Oh Ghod...another early riser...I would be responding to this stuff hours 
from now but for ome reason I'm awake..ugh!

 On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Isabel 
Arantes wrote:

Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:26:49 -0800
From: Isabel Arantes <terrin@netcom.com>
To: fanfic@tendo-dojo.ranma.net
Subject: RE: And Life Goes On.....

Yup...surprised...? and if so why?

	Usually I read the part at once, or if the story has been
in my mailbox for too long I delete it, and if I notice there's
alot of good comments on it, I ask the author to send me a copy. :)

I started getting bogged down in other stuff and was not able to catch up 
with manny many things...just read a little bit now and then and delete 
the SPAM :)
 But during reading week I was able to get all the stuff I had either 
saved in my UNIX account or was simply sitting on my HD and print it 
out...I've also been without a printer for a while...I just got a new 
ink-jet but would rather print the long stuf in dot...it's cheaper....
 As I said I've been saving stuff so I generally have about 200 things on 
my spooler taking up room at the school and not in my account...I do this 
because sometimes not all of a story makes it to the re-mailer....I get a 
new copy of what's on about once a week...
 > > >The line "I'm engaged 
to my worst nightmare...." > 	I think that line came in the thrid ep.

I thought it was the second...but you could be right...
 

What happens then?

That's currently for me to know...:) and also finish writing :(

	Are you going to make something out of it (a fanfic,

Oh yes....

I mean), or are you just going to leave it at that?

I've got it mostly written...wellI think it's mostly written but can't be 
sure....In the oddest instance I've seen in a long time Ranma and Kuno 
actually had a conversation (strange) The reason they did not imedeately 
go at each other is because both of them were depressed...Kuno had 
another "hair-cutting" from his father...The scene was weird because it 
was a complete surprise to me...I've tried to keep the "extras" out of it 
as much as possible....Ranma and Akane...stressed over "almost" becoming 
romantic  (with Ranma leaving when those words went through his head) 
just bumped into each other....rather than argur Ranma simply left the 
dojo...with Akane yelling "Fine just keep on walking...walk all the way 
to China why don't you...and maybe drown on the way!" She then realized 
what she said sort-of and thought "No, not China...Shampoo's in 
China...Which got Shampoo out of the picture...I figure Ryoga's just lost 
again...etc....The only real players have been Ranma, Akane and Nabiki 
with all of the others playing really tiny roles...
  

Overhearing something like that is simply plain 
awful, but I don't think it was that line that made Ranma try to hide
his feelings to her. She was happy to be Akane's friend 
when she thought Akane would like her either way, but was
put off when she realized Akane is sexist.

 I think so to...I think it's something that doesn't really come into the 
normal day-to day stuff...and sometimes Ranma forgets all about it but 
it's (and this is my angle) something that's never really been fully 
resolved or brought out in the open....

 Actually finishing it is probably the easy part....I do most of my 
writing in class in a pile of notebooks...typing it out...now thats the 
truly nasty bit
                                  Neil
 
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