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queensthiefFish, Barbies, Birthdays, Dr. Seuss, Gilmore Girls, Greece, and a few pockets of on topic conversation actually about the books (some of which included a frightening necklace of Attolia). We had a new member: Hebe! Emerald, Anon, Feir Dearig, Quark, Jade, Leslie, Willow, and I all showed up as well, and things got a little crazy (as always :P). Enjoy!
Avian from x.x.x.20 joined the chat 5 hours ago
Avian sets up for the chat
Avian lays out several copies of each book for referecne
Avian: reference*
Avian adds cookies with mardi gras sprinkles and hot chocolate
emerald from x.x.x.103 joined the chat 5 hours ago
Avian: hello :)
emerald: hello
emerald: !!!!!!!!!!!
emerald: (I'll tell you later :))
Avian: ...
Avian: but now i'm curious
Avian: brb
jade_sabre from x.x.x.9 joined the chat 4 hours ago
jade_sabre: ack, it's being laggy today
Avian: hey, Jade :)
jade_sabre: hey!
jade_sabre does not have her books with her, alas!
jade_sabre but she totally takes a cookie.
emerald: hi Jade
jade_sabre: hey
emerald: sorry, lag
emerald: why is it when I say "sorry, lag" there is no lag!
emerald offers tea and cookies too
jade_sabre offers chocolate.
jade_sabre reads the article Leslie linked her to.
jade_sabre: "Therefore Brown claims that “the quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene,” a conclusion that would surely have surprised Sir Galahad and the other Grail knights who thought they were searching for the Chalice of the Last Supper."
jade_sabre imagines the look on Galahad's face when he discovers that he's looking for the bones of Mary Magdalene.
Avian: haha
jade_sabre: "You mean...I'm looking for...a prostitute?"
jade_sabre: Lancelot: "Up, that's it, no more questing for you. Too perilous."
emerald: LOL
jade_sabre: Galahad: "No...no, I think I can handle just a little peril!"
Avian: HAHA
jade_sabre: Lancelot: "No, no, far too perilous."
Avian: that's exactly what they would say
jade_sabre: And thus was Sir Galahad saved from almost certain temptation.
jade_sabre bows.
emerald: OOOH, GUESS WHAT?!
Avian: what? what? what?
jade_sabre: what? what?
emerald: In summer, I'm going to GREECE! GREECE!!!!!! Don't know which part yet!!!
Avian: !
jade_sabre: (Philia--glad I could be of service. I suspect love tangles will always be complicated. :-b)
jade_sabre: ...
jade_sabre: you jest
Avian is speechless
Avian: just becuase?
emerald: Family discussion over where to go on holiday. New Zealand - not enough time to be worth it. America - too expensive. Okay, so somewhere in Europe then...and I said Greece
Avian: ah!!
Avian: so awesome
jade_sabre: yay! have lots of fun!
Avian: (and soooo much better than america!)
emerald: I do hope it doesn't fall through. organising in still in the early stage but i had to tell someone!
emerald: hah, but Avian: Ohio!
Avian: true
jade_sabre: Ohio is...well, parts of it are pretty.
jade_sabre: (oh! Willow! artwork...I recommend anything by John William Waterhouse, in terms of pretty pictures that you can print out on your wall. Also, I have a picture I've been trying to get off my phone to give to you.)
jade_sabre laughs at the backlog. Y'all are dangerous.
emerald: dangerous? in which way was that?
Avian: i wonder what she decided to do...
jade_sabre: revenge-wise
jade_sabre: another quote from the article: "In short, Brown has fabricated a novel perfect for a ladies’ book club."
jade_sabre: ...
Anon8 from x.x.x.175 joined the chat 4 hours ago
jade_sabre disagrees.
jade_sabre: hey!
emerald: hello
Anon8: hello everybody
Avian: hey :)
jade_sabre: oh no.
jade_sabre: someone just put on Gilmore Girls
jade_sabre: no, Rory, don't throw away all of your belongings just because Dean dumped you!
Feir Dearig from x.x.x.30 joined the chat 4 hours ago
Feir Dearig: Hi
Anon8: hi
emerald: hello
jade_sabre: hey!
jade_sabre: Chad Michael Murray was on this show?
jade_sabre looks guilty and apologizes for being off-topic.
jade_sabre: So...Eugenides...
