eleanor muses on her coursework

Jan 24, 2008 19:54

So. I'm in a class called "Storytelling Strategies" this semester. I quote, from the course description ( Read more... )

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givinggifts January 25 2008, 05:04:42 UTC

Well, I might know a few things. In fact, I consider myself something of an expert on fairies!

...the Tales part, maybe not so much.

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pappybear January 25 2008, 05:06:57 UTC

Oh please. It's not like you ever were one.

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givinggifts January 25 2008, 05:15:02 UTC

Well, I have a very active imagination!

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pappybear January 25 2008, 05:15:55 UTC

Of course you do, kiddo, you're a Fisher.

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givinggifts January 25 2008, 05:18:43 UTC

It's in the genes?

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pappybear January 25 2008, 05:36:46 UTC

Right up there with our cheery dispositions.

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givinggifts January 26 2008, 02:33:53 UTC
So that's where they come from!

[David]

Which reminds me: would you like to come to dinner at my mother's, sometime? She's not a Tale, but I could tell her that I tracked you down. She's a wonderful woman. She'll like you.

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Eleanor. pappybear January 26 2008, 02:43:17 UTC

[Cue stunned silence of exactly fourteen minutes.]

Yeah, I'd like that. Long as I don't run into James, he was always good at holding grudges.

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David givinggifts January 26 2008, 02:45:49 UTC
[Cue similar silence, perhaps ten minutes, during which Eleanor considers how to reply.]

Uncle David? Dad died when I was four. I'm so sorry. It didn't even occur to me...

I'm so sorry.

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Eleanor. pappybear January 26 2008, 03:17:56 UTC

[After David's stared at his Compendium for at least twenty minutes and attempted to persuade himself that he didn't know his brother well and just doesn't care.]

How?

Let me know when you want me over for dinner, ok kiddo?

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David givinggifts January 26 2008, 03:21:38 UTC
Okay. I'll ask Mom and see when's a good night for her.

And if you need anything, you can totally call me. I'm not going anywhere tonight, I have a movie from Netflix and I'm staying in.

(Eleanor has written in a cell number that I am far too lazy to look up from past entries.)

That's my cell number, in case you didn't have it before.

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