Ludens and The Shadow One

[frogbeastegg]

Froggy drops her quill; it bounces twice and rolls off onto the floor. "Gah!" she exclaims. "GAH!" Now she is as close as a quiet frog can get to shouting. "Dust and cobwebs on my books!? NEVER! They are pristine, perfect, flawless, scrupulously clean, sparkling even, and you can't tell that they have even been opened, let alone read many times over! Perfect!"

She blinks a couple of times, and shuffles in her seat. Rather nervously reaches for a fresh quill, something unwelcome having occurred to her a little too late. "Er ... you were joking, maybe?" The quill isn't to her liking, so she carefully whittles it into better shape with a small penknife, managing to cut herself just the once for a change.

Froggy considers the prospect of it being teasing as she works, and by the time the quill is completed she has found something more to say. "Humph," she declares.

People being rather too much effort, she returns to writing. Without paying much attention to anything but her work, froggy tells the two new AMs, "You may, however, clean up the mess this ink leaves everywhere ..."

[Drisos]

congrats and good luck guys!

[edyzmedieval]

A beer for the both of you!!

[The Shadow One]

I'm at work, hiding in a corner so no one will see me accessing non-approved webpages, just sending a note of thanks to everyone for the congrats and beer. I spent the last four days in Chicago at another photoshoot, this one ranking somewhere between the third and fourth degree of Dantel's vision of hell.

Funny, every time I come back from these travels, my friends come over and tell me how much fun my job must be: traveling to new cities, working with models, actors and actresses, dining out on the company card, yada, yada, yada.

Then I think about this actress I worked with this week: beautiful, she was, but I've seen dead snails with a wider range of emotional response (and to top it off, she felt the need to tell me every aspect of her personal life -- she just broke up with a boyfriend, her baby had a cold, her parents were mad bcause she wasn't married). It was like a dental drill droning on and on in my ear.

I think about the food I ate -- why can't anyone get hot food at a photo or film shoot? It always arrives greasy and cold and the paper sticks to it. And since we shoot round the clock, there's no going out to eat.

Nor do I get to see the city. Recently, I spent almost 10 days in New York and got to go out once!

In the future I have Davenport, Boston, and New Jersey to look forward to. Fortunately, these are only short one or two-day trips.

So, thanks the congrats and especially for the beer. I needed that.

[Kagemusha]

Congratulations Gentlemen. And now some more beer!

[ichi]

Great day at the Org

Congrats guys, you've earned it!

ichi

[Aetius the Last Roman]

Congrats guys,
I never thought a dual assistant moderatorship would be possible but it really looks to be the best option.

Anyways, enough of my banter, there could have been no better choice.