Daily Updates

From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Thursday Oct 5
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 18:01:01 GMT

What a week!  I missed half of last Tuesday's due to certainty that the
"Trial of the Century" would louse it up, and Nancy kindly sent it on.
Wednesday was our 30th anniversary and on this Tuesday I turned 51, which
is ambivalence plus, and last Thursday I just misset my VCR.  I had my
act together yesterday, but we had wind and power outages to boot, and
once again I missed GH.  With Reginald and a Q-fight, darn it!  Again, don't
get excited and send it... but hey, Nancy, it's been 24 hours, where is my
update???  (*ducking, running* I'm KIDDING!!!!)  (Actually, it appears to
have been lost in the wilds of Netcom, but thanks for the mail.)

I DON'T CARE ABOUT MY SPOUSE, BUT I **HATE** LOSING MY BEST FRIEND:
Monica calls Bobbie and wants to talk to her.  Bobbie starts to justify
herself, though she doesn't come up with the line I expected, "it's all
Lucy's fault!"  Monica asks, "Are you the most self-absorbed person I
have ever known, or just the most stupid?" and Bobbie remarks that Monica
is pretty good at self-absorption, as well.  So Monica goes for stupid as
a theory.  Bobbie whines, "Alan and I were just looking for some comfort"
and it's all Monica's fault.  She, at least, has the guts to destroy her
marriage in one grand sweeping gesture, while Monica's been killing hers
slowly with neglect.  Monica storms out, tripping over the Drill Team in
the hallway.

Alan tries to talk to Tony: "Nothing happened."  Tony says then that if
you held up a bank at gunpoint but there was no money in the bag, it
wasn't really a bank robbery?  Alan suggests some stiff bourbons and Tony
says "That is so demented that I have no recourse but to agree.  Let's
go."  They go to what looks like the Outback, but with Mac and Katherine
in the back discussing garlic chicken (oh, thank you, we didn't have to
watch this meal!) it might not be.  Tony is exhausted about being angry.
Alan looks surprised that Tony is mad at him.  Tony says, "It's so easy
to hate Damian Smith and I really detest having to hate you . . . you
robbed me of one of my best friends." Alan does, as someone pointed out,
apologize.

Tony goes to see Kevin who, despite the evidence of the last year,
suggests he talk to Bobbie calmly and rationally.  Alan tries to make up
with Monica.

A MINK MOMENT
I must say, I liked KatyBelle when she first appeared, and I figured she
was conning Scotty, but couldn't figure out how.  When she was married to
Ned, I loved to hate her, as the plastic villain.  She was always getting
snubbed and I treasured every one.  Then she teamed up with Damian and
the Boring and Nastysha stuff just was awful.  There's no chemistry
there.  Now, with Mac, while I'm appalled, I like KatyBelle's sparkle and
verve.  Just don't make me watch her eat.

She comes into the Outback and has been trying to do DayCo business but
keeps being distracted by deliciously naughty daydreams.  [Therefore, the
Quartermaine end-run is going to be that much more of a surprise.]  She
wants to take Mac to dinner at PC's sixth restaurant (if we count Sonny's
gangster hideaway), a Thai place.  Mac asks, "Isn't there something you
were forgetting?" and she wants to ignore the Damian complication.  After
a commercial break, she agrees that she will tell Damian when he gets
back, and she informs Mac that he's worth it.  That evening, after the
garlic chicken, she's back in her apartment, and Damian is there with a
piece of Mac's clothing.

PLAN B
Jagger really doesn't have to be able to act, he's so gorgeous to look at!
At Kelly's, Robin and Karen are discussing Stone and AIDS, and Brenda
comes in.  She lies "it's good to see you!" but after sitting for a
second, she just can't do it, and takes it all personally, which confuses
Karen.  Karen finds out that Sonny and Brenda broke up, but points out
that there are a lot more important things to think about.  Brenda looks
confused.  Ruby rushes to defuse any feuding, but Karen and Brenda agree
that old stuff isn't important.  Robin looks pensively out the window
while Karen and Brenda catch up.

Jagger and Stone are at the docks, talking.  Jagger had had plans to come
back to Port Charles when he made detective and get the family together.
Stone points out they're all grown and have families of their own, now.
Stone says, "Looks like we'll have to find a plan B in a hurry." Jagger
is still blaming himself for not keeping them together when he was 12.
He didn't do his job right. Stone suggests that they pretend to have
worked it all out and go from there, and Jagger says "That's your
problem, you've always had a lousy work ethic."  So that is Plan B.
They head into Kelly's, where Brenda sees Jagger and they hug.  Karen
makes an excuse to leave them alone.  Brenda, of course, wants to talk
about how miserable HER life is.  [Thank goodness we were spared St. Miguel.
Maybe he's still at the Hotel explaining the broken glass and the dent in
the wall.]  Jagger thanks Brenda for being a good friend to Mike/Stone,
and she tells him about the dyslexia and how he's learned to read.  [I
just knew she was going to tell about the blindness, but does she know?]
Brenda feels really humiliated [as well she should] but she defends
Sonny's love for Stone/Mike.  Karen and Jagger leave, he had to pull lots
of strings to get this much leave, and they never even visited Rhonda.
Stone watches through the glass. (*sigh*)

--
Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Proud Mom to Stands-With-a-Book, the
        Booklist Boy, the IRS Guy, the Tycoon, and Sunbunny.
        Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.
jyarnot@netcom.com                It's turtles all the way down.