Birthday Fic

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATGEL

Okay I missed it by about give minutes my time. Here's a birthday fic for you. Okay so it's another chapter of Leaning on the Edge of E from here on out known as the I only get done on a birthday story. I originally planned for a lot more father/son stuff for you here but mostly Connor was uncooperative. Sorry. Hope you like it any how. It picks up right where Masq's chapter ended. So this is the real chapter 3. We left off with Connor being impaled and dying in chapter two.

Oh and this has seen NO beta of any type. I hope to get a better version up in a day or two so hopefully the typos aren't TOO embarrassing.

Leaning on the Edge of E chapter 3 - Lullabye There is some hospital squickiness in this.

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since I coughed up 3000 words for Natgel's chapter I didn't have much time let over for nanomo so I got pathetically little done. THen again my students broke my brain. Here's an acutal conversation from lab.

Student #1 - Dana, we don't understand how the meninges attach to the crista gali (for you non-science types, the meninges are the coverings around the brain and the crista gali is the 'chicken's beak, a ridge of bone INSIDE the skull, keep that part in mind it's important)

Dana - Huh?

STudent #2 - We're following the skull key (note, they're using the wrong numbered key code) and we don't understand how the meninges get through the skull to attach here.

Dana (at this point my brain has exploded within its meninges because they don't understand the obvious thing they're missing) Okay let's think about this for a moment ladies. The crista gali is here (I point inside the skull)

Student #1 - yeah we know that but how do the meninges go through the skull to get there. We dont' see any holes.

Student #2 - This key isn't helping (no duh)

Dana - Think harder girls. The crista is on the INSIDE of the skull. WHERE is your brain and its meninges inside or outside of your skull.

Both turn bright red and start laughing. Please save me from these people.

Oh and a note on Natgel's chapter. It's rough, yeah I said that but what I didn't say is a) if you see glaring errors TELL me b) I just jossed myself with this and will have to fix a later chapter where Buffy had no clue what had happened in L.A. duh.

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Listen for the Screams

I almost didn't get up this morning. Turns out that even though I know I set my alarm (I'm a compulsive checker. I do a lock and alarm check at least 4 times every day) my alarm wasn't on and I just so happened to wake up on my own at 7:30.

Then it takes TWO hours to fix my car this morning. The problem? The mechanic who did my timing belt change and did some other belt work screwed up and the belt cut through a wire in one of the sensor harnesses. 120$ later, i'm letting my dad handle it since the mechanic in question is a friend of his.

I manage to do some shopping only to find out that 4 of the 5 stores I went to do NOT (let me repeat that, NOT) carry winter boots. Hello, we live in a snow belt how the hell can you not carry winter boots. Wal-Mart has them but damn, it's Wal-Mart and I don't want to give the corporation of evil money more so than I already do.

I come home two find two messages. UPS calling to see if the insurance adjustor every came out to talk to me. I call them back but they're gone until monday. I call Office Depot and they have not HEARD from UPS about this. They're invesitgating it now. I've called them back three times because they keep not calling me and they STILL haven't made the call to UPS.

The other call was from Zog telling me that the damn propane price has almost doubled leading to a 200$ bill for propane. I already keep the house at 62. ANy colder and I can hang meat in here.

I trundle into the bathroom to find out the faucet's trickling. Okay I'm pretty sure I didn't leave it on. Worse, it's the HOT water so that means for 5 hours the hot water tank that's already killing me and my electric bill has been running.

And the pain in my big toe wasn't from my shoe rubbing. I took off my sock and found myself staring at a textbook paronychia. Otherwise known as an infected ingrown nail and me without my anesthesia. Oh well, that damn shot hurts more than cutting the nail out without it. I'll do that tonight.

So is anyone having a better day than me? Or should I just assume you all are.

And the weirdest part of this day so far was, I'm in Fashion Bug, leaving in disgust over no snow boots in their 50% off boot sale (and before I buy the faux bondage boots) and a hand touches my shoulder and a man whispers in a soft, gentle voice, "Don't Worry." I turn around and I'm alone in the store...