The Golden Neep IC

Who: Georgi Draganov, Ernie Macmillan.
What: Nadezhda has been and gone with updates about the Draganov curse. Now it's time to talk about it, and make plans for moving forward.
When: Wednesday, 11 April 2000, late afternoon.
Where: Around and about the Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Curse talk, some sadness, some mushiness.

( We’re going to be happy, you and I. )

Who: Ernie Macmillan and Florinda McGonagall
What: Figuring out what they know about the curse on Georgi
When: Wednesday 28 March, mid-day ish
Where: Montrose clubhouse clinic
Warnings: Swearing, discussion of curses.

( ... all I could get was his cousin’s best approximation on how to spell the names of the contents of that last one ... )

Who: Ernie and Davina Macmillan
What: Ernie gets back from Bulgaria and his mother wants A Word.
When: Tuesday 27 March, afternoon
Where: Castle at Macmillan Park
Warnings: yay spamming the comm

( I have tried… to respect the fact that you are an adult. )

Who: Georgi Draganov and Ernie Macmillan; also Nikolay Draganov, Nadezhda Nenova, more Bulgarian folks, and a house elf named Ivo.
What: Georgi needs Ernie's support, and more, when he goes home to face the music.
When: Sunday, 25 March 2000.
Where: The Draganov home, also a wizarding hotel, both in Malkograd, Bulgaria.
Warnings: Potentially upsetting use of unpleasant magic, rhetoric, and language. There is pain and trauma in here.

( Whatever happens, you’re going to be fine. )

Who: Ernie Macmillan and Justin Finch-Fletchley
What: Ernie and Justin may have been drifting apart -- they come back together over stress, secrets and sorting papers
When: Wedesday, 21 March, late evening
Where: Longhaven, Edinburgh
Warnings: none really

( But I think this is what most people go through after leaving school. )

Who: Ernie Macmillan and Most People On This Invite, and Montrose Quidditch players
What: The first private full broadcast of wizarding television is a quidditch practice
When: Friday 23 March, 10am
Where: Montrose Practice Pitch
Warnings: None Yet?

( DO NOT PICK-UP OR OTHERWISE MOVE! )

( OWL POST SENT MONDAY MORNING TO THE INCLUDED LIST )

Who: Ernie Macmillan and Ainsley Galbraith
What: Post-Celtic Match, Ernie and Ainsley get drunk and tell secrets
When: Thursday 15 March, late evening
Where: Arthur Seat, Edinburgh
Warnings: None really

( I like you. You and him. You’re fun without being only fun, you know? )

Who: Georgi Draganov, Miro Nikolov, Ernie Macmillan
What: Having an adventure, Muggle-style. Then having too many adventures for Georgi to deal with. Then… a resolution. (I'm extremely sorry, this is long and hard to summarize.)
When: Monday, 12 March, afternoon. Then late at night.
Where: The London Eye! Then Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Miro being an unstoppable force. Kissing. Insinuations of an adult nature.

( It's all just math. Everyone will live. )

Who: Phineas Ponika & Ernie Macmillan.
What: So you need a patent...
When: Friday, March 16th.
Where: Ludicrous Patents Office.
Warnings: N/A.


( Oh, is that a jelly bean? )

TO: Ernie Macmillan
FROM: Michelle Cheung
DELIVERED: 16 March 2000

( Sent by Royal Mail )

What: Just a few wizards taking in a football match (not a shenanigan to be found!)
When: 15 March 2000, Evening
Where: Celtic Park, Glasgow
Warnings: Football Shenanigans (drinking, language, a million questions, friend wrangling, Statute toe-ing)




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Celtic (21-9-6) versus Kilmarnock (8-15-35)
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Play Started: 2000-03-15 19:45 at Celtic Park, Glasgow
Attendance : 55,194
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Celtic : 4
Kilmarnock : 2
Congratulations, Celtic
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( Only 90 minutes? And they never fly? )


(OOC: feel free to tag yourself!)

