I haven't talked about this that much in my journal because frankly, it annoys the living snot out of me and I don't want to think about it when I'm off duty, any more than I have to. It's one of those petty things that I can't always fix or am inept at fixing ( Read more... )

I was sitting with Therav up on a (holographic) hill behind my family home. He found me there after work.

Connor's Keep, I joked, before it lapsed into quiet and a little more serious a discussion.

I told him about Ari, that she's been talking to me every night - but she doesn't really seem to be having trouble with her homework at all. Actually, ( Read more... )

His thavan had a quote he enjoyed, that he had on a plaque on his desk in his last years of Fleet service:

The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.

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I've been leaving it to Therav to educate me on all matters pertaining to the Andorians, for the time being ( Read more... )

For some reason, Therav finds that expression really amusing ( Read more... )

After dinner, instead of head straight for the nearest flat surface as usual, this time we ended up looking up quotes in the ship's library and reading them out loud (the flat surface came later). I don't know what inspired that.

I found one though, which he liked a great deal. Maybe he'll become a Tolkien fan after all.

I do not love the bright ( Read more... )

I've been noticing over time... months... that Joray seems to want little of me. More and more she refers to Dilys as her mother. I suppose I'm just some near-stranger who conceived her and left her at the mercy of others, with human blood ( Read more... )

...perhaps rolling in his grave?

How did I ever miss *this* quote?

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
-- C.S. Lewis

Well, at one point, the Vulcans were worried about that, so Lewis did have a point.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

I finally caught up with Jana for the first time in... it feels like ages ( Read more... )