Jane Austen Smackdown

[sallytuppence]

In my office at work, I have action figures. You can probably guess what kinds.

One is a Jane Austen action figure, sent to me by stephanieburgis and psamphire. A couple of days ago, my Jane went up against the secretary's Mark Twain at the front desk. Yesterday I came in and the secretary's Jane Austen was stabbing my Jane in the neck with a quill pen. This

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[_stranger_here]

I think the epic battle between Jane Austen(s) and Gollum may be ushering in the Fifth Age.

I've always wanted to be chosen as a Nielsen family! The power! I could have saved Firefly! Are those cards transferrable?

[_stranger_here]

(Wait, I think we're actually on to the eighth or ninth age by now, aren't we. Still, epic Austens, probably a sign we're in transition.)

[sallytuppence]

Surely a sign of impending apocalypse...

[stephanieburgis]

Those action figures just cause trouble, don't they? :)

My Jane is currently conducting a magic rite on my computer desk. Let's hope it helps my novel...

I'm so glad we're not the only people in the world without a television (it starts to feel that way sometimes, especially when the British Television Licensing officers refuse to believe that we might be telling the truth about it)...

And: where are the pictures of the new haircut???

[sallytuppence]

Go, voodoo Jane!

The secretary knows her Jane is doooooomed, because lo! I have dragons.

[gregvaneekhout]

Head tentacles!

I was wondering what you were going to do about a website. You'll definitely be needing one.

[sallytuppence]

I just love the word tentacles. I often amuse myself, while at work, by muttering, "tentaclestentaclestentacles."

The google website tool seems pretty simple and easy; I made a site in a couple of hours. Jenn's just tracking down a sarah-prineas domain name and using some magical rite of transference to get my google-created page to appear there.

[gregvaneekhout]

You used to own sarahprineas.com, right? And some schmoe came along and squatted on it when it expired?

Sometimes I think of getting gregvaneekhout.com for that very reason, though it's unlikely I'd ever use it, since it's nigh impossible to spell.

[sallytuppence]

Yes, that's right. Stupid shmoe. What does it mean, that somebody squatted on it? Does it mean I'd have to buy it off them for more money than sarah-prineas would cost? Last night I tried to track down who 'owned' that old URL, but couldn't come up with anything. You'd think they'd want to make it easier for me to actually buy it if I wanted it...

[sallytuppence]

Jane would kick Charlotte's butt.

Of course, if Charlotte had sister authors...

[shaolingrrl]

We have a television but no cable. This restricts us to two of the major channels (but not the ones I'd watch the most--probably a good thing) and lots of Spanish-language television. And the Bollywood survey shows on Saturday mornings, which are more fun than cartoons.

I have no spiffy action figures, alas. I have my treasured series of Muppet finger puppets and Rudolph finger puppets from Starbucks, which hasn't done anything near as cool since, a HotWheels Sojourner Rover I adore, and a very cool but not too robust Spirit (or maybe Opportunity) Lego model made out of 853 parts that I just put together a few nights ago. I still have the headache from it.

Unfortunately, my Hubble and my moon landing site are packed away for lack of space. No pun intended.

[sallytuppence]

Muppet finger puppets. *sigh*

Haha pun.