In case you're wondering what possesses people to disown family members, it's the last dying gasp of an increasingly irrelevant generation desperate to feel that their opinions and their lives still matter. They don't.

It's not something to laugh over, or take lightly, but it is a good time to remind people that they lost and they are terrible and when they die (hopefully very soon) very few tears will be shed for them. Iphigenia Yaxley will be bitterly alone in a staid, morally bankrupt nightmare of her own creation.

[Melchior]

If you're getting kicked out of the hall, I've been working on a second bedroom at the Priory that you're welcome to. I haven't remotely started to move in yet so feel free - I'm not in a rush.

As mentioned here, Ernie and Dani set up a meeting this week to discuss with the Montrose staff Ernie running some tests during the Montrose Quidditch practice. After getting everyone in the room, a very nervous Ernie, carrying an accordion file folder and a large blue-print roll, asked everyone to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Once that was taken care of, ( he began... )

Does anyone have a solid contact inside the Department of Magical Transportation?

[WARD to MONTROSE ALL]

My family has expressed interest in coming out to the Wigtown match on Sunday. I believe some of you may have met them at the Solstice Sprint. They have a limited working knowledge of the sport, but want to come see me play to support me. Especially as they are not able to join me in Sweden.

My father is an engineer and will bore anyone and everyone with maths and physics questions about quidditch. It also my niece’s first birthday. She is adorable and may steal your birthday thunder, Florrie. I am sorry.

[//WARD to MONTROSE ALL]

[WARD to AUGUSTUS PYE]

Pye, I had an interesting meeting the other day with Fraser Macmillan. I had asked if the Macmillan Foundation would be willing to support a Mental Health Practice at the Montrose Free Clinic, specializing in War Trauma. There is a lack of training programs and specialists to treat the issues are facing as a community and I think this could be a solid solution.

I know you deal in the other kind of trauma, but can you think of anyone who might be interested to sit on a committee to make this happen or even serve as director?

This is just in the idea phase right now, but there is momentum. I want to capitalize.

[//WARD to AUGUSTUS PYE]

[WARD to MONTE & JUSTIN]

I met with Fraser Macmillan on behalf of Montrose ownership and the Macmillan Foundation. Uplift is going to be entering into a partnership with them, hopefully to start a mental health practice at the Montrose Free Clinic. I think we can all agree that this is something we need.

I have also asked that someone either among ownership or BIQL publicly come out against what happened with Flint.

If you feel comfortable, I would appreciate if you accepted the invitation. I think it could give a good amount of weight to our movement.

[//WARD to MONTE & JUSTIN]

[WARD to DUNBAR]

I have been having some interesting conversations. What do you think QUABBLE can do to address hostile work environments in the league? Specifically with bullying among players. The Flint incident is not an isolated event, but surely there needs to be policy in place. Thoughts? Anything in the works?

[//WARD to DUNBAR]

As the only BIQL commissioner for Scotland, I look forward to the existence of the Scottish Office and wish Desmond Parkin and his team well as he builds the institutions of government for the Coven of the North.

[Macmillan Clan]

I've been speaking to Jason King about Uplift and I'm putting together a proposal for the Macmillan Foundation to fund a Mental Health Practice at the Montrose Free Clinic. The idea is that it provides services to war trauma sufferers, and ideally be open to whatever that may mean, but with the goal of helping people who are hurting in ways we can't see.

Uplift would stay involved, advising on muggle and muggleborn health issues. Jason is looking for a recommendation to the foundation for a director.

This is directly in line with long-stated Macmillan Foundation goals and is complementary to the Montrose Free Clinic.

As such, we've invited the board of Uplift to attend the Wigtown match with us in the box, and that this may include their friend Monte Cameron, formerly of Falmouth.

At some point, perhaps when we have a director, we'll host a charity reception to kick things off. That will probably be post-finals, but some organizating will have to happen sooner.

[Ana Abercrombie]

Hey Ana,

How are you feeling about charity organizing these days?


