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antique_apparel (antique_apparel) wrote in morningstar_mnr,
@ 2010-07-01 08:21:00

Entry tags:

celeste, gabe, leo, sibyl

Celeste in the Mocha, OTA, MW.
Antique Apparel was up and running beautifully, and Celeste was beginning to trust her staff enough that she'd decided to take the morning away from the shop to catch up on a little paperwork, work out her staff schedule for the next week.

And so, 10 o'clock found her ensconced in a corner of the Mocha, wearing a pretty floral tea dress and peeptoe sandals, a frappuchino at her elbow as she sat with schedules spread out across her table, her diary splayed open to the page with her staff's availability.

She was very easily distractable, and happy for company.

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	antique_apparel 2010-07-01 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, that's exactly what it's like," she grinned and nodded. "It's absolutely wonderful." She sat back, sighing happily. "I do miss it, already. I haven't had a chance to have a poke around any antique shops in an absolute age." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mm_maru 2010-07-01 10:34 pm UTC (link)
	"You haven't even sneaked off to the disreputable antiques shop in that alley off the Square?" Sibyl asks, astonished. "I can't believe that! The place is incredible." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antique_apparel 2010-07-01 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	"I simply haven't had the time," Celeste says, pouting a little. "Hopefully that can be remedied now the shop's up and running." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mm_maru
2010-07-01 10:39 pm UTC (link)

"They're in that incredible series of hole-in-the wall spaces down that alley, and they haul out half their stock every day when it isn't raining, so it spreads all over the alley," Sibyl said. "Books, clothes, china, small furniture, mirrors, kitchen implements, linen, fashion jewellery, silver teapots all spilling out at you. And they get new stuff all the time. I can hardly keep away."

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	antique_apparel 2010-07-02 08:45 am UTC (link)
	"That sounds wonderful," she sighed. "Perhaps we could go together sometime? It's more fun digging for treasure with someone else to enthuse about it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mm_maru 2010-07-02 10:33 am UTC (link)
	"Absolutely!" Sibyl said. "When do you have somebody to cover for you at the shop?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antique_apparel 2010-07-02 11:54 am UTC (link)
	"Um....weekdays are better for me, it all depends on when you're free. " She smiled. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mm_maru
2010-07-02 12:15 pm UTC (link)

"Advantage to working where everybody is totally passionate about their job," Sibyl said. "I can pretty much come and go as I want, as long as I make deadlines and meetings. The problem with applied history geeks like us isn't that we need to put in enough hour, we get so in the flow we must be reminded to eat, or go home and shower and sleep, at times. My roommate is even worse than I. If it's not a Greek vase, it might just as well please stop existing and bothering her. She has this amazing hunk of about her age paying attention to her, and do you think she even notices him unless he talks about the broken Greek cup he asked her to fix? Nope."

Privately, Sibyl suspected that Ruth was well beyond the iffy and wobbly line between geek- and aspie-dom, but that's not something you'd say about somebody else in a conversation.

Well, at least Sibyl didn't. Her parents had already been history and restoration nuts, and raised her to be polite and think of other people.

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	antique_apparel 2010-07-02 02:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Fantastic." She grins. "Monday, then? Come by the shop around 10ish, I should be ok to escape for a couple of hours." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mm_maru 2010-07-02 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Great," Sibyl said. "I look forwards to introducing you to the cavernous reaches of that place." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	antique_apparel 2010-07-02 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	"I can't wait," she grins. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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