Avian: what holidays do they celebrate in Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis?
Anon8: religious festivals
jade_sabre: Spring
jade_sabre: probably a harvest one
Avian: well, we're quiet today
jade_sabre: yeah
jade_sabre: I'm trying not to watch this Gilmore Girls, and I'm reading a bunch of stuff.
Anon8: so...when Eugenides told Sejanus that he was his friend and wouldn't be dismissed, did Sejanus realize the king had been spying on him/knew about his conspiracy?
jade_sabre: aw crap
jade_sabre goes to fetch her book, asking "where is this?"
Avian: where is that?
Avian: lag
Anon8: when Eugenides accuses Dite of poisoning the lethium and Sejanus "confesses"
Avian: oh
Anon8: this is right before
Avian: i think he did
Anon8: Eugenides nearly quotes the words back to him
Avian: he had to realize something was wrong by then
Anon8: but then again, if Eugenides knew about the conspiracy, and Sejanus knew Eugenides knew, why couldn't Gen get Sejanus to name his father as a conspirator and get rid of all the Erondites all at once?
Feir Dearig: Familial loyalty?
jade_sabre: maybe the country couldn't handle that?
Anon8: yeah, i can see that
Anon8: but then again...people might be happy to see them go
Feir Dearig: But does Sejanus like his father all that much?
jade_sabre: hm
jade_sabre: I don't think so
Avian: i think he wanted to be sure that the house would fall, and that another member of the family wouldn't claim that title. if Gen had executed or banned Erondites, that could happen
jade_sabre: he might pretend to, but his real loyalty is to his brother
Avian: if he's alive, he would have to choose on his own, and there really isn't one avaliable, right?
Feir Dearig: True. And then he has to get the Crown's approval.
Avian: yes
jade_sabre: and yes, I think Sejanus figured out that the king knew about the conspiracy
jade_sabre has just reread that part.
jade_sabre: (Leslie--that was a wonderfully thorough article. Thank you for the link!)
aged_crone from x.x.x.218 joined the chat 4 hours ago
emerald: wow
emerald: nice timing, Jade
jade_sabre bows.
Anon8: lol, nice
aged_crone: Hello!
jade_sabre: allo!
Avian: hey :)
Anon8: hi!
aged_crone: Emerald: I went to Greece my senior year of high school. And strange men kept coming up and draping their arms around me. Note: I am not irresistibly beautiful or anything like that. I hope they've changed since then, but, just in case, cultivate an icy, intimidating stare.
jade_sabre: Italy is similar, I think.
jade_sabre: OH!
Hebe from x.x.x.211 joined the chat 4 hours ago
jade_sabre: when we went to Italy, I did a series of photos--we dared two of my girl friends to take a turn about whichever piazza is in front of Il Duomo
jade_sabre: hello new person!
emerald: Hello!
jade_sabre: and the photos involve shots of the girls walking, and shots of Italian men's heads turning to follow.
emerald: WELCOME!
Feir Dearig: Greetings!
emerald: GUARD YOUR SANITY
jade_sabre: Welcome indeed!
emerald: oops, wrong one
emerald offers Hebe cookies
Anon8: hi Hebe
Hebe: Hello all
Anon8: (don't eat the cookies)
Avian: questions and converstion starters about the books are welcome. otherwise we ramble about random things :P
emerald: (Thanks for that Leslie, about Greece. I'll remember)
Avian: (no, don't eat emerald's cookies. from anyone else, they're fine)
emerald: THE COOKIES ARE SAFE
Feir Dearig: Why?
Hebe: Is it the cookies that cause the insanity?
emerald offers Feir Dearig cookies
jade_sabre: hahaha
Anon8: funny you should ask...
Avian: you will sprout wings
jade_sabre: or a tail
Avian: and turn into a griffen
emerald: No, of course not
jade_sabre: or you might shrink
jade_sabre: or turn pink
jade_sabre: (it's like Dr. Seuss book)
Feir Dearig: I need my tea...
emerald: Great, thanks Anon, thanks Avian. Know I look insane
Avian: (sennches on the beaches!)
emerald: *Now
Avian: sneeches*
Avian: you are insane :)
jade_sabre: sneech?
