Daily Updates

Subject: gh update 7/20/95
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 15:27:50 -0700
From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)

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[fortunately, the management didn't get any SIDAR scenes, so the management
has maintained some of her sanity.)

WILL TOM PREVAIL?, or THE CLASSIC TRIANGLE CONTINUES
Tom is moving into his office with a few thousand file boxes when Simone
enters, scaring him into a classic slapstick scene of boxes tumbling, etc.
They discuss Tom moving into the Brownstone.  Tom says he should have
run the idea past her first, but he just opened his mouth and the
words came out while he was talking to Bobbie.  Simone thinks it would be
good for Tommy, who had no idea he really had a father up till now, but
she has a few conditions.  1. Tommy's needs come first.  2.  The marriage
is still over, sign the divorce papers.  Well, shucky darn, Tom seems to
have left the papers in Africa.  Whaddayaknow, in the USA there are copy
machines, and Simone is pretty-darn sure that she can solve this dilemma.
        Meanwhile, at the Charles Street Foundation, the sharks (oh, right,
reporters.  Straight from the OJ trial.) are out in full force.  Keesha
has to break a few heads to get into the office. Jason is holed up in
there and Justus runs the gauntlet later.  Justus sends them packing, at
least to the porch, and Keesha demands "when is this going to be over??"
She announces she feels like "Keesha Ward, corporate slut."  Jason, who
is used to disclaiming all connections to his family, is amazed.  Simone
blows in and Keesha and Jason leave to run errands.  Justus and Simone
talk about Tom moving in.  At first Justus has hysterics, but soon enough
he's angry, and then they make up in the classic way.  I kept expecting a
reporter or two or twenty to break in.

WILL SIGMUND BECOME ROADKILL ALONG LUCY'S PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT?, or
MADAME MAIA HAS BEEN READING R.A.T.S.A.

It's my duck, it's my duck, it's SIGMUND, at last, and he has lots and
lots of commentary while Lucy raves on about Madame Maia and about why
doesn't Kevin call and should she call him and etc. etc.  And once more,
Lucy isn't listening.  What is the point of having a duck of one's own if
one never listens to it, I ask you?
        Lucy feels stupid fretting by the phone, like a child.  "I feel
like I'm regressing faster than I can keep up with myself."  Meanwhile,
Damian has called Madame Maia.  Katybelle seems to have left the
apartment wherein she nearly entertained Mac and is towelling her hair in
the background.  Madame Maia doesn't like Damian's tone and says "maybe
it's YOUR aura we should concentrate on cleansing."  She also announces
she doesn like the vague threats Damian emits.  Katybelle is glaring at
Damian.  Once they hang up, she announces that she is in for a beauty
day, not that she really knows why she patronizes Deception anymore.  And
she will have a late lunch at the Outback, where there's someone who
appreciates her.  Nyaah.
        Lucy is still staring at the phone, willing Kevin to call.
"RING, damn you!"  It does and she snatches it up, but it's Madame Maia.
Sigmund warns Lucy, and once more Lucy doesn't listen.  Lucy think's it's
wonderful of Madame Maia to worry about her.  No one else seems to. [I
think this vulnerability may be giving MM an agenda of her own.  Or,
maybe, she's just delighting in the easy pickings, the Greedy Old Bag.]
No, Lucy!  Do NOT invite Madame Maia to your house near your duck!!
Madame Maia warns Lucy about giving too much power to someone else.  Lucy
says she is making her own choices, informed ones, because of MM, and,
not listening to me either, invites MM over.  Sigmund gets told company's
coming and reacts just as you would expect.  But Lucy isn't listening.
        Maia reads the ducky aura.  She sees a rabid game hunter.  Lucy
is appalled.  Maia assures her that "he's very highly evolved.  For a
duck."  Lucy goes to get tea and MM and Sigmund glare at each other.  MM
is definitely drooling.  "Oranges.  I see oranges in your future." [Toomces
has been sending his scripts in again, hasn't he?]  Sigmund ruffles up and
Lucy takes him to the kitchen.  [Probably not the best choice of retreat
after a comment like that!]
        "I really like you, Lucy. [I think she means it.]  You're almost
guileless."  Lucy rattles on about former lives and how she really tries
but she's a slow learner.  Maia tells her to live THIS life for the
highest spiritual good.  "Cleanse your aura."  She must learn to
forgive.  Lucy starts a list of all the people she needs to forgive, and
it makes Katybelle's paranoia almost look petty.  Maia starts out trying
to direct her to Damian, but then her own agenda [I think and hope] and a
bit of guile creep in and instead she lets Lucy rave.  First is Kevin.
But then, Lucy is sure with Katherine they "must have spent hundreds and
hundreds of years building up this karma."  Maybe they were gladiators in
Roman times and Lucy cut Katherine's heart out?  It's about this time
Maia gives up and lets Lucy do her own thing.  As she is leaving, Lucy
goes for her purse, and Madame Maia asserts "No, this one's on me."
[Another reason I think maybe her own agenda is kicking in, I hope I hope.]
First, Lucy decides, she'll forgive Kevin for not calling her.
        Nastysha has made her way to the Outback, where she flirts with
Mac.  "I'm one of the most powerful women in Port Charles." [Yeah, right,
so am I.]  Mac wonders what she's hiding.  [A big shell over absolutely
nothing, in my opinion.]  She takes umbrage at Mac's psychobabble, and he
relents "I'm OK, you're OK, have you stabbed anyone in the back today?"
This day is not turning out like Katherine was planning, and it rapidly
gets worse when Lucy comes in and forgives her.  In fact, now Lucy thinks
of it, she should THANK Katherine for helping her to evolve to a higher
person, and so quickly, too.  Out bubbles Lucy.  Mac and Katybelle agree
that "pod person Lucy" is "pret-ty scary."
        At the hospital, Bobbie is chatting with Amy about Mike, whom Amy is
dating.  Bobbie manages to swallow her disappointment.  It's probably all
Lucy's fault: first Joe Scully is killed and now Mike is dating Amy (and
here I thought he had his eye on Ruby!) and Bobbie's two possibilities
are gone.  And speaking of Lucy, here she comes, to forgive Bobbie for
blaming her for Bobbie's own stupid decisions, and to forgive Amy for
being absolutely no help two years running at the Nurse's Ball.  Amy
graciously forgives Lucy for being thoroughly irritating.  Pot. Kettle.
Black.  Out again bubbles Lucy.
        Damian is waiting by the phone, and that rat Kevin doesn't call
him, either.  Actually, he is expecting to hear from Lucy, but it's
Maia.  She tells him he may have some time to wait for Lucy.  [She's seen
the list.]

Now, as the VP in charge of Quillity, I have to say Siggy did very well.
And it's apparent the Sigmund Defense Fund will soon need all the extra
funds we can get: I'm taking lessons from the ELQ grant-writers.  But as
the calm, cool, dispassionate Thursday updater (I never let my own
opinions get in the way, have you noticed?) I simply LOVED the Maia
scenes.  Laugh Out Loud time.  And a forgiving Lucy, too.  I've had a few
depressing weeks, this one makes up for a lot.

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