the orient express

Yeah, I don't much /fnurtz zeekoo wawa wa wa drumpundump/ Is there a /hoch an znort meeech/? Because I could seriously use a /glurks/ right about now.

My love, I had a rather /sexy/ conversation with Miss Donovan, and she /touched/ me quite deeply...

I don't know how much more of this I can take.

Keleios, please tell me Lady G is with you.

Ghosts, now? I admit I didn't recognize the one that I saw, something I am grateful for.

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite."
~William Shakespeare

My dear friends and fellow travelers, the past week has been a time of great commotion for many of us, and I think that it is time that we celebrate our love and our family - for of the many things in life, there are none more precious than those.

Monday night, Snow White and I are pleased to host in our cabin a small get together, for those of us from our world, and those others of you on the train who have known the gentle, yet profound touch of true love on your hearts.

Everyone (with a very few exceptions - you know who you are) is welcome to attend, but please let me know if you will be coming so that we may plan accordingly.

This is an interesting device, but while all the information is absolutely fascinating, I'm much more curious as to how a self-propelled steam locomotive is travelling upside down, without us all falling to our untimely deaths.

At first, I thought perhaps it could be a series of really strong magnets, but then I don't think the devices would work at all, and all the metal on the train would be stuck to the floor. People wearing jewellery would find it very difficult to get anywhere at all.

The only other explanation is that we are travelling in a very large ellipse and inertia is pushing our bodies into the outside of the loop as the train spins around. But the loop seems to be far too large for us to maintain enough centrifugal force to keep gravity at bay, unless we are going dangerously fast.

If you draw a free body diagram with zero normal force, the only force acting on the passengers is force gravity = m*g. So, if we apply Newton's second law then...

Fg = Fc,
m*g = m*v^2 / r
Solving for v:
v = sqrt(r*g)

Basically, it's going to have to be at least nine mile a second, and I've never travelled nine miles in a second in my life. There are 3600 seconds in an hour, so we are currently travelling at least 32400mph.

That's impossible, or at least extremely improbable.

Either way, I need to go home now.

I was having a perfectly good evening, considering going to ground and then I look outside and I see the ground above our heads. What the fuck is going on Lilith?!

How adorable! I love children and this one is no exception! He is quite a handful, though, but I believe I have managed to get the smell under control.

His name; however, left much to be desired! Jonathan Shadowhunter? Oh no, no. That just won't do! What sort of name is that anyway?

In any case, I am henceforth referring to him as Reginald Winthrop Upland III. It is a far more fitting name and it suits him quite well if I do say so myself.

You should see the adorable suit I've conjured up for him! He looks darling in powder blue!

This? this is some grade A bullshit.

and that's all I'm going to say on the matter. Someone wake me up when this psycho train has decided to let me go home. Wherever that is.