Anon8: did you eat your cookies? :-P
Hebe: I've read some of the chat when it was posted on the main pages, so I *think* I know what I've let myself in for...?
emerald: You are insaner, insanest :P
jade_sabre: heeheehee
Avian: that's my favorite dr. seuss book
Avian: well, it was when i was little
jade_sabre: ooooooh
emerald: :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPppp
jade_sabre hearts The Lorax.
jade_sabre: oh dear
emerald: oh dear, what?
jade_sabre watches the chance of sane chat going...going...gone!
Feir Dearig: We haven't started rhyming yet...there's hope.
emerald: I know, we always put on our best faces to new people :D
emerald: nope, no hope
Feir Dearig: *laughs*
Avian: well, that's fortunate considering dr. seuss was mentioned
Hebe: "nope no hope" rhymed
Avian: probably was intentional
jade_sabre: oh dear
Avian: :P
aged_crone from x.x.x.231 joined the chat 4 hours ago
jade_sabre: you're back!
Avian: hey, Leslie :)
Anon8: what happened?
emerald: Haha, intentional, you know me too well
aged_crone: Sorry, I got bumped!~
jade_sabre: (haha, this is not going to end well, Lorelei.)
Avian: (now the chat's sanity chances are gone)
emerald: Aww, you stood a chance of regaining your sanity and.....
emerald: dammit, Avian got there first
Feir Dearig: it got lopped off with Eugenides's hand?
aged_crone: Hand, hand, fingers, thumb; one thumb, one thum, drumming on a drum. One hand, two hands drumming on a drum. Dum diddy dum diddy dum dum dum.
Avian: brb
aged_crone: Ahem. Avian, are you implying that my presence has a deleterious effect on the sanity level of Chatzy?
jade_sabre: ...
jade_sabre brain splosion.
jade_sabre: oops. I made a mess.
emerald: implying? or stating the fact?
aged_crone: Snort! The timing on Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb was completely accidental! I was just going with the Cat in the Hat books connection.
jade_sabre starts cleaning up.
Avian: yes, Leslie, you are a detriment to chatzy's sanity
emerald: Good idea Jade, Willow gets annoyed when the squid start peeling bits of brain off the walls
jade_sabre: we love you anyway
emerald: WE ARE ALL DETRIMENTS TO CHATZY'S SANITY. WHAT SANITY?
aged_crone is highly insulted.
emerald: amen
Feir Dearig: *chortles*
Avian: no, i'm not a detriment to the sanity
Avian: just the safety
jade_sabre: (oh...Lorelei...bad Lorelei...I mean I'M NOT WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS. I REFUSE.)
emerald: see! see what has happened to Jade!
aged_crone recommends, instead of Gilmore Girls, The Big Valley, or the Flying Nun, or That Girl.
jade_sabre: (ew, his chest is hairy, and not in a Rhett-Butler-smexy way)
jade_sabre: yes, really
jade_sabre: anything would be better than this BRAIN CANDY.
jade_sabre: OH NO
jade_sabre: it's Chad Michael Murray.
jade_sabre: throw up the white flag! abandon ship!
Feir Dearig: Brain candy? What's that?
aged_crone: Brain candy is good, but not recent tv shows.
jade_sabre: stuff that is so very, very sweet, so very very good, and so very, very fluffy and pointless and useless
Avian: lol
aged_crone: Is Chad Michael Murray bad? Why is that name familiar? I must have seen him in a movie.
jade_sabre: he's...pretty...
Hebe: (completely lost - who is Lorelei? Or is ignorance good?)
quark from x.x.x.28 joined the chat 4 hours ago
jade_sabre: (Lorelei is Rory's mother)
jade_sabre: (on Gilmore Girls)
jade_sabre: (she's currently sleeping with Rory's teacher [I think; I don't actually follow this series, and this is a random episode from a random DVD])
jade_sabre: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!
quark from x.x.x.28 left the chat 4 hours ago
aged_crone: I've never watched it, but I gather Rory and Lorelei are the leads in The Gilmore Girls.
jade_sabre: yes, they are
emerald: Hi Quark
Avian: hey :)
aged_crone: Hi, Quark.
quark from x.x.x.28 joined the chat 4 hours ago
aged_crone: Yet another sleazy tramp-fest on modern tv, from what I've heard.
quark: Ack!
quark kicks the internet
jade_sabre: eeeeeeeeh...I think it mostly is
Anon8: hi quark!
quark: hey everyone!
