a) Sorry about the bad last couple days. :( That's horrible and indeed so wtf, and I hope that your friend has plenty of good people like you around for support.

b)omg I hadn't seen Sasper! I love hir, whomever it is.

c) TEAM HELEN/BEATRICE FOREVER.

d) LOVE the Mary-Sue stuff - opening that article to read this evening, because I haven't in a while, and it goes so nicely with some of what I was thinking about yesterday.

e) No Brit-speak to offer, but am loving Peter and his paratrooper bros!