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and fifty-eight minutes until I see him again.
    Thursday; January 14, 11 p.m.,
    Royal Genovian Bedchamber
    Tina spent all day yesterday reading Jane Eyre as per my recommendation and agrees with me that there
    might be
    something to the whole letting-boys-chase-you-as-opposed-to-you-chasing-them thing. So she has
    decided not to
    email or call Dave first.
    Lilly, however, refuses to take part in this scheme, as she says game-playing is for children and that her
    relationship with
    Boris is one that cannot be qualified by modern-day psycho-sexual mating practices. According to Tina
    (I can't call Lilly because Michael might pick up the phone and then he'll think I'm chasing him), Lilly says
    that Jane Eyre was one of the first feminist manifestos, and, though she doesn't feel that she needs Jane's
    brilliant guidance, she heartily approves of us using
    it as a model for our romantic relationships. Although she sent a warning to me through Tina that I
    shouldn't expect Michael
    to ask me to marry him until after he's gotten at least one post-graduate degree as well as a start-up
    position with a company that pays two hundred thousand dollars or more a year, plus an annual
    performance bonus.
    Lilly also added that the one time she saw him ride a horse, Michael looked way unromantic, so I
    shouldn't get my hopes
    up that he's going to be jumping any stiles like Mr Rochester any time soon.
    But I find this hard to believe. I am sure Michael would look very handsome on a horse.
    Tina mentioned that Lilly is still upset about the movie of my life they showed the other day. Tina saw it,
    though, and said it wasn't as bad as Lilly is making it out to be. She said the lady who played Principal
    Gupta was hilarious.
    But Tina wasn't in the movie, on account of her dad having found out about it beforehand and threatening
    the filmmakers with
    a lawsuit if they mentioned his daughter's name anywhere. Mr. Hakim Baba worries a lot about Tina
    getting kidnapped by a rival oil sheikh. Tina says she wouldn't mind being kidnapped, though, if the rival
    oil sheikh was cute and willing to commit to
    a long-term relationship and remembered to buy her one of those diamond heart pendants from Kay
    Jewelers on Valentine's Day.
    Tina says the girl who played Lana Weinberger in the movie did a fabulous job and should get an Emmy.
    Also that she
    didn't think Lana was going to be too happy about how she was portrayed, as a jealous wannabe.
    Also the guy who played Josh was a babe. Tina is trying to find his email address.
    Tina and I vowed that if either of us ever felt like calling our boyfriends, instead we would call one
    another. Unfortunately,
    I have no mobile so it is not like Tina will be able to reach me if I am in the middle of knighting someone
    or anything. But
    I am fully going to hit my dad up for a StarTAC phone tomorrow. Hey, I am heir to the throne of an
    entire country. At the
    very least I should have a beeper.
    Note to self: look up word stile.
    Four days, fourteen hours and forty minutes until I see Michael again.
    Friday, January 15,
    Royal Genovian Limo on the Way to State Dinner in Neighbouring Monaco
    To Do Before Leaving Genovia:
    1. Find a safe place to put Michael's present where it will NOT be found by grandmother or nosy
    ladies-in-waiting
    while packing my stuff (inside toe of combat boot? Inside panties I'll be wearing on plane?)
    2. Say goodbye to kitchen staff, and thank them for all the vegetarian entrees.
    3. Make sure harbourmaster has hung pair of scissors off every buoy in bay for use of yachting tourists
    who didn't
    bring along their own set to snip six-pack holders.
    4. Take funny nose and glasses off the statue of Grandmere in the Portrait Hall before she notices.
    5. Give Rommel's mink sweater back.
    6. Break Francois' record of eleven feet, seven inches sock-sliding down Crystal Hallway.
    7. Let all the doves in the Palace dovecote go (if they want to come back, that is fine, but they should
    have the