SW Ficlet (Qui)

This one fell out quickly and unexpectedly on Thursday and I finished it off yesterday. My internet connection being what it is didn't allow me to post it until now. It's Qui... sorry about that Obi-lovers. But I must obey the bunnies as they strike. And I think this turned out all right, even though I still don't know what they heck they're doing in this story. If that bothers anyone else, let me know. I wasn't sure if it just wasn't something a reader cared about or if it was annoying not to know. So, yeah, feedback would be appreciated. Thanks :-)

Title: Lessons
Author: tarotgal
Fandom: Star Wars
Rating: G
Pairing: none
Disclaimer: I’m merely playing with the Jedi boys. I promise to return them, relatively unharmed, to their rightful owners when I’m finished. The only thing I get out of this is a warm fuzzy feeling from playing… and from feedback should there be any.
Summary: Off-world, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan explore a room of documents. But they can’t avoid running into learning some lessons along the way.
Notes: This was the most random bunny that has ever bit me. No clue where it came from or how the fic happened since I’ve got so many in the works… but here it is nonetheless.

( Lessons )

:-)

Catch-up

Okay... so here's everything lately:

-Dog-sitting was fantastic. I still can't get over it. Beautiful house- heated pool (which I don't mind using when I'm alone), skylights in every room, a giant deck, surrounded by trees on all sides and in the middle of nowhere except for being 10 minutes from the parkway and 10 minutes from a huge shopping center. *sigh* I want a house just like this. And the dogs... my GODS but they were the most affectionate, adorable dogs I have ever known. They slept beside me at night. All three walked down the long driveway in the morning to get the paper with me. They would whine or paw at me whenever I stopped petting them. *sigh* LOVED these dogs. The owners- I met them on Tuesday- are so nice. They leave their door unlocked. People come and go all the time. It's like a big hippie commune... in the middle of the woods. They have 3 spare bedrooms so people can spend the night any time they like. I don't know if I'd feel right about grabbing a friend and just walking in for a swim... but they say I'm welcome to. NICE people *sigh*

-Grandfather's visit was great. Old people are just like kids who have far too much wisdom and too many memories. I'm trying to convince him to write his memoirs and have me type them up. This last weekend: we visited the new Air & Space Museum by Dulles Airport. On the way we had a flat tire and a car stopped to help us (okay, probably the fact that my sister and I were looking gorgeous stranded by the side of the road didn't hurt... but we did have an old man and two parents there as well). It's the first flat my parents had had in almost 15 years. And we found we have a full-size spare. Pretty rocking! :-) I'd been to this museum before, but they added a few things since I'd been there (I was there a week after it opened). My favorite was the NASA mobile decontamination trailer which they kept the astronauts in after Apollo 11 to be sure they didn't have moon germs.

We visited the old Air & Space Museum (which is where we always go when people are in town *bangs head against wall*) and went to an exhibit I really liked about the history of people studying the universe through different tools and such. It mentioned my favorite physicist (Tycho Brahe- the one who fucked midgets and goats and had secret passages in his gigantic house and died when his bladder exploded when he didn't want to be impolite and leave dinner before the king... love him...) Anyhoo, the exhibit was called 'The Amazing and Expanding Universe'. So of COURSE I had that Monty Python song stuck in my head the whole time. And at the end there was a video of Scott Hamelton (the ice skater) skating to Erik singing that MP song. So now I can't get it out of my head still! LOL

We also went to the new WWII memorial. It was gorgeous. Very surreal. I teared up a few times just watching my grandfather walking around, thinking of family who was in the war and those he knew who died in it. On the way back to the car we visited the F.D.R. memorial which we'd never seen and thought was on the other side of DC. LOL So that was neat. Lots of anti-war statements of his became part of it. And there was even a little statue of Fala (his terrier). It was hot and sunny when it wasn't raining, but a very nice day.

-I did a lot of work on my other websites. I'm moving them off buildpage (gee, I wonder why?) and my new host rocks *snuggles them* So I've been working on moving all 100,000 files over.

-I've been writing a lot. Started TONS of stories. Am not doing a good job of finishing most. Growl. But they're fantastic starts, so I'm not giving up on them :-)

-I watched The Stand Thursday & Friday. Which went along with organizing all my videos in order to FIND The Stand to watch it. Gods I love that movie. Er, the frist two hours still freak me out and I can't watch too closely. But the rest... gods I love Steohen King's characters. *snuggles* And Corin Nemec... I'd forgotten he was in that! Such a cutie *snuggles him, too* Of course I love Daniel much much more... but, yeah, I don't know where I'm going with this. I watched Dreamcatcher for the first time on HBO last week. Wish I hadn't. Damn disturbing movie. I kept yelling at the characters to do things and they never listened to me. So they tangled and got killed by the aliens who look like giant sperm with heads that look like vaginas with teeth. Yeah. Baaaad movie. But the characters were FANTASTIC. Lovely buddy-buddy-ness. Such love and caring for one another. Such interesting depth. Gods I love King's characters. And I'm sure the book was MUCH better. Reminded me a LOT of the gang in IT, and not just because it was the same town and all. I would totally consider reading the book, but the movie sucked. I just don't think it's possible to do a good Stephen King book in anything less than 4 hours. And even then you're taking a LOT out of it. Take The Shining for example...

-I watched Bend it like Beckham last night. YAY! JOHNATHAN!!!!!!!!!! *giggles madly* I took the opportunity to remind my family multiple times that it was Johnathan and that I named my cat after one of his characters *EG* But, yeah, the movie itself was FANTASTIC! I loved it. Mainly because my sister's Indian and so everything was SO bloody perfect culture-wise. But, damn Johnathan looked good. And the girls were great. And the plot in general... I LOVE movies about passions you can't deny. WONDERFUL movie. I'm glad I finally got to see it.

-I rented 'The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer' yesterday along with disk 1 of season 1 of the Sopranos. I think I must be on another Stephen King kick. LOL Worse things to be on, I suppose. But I ADORE Rose Red and I feel incomplete having not seen Ellen's Diary... even though everyone says the movie sucked. I guess I just love the house and want to feel complete *shrug*

-I'm off to eat breakfast and try to do some computer work for a friend. Network connection isn't working. Like I know what's wrong? I'm an HCI girl, not a networking girl! Ah well, I can try!