Groovy Tunes, Tuesday

[furnaceface]

Another semester. Jono found himself wondering as he poked through the CD displays exactly how in the world he'd managed to survive his first one, and how in the world he was going to make it through his second.

But all of that would come, he supposed. If nothing else, he could always come and hang around here.

He put a sign in the window, saying that he'd give half-off any purchase for the low price of one song recommendation, and then he grabbed a disc at random and put it on to give it a listen. Silverchair. He could live with that.

[Groovy Tunes is open!]

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[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

This visit had been a long time coming and Beka knew if she'd not get it over with, it'd just take even longer. And she'd not have Pounce ruin another page in her diary.

The music in the store was unfamiliar, but not bad at all. "Hello," she said when she found Jono.

[furnaceface]

Well, there was a familiar voice that he'd been hoping to hear for a while, now. Jono glanced up from a sheet of guitar tabs that he'd grabbed to pass the time studying, and found himself smiling.

//Good day, luv,// he said, and somewhat amiably so. //How is th'new semester treatin' yer?//

... This seemed easier at the moment than dealing with the, 'so, about that sex while we were both completely insane' thing right away.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Twas a much preferable approach, Beka had to agree. Mayhap she even looked relieved.

"Not badly," she admitted. "I'm glad to have sommat to do again. What about you? Do you have interesting classes?"

[furnaceface]

//So far, I've only been to Horror 101,// Jono replied, reaching to set his reading material down on the counter. //People Suck isn't until Thursday.//

Oh, yes, he did look amused at the name of that course. And possibly as though he was half-convinced that he knew his way around the subject matter already.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She glanced up at him, looking amused. "I saw it on the schedule. Are you prepared to tell the Master what you hope to learn from it?"

[furnaceface]

//Clearly, I need a more effective means of letting all of th'plonkers out there know that they're being plonkers,// Jono decided. //Pointers for fending them off are a bonus, naturally. What do yer classes look like?//

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"You'd do well with it," she decided. "I've got training on Mondays," she said, having forgotten the exact name of the course. "Today I had Magical Ethics and I'm in Law and Order too."

Mayhap she was excited about the last one.

[furnaceface]

//Law sounds like something that'd be right up yer alley,// Jonothon mused, pulling himself to his feet and turning the music down a touch so that he could hear her better. Silverchair, as fate would have it, could be loud. //And training, I probably ought to have enrolled in. Perhaps next time.//

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"By then you'll be falling behind on all of us," Beka teased him, moving closer to where he was sitting.

[furnaceface]

//Just gives me all th'more reason to work harder to catch up, doesn't it?// Jono gave an amused shake of his head, and then grabbed a chair and pushed it her way. //Not that I've got any immediate plans to head back to Massachusetts to toss myself into th'fray, but yer never know when yer might need it, I suppose.//

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Tis always good to be prepared," Beka agreed. She smiled up at him as she accepted the chair and sat down opposite him. "And I worked hard to get in shape. I'd prefer not to have to start anew."

Not that any class or fight club or jog around the island were making her feel like she was doing enough.

[furnaceface]

//No sense coming here with takin' a step forward in mind, if yer end up takin' two steps back instead, hm?// It made sense to Jono. //Perhaps next semester, I'll enrol in some sort of physical education course. Even around here, lettin' yerself go isn't very smart.//

Not when even the veggies here homicidal.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Good," she said approvingly. "It'd be sad if you were to grow lazy and fat."

She was teasing now, her eyes twinkling with mischief.

[living_endless]

"So I had a totally normal work day today," Didi said, wandering over to the record store after she finished her shift at T&C. "How was yours?"

[furnaceface]

//No Christmas carols,// Jono replied, and it was practically a mental singsong, yes. //No fruitcakes. Today was amazing.//

Which wasn't to say that he didn't like the holidays. It was more that he was thankful that they were good and over until next December.

Or until Valentine's.

[living_endless]

"It was my first boring day at work since November," Didi gleed. "Maybe before -- I forget when the attacking veggies were. I spent half of it putting together a display of Japanese snack foods."

[furnaceface]

//What is it with this place and homicidal food, anyhow?// He couldn't eat it! What could it possibly have against him? //Still, I suppose I can handle all of the toothy vegetation that this place can throw at me, so long as I can put a CD in and not have to second-guess at what's about t'start playing.//

[living_endless]

"You got me," Didi admitted. "Maybe it's the flip of how it'll sometimes rain pop tarts. Maybe it's to keep us on our toes."

[furnaceface]

//Mm. So that we don't get too comfortable. Wouldn't want us thinking that this place is even remotely normal, now, would we?//

Said the guy who was only here in the first place because he'd been swallowed by mist that led to an alternate reality that was populated by fairies and their slave-leprechauns. Yes.

[living_endless]

"Of course not," Didi said, and dissolved in giggles. "Sorry, it's just -- this place is weird even by my standards. Not sure I like the idea it's actively working on new things to throw at us."

[furnaceface]

//I was swarmed by books that thought they were butterflies on Sunday,// Jono mused, conversationally. //I think the island is either getting more creative, or else it's just running out of different food items to grant temporary sentience to.//

[living_endless]

"Or Del got bored and stuck around," Didi mused, not meaning it. "But you'd think she'd at least say hi to me..."

"The books didn't hurt you, did they?"

And there was another very odd question.

[furnaceface]

Jono gave his head a shake. It possibly said a great deal about how odd this place was that the question didn't seem as strange as it ought to, to him.

//Aside from a few bumps here and there, not really. They were more interested in the biscuits that th'new librarian was tossing their way.//

Also an odd statement.

[living_endless]

"The new librarian threw cookies at the books," Didi said, to see how it would sound out loud.

Yep, that was still kind of odd.

"... why did he do that?"

[furnaceface]

//As a bit of a peace offering,// Jono replied, shrugging. //We didn't have any pie.//

Oh, Special Collections.