"If you had the time-management skills of a koala, it would have been ready Tuesday,"
That leaves me both cringing on behalf of Lois and laughing at the turn of phrase.
"That girl ..." he said. "I swear she'll be the death of me."
Clark had not been expecting the affection so clear in the editor's voice.
Lois seems to have that effect on editors, regardless of the continent she is on.
She was pounding her keyboard so hard that he half expected to see smoke rising from it.
Nope. Smoke coming from keyboards only happens when Clark types.
"There's no scope for initiative in Browny's newsroom?" Clark asked. "No room to be creative, to run with an idea?"
Lois sighed. "There's plenty of scope but not without first running it past Browny - and not with a story he's already pencilled in."
That can't sit well with Lois. I wonder whether this is laying additional groundwork for her motivations in going back to Metropolis with Clark by the end of the story? (Assuming, of course, that that is what happens.)
"Do you want to fly solo?" Lois asked.
An interesting question to ask Earth's resident Kryptonian.
"I'll give you the recipe," Bessie said. "You can take it home to your mother."
Two thoughts on this one: Corrina, have you a favourite recipe for them? They sound delicious. 2) Bessie's comment strikes me as more than a bit sexist.
Clark asked a few more questions and discovered Bessie had never married - "one bloke was interested, but he barracked for Carlton, so that was never going to work"
I know you had already mentioned that footy is taken extremely seriously; but is this level of team loyalty typical, or would Bessie's level of loyalty be considered extreme to the point of fanaticism?
If I ever meet your mother, I'm going to tell her what Bessie said."
Hmmm...I wonder whether it is a telling point that Lois is thinking even passing about meeting Clark's "mum".
Looking forward to part eight.
cheers,
Lynn
