Lestrade's first entry is up. I will admit to some amount of possibly evil glee regarding this. I suspect that, as he says, he won't update as often as I do; he does have a busier life than I do, and a less amusing one. Even so, I think he'll have a bit more sympathy and less mockery now when I'm done cleaning up the kitchen and getting the boys to bed and sit down to write an entry at 10pm before I'll go to bed.
Also there is no way to explain just how funny it was to watch him attempt to defend the legal system to a five year old in footie pyjamas. No possible way. And! With the mention of the forensics lab, I think Sherlock has someone other than me to bother about getting a human heart to dissect. This is what they call a win-win situation.
On another note, I realize I've failed to mention how the music lessons are going.
They are...going.
Sherlock is fairly good when he wants to be, but I wasn't joking when I told him the violin's a difficult instrument, and let's face it, Sherlock and hard work are not best of friends. I think he's resentful that it actually takes work. Most things come so easily to him that it must be rather irritating.
I do make him practice every day, and he'll play scales and so on and look at the song he's meant to be working on, but he seems to get more pleasure out of just sawing on the thing. And it's not even as if he's doing it to be rebellious. He genuinely likes it. Sometimes I think he hears some other sort of music in it that no one else does. Meanwhile, of course, he's driving everyone in the house mad.
Mycroft practices without being asked, never gets frustrated, learns the pieces he's set, and then walks away from it. I know what he looks like when he's enjoying something (granted, it can be hard to tell), and he's not enjoying piano.
I think part of the problem is that, despite international influence and obscene amounts of money, even their mum cannot change the laws of physics. There is no possible way to get a piano up the stairs, at least not the sort he wanted. She suggested an upright, but he went for an electronic keyboard instead, which can't be as satisfying, even if you can play Hot Cross Buns with a medley of electronic buzzing, flatulence, and duck noises.
Also there is no way to explain just how funny it was to watch him attempt to defend the legal system to a five year old in footie pyjamas. No possible way. And! With the mention of the forensics lab, I think Sherlock has someone other than me to bother about getting a human heart to dissect. This is what they call a win-win situation.
On another note, I realize I've failed to mention how the music lessons are going.
They are...going.
Sherlock is fairly good when he wants to be, but I wasn't joking when I told him the violin's a difficult instrument, and let's face it, Sherlock and hard work are not best of friends. I think he's resentful that it actually takes work. Most things come so easily to him that it must be rather irritating.
I do make him practice every day, and he'll play scales and so on and look at the song he's meant to be working on, but he seems to get more pleasure out of just sawing on the thing. And it's not even as if he's doing it to be rebellious. He genuinely likes it. Sometimes I think he hears some other sort of music in it that no one else does. Meanwhile, of course, he's driving everyone in the house mad.
Mycroft practices without being asked, never gets frustrated, learns the pieces he's set, and then walks away from it. I know what he looks like when he's enjoying something (granted, it can be hard to tell), and he's not enjoying piano.
I think part of the problem is that, despite international influence and obscene amounts of money, even their mum cannot change the laws of physics. There is no possible way to get a piano up the stairs, at least not the sort he wanted. She suggested an upright, but he went for an electronic keyboard instead, which can't be as satisfying, even if you can play Hot Cross Buns with a medley of electronic buzzing, flatulence, and duck noises.
17 comments:
Awww, poor Mycroft. I feel for him, not getting a real piano. He should've gone for the upright!
Also you and Lestrade should both do that thirty days meme, it would be fun to see your answers.
I think so too, though I'm not sure where we would've put it.
We should do that what now? Sorry, I've no idea what you're talking about there.
Aww, I'm sorry to hear that Mycroft's not enjoying the piano. Well, not everyone can like everything, right? At least he's practising diligently, so perhaps later he might grow to like it.
As for Sherlock, I think it's better earlier than later that he learns that not everything in life is easy and that even someone as prodigious as he is has to work hard sometimes. He's very young right now and probably can't see it, but he might grow to the point that even the things that interest him the most are easy for him and he'll get bored and dissatisfied with them. Music is always difficult and requires a lot of work, even for accomplished and great musicians, so he might learn to enjoy the challenge? Anyway, I think it's great that he likes it, and also that he's doing his own... experiments with it. xD Isn't there a way to lower the volume the violin a bit? With the piano, you can press down a pedal and it will muffle the sound. Is there not a way to do something like that with the violin?
