Accent-uate the Positive
Originally posted on April 20, 2007
Pete: What are you doing?
Kaida: Yikes! Sheeeeesh, Pete, you scared me half to death! What’re you doing sneaking up on me like that?
Pete: I wasn’t sneaking. But you sure are. What are you doing with Asher’s laptop?
Kaida: Nothing much. Asher and I have this little thing we do to annoy each other. Well, mostly the annoying is on my end. See, he puts a picture of Kohana on the laptop as wallpaper, and when he’s not looking I replace it with a picture of Kenzo. Pretty harmless really.
Pete: You say. Harmless until the crew starts to think Asher’s got a thing for your boyfriend. Who’s that?
Kaida: That’s Kenzo, you goof. You know him – you met him last Christmas, remember?
Pete: Yeah, Kenzo I know – who’s that with him?
Kaida: Those are the Sparrow sisters – aren’t they cute?
Pete: I guess. Kinda little though….. Who’s that girl he’s hanging with? Don’t you get jealous?
Kaida: What girl? Oh, you mean Persephone? Nah, I’m not jealous of Persephone, she’s got her eye on someone else. Except she does get to see Kenzo every day – now that I’m jealous of. They live in the same house with about a million other people. The Sparrows live there too, and my friend Hiro’s girlfriend, lots of others. One big, happy, dysfunctional family.
Pete: Kind of like here at the theater…… Persephone, huh? Funny name.
Kaida: I don’t think it’s so unusual in England where she’s from.
Pete: She’s English? Does she have an accent?
Kaida: I guess she must. I’ve never talked with her on the phone or in person. Just exchanged a couple emails. Why do you ask?
Pete: No reason. I used to listen in on my Dad’s ham radio; he’d talk to people from all over. Even used to relay into Europe. Got so I could pick out where operators were by their accents. It was kind of a hobby of mine.
Kaida: Sounds like an interesting hobby. Don’t you do it anymore?
Pete: Negative - no time anymore. Too busy doing Sound Guy Stuff. Every once in a while Asher gets a visitor or a caller who has an accent, though. I’m usually dead on guessing where they’re from.
Kaida: Must be a Sound Guy Thing, being able to pinpoint origins from accents like that.
Pete: Probably. Trained ear or something.
Kaida: Next time I talk to Kenzo on the phone I’ll ask him to put Persephone on. Maybe you can ID which part of the British Isles she’s from.
Pete: (enthused) That would be cool. (moderating level of enthusiasm) No rush though, I got way too much to do to fool around with any old hobby.
Kaida: Yeah, I hear ya. You might want to look into cleaning up around here. Your work area is a mess again! How can you work under these conditions?
Pete: Not planning on it. As my apprentice, it’s your job to pick it up, so get cracking.
Kaida: Me and my big mouth.
Pete: Well? You’re burnin’ daylight there, Trainee.
Kaida: Slave driver. Lemme just return Asher’s laptop and I’ll be back to clean up your mess.
Kaida: (types) Hey Kenzo: You know how you said you wish you could find a distraction for Perseph? To get her mind off you-know-who? Well, get ready for another one of my famous plans…….