Private Message to Barty and Lucius
Jan. 17th, 2013 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_antoninBefore you come across the children fretting and likewise fret at me: I am feeling poorly, and plagued by a host of new and interesting symptoms, but I am under the Matron's most diligent care. (Before one of you suggest St M's rather than Matron: I do not wish to make accusations, but at this point I am more confident that Madam Pomfrey will have her patient's best interests in mind; it is nothing concrete and nothing I can make a complaint over, but the more I think about it, the more I realise my team at St M's is showing more interest in research possibility than patient improvement. At very least I will be confirming their advice with her from now on.)
I am most vexed: I was not expecting the rite's restorative effects to last much longer, but this is a rather more dramatic reversal than I had been expecting. So much so that I spent lunchtime yesterday checking self and environment for curses that might have made it past my protections. (Verdict: nothing. I suppose it would have been too easy an answer.)
I am eating, sleeping, resting, and minimising my effort expended, and with luck this will just be a temporary setback; I will keep you both posted. (And please do reassure Narcissa!)
Meanwhile: Lyoushka, Dolores is growing more insufferable, and behaving as though she is utterly convinced of her mandate to stick her nose into everything --mandate from whom, I remain uncertain. Remind me to show you the list of "helpful" questions she sent me after observing my classes last week. (And the response I wrote her, which was -- if I do say so myself -- a masterwork of subtle insult wreathed in effusive flattery.) I still do not know what her game is, and I am keeping an eye on her, but you may wish to do so as well.
Barty -- solnyshko, I have not forgot your birthday next week. How would you like to celebrate?
I am most vexed: I was not expecting the rite's restorative effects to last much longer, but this is a rather more dramatic reversal than I had been expecting. So much so that I spent lunchtime yesterday checking self and environment for curses that might have made it past my protections. (Verdict: nothing. I suppose it would have been too easy an answer.)
I am eating, sleeping, resting, and minimising my effort expended, and with luck this will just be a temporary setback; I will keep you both posted. (And please do reassure Narcissa!)
Meanwhile: Lyoushka, Dolores is growing more insufferable, and behaving as though she is utterly convinced of her mandate to stick her nose into everything --mandate from whom, I remain uncertain. Remind me to show you the list of "helpful" questions she sent me after observing my classes last week. (And the response I wrote her, which was -- if I do say so myself -- a masterwork of subtle insult wreathed in effusive flattery.) I still do not know what her game is, and I am keeping an eye on her, but you may wish to do so as well.
Barty -- solnyshko, I have not forgot your birthday next week. How would you like to celebrate?
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2013-01-17 03:40 pm (UTC)Will hold off, but ready.
Will have that matron's skin if she fails you.
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2013-01-17 04:05 pm (UTC)But for all I fuss about the overprotectiveness -- and I will continue to fuss about the overprotectiveness, particularly given the perils of your profession while I am ensconced in this nice safe castle -- I will say: it is very nice to know that you are there, and that you are worried.
And as you may have seen, I have messaged Razzer to ask him to stop in and check things over. So you may at least be assured that I am taking all reasonable precautions.
Your,
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