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Just got back in from the Great Big Sea show.
For those of you who aren't familiar with GBS, they're a Celtic-tinged folk-rock quintet from Newfoundland. I can't really describe accurately the feel of a GBS show except to say picture what you'd get as the offspring of an illegitimate coupling of a ceilidh and a rave, and you're probably in the ballpark. If you haven't heard their stuff and would like to, let me know and i'll manage to sample some mp3s for you. Oh, yeah- in addition to the traditional tunes they did, and the original ones, one of my personal highlights from the show was during their encore- when they covered the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated." Classic!
Danced and sang a lot during the show. Even got hit on in the most unsubtle way possible by a blonde woman who wasn't either particularly attractive or unattractive, who then turned to damashita, asked her if she was my wife, hugged her, and took off to points unknown. Very strange.
After the show, we adjourned to the Aurifice for the tail end of Goth coffee. Committed a social gaffe- someone said that i looked familiar, and i drew a complete and total blank, and realized about ten minutes later that "you look familiar" equalled "hi. Who are you, anyway?" and that the reason i look familiar is that i post on the discussion board, and use a personal picture that's my self-portrait. DOH! If the woman who asked just happens to be one of my readers, all i can say is i'm sorry- i'm a total dolt.
Anyway, enough for the moment. Must get to bed.

It's Thursday again...

Which can only mean one thing. It's time for *drumroll optional, but appreciated*

Melpomene's Daughter

Part ten- The company assembles

Just as she finished saying this, a wizened but unbowed old man walked up from the edge behind her. “Dinna want ta interrupt, m'lady, but thou't you should know that I was a answerin' your call and ha' summoned some o' th' lads as well.”

“Excellent. Alexei, this is Barinthus. He'll be your guide until I can return to you. You'll not find a better one nor a better hand at the tiller of a curragh in all these parts.”

Alexei made a bit of an off-handed gesture. “It's indeed good to see if you're leaving me that you're putting me in good hands.”

Nimuë turned to Barinthus. “Which of the lads responded?”

“The three of Ailill's. Ha' ye reason to be expectin' any others? Fine lads they are, an' a better set of boyos ye'd be hard pressed to find.”

“Indeed they are. As noble as their father they are. When are they arriving?”

“Should be along any time now. Likely had a few bits to pick up and put in order before they came, but I think to have conveyed some of the urgency of your need.”

“Has the matter of fosterage been addressed?”

“That it has. King Ailill understands all to well the urgency of what must be done, and says that it's his distinct honour to be able to provide three princes and to act as a foster father under the law for the fourth, even if he's unable to stand before you to convey his respects and meet his new son in person. Ah, look. Here they are now.”

Eamonn, Fergus, and Cathal, the sons of King Ailill walked up together, each bearing a small buckler and a bronze sword. Almost as if on cue, they all dropped to one knee, and Cathal, the eldest of the three spoke in a low voice. "As you've commanded, dear Lady, we are your servants. By the Gods themselves may we but be worthy of the honour which you've bestowed upon us."

This section is probably going to get some serious overhauling before this gets submitted for publication. I wanted to write Barinthus as a distinctly Irish character, but have had a real struggle keeping his dialogue credibly Irish-English. It'd be more fun to write him in Irish, but in terms of practicality or publishability, that's just not worth the effort to do it. On the flip side, it's not even a particularly well-executed attempt at mimicking a brogue, so the solution may be simply to tell the reader that he's speaking in Irish, but to present his dialogue with Nimuë in English.

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Wheee! Applied for another internal job today. This one as a content editor for documentation within a games group. It'd be really nice to go back to working on fun things on a daily basis. I'm not expecting too much, though. I know i can do this job, it's classified at an appropriate level, and so on, so i'd be content even if i just got an informational out of it instead of getting blown off as has happened so many times before.