Written By Elloise
June 12, 2019, 3:04 a.m.(4/9/1011 AR)
...Oops. Uh. NOBODY GO IN THE LEARY LAB FOR LIKE, A WEEK OR WHATEVER OKAY? Okay.
Written By Elloise
June 10, 2019, 1:36 a.m.(4/5/1011 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
My husband has written that be believes money can buy happiness. This is logically flawed; happiness and money are two empirically different measurements and may not be compared. To wit: are there no happy poor people? Poor people, do you know no happiness? Are there no miserable rich people?
Far be it from me to say my husband is dumb, but:
Husband. That was dumb.
Far be it from me to say my husband is dumb, but:
Husband. That was dumb.
Written By Elloise
June 7, 2019, 4:35 p.m.(3/28/1011 AR)
LOG:
I confess.
It was I. It was I who accidentally set up a physics experiment in the Archives and it was I who saw that physics experiment get WILDLY out of hand and it was I who WATCHED that physics experiment come unhinged and....
Listen.
I had asked for some lab notes and it was all PERFECTLY INNOCENT, I was SURE I could create a quicker mechanism for delivering books and notes and I CAN, I KNOW I CAN, but I didn't have the right MATERIALS.
Anyway, I'm very sorry, I'm inventing something to clean it up.
I confess.
It was I. It was I who accidentally set up a physics experiment in the Archives and it was I who saw that physics experiment get WILDLY out of hand and it was I who WATCHED that physics experiment come unhinged and....
Listen.
I had asked for some lab notes and it was all PERFECTLY INNOCENT, I was SURE I could create a quicker mechanism for delivering books and notes and I CAN, I KNOW I CAN, but I didn't have the right MATERIALS.
Anyway, I'm very sorry, I'm inventing something to clean it up.
Written By Elloise
June 7, 2019, 12:42 a.m.(3/27/1011 AR)
Log:
It was with great hope and admittedly some trepidation that I began this long experiment some nine months ago. I have accumulated many notes for my studies and have concluded thus:
The body undergoes a myriad of changes, all of which have been carefully documented as data in J5.1. I shall not repeat them here, except to say simply that my enthusiasm here has waned and once this experiment concludes, I can safely never repeat it.
Over and out.
Elloise.
It was with great hope and admittedly some trepidation that I began this long experiment some nine months ago. I have accumulated many notes for my studies and have concluded thus:
The body undergoes a myriad of changes, all of which have been carefully documented as data in J5.1. I shall not repeat them here, except to say simply that my enthusiasm here has waned and once this experiment concludes, I can safely never repeat it.
Over and out.
Elloise.
Written By Elloise
Nov. 2, 2018, 4:11 p.m.(12/3/1009 AR)
Oh. Did you hear about the new clothier in the city that needed to turn away a lutist, a flutist, and a duettist because they were overbooked with commissions? No? I heard that they said to each: "No holds, bard."
(I made the Scholar groan. I think he has a stomachache. Good thing that I have something for that --)
(I made the Scholar groan. I think he has a stomachache. Good thing that I have something for that --)
Written By Elloise
Nov. 2, 2018, 4:01 p.m.(12/3/1009 AR)
'I'm was reading an interesting treatise that was titled the Costs and Benefits of Acting Confident and Outgoing. By Scholar R. U. Smiley. It wasn't a terribly dull read nor even a very long one - providing me a lot of very useful information about how I could act in larger gatherings and groups without feeling as though every outing should be an experiment in social behaviors. But, it closed out on a dedication that said: 'To my pride and joy.' When I turned the page - there it was. One page on the left said JOY and the other on the right said PRIDE in very swirly calligraphy and that was it. That's how it ended.
I don't know who you are, Scholar Smiley, but you got me.
I don't know who you are, Scholar Smiley, but you got me.
Written By Elloise
Nov. 1, 2018, 11:42 a.m.(12/1/1009 AR)
I didn't think that I - me, this lump of person and the space that the lump occupies - would be so BUSY. There's so much work going on inside. Building and creating, I suppose. I keep referring to the texts and trying to take my own notes. It's hard to be objective about it. I keep telling myself this because these days I don't MOVE the way I want to and I feel it bubbling on the surface and under my skin and it's like a buzz-buzz-buzz of MOVE. That staying still is just the worst, but I need to. I need to rest. I need to practice still. I need to let the building happen and be patient while it does. When I get like that - when everything's buzzy and I can't focus and the restlessness becomes so bad that I start to think about naming it - I go to the Shrine. I sit down. I practice stillness. I breathe and fidget and fuss and allow every bit of it to drain away until I heard nothing but spiders weaving, and air, and the steady beat of heart with the fluttering of someone - someones. My little birds. Bless the Mother and the Queen - taking the stillness learned in death and applying it to life.
(Don't tell Cheese, Scholar, that I already have names picked out. OR do I? Baby, or baby not.
Yes, that is a PUN.)
(Don't tell Cheese, Scholar, that I already have names picked out. OR do I? Baby, or baby not.
Yes, that is a PUN.)
Written By Elloise
Oct. 24, 2018, 9:39 a.m.(11/13/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Godric
You'll LOVE this one. My father told it to me:
What is the definition of Death?
When you suddenly stop paying taxes.
What is the definition of Death?
When you suddenly stop paying taxes.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 24, 2018, 9:36 a.m.(11/13/1009 AR)
A short-list of things to do when I get back to the capital city:
* Send mother a fruit basket as an apology for the thing I just did involving that flint, those curtains, those mixtures and - well. My eyebrows will grow back. So will hers. I need to start testing out those colors. Requires a little more experimentation.
