I'm home sick today, and MISERABLE. Feel my pain, and then enjoy the story. Short but sweet. Let's see how many of you figure out who I'm shipping in this. The prize is a very long scarf and a box of Kleenex, because I'm out of Dalek Sec dolls.
Aaron P. Blinovitch was checking his email at ten o'clock in the morning when he found this rather curious message.
Dear Aaron,
You're brilliant. No, really, you are. I mean it. You are brilliant. I mean, only a real genius could have worked out the Law of Casual Determination. Oops, forget I said that, actually- my girlfriend's just reminded me you haven't done that one yet.
Anyway, found myself in the same time-stream, decided to send you a note. And tell you- that lecture you'll be giving this afternoon? Brilliant. Fantastic, even. We went three times. I waved at myself. How's that for finding loopholes in the limitation effect? Like I told her- cheap tricks, I told her, it's allowed for cheap tricks. She just rolled her eyes at me and told me it's a wonder they ever let me graduate.
Anyway. Look out for me. I'm in the front row in the middle. And the back row on the left. And the third row down to the right. I'm in pinstripes, sort of- well, brown. Next to the blond, who is getting quite annoyed at me and protesting that she actually came to listen to the lecture, not to play silly games with the self-consistency principle. All three times.
Anyway. Got to go. Got a date in Ancient Rome. Though knowing my luck, we'll end up in Cardiff again. Allons-y, Aaron!
Blinovitch eventually concluded that either it was from yet another loony, or one of the stupid Time Agency students was playing silly buggers again. They seemed to think it attracted girls. Or boys, as the case may be. Oh, look, I can cause a rent in the fabric of space-time, can I have your phone number?
He deleted the message.
But it is worth noting that, later that afternoon, during his lecture on the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, he kept his eyes firmly glued to his lecture notes, and never once made eye contact with any member of the audience. The students generally agreed that it was a pretty good lecture, even so. Then they went out to try and pick up girls. Or boys.