Anon8: yeah, my connection's kinda iffy too
quark: looks like a lot of navy in here- brb
jade_sabre: but it's got some good parts
Hebe: (ah, a TV show - nevererdovit, I'm afraid, but isn't google useful <g>)
quark: okay
jade_sabre: oh, Hebe, what's your livejournal name?
jade_sabre: or are you a lurker?
aged_crone: Sorry, I didn't even notice that Anon8 was already navy. But I think we're running out of colors!
Avian: there's pink
quark: hehehe, at least that means people are coming in!
Hebe: lurker from England
Avian: and black
aged_crone: I like pink - but not *that* shade of pink.
quark: my thoughts exactly :)
Avian: gilmore girls probably doesn't play over there
jade_sabre: aaah
jade_sabre: yes
jade_sabre: how did you find the books?
Anon8: navy's nice :D, lots of people can be navy
Feir Dearig: *grins* I only chose the color because I thought no one else would be using it...
jade_sabre: navy and gold look good together
jade_sabre: :-D
aged_crone just got a package that contains the birthday present I ordered for myself, and [i][b]opened it early![/b][/i]
jade_sabre: GASP
quark: OH NO
Feir Dearig: What's inside?
quark: ...what'd you get?
aged_crone: darn! it didn't work!
Anon8: (am i weird if my first reaction to that was YAY!)?
Hebe: Can't remember how I found the books - got both TT & QoA when QoA was new, I think (or new to the UK anyway, if that was a different time)
quark: test?[/i}
quark: oops
jade_sabre: it worketh
quark: well, it works in text
aged_crone: More dresses for the American Girls dolls.
quark: ooh, AG dolls!
aged_crone: I think it doesn't work when I'm /me-ing.
quark: I haven't thought of those in forever!
quark: i have samantha, but that's it
aged_crone: Yes. I have Kirsten, Felicity, Samantha, Molly, Addy, Josefina, and Kit.
Avian: i had Kit and Samantha at some point
Avian: they went to a younger cousin
quark: Wow
aged_crone: And almost all of their stuff.
Avian: i didn't much play with dolls
jade_sabre: ...
Feir Dearig: I played with trains.
jade_sabre never got American Girl downs.
jade_sabre: *dolls
jade_sabre: but
jade_sabre: my little sister got one for her birthday once.
quark: Ah. I have the bed and some clothes my grandmother made :)
aged_crone: My rationale is that I display them in the library and tie history and literature together and then the children read more.
Avian: i played with the guys... football soccer :P
jade_sabre: Meanwhile, I got a bracelet with my monogram on it.
quark: hoho, i was totally about the Barbies.
jade_sabre was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous.
aged_crone: Of course, I use that rationale on an awful lot of stuff! :)
jade_sabre: yeah, well MY BARBIES ARE DEAD
quark: my Barbies had a corvette
quark: it was pink
quark: and lasted about six hours
jade_sabre "dead is dead" she told herself over and over again, but it didn't stop her from MISSING HER BARBIES.
jade_sabre: WRATH.
Feir Dearig: Reckless Driver Barbie?
aged_crone: *Everything* that Barbie has is pink.
quark: what, you killed them?
jade_sabre: no
quark: actually, Skipper took a header off a cliff
emerald: WRATH
jade_sabre: my sister(s) did.
quark: (read: out the window)
jade_sabre: (haha)
quark: she was committing suicide because her boyfriend fell for Barbie instead
quark: it was very dramatic
jade_sabre: ...
emerald: i really should copyright my WRATH thing]
jade_sabre: you should
jade_sabre: but um...
aged_crone also has a bunch of Barbies. Which she occasionally displays at the library, which is *of course* the only reason she has them.
jade_sabre: I don't think my Barbies ever killed themselves.
quark: of course[?]
emerald offers Jade cookies
quark: dang it!
jade_sabre: can we stop talking about Barbies? I'm still a little traumatized.
jade_sabre can't get the sight of the Beast covered in mold out of her head.
quark: what would you like to talk about instead?
jade_sabre wants to cry for her lost childhood.
jade_sabre sniffles.
jade_sabre: um...
quark has heard that if you microwave Barbies they melt.
quark would like to test this hypothesis
Feir Dearig: Why does Attolia collect carved beads?
quark: she does?
aged_crone: The old outfits were so well-made, with little zippers and snaps and all. The new ones all seem to be a scrap of pink polyester with some elastic.
emerald: Avian will help
jade_sabre: (I would throw the--
Avian: i'll help what?
jade_sabre does not feel better...
aged_crone: No!!!!! Poor Beast!
