Private Message to Aurora

[alt_pomona]

Auri, dear,

Please enjoy your time outside the castle and don't feel guilty about it in the slightest.

You need it and I'll wager your lad does too.

It will be good to have you back for the ceremony on Sunday, I must admit.

Mina will be there as well, but I'll be grateful for all the support I can muster.

And she wasn't he

Comments

[alt_pomona]

Well, that wasn't so very bad, was it?

It seems the news about Dogstar quite vanquished every other topic of conversation.

And my point about our students and the public nature of their comments seems decidedly more, well, pointed.

I find Miss Patil challenging at times, but she did not deserve such a bruising set-down.

But enough talk of such things! Take your mind off to more pleasant matters, my dear.

[alt_sinistra]

Quite right what a distracting topic does to the staff table. (And by the time I'm back for a meal at supper on Sunday, Horace will likely have forgotten.)

And you have more than a hint of prescience. Miss Patil indeed. I am quite with you on both points. It does make me think we might need to have a word about the concepts of tact and thinking before journal-writing sometime soon.

As to pleasant matters - I should probably work more on my marking, but really, I'm going to pack for tomorrow, and then curl up with some material I'm reviewing. (I agreed to do a review of some research in exchange for where we'll be tomorrow night. Worth every minute, but I want to read through my locational arithmancy notes before I tackle it.)

On the other hand, I think that sort of thing's quite enjoyable, so.

But of course, keeping an eye on the journals in case something comes up I do need to pay attention to.