Private message to Tosha
Dec. 26th, 2012 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraTosha -
I didn’t want to go into it in company, but you are extremely generous. Exceedingly so. (Was it that obvious just how much I’d been coveting your book trunk?) I cannot bear to say no, even though I know I should.
Thank you, truly (now that I’ve made my formal “It’s far too much” protest.) It will get a great deal of loving use, and it solves more than a few of my worries about managing my library after the wedding. All the little touches are brill - using the zodiac constellations to mark the configurations, and having one set for charts, rather than books. And I’m sure Raz will appreciate not having books and charts strewn over every flat surface, too.
Other things not for general company:
First, do you have an afternoon free for bookshops and the Archetype? I suspect, from the hints I heard, that your time is more committed than mine, and I do not want to step on any toes. (Other than the various social obligations, I’ve one conversation I want to schedule after New Year’s, and some necessary wedding planning, but everything else is flexible.)
Second, at Christmas Day with my family, we did touch on a couple of topics of interest. Less ongoing wrangle with Diane about Defence, for once (probably because Raz was there and she was doing her level best to be welcoming) and more comment on your own field. But now I say it, I’m hard put to describe it, exactly. Distaste, yes. A certain amount of quiet curiousity in places. (Chiron, my brother in law, especially.) And some assumptions, about the implications, that I’m still trying to sort out how to explain.
And finally, I’m glad to say Raz let me set the personal charms on both the pocket watches. (Which I’m telling you, because if there’s a need, it might be useful to you to know. I only wish we’d exchanged them before last Friday.) And it’s a real relief to me to have some way to know if I really should be worried.
Oh. And there’s a bit of the reading you lent me I’ve got a question about, but it can wait if you’re as busy as you still seemed.
- A.
I didn’t want to go into it in company, but you are extremely generous. Exceedingly so. (Was it that obvious just how much I’d been coveting your book trunk?) I cannot bear to say no, even though I know I should.
Thank you, truly (now that I’ve made my formal “It’s far too much” protest.) It will get a great deal of loving use, and it solves more than a few of my worries about managing my library after the wedding. All the little touches are brill - using the zodiac constellations to mark the configurations, and having one set for charts, rather than books. And I’m sure Raz will appreciate not having books and charts strewn over every flat surface, too.
Other things not for general company:
First, do you have an afternoon free for bookshops and the Archetype? I suspect, from the hints I heard, that your time is more committed than mine, and I do not want to step on any toes. (Other than the various social obligations, I’ve one conversation I want to schedule after New Year’s, and some necessary wedding planning, but everything else is flexible.)
Second, at Christmas Day with my family, we did touch on a couple of topics of interest. Less ongoing wrangle with Diane about Defence, for once (probably because Raz was there and she was doing her level best to be welcoming) and more comment on your own field. But now I say it, I’m hard put to describe it, exactly. Distaste, yes. A certain amount of quiet curiousity in places. (Chiron, my brother in law, especially.) And some assumptions, about the implications, that I’m still trying to sort out how to explain.
And finally, I’m glad to say Raz let me set the personal charms on both the pocket watches. (Which I’m telling you, because if there’s a need, it might be useful to you to know. I only wish we’d exchanged them before last Friday.) And it’s a real relief to me to have some way to know if I really should be worried.
Oh. And there’s a bit of the reading you lent me I’ve got a question about, but it can wait if you’re as busy as you still seemed.
- A.