[Montrose Management]

In a show of unity with our players and friends, Montrose is inviting the board of Uplift to attend the Wigtown match as guests of the Macmillans. We are honoring their mission and are planning how we can work together on areas of mutual interest. Monte Cameron and Justin Finch-Fletchley should be invited as well, but we don't want them to be uncomfortable, so no publicizing that. We'll just let other people see who we do and don't consider our friends.

Alex, I know you can put something together based on that. The Uplift board is Nobby Leach, Hermione Granger, Mary Cattermole, Jeremy Goodwin, and also Emerson Harper and Caroline Knightly. Pink Red Carpet treatment, please. The invites should come from Una, Bertie, and Charlie. Yes, they are aware of it. :)

For longer term use, the current working cooperative plan is to expand on the Montrose Free Clinic by adding a Mental Health practice that specializes in war trauma, because it's both clearly in line with Macmillan Foundation goals and it's also sadly needed. There are lots of people who came back from the war, but brought part of the war with them in their heads, and if we can get them help, we'll be doing some real good.

Anyone who needs to know what the extent and limit of wardrobe creativity allowed by BIQL and DOMGAS rules should ask here. I happen to know. And for anyone who wants to know, alterations may not 1) use other team's colors in an attempt to fool the opposing team. 2) cover or obscure the player's team colors on more than 50% of the uniform. 3) be made without prior approval of the team's manager. So, unless you fly out in a Harpies robe, and it's at least half black and white, nobody can get fashed.

[Monte Cameron]
On behalf of the Macmillan family and the Montrose Magpies, you are invited to be our special guest in the Montrose Box for Sunday's match against Wigtown. I know you're in great demand these days, so I wanted to give you a heads up before the owl arrives. Jason King will likely talk to you about it, but we had to go ahead with the invite because of the time.

[Ainsley]
I think I need some pink clothes.

[Hamish MacFarlan, Saxon Lethbridge]
We absolutely must come out against bullying before the end of the block. If you don't want a continuing pink revolution, we have to come out as even handed. I've got players coming to me complaining about 'hostile work environment' and 'harrasing behavior within other teams'.

Even if we do nothing, we have to disapprove of the term 'mudblood' about one of our players. If something was done to that idiot Flint, say so publicly.

Two very important things on my personal agenda today:

First

Congratulations to Desmond Parkin. I'll be following the new office with interest, and I know my da is looking forward to the opportunity to work with you.

Second

(And substantially less important to the future and stability of Scotland, I might add.)

To whomever decided it would be a brilliant plan to charm my shower to spray seemingly benign and normal water that proceeded to turn my whole body green:

I guess this was supposed to upset me. I was a little surprised to see my reflection, particularly since I was getting ready to head into practice. However, luckily for me, I happen to know someone whose particular specialty is reversing effects just like this and much worse. He's just usually the one who caused them, too. (Friendship-obligated plug: Visit Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley!) It's too bad that you apparently know me well to be able to get into my flat, but not well enough to know that. No worries. The wards have been changed now.

Also, if you were paying attention to the news you would know:

I would have preferred Pink.

[Percy]

I'm pretty sure I made George's day. He laughed for a full ten minutes before he'd help me. I haven't seen him laugh like that in

[Ernie]

One guess who I suspect is behind this particularly clever bit of prankery.

Any insight on your own situation since Valentine's Day? It was good to see you at the match last week, but we still need to grab a drink sometime when we're not half-exhausted from the long match.

This week only you can register two patents for the price of one. Inquire at the front desk.

Who: Georgi Draganov and Ernie Macmillan
What: Talking about all the colors of the rainbow, especially pink, and making decisions that might change a life.
When: Sunday morning, 4 February, 2000.
Where: Leannan Boathouse, Dundee.
Warnings: Soul-searching, difficult topics.

( Because there are some things you can believe and do and love in private that you can't when the rest of the world is watching. )

[Justin]

So, I've already talked to Monte. How are you doing?

[Lex]

Hello - have you heard about this Magpies-Pink thing? Georgi was talking to me about it.