snippet, K-Pop video, and a note from my [rather cush] trench

[idiosyncreant]

Winter has returned to Oklahoma, as if we needed a reminder it's still February. Pity.

I am happily scribbling away, and knitting away, too, to try and justify this new bizarre taste for Korean idol reality TV. (Don't ask.)

Yesterday I bought a great little book at the library book sale called The Nanny Handbook, the 2003 edition but with some much more outdated ideas. This is actually a resource for Vigil, which is officially working titled: The Nanny Rules of Vigil Assistance because rather than being sidekicks for the superheroes, they're more like PAs. And being PAs to semi-celebrity law enforcer superhumans is...a lot like being a nanny.
I'm hoping that the book will help me come up with the comic strips Jackson is going to be creating, but it's great entertainment on its own.


snippet: Jackson's First Day At Work

The man who threw open the door was the classic white posterboy for college extracurriculars or trendy jeans, except old enough to have laugh lines. The dark blonde of his hair, and lighter, scraggly half-beard brought out his jaw line and dark eyes. These eyes seemed to flinch when he saw her, but his smile right after that was warm enough. Maybe it had been the sunlight.

“Hi, I'm Jackson Marino, with Vigil Assistance—”

“You're even almost on time—I just blew up the microwave. Do you know how to work a gas range?”

He stood still, as if she wouldn't be welcome to enter if she said no.

“I've operated a couple,” she said carefully.

“Great, come on in.” He led to the kitchen. He wasn't very tall, she realized—when he'd been barring the door he had been disproportionately intimidating. “To be honest, this morning I had no idea what they thought you could do for me. I do all the cleaning for Karel anyway, he's just the living alarm clock. Don't take this the wrong way, but I am out of diapers several years now. You know what they say about acting high and mighty, though. Of course the microwave was going to blow.”

KPop Mini-Feature of the day: A Live Performance with a neat show idea for mostly non-dancing ballad crooners, 2 AM