Travelling with Torchwood...

[fajrdrako]

This afternoon Beulah and I went into the Singing Pebbles bookstore, which specializes in yoga, New Age, health and diet books, and sells crystals and chant music on the side. We like to drop in there before we go to dinner at the Green Door, our favourite local vegetarian restaurant. Usually one of us buys books. Today it was me. I should have a new mantra: I will stop buying books. I will stop buying books...¹

Anyway, we saw a bumper sticker that said Namaste. This is a Hindi word that means - well, I've seen it translated different ways, but my favourite translation is, "My spirit salutes your spirit." I sign my e-mail and letters with that as my salutation.

I said to Beulah that I should get it for my suitcase. I have a new suitcase - it's shiny and black, and since I don't want it to be one of millions of other black suitcases, I was going to put a good sticker or something on it. I said I wanted something more esoteric or fannish than "namaste", though, and I told Beulah about msmoat's wonderful suitcase, that had a CI5 sticker on it. I told her about having TORCHWOOD INSTITUTE on the backpack I recently took to the UK.

The girl who runs the store heard that, and laughed. "Did you get comments?"

"Some," I admitted.

"Did you get sex with aliens?"

"I hoped, but... no."

"Did you meet John Barrowman?"

"Well, actually, yes."

What fun to encounter someone who knows the show.

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¹ Hah! Not likely. Not until the money really runs out.