Anon8: awwww
jade_sabre: --idea of on-topic discussion out there, but that's dangerous.)
jade_sabre: I know!
quark: i think they started catering to a lower age group. I know I had trouble with the snaps when I was really young
Anon8: *sends Jade chocolate*
jade_sabre: my sister decided to use the box the Barbies were in as a washtub type thing, and then she apparently didn't empty all the water out when she put the Barbies back in
quark: I also heard that the Bratz dolls are starting to be serious competition for Barbie
Feir Dearig: (when Costis is guarding Gen after he and Irene make up their quarrel...he notices amphorae and a row of carved beads on a tabletop)
jade_sabre: a month later, my other sister was going to use the Barbies to make a money...
jade_sabre: *movie
quark: and I thing those things are hideous
jade_sabre: (huh)
jade_sabre: Bratz do suck.
aged_crone has the Legolas and Aragorn and Galadriel Barbies, and thinks Gen and Attolia Barbies (or rather Barbie and Ken) would be the berries.
jade_sabre: (Chad Michael Murray kissed Rory and I missed it??)
Avian: i started to learn about amphorae on friday in fine art :)
jade_sabre: LOL
Anon8: :)
Avian: of course, i was distrced by thinking about the books...
Avian: distracted*
jade_sabre: heeheehee
aged_crone: In my family we refer to Bratz as Slutz.
Feir Dearig: *laughs*
jade_sabre: (wait, why is Rory shoving Chad off onto Paris? Why doesn't she keep him for herself??)
jade_sabre: heeheehee
jade_sabre: that's good
quark: Feir: I don't remember that off the top of my head, but my first thought is that Gen is carving them for Attolia
jade_sabre: AW
aged_crone: Unfortunately, Barbie is making a new kind of doll that looks a lot like the Bratz.
quark: practicing with his hook, showing her that he can make beautiful things with it
Feir Dearig: Just wondering because they aren't mentioned in any of the earlier books...
Anon8: i thought the carved beads were some reference to an abacus or something like that
Feir Dearig: *likes quark's idea*
jade_sabre opens the book again.
jade_sabre: I like it too
aged_crone: Maybe the beads are just something she collected when she was unimportant and couldn't afford anything else?
quark: what's the page number; do you know?
emerald: Feir, it's harder than it looks!
Feir Dearig: What's harder than it looks?
jade_sabre: crap, I just closed the book
jade_sabre: p. 215
quark: thanks
emerald: carving beads
emerald: though Gen would probably be able to do it :)
aged_crone: Regarding Gen: He loses his temper and trashes his bedroom because he "can't kill" Nahuseresh. But the only thing he can't do is strangle him with his bare hand. That doesn't mean he can't *kill* him, probably in many creative and painful ways. So why should he lose his temper?
quark: "He stood and paced across the carpet to keep himself awake, and looked with interest, but not too close an interest, at the queen's writing desk with its tidy rows of inkwells and pens, and at the row of carved beads on a shelf and the assortment of tiny amphoras on a tabletop."
Hebe: What do you think they were carved from - wood, bone, ivory, ...?
quark: because Nahuseresh almost stole Irene from him?
jade_sabre: I think he just loses his temper because he can't touch him in general, because he's in Medea.
Avian: wood probably
quark: well, wanted to, anyway
jade_sabre: wood
quark: I think wood too
Avian: yes, he can't get to him
Feir Dearig: Dunno. Maybe he wanted to tie Nahuseresh's crimson-dyed beard around Nahuseresh's neck?
jade_sabre: (ahaha, woodnesse...)
Avian: and he can't really leave attolia while working on the erondites thing
jade_sabre: LOL
aged_crone: The bones of her dead enemies!!!!!!!
Anon8: interesting mental image
jade_sabre: ...
jade_sabre: o___________________O
Anon8: (for the beard i mean)
quark: LOL
jade_sabre: *huggles Attolia protectively*
