Untitled shortest crossover

 Sequel to an earlier one.

Quinn looked out at the City before her. "My family is in Florida, and I am in New York."

She turned around and said with more excitement. "My family is in Florida, and I am in New York!"

She wagged her eyebrows.

Untitled Shortest Emergency Crossover

 Angela Li activated the PA system. " In an unprecedented show of spine -- I mean, spite -- your teachers have announced a strike. However, school will continue just as before." She turned it off again.

"It just won't involve teachers." She pressed a different control on her desk. "Computer! Activate Emergency Educational Holograms!"

Ten figures formed in her office as if out of thin air. One of them stepped forward. "Please state the nature of the Educational Emergency."

Quinn's Code - Morgendorffers in the Woods - Part 1

 

Installment 9: Morgendorffers in the Woods

Thursday, February 8, 2006

Lawndale, MD

“Daddy, remember that tutoring you want me to take for Language Arts? It's going to be fifty dollars an hour,” Quinn Morgendorffer said.

“Fifty dollars an hour!” Her father, Jake, shouted.

Her mother, Helen, entered. “Well, I got the bad news from the peridontist, Six months, eight hundred dollars a month.”

“Eight hundred dollars a month?!”

Then Quinn's older sister, Daria, entered the kitchen. She placed the mail on the table. “Mail's here, did you know Congress still spends over two hundred and fifty billion dollars on the Miltary?”

“Two hundred and fifty billion a year?!” Jake ponded a fist on the table. “Damn it! That's it Daria! What am I made of, money?”

“Jake, were you listening? Daria said...” Helen interjected.

“Tutoring, dental work, Congress! I'm not a machine, damn it! I'm a man! For once in my stinkin' life, show me a little...” His rant stopped mid sentence as pain shot through one of his eyes. “Gah. Ah! Ah!” He held his eyes.

“Oh, Jakey, not again,” Helen said.

“It's my eye! Oh G. it's my eye!” Indeed a blood vessel had burst...

“Oh, no,” Daria said. “Get the camera,” she said to Quinn.

“You get it!” Quinn shot back.

“No camera, Daria,” Helen said. She sighed. “Remember what the doctor said the last time you burst a blood vessel?”

“Yeah, he said it would be two hundred dollars.”

Helen took Jake's hand in hers to reassure him. “Before that. He said that we need to cut down your stress and we're going camping like we used to before...” she looked and saw that her daughters were still in the room.

They both gave her a look as if saying “We're still in the room.'

“I'll take Friday off and we'll make a long weekend of it.”

“You're going to take the day off?” Daria asked.

“Daria, a healthy family comes before work, Always. Besides, I have some vacation time coming and Eric told me that if I don't use it, I loose it.” She pounded her fist on the table.

“Damn it. Those bastards aren't gonna take away my days! Come on, Jake. Let's find some painkillers.” She then lead him away.

“Don't worry about us Mom, we'll be fine home alone,” Quinn said.

“Maybe,” Daria said, wondering what Quinn was up to.

“Don't even bother, girls. You're coming with us.”

“Quinn pounded her fist on the table. “Damn it, Daria! You could have backed me up!” Then she left.

“Damn it, why would Quinn expect me to back her up?”

Later, Daria went over to her friend, Jane Lane's house. She told Jane, and Jennifer Burns about the camping trip.

“Guano see some gutsy climbing? Scaling the world's tallest pile of seagull droppings, next on Sick Sad World.”

“Let me get this straight,” Jane said. “You, Jake, Helen and the Geek Princess are going camping? As 'in the woods' camping?”

“I think that's the gist of it,” Jennifer said.

“I hope the raving envy won't effect our friendship,” Daria said.

“I do envy you,” Jane said.

“Then I'm afraid the fever has reached your brain, and you'll have to be destroyed,” Daria joked. Jennifer laughed.

Jane began to pack a suit case. “Do you know where I'll be this weekend? The Lane family reunion. Dozens of Lanes from all over the country converging in one midwestern split level to remind themselves why they scattered in the first place.

“Wow, I didn't think that your parents would be caught dead at something like that,” Daria said.

“Same here,” Jennifer said.

“They wouldn't. We're the black sheep of the family. We're only invited because hating us brings them all closer together. My parents are much too smart to fall for that trick.”

“I thought so,” Daria said.

“That's quite disfunctional,” Jennifer said with a shake of her head.

“It certainly is,” Jane said. “So they're sending me and Trent as their representatives.”

“You know, a weekend in the woods is starting to look pretty good.”

“A weekend on the world's tallest pile of seagull droppings is looking better,” Jane said.

Saturday February 10, 2006

The Morgendorffers arrived in a clearing with camping gear, having hiked to the location.

Jake was singing.

“Give my regards to Broadway.

Remember one to Harold's Square

Tell all the gang at 42 Street

That I'll soon be there...”

He then said. “Is this great or what? For the next 72 hours we're going to live off what nature sends our way.” He pointed. “See that stream? That's our drinking water! See those berries? That's our breakfast!”

“See that skeleton?” That's our future,” Daria said.

“There's no skeleton,” Quinn said.

“Made you look,” Daria said.

Quinn sighed...

–

“Total isolation,” Jake said.

“No phone, no fax, no email, no voicemail, no SMS, no way to contact the outside world! What a luxury,” Helen said.

“Tonight, we'll tell spooky stories around the campfire. Tomorrow, we'll hike till we drop!”

“Just like we used to.”

“Remember?”

“We were so relaxed in those days.”

Jake stood there reminicsing.

“Girls, doesn't all this beauty take you right out of yourselves?”

