"Oh my goodness, what a strange and curious device! And this records messages? Oh, why, that's absolutely brilliant! I mean, assuming one doesn't misplace the device or forget how to access the messages or any other sort of thing that could go awry, but I suppose that couldn't happen too often. Oh, right, yes. Hello! This is the phone message ( Read more... )

Jane was certain not a little sore about the island no longer being in a place close to her time and very, very close to her original location. Nope. Not in the least bit sore, not in slightest or...

Okay, perhaps Jane was feeling a little miffed about it. But nothing a nice hot cup of tea and throwing herself into preparing for her next class ( Read more... )

Ah. Good, then. Nothing untoward or categorically odd happened to Jane that weekend, and so she was quite pleased as she managed to come on into her office properly on Monday, without even being tardy or anything. She spent the first few minutes organizing her desk a little, putting her papers into neat little piles until she pulled out what she ( Read more... )

Jane knew that one of the best ways to distract herself from the wretched and boggling experiences of the past weekend was to throw herself into her work. Research was an easy, exciting distraction, and this distraction would be made all the more efficient as she'd finally given in and allowed herself to delve into the incredible technology of ( Read more... )

Jane had gotten up that morning wondering if the events of the weekend had all been a very strange dream or not, but several things offered empirical evidence that she was, indeed, a sassy little brainiac mouse in a smart jumpsuit, who had gone on a date with a possibly meglomaniac gerbil in a plastic ball. There was the fact that it was Monday, ( Read more... )

And so the summer session had begun! Jane realized that the time to relax was over and she had to pull herself up by the bootstraps and get back into the mindset to teach, teach, teach ( Read more... )

Jane was in her office, and there were books that might be distracting her, but, unfortunately, she was working on other business, instead.

She knew she should have never agreed to help Mr. Kyōraku with his paperwork, because now, and she was fairly sure Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon had something to do with it, too, she was working on a pile of it. It ( Read more... )

Jane was thinking it was rather convenient that the pause between her father's trip to South America seemed to fit in nicely with this visitors weekend; almost a little too convenient, but it was quite nice to see him again and chat with him about all the fascinating things about the island ( Read more... )

Jane was absolutely not sleeping at her desk today. She was not even, she'd maintain, drifting off on occasion to wake with a little bit of a start and an attempt to focus back on her work before it happened all over again. Really. She was, of course, just resting her eyes.

Listen, she couldn't help the fact that that The Encyclopedia of Human ( Read more... )

Jane's mind was still buzzing from her escapades in Hawaii, and the only way she knew how to get it to stop (or at the very least quiet down a little bit) was to fill up yet another sketchbook with drawings. They weren't exactly as detailed or elaborate as the ones she'd created when she was actually there, drawing every bird and flower and bug ( Read more... )