Chipper? I think I open my eyes really wide and animate my face. It gives me a headache.
Yeah. I might as well not bother, it's practically already written. I'll send you the outline.

Show me a non-bug story and I might believe you.
I know. Sometimes I want to hit you with a rolled up newspaper, too. I think I'd have to see the whole progression before I could weigh in on whether or not to tone her down. Another 50k or so should do it. *grabby hands*
I finally experienced the thing where people who know writers wonder if they are the basis for things in their stories. I know that it is both paranoia and also partly true. Kind of fun.
You started out by establishing that the wife (the older sister) moves in with the husband's family and is essentially at their mercy in a strange environment (which is fine but still scary if you like your husband's family). Then you send your protagonist to a strange place against her will and put her at the mercy of a family she picked for purely practical reasons. It's hard not to notice. It's like an instructive fairy tale. I bet Jane Yolen would like it.
Accidental things can be the best things! Like penicillin! Don't you like penicillin? Everyone likes penicillin!

Good/mediocre/bad, eh? All of the qualities?
Yeah, interrupting match to beat you up got old after the second episode. Chavo needed to chill.

Somewhat humid here as well. I am resentful of my pants while walking to work.
I think fitness is personal. I tend to think of it as not being impeded by your own capabilities in normal life, or wanting to direct people to the gun show as a first response when you look in the mirror.

That sounds like a description of what an eldritch horror would do when attempting to blend in while wearing a human suit.
Sure, do that. Just flesh it out a little first. Turn the bullet points into paragraphs, and then turn those paragraphs into chapters, then send me that. Sure.

Unless you have some other bargaining material to offer me, I'm not letting you see any more. Go ahead and think I'm bug-obsessed. I'll be over here with my bugs, enjoying life.
This is why character development is the worst. If the protagonist doesn't start out with issues, there's not much point in developing, but if their issues are too overt/annoying, it wrecks the story. I don't do healthy balances.
Now I'm seriously wondering who or what you think might have been based on you. I don't remember putting any of you in (to these specific stories) on purpose, but apparently I don't notice most of what I do.
Well. Yes. You're not wrong about any of this. It is not what I intended, but there it is. Indeed. Well. Not sure what to think now. I don't believe this can be equated to penicillin.

Yes, all of the qualities. As I said, it's impossible to judge quality when it's all camp.
I'm also tired of how Prince Puma needs to make a miraculous comeback in every one of his matches. Every. One. He's supposed to be the champion, so can he please have a decisive victory every now and then?

It's what I do. Don't judge my human suit.
Maybe I will. If you send me a non-bug story I might turn them into paragraphs. *grabby hands*

I think healthy balances come with big picture editing at the end. That's what I've heard.
You put enough awkward, asocial people into a story, I'm going to see myself. Can't be helped.
I never hoped to see an accidental theme in the wild. How special.
Embrace it. Rejection is not an option. Embrace.

They wanted an underdog hero. It is difficult to be an underdog while simultaneously being the champion. If it makes you feel any better, I think he leaves for the WWE in season 3. They let him talk and not wear a mask (or pants).

Apparently Joann canceled my gift card order, for unknown reasons, and decided not to tell me until today. So that's one mystery solved in the most annoying possible way. How much did the framing end up being? I will send that amount of money, and we can consider the whole affair to be closed.

I am concerned about putting together my own human suit for teaching this fall. Do you get good evaluations from your students? What are your secrets? Tell me your secrets.

What are you writing for this upcoming Camp NaNo? Are you finishing the MCP? Finish the MCP. Give it to me.
I am waffling between using this Camp for editing and just starting a new story. On the one hand, editing would be good for me, and my work really needs it. On the other hand, I'm not deeply attached enough to anything I've written that I would ever want to publish it, and there's not much point in editing something that's never going to go anywhere.

Puma not talking is so awkward right now. He and Johnny were supposed to be having a conversation, but Puma just... stood there. The whole time. And Johnny kept talking.
You NEED to get to season 2. So many plot twists. So much drama. It's getting to the point where it's really weird that all of the plots eventually turn into wrestling. It kind of reminds me of YuGiOh? All of these important, world-altering events are occurring, but somehow everything worth doing is worth doing in the context of a children's card game.

It was raining and we didn't want to go outside. The coupon is good through Wednesday, so Dad is going before trivia. I will ask him to tell you how much it costs.

Pretty good. The evaluations aren't terribly quantitative. What type of secrets are you looking for? What kind of class are you teaching? Have you taken any teaching classes yet?

I think I need to use July for work-related writing. I'll be out of town more often than not, and I need to be productive.
Edit the bug story. Then you can give in to Jane Yolen and she can publish it for you. The end.

Maybe he was talking in his mind. Or using his highly emotive facial expressions?
I can only get to season 2 so fast. See productivity statement above. How is it inappropriate to solve world-altering problems using a children's card game/wrestling? This seems normal to me.

Ugh. Some Fathers' Day gift this turned out to be. "Here, Dad, please spend your own time and money to do this chore, and maybe you'll get paid back someday maybe." Why is this my life? Why do you guys get rain and I only get sweat? Why is my cat so loud?

I will be taking a teaching class while I teach this class. So, no, not yet. I need the secrets of keeping large groups of humans engaged for extended periods of time in such a way that they won't hate me. I really, really want them to not hate me.

Boooooring. Be productive on your own time. July is not your own time. Write at least 500 words of fiction.
I'm not going to publish the bug story. Which one is the bug story, anyway? They're all about bugs. I should get back to writing fanfic, because at least that has the potential to be published somewhere.
I had a dream with a really strong plot, to the point where it inspired me to want to write it, but unfortunately the dream was obviously inspired by that stupid Castlevania anime to the point where the premise cannot be separated from Castlevania. I'm frustrated.