You can indeed get practice mutes...I used to have on on my violin when I was an unwilling child, and my parents were even less willing audience members...
Hopefully, if Mycroft gets to a certain level with the piano, he can find enjoyment playing the pieces he wants to.
Well, at least I can update when I'm at my desk. Just don't blame me if some of those updates are just long screams of frustration as my DCs bicker like kids, the lab loses some test results and the DCI volunteers me to speak to the press.
ps. Even if I could get a heart - and I'm pretty sure I can't - it would still be YOUR fridge it lived in.
Lupe - Yeah, at least Mycroft will have sound grounding in music, and honestly that's about all I got out of my lessons. And I agree about Sherlock. Best to get him used to the concept of work while he's still young, though he does seem to be pretty good at finding challenges for himself.
Anon - THANK YOU. That sounds like exactly what we need, at least now and then.
L - they always want you to talk to the press because you look good in front of the cameras. It's your own fault, really.
I've had worse in my fridge. My flatmate when I was at med school was convinced he could grow sentient mold. At least organs don't generally move on their own. Although IN FACT, I did mean perhaps the heart could stay at the lab and he could just visit it. Briefly.
...I still feel like I'm going to give him nightmares.
That 30 days meme Bella was talking about:
day 1 - your current relationship; if single discuss how single life is.
day 2 - where you’d like to be in 10 years.
day 3 - your views on drugs and alcohol.
day 4 - your views on religion.
day 5 - a time you thought about ending your own life.
day 6 - write 30 interesting facts about yourself.
day 7 - your zodiac sign and if you think it fits your personality.
day 8 - a moment you felt the most satisfied with your life.
day 9 - how you hope your future will be like.
day 10 - discuss your first love and first kiss.
day 11 - put your ipod on shuffle and write 10 songs that pop up.
day 12 - bullet your whole day.
day 13 - somewhere you’d like to move or visit.
day 14 - your earliest memory.
day 15 - your favourite LJ'ers.
day 16 - your views on mainstream music.
day 17 - your highs and lows of this past year.
day 18 - your beliefs.
day 19 - disrespecting your parents.
day 20 - how important you think education is.
day 21 - one of your favourite shows.
day 22 - how have you changed in the past 2 years?
day 23 - give pictures of 5 girls who are famous who you find attractive.
day 24 - your favourite movie and what it’s about.
day 25 - someone who fascinates you and why.
day 26 - what kind of person attracts you.
day 27 - a problem that you have had.
day 28 - something that you miss.
day 29 - goals for the next 30 days.
day 30 - your highs and lows of this month
Days 3, 10 and 23 and possibly 12 and 26 I'd like to remind everyone I have the right to remain silent...
John - Flattery will get you everywhere. See you tomorrow, I hope.
Somehow, the image of Lestrade arguing about the legal system with a five-year old in footie pajamas makes me giggle. Just imagine what kinds of arguments they might get into when Sherlock's older. Hee!
With musical instruments, you have to endure the tedium before you get to the good stuff. I wish you luck.
Anon - thanks! That could come in very useful.
L - You're talking about legal rights, which have no bearing whatsoever on relationships. And 12! How bad could 12 possibly be?
lawless - I laughed so hard I got hiccoughs. No lie.
12...well, could be anything from -Got up. -sit waiting to be called into court. -8 hrs later go home, having wasted the day I could have been doing important things in. To something quite the other end of the scale dealing with depraved members of society or trying to find a nice way of bullet-pointing what I do when around a decomposing corpse. Not sure anyone around here wants the details of that.
Have eaten my apple with teabreak. According to the old saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". Hope you're not trying to hint at anything...
Not sure anyone around here wants the details of that.
I DO.
Sherlock, if I get to your house early enough one night I'll tell you a bedtime story. About murders, obviously. Ever heard of George Joseph Smith?
No did he kill people?
According to the old saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". Hope you're not trying to hint at anything...
It's not like vampires and garlic. You'd need more than an apple to fend me off.
Sherlock, he did indeed kill people, and was quite clever about it. I'll tell you all about it, okay?
John - fending you off is the last thing I want to do.
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