song title & name meme

Sometimes the speakers on my computer pick up short-wave radio traffic, and quite often I can hear the landlady's conversation if we're on the phone at the same time. Yet in neither case does anyone ever say anything more interesting than is said in the average cell phone conversation.

This will be insanely difficult, due to the fact that I have a V in my nom de net, but I'll try anyway. The meme is to match a favorite song title with each letter of your user name.

Kiss That Counted, Catie Curtis. This would be the kiss that counted/the one that mattered/ my life before me undone.../ the one that shattered my defenses, bringing me emotion

Iowa, Dar Williams. For tonight I went running through the screen doors of discretion.../ you were out wandering on the hills of Iowa, and you were not thinking of me

View From Here, (The), Gregg Cagno. The view from here, it takes your breath now, honey/ the view from here leaves you alone/ the view from here shakes you up now, honey/ the view from here, you're halfway home

Return to Me, October Project. Everything I tell you has been spoken /and everything I say was said before/ yet everything I feel is for the first time/ and everything I feel I feel for you

I Know What I Know, Paul Simon. She looked me over and I guess she thought I was all right/ all right in a sort of a limited way, for an off night

Nora, Richard Shindell. I might have guessed that you'd pressed a rose in the pages/ where Abelard confesses his love and his pain to her lips/ Nora, it was no sin/ they could turn the other cheek or take it on the chin

( And just for kicks... )

Drabble: Not As Advertised (Giles, Buffy, and Dawn)

Not As Advertised

Giles leaned against the doorjamb. "I did warn you."

"Last month it was a hundred degrees!" Dawn pulled the eiderdown closer. "I saw it on CNN."

Buffy grabbed for the covers. "Brat!"

"Did you, perhaps, miss the words 'unprecedented' and 'record-breaking' in those weather reports?"

"I don't get you." Buffy sat up. "You came from this to California, land of the perfect climate, and still you wore sixteen layers of tweed?"

"Not because of the weather," Giles protested. "I brought clothes for the tropics but I couldn't wear them. Not in the bloody arctic you make with the air conditioning."