* Send the Mercies of Lagoma a goodly donation of things that they might need, or silver, because despite my promise to Cousin Cora and Cousin Fairen I am not being a very good patient. I'm too fidgety, too curious, and apparently wanting to help isn't exactly the usual. The good part of this is that I'm learning so much right now that I could probably handle all of this on my own the next time.
* Working on Project A, and Project B. I've wasted too much time on Project OhGodsWhyAreMyFeetSoSwollen.
* Spend more time at the Shrine for the Queen of the Last Laugh, the Mother of Terrible Puns. I miss the spiders an awful lot.
* Send mother a fruit basket as an apology for the thing I just did involving that flint, those curtains, those mixtures and - well. My eyebrows will grow back. So will hers. I need to start testing out those colors. Requires a little more experimentation.
* Send the Mercies of Lagoma a goodly donation of things that they might need, or silver, because despite my promise to Cousin Cora and Cousin Fairen I am not being a very good patient. I'm too fidgety, too curious, and apparently wanting to help isn't exactly the usual. The good part of this is that I'm learning so much right now that I could probably handle all of this on my own the next time.
* Working on Project A, and Project B. I've wasted too much time on Project OhGodsWhyAreMyFeetSoSwollen.
* Spend more time at the Shrine for the Queen of the Last Laugh, the Mother of Terrible Puns. I miss the spiders an awful lot.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 24, 2018, 9:26 a.m.(11/13/1009 AR)
To note: I figured out a few new and pretty interestingly gross things (Scholars, please see my drafted treatise on: Was it Something You Ate? Wrong, You're Probably Pregnant) and now that I'm big enough to knock things over when I try and bend down to pick up something that I've dropped. After I set it back, I turn, and boom - down it falls, again. This turns into a self-perpetuating cycle until I'm red in the face. Then Nikola shits on my shoulder, because he was laughing at me the whole time (CRAW, CRAW) and I burst into tears. That was only this morning. Never mention that every single time I drink tea - I, I - oh? (You really don't want to hear about that Scholars, do you? Trust me, it's WORSE when I laugh. Don't ask what happens if I eat anything spicy.) I know exactly when this ends and when it does I will look at Sparrow or Starling or Robin or WhateverNameI'mGoingToCallThem and say: "FINALLY."
Written By Elloise
Oct. 19, 2018, 12:54 a.m.(10/21/1009 AR)
This is - a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. I think that I will winter back home in Leaholdt until these babies are born.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 8, 2018, 7:34 p.m.(9/28/1009 AR)
Oh, shoot. If something happens -- Fairen gets my books, Cheese has to deal with Nikola and the rest of my STUFF, and any money I have gets donated to the Harlequins. OFF I GO TO UNCERTAIN DOOM. Bye!
Written By Elloise
Oct. 8, 2018, 10:26 a.m.(9/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Corbit
Lastly-last: Corbit too? Blazes. I feel like crying, Scholar. Crying and eating. Crying, eating, and reading my book - The Foundations of Modern Alchemy.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 8, 2018, 10:21 a.m.(9/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Elias
Lastly: Apparently my cousin ELIAS is in the city now and has been for a good long while and he hasn't WRITTEN me like a good COUSIN would and I hope cousin Fairen teases him mercilessly for not writing his other cousins.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 8, 2018, 10:20 a.m.(9/27/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Arcadia
Second to last: Cady's gone. I don't know what caused her to head back to the Leaholdt, but I already miss her. I feel like a terrible sister. I hope she didn't lose a limb -- or an eye -- or something else while I was away.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 8, 2018, 10:09 a.m.(9/27/1009 AR)
We went to Whitefrost. There's something traditional about having children in the place where they're going to be ruling one day, but, it was cold. Cold - even in summer - and I decided that if I had to go back when I'm due I will turn into a miserable Elloise-shaped icicle - a misericle - and that wouldn't be good. At all. But it was a excellent opportunity to study the conditions before us so that I can continue with my project, moving forward from the research stage and into the tentative development stage. It's going to be an uphill process, but once you get going up a hill it all goes smoother until you reach the top. That's a silly idiom, but it's incredibly useful for the purposes of creating a visualization. But. This journal entry is about babies, I think, not inventions. So, I think that I will stay here for now and Cheese will simply need to make that face he makes when I do something that he doesn't necessarily like, but he deals with because I'm me.
Written By Elloise
Oct. 8, 2018, 9:38 a.m.(9/27/1009 AR)
Redundant storm names. Please see all of the sentimental reasons outlined in another entry that I did not read. I didn't have the time. I feel terrible and my feet are swollen and I am eating everything all the time. I did something interesting to some cheese that Cheese had, and added blueberries to it and then I spread it on my griddled cakes and it was VERY good until Nikola decided he wanted to share his breakfast too and he dropped the mouse in my lap. I thought about the name Storm-Tossed-my-Cookies Stormbreak. But that's a mouthful. So is NO-Nikola-NO Stormbreak. I like Sparrow. It's an interesting naming convention, and I will need to consider it.
Written By Elloise
Sept. 10, 2018, 4:12 p.m.(7/26/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Godric
I think the reward for solving any mystery is the introduction of a NEW mystery. The mysterious myth of mysteries --
I'll stop now.
I'll stop now.
Written By Elloise
Sept. 10, 2018, 2:14 p.m.(7/26/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Godric
It didn't say GOOD rewards, just a regular one. Gracious, Inquisitor Godric - don't be suuuuuuch a grumpy grumps.
Written By Elloise
Sept. 10, 2018, 1:52 p.m.(7/26/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Godric
It's a SECRET code, Inquisitior Godric.
Please note that the scholars may take some time preparing your journal for others to read.