serendipity

Odd to be writing fic about a person who, totally accidentally, runs into somebody they hadn't seen in fifteen years, and then, totally accidentally, run into two people I haven't seen in five years.

Yeah, it's 5 v. 15 years, and the people I ran into were never my arch-enemies, and there's been no intervening magical war (that I'm aware of) so the similarity falls apart fairly quickly, but it was still odd. It was two moms I knew in Kingston when Daniel was a baby. I was in prenatal class with one of the moms, and Mom & Me group with the other. They were in Ottawa for the day, shopping at IKEA. Who knew ;)

So now I'm off to try and finish off my fic about the fifteen year thing, and trying not to think of IKEA. Because IKEA totally doesn't fit the fic at all.



And let me just put a big old HAND up to repel any attempts by certain persons to suggest a trip to IKEA for the protagonists, maybe to look at mattresses - totally innocently, of course - and then to oh so accidentally fall upon the same mattress at the same time and be all atwitter and confused and thus segue into slashy territory.

Yes, you know who you are.

books books books

1. What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died?
   Love Story, Erich Segal, guessed by bast2
   
   
2. When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was.
   The Chrysalids, John Wyndham, guessed by daf9
   
   
3. Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity - Good. His dad had the pickup going.
   Hint: this children's book has been banned in several schools.
   
   
4. Lessa awoke, cold.
   Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey, guessed by shellmidwife and linaelyn
   
   
5. The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength.
   Hint: "There! Is! No! Sanctuary!"
   
   
6. Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
   Hint: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
   
   
7. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.
   Hint: I have none. Sorry!
   
   
8. The primroses were over.
   Watership Down, Richard Adams, guessed by shellmidwife
   
   
9. One of the luckiest accidents of my wife's life is that she happened to marry a man who was born on the 26th of September.
   Hint: The fifth picture on this page.
   
   
10. When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by himself.
    Danny, Champion of the World, Roald Dahl, guessed by Starstruck :)

Oh and BTW, does anybody know where I could download American Pie, Don McLean version? I had it, but now cannot locate my tape.

three year olds, visits, and books

You know, being three years old is hard enough in terms of making anybody understand what the frig you're saying. Being three and mostly only speaking Vietnamese in an English & French-speaking neighbourhood makes it doubly hard. So it's useful to be really, really cute. That way your neighbours won't know whether you're being naughty or you just don't understand them when they ask you not to wander into their homes.

These are things that our neighbour An has learned in the last few weeks, as the weather has left many front doors open along our street. She's an adventurous little kid. Beautiful smile. And one of the only English phrases she knows is "I waant!!"

She also knows "JUSSin!!" and "DAANya!!" Daanya doesn't really notice her. Jussin alternates between thinking she's one of the cutest movable objects in his world, and one of the most annoying.

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Visit from Todd & Susan & Turtle & Zany tomorrow. Yay!!

I miss them.

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Answers to the book meme:

1. Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity - Good. His dad had the pickup going.
   Hint: this children's book has been banned in several schools.
   Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson. I love this book. Can't read it, though. Makes me cry.
   
   
2. The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength.
   Hint: "There! Is! No! Sanctuary!"
   Logan's Run, William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, guessed by linaelyn. Book = wow. Movie = OUCH. Oh, Ouch and Make it stop and Mommy and Ouch again.
   
   
3. Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
   Hint: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
   The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran.
   
   
4. The volcano that had reared Taratua up from the Pacific depths had been sleeping now for half a million years.
   Hint: I have none. Sorry!
   Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke.
   Disturbing. Very disturbing.
   
   
5. One of the luckiest accidents of my wife's life is that she happened to marry a man who was born on the 26th of September.
   Hint: The fifth picture on this page.
   The Midwich Cuckoos, John Wyndham
   Way beyond disturbing.