I got used to it. It no longer feels like it's going to fall off though, which is a definite improvement!

How is your self? x

Thank you I did actually. Must say, I am approving the pinkness...!

Thank you I did - it was AWESOME! Ta-tatata-tata-tatatata-tatatata-tata!

Why thank you for the imaginary hat tip, it brightened my rather opaque day You have a good, un-opaque one yourself, and I hope "House of Leaves" by my near-homonym starts, er, growing on you soon.

Not particularly, no... but I will be in time (until it happens again). Thanks for the support and huggage, it does make a difference .

On a slightly more positive note, do not forget to let me know what type of work you would be most interested in perusing... I have not forgotten !

Your friend is suffering from an extremely dodgy ankle, perched on three cushions as we speak, and a chronically sprained jaw, currently helped along by one of those braces is that make you slur when you speak.

I know what you mean about the lack of time to read; between planning the dreaded dissertation, doing my internship research and life in general I'm lucky to get through a few pages a week. In the good old days prior to higher education that used to be a few books a week...!

Indeed you did spell my name correctly (as so many people, including a few family members, don't); as a prize you get to read some of the stuff I'm writing - although I jest, I probably would have let you sneak a peek anyway because I like you, and to be honest I could do with the feedback . If you PM me your email address I'll let you have something before the night is out... what can I offer you? Novel prologue, short story, metapoem?

Thanking you much for the hugs ,

To be honest I'm not excellent and tickety-boo (injuries and deadlines and an inability to run out and enjoy the rare British sunshine are making sure of that); however I sense an improvement in my writing mojo... which to be honest is probably a function of the generalised lack of excellence, so not all is lost. At least, literature isn't lost!

Plus, the word "tickety-boo" (which I must admit, I've never encountered before) made me smile so thank you.

And how are things with sir?

Hello

Weather's surprisingly good here also, lots of sunshine which (alas!) a surplus of uni work and a yet again injured ankle mean I can't really bask in. Bleh. Apart from that (hence being a bit bored) I'm alright thank you, my reading mo and jo are very thin on the ground at the minute but I seem to be slowly regaining my writing mo and jo - hopefully one will inspire the other!

Hope the fairy-tale weather keeps up and you get to enjoy every last second of it; have a lovely day you special, gorgeous, inspiring person that you are.

Whoa :|... I'm not sure I can take this much praise in one go... *brain melts*!! I'm honoured to be hailed as the official restorer of your mojo, especially when even St. Victor had failed. Cannot wait to read your further comments, they sound like the kind of thing I'd print off and refer to in times of lost writing mojo (those ugly, ugly moments when BookJumper thinks *woe is me, I cannot write, I shall go jump off an Elsinore cliff*).

you have just made my day (for the rest mostly made up of essay editing), artistically speaking so I'm thanking you as much as you're thanking me...!

*yay* about the lack of forgetfulness, although I do completely understand that life happens to us all, taking away with it the time to do such things as read awesome prologues... lol. I am amusing. Glad you've loved the beginning (in capitals, no less! I am flattered), I can't wait to hear your more complete opinion - including any gripes; better to have gripes to fix at this stage rather than having them immortalised on the published page!

I'm alright thank you but collapsing under deadline pressure: two essays on Monday, and that's including my extension, my internship research on Friday and the critical survey in preparation for my dissertation the Monday after... bleeeh! It's not the easiest thing to concentrate on all of that with the jaw and its best friend the headache, but I'm on top of it.

I think.

*hugs to you too* how are YOU doing?

Aw why thank you, you make me blush - and I'm not just saying that, I'm not used to compliments on this scale, especially when I'm not really sure how I've deserved them! Then again you're an incredibly sensitive and receptive person therefore if you feel I deserve them I suppose I must . I look forward to reading from you too, not just for what you write but how you write it; somehow you've taken that (often awkward) thing that is English as a foreign language and turned it into beautiful poetry. Being a poet myself I'm extremely sensitive and receptive to poetry in others and you've got a lot filling your heart. Have a lovely day (sadly no sunshine here, although your words do bring some to the soul).

I am guilty as charges of not having replied to this as soon as I should have but truth is I didn't know how to match the loveliness of your words and retired to think up some worthy ones... I tend to to that, Hamletise on matters of expression when really I should just get on with it and talk to people like a normal person! But then, I am not a normal person, and I think we have already established that's a good thing!

I have tried the jaw press thing you mentioned but I didn't get far, it hurt too much and I had to stop. Thankfully I am seeing a doctor this afternoon who might be able to help, we'll have to pray and see how it goes (though God might listen to your prayers more than mine as for an agnostic to pray is a bit hypocritical, although I have been known to be hypocritical in times of need).

Thanks for your story - it does give me a bit of hope - and all the lovely compliments - they make me smile (which hurts the face but sooths the heart).

xxx

It hasn't gotten better as of yet, I regret to say; thanks for the wishes though.

Indeed I find myself not too disinterested with the supplied information, considering that my progression towards Shakespearean Studies evolved from a BA in English & Philosophy! I then forsake the Philosophy because, when a clash of schedules sought to make me drop a module on Shakespeare (!) because of a compulsory module on Philosophy & Literature, I discovered where my loyalties lay - though I managed to stay, as a half-private student, on the Shakespeare course, I ended up sitting in that Philosophy & Literature class thinking "You know what? I wish I were somewhere else." And given that the somewhere else was in a Modern Languages lecture hall in the presence of my very own inspiring, passionate Shakespeare teacher, the path was clear! I did enjoy the philosophy however, though it had to be suppressed as it tried to come between me and literature, but then again - are the two really so distinct?

You have a nice day yourself!

Alas Binary_Digit, I find myself utterly unable to tell you that I'm better: the miraculous healing of my jaw failed to happen rather spectacularly, I regret to say. Turns out a normal doctor can't fix what I have so I need to wait until Monday to see someone who can, he's called a "maxillofacial surgeon" which sounds fairly daunting but to be honest I'd rather be daunted than dislocated. We shall see how that goes...

I'm sorry "The Time Traveler's Wife" has upset you *passes lucky, damage-repairing hankie*, especially as I was looking foward to reading it myself - maybe not a good idea, I am a fairly sensitive type with an overdeveloped sense of injustice and from your review this sounds like it will anger me a great deal.

To be honest, this is all immaterial; I am at the present moment suffering from a complete inability to concentrate on anything for more than two minutes straight, which precludes reading rather...

It's quite alright, I just wish I could do more... I've even left replying to this for a little even though I knew I really shouldn't, in the hope that the wait would bring forth inspiration as to what was best to say. I realise now that was silly, how inspired can you be in these instances, there's no such thing as "the right words". Still, I tried looking for them because I wanted to try and make you feel better. Presumptious I guess, and a bit impossible at this early stage; so instead I am just going to remind you that I'm here if you need someone to just be here. xxx