Monday morning boredom

[selenay]

I'm trying out posting by email. Hmm.

Today I am bored. As usual, my reports are not running and I have very
little that I can do until I have some data to analyse. Woo.

For the first time since May, I was actually cold last night :-) Oddly
enough, this actually makes me very happy. Even the current dull, rainy,
cold weather makes me happy because it feels like autumn. I love autumn :-)

It's putting me in the mood to write stories with dull, rainy days where my
protagonists sit inside drinking tea in front of warm fires or huddle in
nice bookshops. I think that its possibly inspiring me towards tweeness.
Last night I actually sat down and worked on the rug that I'm making while
listening to a Pottercast. It was very nice although I kept reflecting that
it was possibly a bit too story-bookish. Particularly after I've just
finished reading two Chalet School books in a row (Jo to the Rescue and
Bride Leads the Chalet School, for the interested) and seem to be in an
old-fashioned mood.

I currently have a nice cup of tea, a drafty office (the plants on the
window sill are wafting gently in the breeze) and some cookies. Not quite a
warm room with a fire, but almost as good.

There is still no access to LJ from work, so I shall reply to comments
tonight. I think that this definitely qualifies as babble. I shall return to
waiting for reports and writing snippets of comfort stories.

Comments

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to get hold of Bride Leads the Chalet School. One day.

*waves hello*

[selenay]

*waves back* Common interests on LT and here, so I thought that friending might be a good idea :-)

My local second hand bookshop got a box of old hardback Chalet School books a few months ago, just in time for me to find it. The lovely ladies know that I'm collecting, so they very kindly let me buy them up in instalments - Bride followed me home a couple of weekends ago. It's a good one if you can get hold of it, even if it is rather Joey-lite!

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

I was scrolling through your livejournal trying to work out where we had crossed paths - Harry Potter fandom, stargate, uber and other femslash, chalet school books, you have rhi and elke on your flist, and my mind kept saying Library Thing but I failed to see the link to it right in front of me which would have shown me that we'd talked there (I even hoped over there and did a search on selenay). And then I did see it was like duh!

Anyway, yes we do have all sort of things in common, did you used to post on the packlist?, so I'm glad you friended me.

I discovered Chalet school books in my school library, and even inherited two of my mother's. I used to buy them in second hand shops, and then got a boost when I bought a box that were advertised in an exchange newspaper. These days I mostly buy them through Trade Me (NZ's answer to ebay), but I want the same hard to find titles as everyone else. Every now and then I cave and fork out for a GGBP one. I got Tom Tackles the Chalet School that way ;-D

If you can find them you might like Claire Mallory's Merry books - a NZ school story writer of the same vintage.

[selenay]

Ah, yes, the different user names would be confusing...

When I set up my LT account, I knew that various friends and family who don't know about my fannish pursuits would want the address (so they don't accidentally duplicate books for birthdays and Christmases and whatnot) so I set it up under archerygirl. It's a neutral name that can't be connected to my fannish name. It does confuse people sometimes, though :-)

I did post on the packlist at one time a few years ago. Unfortunately I then got snowed under with work, college and writing and I didn't have time to keep up with it any more. I am still on the Missyfic list, though, so that I can get the latest instalments of Dar and Kerry stories :-)

I found the Chalet School books through a friend when I was much younger, but I borrowed from her rather than buying my own - silly me. I found The School at the Chalet again a few years ago at a second hand bookshop and got sucked into collecting everything that I can find. I keep getting surprised by how much I'm enjoying them now that I'm an adult. I suspect that I'm reading them for different things now, but somehow they haven't lost their appeal for me. I may have to give in and get the GGBP copies of the ones that I'm really struggling with - such as Tom! She's a character that has always fascinated me but I know that it's a rare one to get, darnit.

Thank you for the rec - I've made a note to look out for those ones :-D