“Daria?” Helen asked.

“I'm think I'm getting a chill. If you don't mind, I'm gonna crawl back into myself for a while.”

“What about you, Quinn?”

“No phone or internet?”

Church notes - 13th June 2021

 13th June

Fear

- of COVID

- of anything

Prayer - that we can overcome our fears, including of COVID spreading in our community.

Nehemiah 3, 4

Fear - COVID infected vistors cause fear.

Fear in Jerusalem while Nehemiah oversees the rebuilding of the wall.

2.1 kilometres. 41 different sections delegated.

The Nobles who weren't working - there are always people like that.

Nine gates.

Sanballet and Tobias - They tried to undermine the confidence of the Jews.

vs 6

But morale can be fickle.

vs 7

Beginning with prayer, but following it up with practical activity.

Prayer and practical action aren't incompatable.

Exhausted workers.

vs 10

Fear was driving the exhaustion.

vs 11

Panic and fear were spreading, the perception of danger was derailing the project.

Response.

vs 13

Soldiers were posted at the vulnerable points.

Psalm 127

Conviction - The Holy Spirit says you have sinned.

Condemnation - Satan says you are worthless.

Ephesians 6:12

Nehemiah 6:16

Self interest motivated the enemies to oppose the Jews.

We need to reinforce and encourage each other to overcome fear.

Fan Fiction Update - The Grounded Geek

 The Grounded Geek

After a late return home one night, both of the Morgendorffer sisters find themselves grounded. But what does Quinn have planned?

Fanfiction.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6963544/7/Quinn-s-Code

Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31894825

Quinn's Code - Atlernapalooza Part 4

 

Quinn, Cindy, Kristen and Keith had left the diner behind. They saw the Tank on the side of the road. “Isn't that Daria?” Kristen asked.

“With Trent Lane?” Keith asked, curiosity showing in his voice.

“Well, she is friends with his younger sister,” Cindy pointed out.

“Don't worry, she can look after herself,” Quinn said.

“Jane and Jennifer may have gone for help,” Cindy said.

“I guess so,” Quinn said.

“I'll keep going then,” Keith decided after a few moments.

Daria listened to Trent play a G chord over and over. She glanced at his tattoo. “Um, nice tattoo. Tribal?”

“Maori. I copied it out of Tattoo World's international issue,” Trent said.

“Very graphic, and meaningful.”

“Yeah, it makes a statement. You know what it is?”

'I got a tattoo out of a magazine?' Daria thought.

“I got a tattoo out of a magazine,” Trent said, unknowingly echoing what she had thought. They both laughed.

“I guess it's better than trying to copy one off the TV.”

“Daria, do you ever feel like maybe you're wasting your life?”

“Only when I'm awake.”

“Like, no money, no job, you live with your parents, and you still can't play an open D tuning,” Trent said.

“Well, I haven't had those exact thoughts...”

“Maybe I will end up a townie doing Doors covers. I mean, who's to say, right?” Trent asked. He didn't know whether the Spiral would make it big, or not. Who could say?

Daria considered. “Umm, you know, Trent, it takes a lot of guts to go after a dream, especially when you know that failure can mean spending the rest of your life playing L.A. Woman... in public,” she said, her distaste for that song showing.

Trent thought for a moment. “Hmm, I guess.”

“And even if it doesn't work out, at least for now you're doing exactly what you want to.”

“Yeah, that's true.”

“A lot of people never even get that far.”

“I guess I'm not doing too bad. You know, Daria, sometimes it's hard to believe you're in high school.”

“I find the situation unbelievable myself.”

“You're pretty cool.”

“Thanks,” Daria said with a slight smile. She then noticed that Jane, Jennifer and Jesse were approaching.

“So?” Trent asked.

“There was nothing behind that wall but a cornfield, and the corn wasn't very helpful.”

“Helpful Corn! That's a cool name for the band,” Jesse suggested.

“I don't thnk so,” Jennifer murmured.

“Even better than Mystik Spiral, huh, Daria?”

'Maybe not,' Daria thought.

Keith, Kristen, Cindy and Quinn arrived at Alternapalooza. They could see that the concert had already started, and that the parking had spilled into a nearby field.

“We've missed the start!” Cindy said.

“I wasn't responsible for the traffic after Oakwood,” Keith explained.

“I guess there wasn't any other way,” Quinn said.

“I guess not,” Cindy said.

Church notes - 6th June 2021

 6th June

John 14:27

Nehemiah 1

Nehemiah 2:1 - 10

As the book of Nehemiah opens, Jerusalem is in trouble. Judah's enemies, the Samaritans, have prevented the Jews from repairing Jerusalem's broken-down defenses. All seems to be lost. But God has a plan.

Nehemiah prays every day.

vs 6

Nehemiah confesses his sins as well as those of his forefathers.

Nehemiah 1:8

Deuteronomy 30:1

Scattering as a result of disobedience.

Nehemiah 1:9

Deuteronomy 30:3

Gathering.

A God who scatters in judgement.

A God who gathers - for repentance.

The month of Nissan - Nehemiah prayed for four months.

2:3, 4

Nehemiah had the King's favour.

Short desparate prayers are fine, if they are preceded by consistent earnest prayer.

In those times when all seems to be lost God has a plan.

Nehemiah could have enjoyed a quiet and happy life in the palace, but he chose to step up. In times of frustration, trouble or loss, God might call on you to step up and take up action.

Nehemiah prays for months until it is time to bring the matter to the King. We must be diligent in prayer and be sensitive to God's leading.

A reversal of the Superpower's policies and be brought about by God to accomplish His plan.

Communion

Colossians