Book Fair

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles had gotten up at ack o'clock and actually had toted five boxes of books to the Fandom High Gym before he "cheated."

Everything was now set up neatly on tables, and separated by genre.

There was also coffee and hot water urns, bottled water, and a variety of pastries and breads set on a table near the register.

The First Annual Fandom High Book Fair was open for business.

[ooc: Hang on to your collective hats while I get the OCD threads up, please.

Threads are UP. Whew. I think you all know how this works. Go look for a book. Up to you whether you find it or not. No, there is no magic/new age section. Yes, Giles has planned it that way.

That's it! Go to town! Wait. No. Stay here and buy stuff...]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm, banana bread."

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[nadiathesaint]

"What is it with you British people and tea? Coffee is much richer."

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's to early for beer (http://www.xs4all.nl/~patto1ro/swedintr.htm)..." Pippi mused, "If you want to talk about rich... Or at least, somebody somewhere thinks it's to early for beer. I'm not sure who."

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[nadiathesaint]

"Beer doesn't have any caffeine."

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"It could (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml)."

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[nadiathesaint]

"But coffee smells better."

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Some Swedish beers smell like bananas."

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[nadiathesaint]

"But--but--coffee. . . ." She wasn't going to win an argument all day, was she?

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi took a sip of her own coffee and gave a satisfied sigh.

"Hmmmmmm." she said, "Coffee here now. Beer is absent at this time."

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River stared at the banana bread

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter put a piece of banana bread on a napkin and held it out to River.

He also stuck his tongue out at Nadia. "I'd say that you'd never had a properly brewed cup of tea, but I have made you tea and I have to assume that your taste buds have simply been blunted by all the coffee."

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi took a bite of her own banana bread.

She considered telling Walter that perhaps he needed more training on his tea skills... But she was pretty sure them's fighten' words.

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia finally managed to pour herself a cup and took a long sniff. She sighed. "Maybe from drinking this coffee," she conceeded. "But you should try the stuff we had back home."

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'll try it sometime," he said, mostly to humor Nadia. "Did you pick out any books?"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grinned. "A few. . . ."

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Oh?" He peered to see if he could read any titles. "Such as?"

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River grinned. "Thank you." She stuffed her mouth full of banana bread. "So the tea here is good?"

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter had a sip of his tea and nodded. "I believe Mr. Giles is from my home city, as is Peter. We have rather particular preferences for how tea is properly done."

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River, being from a planet deeply influenced by Chinese culture, was familiar with tea. But perhaps not British tea. "I like tea. Where are you from?"

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

[[ooc: I'm going off wikipedia info on a type of beer called Sahti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahti) which is Finnish but apparently (according to wikipedia) also brewed in Gotland. I did have some once, and it did smell like bananas just a little bit.]]

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

[[ooc: Everything I know about the country I learned from Wikipedia and the episode of No Reservations where they went to Sweden. (And all I learned from the latter is "logam". Which I'm not sure I'm spelling right.) So the info is suspect. :) And if you have any input please feel free to poke me. :D]]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

[[ooc: d'oh! :P Hmmm, that's intriguing but I'm actually kind of overly amused by my terrible online translators. Though proper Swedish lyrics for the various songs would be cool. :D]]