Let me take this in something like order, while I let the back of my mind mull over the best way to handle a repair (or whether, in fact, I will be calling in a favour for it.) I steward a small fleet of specialised telescopes, and Peeves made trouble in my storage over the summer. While most of the difficulties are put to rights, there are one or two that are proving more challenging.
On your requests: I should have both routes to your most likely places and the charm notes tonight at supper. You’ll want a dedicated quill for the charm, and an hour to set it to your preferences, but it’s otherwise quite simple. Septima’s tea, my notebook says, is any sheng pu’erh, but preferably 15-20 years old. (I had, prior to that conversation with her, no idea one could ferment and age tea leaves so long.) I’ll bring the name of an import shop that sometimes carries it, too.
As to your comments about not overburdening yourself - well, I do have eyes and ears. And more to the point, have been at close hand to observe Raz the past eighteen months, in both recovery and set-back. (That is, I should say here, something he and I almost never discuss directly, though if you need the chart of what happened, I’ll tell you in private sometime.)
As to overwork - well. As I glancingly referred to last night, I have been known to suffer from the problem. All the joy in the work in the world is one thing, but as Raz told me, in rather small and pointed words last spring, long-term damage to one’s ability to do that work is another. I am not trying to mother - truly, neither my style, nor my intent - just to underline that teaching the arriving hordes is quite different than one teacher, one student, and one log (the luxury!)
On the book, I am now most intrigued. I believe I’ve heard the title, but never read it (and you are quite right that admitting to reading Muggle authors is most impolitic these days. Of course, people do, quietly.) I will take you up on the loan and conversation after.
Finally, Fridays sound most promising. You are quite right that Raz and I never get enough time together, and do our best to keep Saturday and Sunday evenings for ourselves, and find a few other hours in private during the week. (For any number of things, mind you, besides the ones everyone seems to assume.) But for all that, we do not need to be joined at the hip, and it would give him time for conversations and projects of his own.
I’d love a good regular research wrangle on a regular basis (perhaps alternating with time with both of you on less academic topics?) And naturally, I deeply appreciate help with that text, if it’s truly no burden. After supper Fridays would be more relaxed, as I needn’t be up the tower until at least half-ten, but between four and supper would also do.
I am quite looking forward to watching your experience of a Sorting from the staff side of the table. (And I’ve a young cousin being sorted tonight, which adds to my personal interest.) Ah. Now I think I’ve come to a solution for rebracing that lens properly. Handy how that works, really, to do something else and trick the mind.
Re: Private message to Antosha
On your requests: I should have both routes to your most likely places and the charm notes tonight at supper. You’ll want a dedicated quill for the charm, and an hour to set it to your preferences, but it’s otherwise quite simple. Septima’s tea, my notebook says, is any sheng pu’erh, but preferably 15-20 years old. (I had, prior to that conversation with her, no idea one could ferment and age tea leaves so long.) I’ll bring the name of an import shop that sometimes carries it, too.
As to your comments about not overburdening yourself - well, I do have eyes and ears. And more to the point, have been at close hand to observe Raz the past eighteen months, in both recovery and set-back. (That is, I should say here, something he and I almost never discuss directly, though if you need the chart of what happened, I’ll tell you in private sometime.)
As to overwork - well. As I glancingly referred to last night, I have been known to suffer from the problem. All the joy in the work in the world is one thing, but as Raz told me, in rather small and pointed words last spring, long-term damage to one’s ability to do that work is another. I am not trying to mother - truly, neither my style, nor my intent - just to underline that teaching the arriving hordes is quite different than one teacher, one student, and one log (the luxury!)
On the book, I am now most intrigued. I believe I’ve heard the title, but never read it (and you are quite right that admitting to reading Muggle authors is most impolitic these days. Of course, people do, quietly.) I will take you up on the loan and conversation after.
Finally, Fridays sound most promising. You are quite right that Raz and I never get enough time together, and do our best to keep Saturday and Sunday evenings for ourselves, and find a few other hours in private during the week. (For any number of things, mind you, besides the ones everyone seems to assume.) But for all that, we do not need to be joined at the hip, and it would give him time for conversations and projects of his own.
I’d love a good regular research wrangle on a regular basis (perhaps alternating with time with both of you on less academic topics?) And naturally, I deeply appreciate help with that text, if it’s truly no burden. After supper Fridays would be more relaxed, as I needn’t be up the tower until at least half-ten, but between four and supper would also do.
I am quite looking forward to watching your experience of a Sorting from the staff side of the table. (And I’ve a young cousin being sorted tonight, which adds to my personal interest.) Ah. Now I think I’ve come to a solution for rebracing that lens properly. Handy how that works, really, to do something else and trick the mind.
Yours in the amusements of the day,
A.