Eisen Sprague is a crafty bugger (loudandclear) wrote in genome_project, @ 2011-01-18 19:30:00 |
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Entry tags: | aim, january 2011 |
WHO: Rory and Eisen
WHAT: AIMing.
WHEN: Backdated to Monday, nighttime.
RATING: Pretty low.
briefcandle is available
mother i stormed the tower of babel--
nocarsgo is available
though my language is dead, still the shapes fill my head
nocarsgo [10:05 pm]
i didn’t figure you’d still be up, dude!
briefcandle [10:05 pm]
I couldn’t sleep. Did you have fun with Lexie?
nocarsgo [10:05 pm]
yeah, just sorta watched a couple movies and stuff. are you okay? and don’t say anything because you knew all along that i was going to worry about you the whole time.
briefcandle [10:06 pm]and stuff I’m glad you had fun! I’m sure it was great to see her, finally.
briefcandle [10:06 pm]
I’m fine. I hung out with my brothers. I somehow convinced them to play Risk with me. Unsurprisingly, it did not end well for them.
nocarsgo [10:07 pm]
it was. i think she was probably more anxious than i was somehow, which is saying something.
nocarsgo [10:07 pm]
well can you blame them? playing risk against you is pretty much like saying ‘hey, let’s watch me get my ass kicked!’
briefcandle [10:07 pm]
Just nerves I’m sure. I still say your fears of stagnation are woefully unfounded.
briefcandle [10:08 pm]
Hey! A lot of Risk is luck. Hence the name of the game. It’s just that video games are king at my house. Trying to get them to play a board game is difficult.
nocarsgo [10:08 pm]
yeah, i think i’m with you on that now, actually. it was pretty nice tonight. it felt like it had been too long since we’d just sat and talked.
nocarsgo [10:09 pm]
hey, i wasn’t knocking it. i’ve actually managed to hold my own against you a couple of times...before my inevitable demise anyway.
briefcandle [10:09 pm]
:) Excellent. And yes. Yes you have.
nocarsgo [10:10 pm]
so, anyway...enough about me and lexie for now. earlier you mentioned that ben talked to you about fiona?
briefcandle [10:10 pm]
For now. I want more details later.
briefcandle [10:11 pm]
Yes. Ben was not happy with me. Fiona has obviously talked to him about... our situation. Or non-situation.
nocarsgo [10:11 pm]
i still think you not wanting a situation is kind of ridiculous, bro.
briefcandle [10:11 pm]
Ben does too, apparently. So you’re not alone in that.
nocarsgo [10:12 pm]
and so does fiona. you’re not going to admit that maybe there’s a chance you might be wrong about it?
briefcandle [10:14 pm]
We talked about this, Eisen. I’m not good for her. Please don’t make me go through the list again.
nocarsgo [10:15 pm]
i’m not making you go through the list again, dude. that’s not what i asked. i’m just saying...she’s a good person, and seems to think you’re worth the risk. no one i know deserves to be happy more than you do, rory. and i think you have a chance to be happy with her.
nocarsgo [10:17 pm]
i really just want to see you happy, dude.
briefcandle [10:19 pm]
I don’t know what to tell you.
briefcandle [10:20 pm]
How about you just be happy for me okay? I’ll live vicariously through Le you.
nocarsgo [10:22 pm]
and i’m just supposed to be okay with that? rory, come on, man. you never let me settle for anything less than what you think i deserve. you’re expecting me to just back off?
briefcandle [10:22 pm]
Yes. You are. You’re you. I’m me. And no, I’m not expecting you to back off. But I’m asking you to. As a friend. Please.
nocarsgo [10:23 pm]
i hope you’re not expecting me to be happy about it.
nocarsgo [10:23 pm]
i can pretty much guarantee that’s not going to happen.
briefcandle [10:24 pm]
I don’t know how to make you understand, Eisen. I just can’t. It’s that simple.
briefcandle [10:26 pm]
I think we need to talk about happy things now. What did you and Lexie talk about?
