Poor Patty. 
I’m back from my trip to Virginia, where it was absurdly hot. But from what I gather, it was absurdly hot in many places in North America, so even if I’d stayed home I wouldn’t have been much cooler. We had a great time geocaching, we saw the Luray Caverns (even better than we’d expected!), and we even went contradancing, something I haven’t done in quite a while.
But now, back to drawing!
Apparently the Orehu fellow understood Vessa after all. Figures.
Patty doesn’t look well. Water should be just the beginning… how about some painkillers! Say, doesn’t the SCT carry a first-aid kit or something? Or did they, and Patty lost it in the rake-guy attack?
Maybe there’s a local healer who can help her.
Or did physical contact with a contaminated gardener change her life forever ???
Talk about bizarre plot-twists- he understood what she was asking. I’m shocked.
I live in Virginia and it truly is absurdly hot! This weekend at work it was 115 degrees, I think I know exactly how Patty is feeling (sans the injured arm). I hope that they’re able to get back to the ship soon, and safely too.
Temperatures here in New York broke the local per-date records by significant margins this past weekend… Then dropped like 30 degrees from Sunday night through Monday.
OH MY GOD! SOMEONE SPEAKS ENGLISH ON THIS PLANET! Other than that engineering fellow.
So he can speak English. Which is good I had no idea what he was saying anyway.
Damn, I’m un-hip…. I have no idea what contradancing is….. I’m so un-hip, I doubt that hip kids still use the word “hip”
Curious enough to Google it I found out that Contra Dancing is the old-fashioned kind from the 1700′s. The dancers form 2 lines facing each other and trade partners in a short dance until they have done that with everybody in the other line. If you’ve seen one of those movies depicting life back then like “Pride and Prejudice” that must have been Contra Dancing.
Silly me! I am against dancing, so I thought this might be just my style!
I meant to reply to this earlier! Anyway, here is a YouTube video of our local Contra Dance group, to give you an idea. I’m in this one, as it happens, in the white shirt on the left. Here’s another one.
It looks so complicated ! ! !
It looks much more complicated than it actually is. The caller walks everyone through the dance without music first, so you know the sequence of steps. And it doesn’t have to be any more complicated, foot-work wise, than stepping/walking in time to the beat. It’s really a lot of fun! Most groups have free beginners workshops before their dances – so it doesn’t cost you anything, but the gas to get to the dance hall, to give it a try! Highly recommended!
If I were in that, I’d end up tripping the girl I just caught, sending her into the next couple and then sending that couple into a cartwheel trip and so on until everyone in the dance had a scraped knee or sprawled all over the floor. It’d be like a San-Joaquin-Valley-fog-car-pile up of some sort.
Oh, it’s not really that hard, though perhaps my example videos were more complex than usual. My 7-yr-old can do it!
No. Civilization as we know it could suddenly end… like Elanine on Seinfeld (she could stop a raging party with only a few horrible moves) but worse. On the other hand, I excell at rocket science !
Like “Elaine” only worse.
Really. I’m so bad its scary- I can’t dance.
The survivors of my attempts can swear to that!