Oh, Alys...
Jan. 17th, 2013 02:06 pm... you are not helping at all with the slide on timing of vegetable plantings, but thank you for showing up in my story.
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"He's very difficult to say no to, you realize."
"Damn it--" Simon took in a quick breath and released it. "You've said no to all sorts of people in your life, my lady. You could manage to turn down an invitation from Harold Finch for supper at a middle-class Greek restaurant."
"You've forgotten to add 'full of terrorists,'" she noted. "Unless your objection is to the nature of the establishment or to Lieutenant Finch as my escort."
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Otherwise: drinking sencha, waiting for snow, trying hard to get the cold-sodden brain to focus on the next damn slide. I walked a mile (or so) this morning! And my knee hardly hurts at all!
(This story is at 7200 words with no sign of stopping. Not as glorious an experience as writing the first one, but it may turn out to be worth reading. We'll see.)
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"He's very difficult to say no to, you realize."
"Damn it--" Simon took in a quick breath and released it. "You've said no to all sorts of people in your life, my lady. You could manage to turn down an invitation from Harold Finch for supper at a middle-class Greek restaurant."
"You've forgotten to add 'full of terrorists,'" she noted. "Unless your objection is to the nature of the establishment or to Lieutenant Finch as my escort."
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Otherwise: drinking sencha, waiting for snow, trying hard to get the cold-sodden brain to focus on the next damn slide. I walked a mile (or so) this morning! And my knee hardly hurts at all!
(This story is at 7200 words with no sign of stopping. Not as glorious an experience as writing the first one, but it may turn out to be worth reading. We'll see.)