It was better when he didn't talk. His speaking is bad, to the point where it almost seems like he's being insincere. Like bad-bad acting. I can understand why they didn't let him talk before now.
I've tried using children's card games/wrestling to solve problems in real life. It doesn't go so well, especially when the other person has not agreed to wrestle.

I'm getting ads for "All-Gay Cruises". Why does google think I'm gay and want to go on a cruise?

It's okay. Dad likes being externally motivated. It is as good a gift as anything.
We get rain because we did not have enough mushrooms. It's only fair.

Is it a lecture, or a discussion section, or a lab? I take a lot of teaching classes. I can give specific advice. Generally, the best approach is to remember that it is about the students learning, not you teaching. You are the facilitator of their learning, and you want them to succeed. Also, be as genuine and honest as possible. Whatever type of relationship you want with the students (professional, friendly, serious, joking, etc), make sure they can tell you aren't faking anything. And learn their names quickly. That's very important.
I like to be very informal and let them know that I am their advocate in the class; it's them and me versus the professor, basically, although I am technically in league with the professor. I let them know I grade pretty strictly, but I also make it clear that it makes me happy when they do well, so their grades are their responsibility rather than arbitrarily assigned by an evil grader (also me).
In short, think about the best TAs you've had and try to do what they did.

That's called the abstract.
Why not? It is good. Very publishable. Should at least try.
So you want to write Castlevania fanfic? Is this what I'm hearing? I am sorry.

I suspect he gets better. He's pretty popular as Ricochet. Or maybe he went back to not talking.
I don't believe you have actually tried to use wrestling to solve your problems. Children's card games, maybe, although there's no way you know how to play YuGiOh.

They are probably monitoring your tumblr activity.

Did he do the thing? Is the thing done? Is the art framed? Did you guys put it up?

I don't know what I will be teaching, because the world is a tumultuous place and I am not high up in the information hierarchy. Probably I will have a lab section, because that is where most of the slots for beginner TAs are open.
How do you learn their names? Is there a technique for that?
Genuine is hard. I'm not even genuine with my own friends.

What are you even writing right now? Is it going to be 50k words long?
Might be publishable after many revisions, but I don't know if this is the hill I want to die on, editing-wise. Isn't there some sort of rule that the first 10 million words you write are going to be crap? I don't think I'm even past the 1 million-mark. I've got a ways to go.
My subconscious already wrote the Castlevania fanfic. Now I have to live with that burden.

He would have to get better. There's nowhere to go but up. Although I don't like how he styles himself as Ricochet--he has adorable soft eyes and very vulnerable lips and little elf ears, but his chosen aesthetic is more tough-guy. It doesn't suit him.
We both learned how to play YuGiOh from that playstation game. The knowledge stays with you.
You need to create a Luchasona. I created a Luchasona, and she's great, but you don't get to hear about her until you create your own. Then we can have fake feuds and compete for fake titles.

We did the thing, but I don't think we've got it back yet. Ordered and waiting.

If you can get a roster with pictures, try to memorize in advance (but sometimes people change dramatically or go by different names). Best is to hand out notecards at the first class so they can tell you what they prefer to be called, something that might be memorable about them to help with memorization, and any other concerns they might have (disability accommodations, for instance). Otherwise, just do as many as you can per week, ask them their names whenever they come up to ask you something (like in Pony Club), and apologize if you get it wrong. Nobody expects you to learn them all immediately.
It won't matter to some people, I'm guessing, but if there are people like me they will know when something is fishy. You're not teaching 5 year olds, remember. These are adult human people, basically your peers. They might even be older than you.

I certainly hope my meta analysis isn't 50k words. That would be hell.
Even crap can be edited (and it's not). It just might take a little longer. I really think it would be worthwhile. Also, Dad wants to read it, too. He is jealous.
At least now you don't need to write the whole thing out? What are you doing for July, then?

He is very cute, yes. He just got a cool wing cape. Check it out.
That wasn't even the real rules! It was all lies!
Wait, what is this? How do I do this? I still haven't seen most of the new luchadoras. Are any of them any good? I haven't been particularly impressed so far.
I am so irritated by masks. The masks make me constantly wonder what's underneath. I would not be nearly so preoccupied if I could just see their faces. It's like naked vs. nearly naked.

Oh, right. Most things aren't instantaneous. I forget sometimes.

How do I ask for something memorable that would help with memorization? "Tell me something memorable about yourself"?
Should I actually expect to be bombarded with emails at all times? Is that a real thing?
Will the people who are older than me be weird about it, or will they only be weird if I make it weird?

Wait, what are you meta-analyzing? Can you also do a meta-meta analysis? I like those.
If Dad wants to shop at the word store, that's his prerogative, but he'd better have something to pay with. Ain't nobody gets nothing for free.
I have no idea what I'm doing for July. Possibly I'll use one of the non-novel options so I can actually do work on this dating sim that I've had tentatively in progress for a while now. I have several backgrounds and one character drawn, so I guess it would be worthwhile to do the writing for it.

Google images does not provide much when I search for Ricochet. Mostly garbage, in fact. Are you getting all of this from "the instagram"?
None of the season 2 luchadoras are good. They are all bad. I'm actually taking a bit of a break from Lucha Underground because I got completely sucked into a podcast, but this gives you a chance to catch up to me.
You don't have to put a ton of effort into your luchasona. I sure didn't put that much work into mine. They don't necessarily need to resemble you that much, either. More of a, "if I were the sort of person who would be a wrestler", rather than, "me as a wrestler".
The mystery is everything. Without the masks, they would just be yahos hitting each other. Can you imagine Drago without a mask? He would be a sad furry. Scaly?