The Tea Room
Far-flung across the continent as we are, there is no reason that the gossip-mill shouldn't still be running...
 

  Book review, in case by some freak of Fate, the professor forgets to give you enough work to last the day...
 

Birthday list
 

The Kindomality Test. What would your medieval profession have been? See how others have scored too... 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Hmmm... well, the things I'm not supposed to say are always the most interesting, but I promised, so I won't. Besides I enjoy that deliciously smug feeling of I-know-something-you-don't-know. Just for your information, Nikhil has engineered a massive MP3 downloading site that links up the collections of several former denizens of Clements. I don't know anything about the technical what-not so just ICQ Nikhil. The collection is 1000+ so believe me, it's REALLY worth your while. I want to do a list of birthdays, so keep sending them to me. And I think frosh initiation stories would be cute too, so send them to me too. Oh, I want to know who will be back in town for Thanksgiving break, so that we can plan something. I realise that it might be difficult for some of you, but you UT/ A&M people have absolutely no excuse.
NICK'S BIRHTDAY IS THE 24TH! Be sure to wish him well; too bad he's not around for his birthday punches...
As always, I am open to suggestions. So E-mail me! Until next time then, mes amis!Oh, and for all of you who have ever believed that there's an evil, self-destructive demon living in your computer, here's a little animation:
 

This is one of my favorite books ever! It's supposedly for young adults, but the language is rich and complex and the storyline is absolutely incredible. It's the first in a three-part series of a beautifully woven fantasy tale and there are so many, lovely, lovely surprises. It's not typical of the books I have been know to read because it's not a romance in the strictest sense. I don't want to say anymore because I'll spoil it, but I have all three if you want to borrow them, and the link on the picture will take you to Amazon.com where you can buy it. If you read it and want to add your remarks to mine, just e-mail me!

Synopsis:
    They had been searching the mountain for a rare nectar-- the mistress, Eoduin, carelessly scoffing at old tales of the evil creatures they might encounter... the slave, Aeriel, apprehensive, and rightly so. For a darkangel did swoop from the sky, and he stole the beautiful Eoduin away...
    Irrylath, the darkangel who had taken Eoduin, had been born human, like the others of his kind. But he was bound to steal the soul of a maiden once every year for fourteen years -- a gift for the witch mother who had raised him. Only then the would he lose all trace of humanity and weakness.
    Loyal Aeriel understood nothing of the darkangel's purpose, yet knowing would not have stopped her. She vowed to rescue her friend and mistress-- and thus placed herself in Irrylath's power. He took her to his cold, lonely castle to serve Eoduin and his twelve other brides-- souless wraiths who had once been flesh and blood women.
    Unlike them, Aeriel had the freedom of the castle and its grounds-- liberty enabled that enabled her to befriend the darkangel's gargoyle guards and an odd being named Talb, who lived in the caves beneath the castle. And Talb revealed to her a wealth of knowledge and lore-- talkes of the Ancients who had transformed this once barren, airless place into a land that could sustain life... and prophecies which, if fullfilled, might free her people from the darkangels forever.