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Saturday, 16 August 2008 02:23:13
So...by now everybody's filked and/or fanfic'd the story of Serenity and her crew up one side and down the other. Including me. Some's good, some's bad, and some...well, it ain't real shiny to put it mildly. Kinda like them plates for sale on that border moon where they kidnap pompous journalin' doctors who are never seen again. Haven't looked real hard to see if it's been done(probably lots), AND I know that I should be posting this in the fanfic section, BUT I thought I'd try it out first, see if I should keep goin' or turn the other way and pretend it never happened. So, you logbook browsers out there, lend me your eyes for a click and I'll show em somethin' interestin'. They're called 'The Albatross Diaries', and they're what passes for River Tam's own record of her time in The Academy, and her descent into madness. The project daunts me a little--kinda scary prospect for a writer, doncha think? The following is rather shorter than the explanation, but that's what you get in today's world. :D I just took one entry out of the middle of the time period--for those wanting detailed analysis, leave a comment. Until then, have a slice of Academy mystery meat...mwah ha...enjoy... ________________________________________________ THE ALBATROSS DIARIES ENTRY #??? These are the things I will keep in the layers of myself and never show them off to anyone. I can say so much more in a breath and the shine of my eyes, everything at once. Only breathing. All the silent consonants tumbling over themselves like a nearly audible mist. [Say so much more in a breath.] Or the pattern of letters on a page in a book of words. Not the story or the plot. The pattern. The world is so complicated! Atoms make compounds, compounds join molecules and a desk or a table can be represented in code. Words. Letters. Read, they can kill or save. Between the lines there is more---electrons, quarks. Gravity. We understand gravity, we put it in standard drives. But when we jump we still fall to the ground. Maybe we understand how gravity works. Not gravity itself. The story, not the pattern. [Results are everything]. It's just doing its job. It won 't talk to you. ________________________________________________
Saturday, 16 August 2008 09:33:04
A lot of people have been asking how I'm doing. I don't mind the asking, not at all, but it can be problematic sometimes when you don't have the words, or can't get them out. Often I don't know what to say, and when I do the words kind of lock up inside me. I've probably seemed mostly unresponsive and I feel bad that anyone might feel locked out of my life. So I've made this. I like to hope that it might communicate what I can't. I don't know that it's perfect, but it feels mostly right. Could be that it only makes sense to me, but here is how I'm doing.
Saturday, 16 August 2008 11:01:37
Hi there, Yesterday I had three people phone up and they asked how they could beat the early settlement fee on their loans. There is just one problem with that. YOU CAN'T BEAT THE EARLY SETTLEMENT FEE!!! It's not possible. It's applied to the quote and if you try to beat it by paying off so much and leaving enough for one payment then a fee is applied on the final payment. Either that or the loan just won't close and the remaining amount will just sit there and accrue a hell of a lot of interest. I told one woman that and she said she didn't care if that happened as long as she didn't have to pay the fee. She didn't seem to want to listen that the esf was only 58 days of interest and if she left £100 and the loan didn't close then she would get 7 years of interest. Another woman asked me what her loan balance was and then said she wanted to pay off all but £10 of that. Then she asked if she would get charged so I told her she wouldn't get charged for that payment. I never said anything about the money that was left so technically she can't complain if she gets charged the settlement fee on her final payment. I just needed to rant about the stupidity of some people. TTFN Jennifer -x-
