Boredom, tedium, plodding, etc. etc.

Honest, I don't have much to write. Nothing much is happening--except for school and daily chores. Nothing is interesting enough to write about, by any means.

Once I had an idea for a story about a young woman with an unusual name--one that wouldn't be easily forgotten, and held a note of intrigue, like...Victoria Landerville or something. Only it was shorter. Anyway, Vicki used to be somebody in the Middle Ages or the Renissance, but she found this time machine and accidentally came to the future. So she's in the Seattle phone books. Meanwhile, a redheaded villaness is also at work and changes her name from Jenny Williamson to Vicki Landerville and tries to get rid of the real Vicki and go back in time to get her inheritance--she has an inheritance. Anyway, so she goes to wherever Vicki's from in her own time machine, but Vicki follows with a crew of several--Whitney Marshall, a woman who likes Jewish music, Sarah Nelson, who is really into Hungarian music, Ludwig van Beethoven, who can't hear anything, Jake O'Connell, who is a Celtic musician, and his wife Janet O'Laughlin. And so they end up going back and fighting this Jenny person and go back to their homes.

But then. Jenny manages to get them all in a spaceship and take them back to Aztec times--just when there was no ruler, for the previous ruler had died. Convinced that she was some deity, the Aztecs make her their queen. Then she sets them all--including a young Aztec woman named Xena--to find her some chocolate. Or else they will become human sacrifices. So after a lot of adventures they get the chocolate and Jenny's plan foils up again.

Then, Jenny takes them back to the barbarians at the time of the Roman empire. Again, the ruler has just died, and, since red hair is a sign of power, they make Jenny their queen. But Janet overhears her plot to sell them all as slaves to a man who is notorious for killing slaves. She is selling them to the Romans in exchange for independance. So she and the rest flee to Britain, where they risk a bunch of dangers. They also have a native, but I can't think of a name for her yet.

Foiled again, Jenny finally goes to Vicki's country and locks her in a low cellar. Then she claims the castle that is righfully Vicki's. It's up to the crew to save her again, and Beethoven, despite his deafness, comes up with a marvelous plan.

All in all, it's stupid, but it's fun to do.
Saro