Fifth floor common room, Tuesday night (everybody else is doing it, why can't we?)

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia is crashed out on the common room couch with her copy of Midsummer Night's Dream and her notebook. Every couple pages she pauses and repeats words to herself, trying to puzzle out the meanings. Every other couple pages, she smacks herself in the forehead with the book.

She'd probably welcome an interruption.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi flounces in with her own copy of Midsummer Night's Dream.

"Hey Nadia. Oh! You got a copy too?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Yes," Nadia thunked herself on the head with the book one last time as she closed it, her finger marking the page. "This is going to be bad."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"It is? ... Why?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia pointed at the text, just a touch melodramatically. "I can barely even read this! And I think Blair is supposed to play my boyfriend!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I thought it was English..." Pippi opened up her Arden Edition (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0174436068/sr=8-4/qid=1140576459/ref=sr_1_4/103-5779992-7447056?%5Fencoding=UTF8) and looked through it.

"Well," she said. "It's not going to be easy... Maybe."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia opened her book again and read a passage.
"Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes."

"What does that even mean?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like whoever says it is crying and wants to blame it on the weather?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia read the passage again. "Maybe. Her dad does seem to have just sold her to a nunery. You got a good part, though, you're some kind of Amazon queen!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Pippi fliped to the cast list.

"Whoa, I am the Queen of the Amazons... And I'm understudy for Parker, who's the Queen of the Fairies... I'm royalty! Neet! Which one are you again?"

[nadiathesaint]

"The whiney one who is supposed to marry Blair, but her dad wants her to marry Logan. Or die, or become a nun."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"And I'm the one who organizes the play," Pip said, walking into the common room and lighting a cigarette. "Or Puck if Zero gets sick. What's up kids?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia frowned. "You're directing too, now?"

She hadn't gotten very far in her reading, yet.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Nah," Pip said. "I'm the one who directs the little play within a play. Never read this before, I take it?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shook her head. "I'm having trouble reading it, now. And I'm very good with English."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Need help?" Pip asked. "I had to read the play back in seventh grade."

[nadiathesaint]

"Help would be good. Also, can you restring a guitar? I accidently broke my E string."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"No problem," Pip said. "Bring it around later, I'll see what I can do. Anything in paricular giving you trouble in the play?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Words, words, words," Nadia stated, thwapping her book because her mun is a lover of the Bard. "They're all in weird orders and some of them I don't know. I think I need a translator."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"I think foreign language versions exist," Pip said. "I mean, when I read it, they gave me a French copy as well as an English copy so that I could make my way through it easier."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia thought about this for a minute. "Well, I'm planning to go into town tomorrow and see that mechanic woman, I guess I'll go back to the book store and look for a Spanish version."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh Pip! I have something for you I got in DC"

Pippi goes back to her room and comes back with a box (http://www.smithsonianstore.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=12250&categoryId=3212&parentCategoryId=3212).

"I don't know why, but I thought of you when I saw this."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, neat." Pip said. "Whole buncha things I could do with this. Thanks a lot, Pippi!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yay!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Could be worse. You could be in love with Somebody who's being an ass."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia might have muttered something that sounded like Spanish for "Oh no, I'd never know how that feels" before sitting up. "An ass? I'm going to read this play if it kills me."

[ooc: and in so many ways! for both parts!]

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi nodded, flipping through her copy with a copy of the cast list from Dewy's wall.

"Apparently, Xander is going to be an ass... At some point. In honor of my marrage to... Hamlet? Who's Hamlet?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shrugged. "I don't know. But it looks like this will be interesting, if nothing else."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Heh." Pippi grunted. "Interesting you say? ...Welcome to Fandom."

[nadiathesaint]

"Point."