nocarsgo [10:26 pm]
pretty much general ‘i’m so glad we finally get to spend time together’ stuff.
nocarsgo [10:28 pm]
i cooked dinner, she cooked dessert. that was kinda nice. i made that chicken/broccoli alfredo thing that you love.
nocarsgo [10:29 pm]
and yes, there are leftovers, before you ask. lex made triple chocolate brownies, which was pretty funny, because she made these little sprinkle interrobangs. i don’t think i’d laughed that hard in awhile.
briefcandle [10:30 pm]
Mmmmmm alfredo. I bet that went over well. In this day and age, I bet the reverse of the old adage is true. The way to a woman’s heart is probably also through her stomach.
briefcandle [10:30 pm]
Awww. That’s adorable. And a lot of work to go through for something that you’re going to eat!
nocarsgo [10:31 pm]
which is funny, because i said the same thing to her. about the way to a woman’s heart, i mean. she just laughed.
nocarsgo [10:32 pm]
a lot of work, but a lot of funny work. i told her it would have been easier if she’d just drawn a frosting interrobang on each one.
briefcandle [10:32 pm]
Oh trust me Eisen. I’m fairly certain you had her heart before you cooked anything for her. She’s crazy about you.
nocarsgo [10:33 pm]
kinda weird how i never thought it would happen. i still get the feeling that i’m not good enough, and before you say that’s ridiculous, you know that i feel like no one is good enough.
briefcandle [10:35 pm]
You are, Eisen. If there is anyone on this island good enough for Lexie, it’s you. I’d even go so far as to say that the it’s the reverse. She’s just barely good enough for you.
nocarsgo [10:36 pm]
thanks. i don’t know about that last part, but still, thanks.
nocarsgo [10:36 pm]
so, tomorrow night, after practice, did you want to swing by? mario kart awaits, my friend. that and leftover alfredo. plenty of that. i made sure of it.
briefcandle [10:37 pm]
Eisen. I really need you to believe me on this. It’s going to make me sound like a hypocrite but I’m going to say it anyway. Please stop doubting yourself. You are the sweetest, gentlest, most hilarious person I know and any girl - Lexie included - would be lucky to have you. So stop holding yourself back and let her love you, okay? You’re worthy of it. More than worthy.
briefcandle [10:38 pm]
… you’re using alfredo as a bribe to get me to lose to you at Mario Kart.
nocarsgo [10:39 pm]
i...you’re right, it is hypocritical, but it’s kinda the type of honey-in-my-ears hypocritical i needed to hear right now, so thanks. of course you know that this means that however off the hook you were by using the ‘as a friend’ method to get me to stop? you’re now that much on the hook again later.
nocarsgo [10:40 pm]
you’re telling me it didn’t work?
briefcandle [10:41 pm]
At least I admitted my hypocrisy. You have to give me credit for that. But just... let’s not talk about the Fiona situation for a while. I need to sort it out in my head.
briefcandle [10:41 pm]
NO OF COURSE NOT. I am a man of Science and Reason (and English)! Mere corporeal pleasures hold no sway for me.
nocarsgo [10:42 pm]
i know. right now you’re off the hook. but later.
nocarsgo [10:43 pm]
oh, so you’re telling me that it wouldn’t bother you in the slightest if i, say, gave it away to everyone but you at practice tomorrow?
briefcandle [10:43 pm]
I have three issues with that. 1) I’m the vindictive one, not you. Therefore, you wouldn’t be able to do it. 2. Lexie wouldn’t let you even if you could 3) how were you planning on heating it up? Cold alfredo isn’t exactly appetizing.
nocarsgo [10:44 pm]
i have three answers for that. 1) i’m learning from the best! 2) if i asked her nicely enough, she’d totally let me. 3) i’m sure they have a microwave somewhere.
briefcandle [10:44 pm]
1) you don’t have a vindictive bone in your body 2) she wouldn’t not. 3) In the teacher’s lounge maybe. Where you couldn’t get to it.
nocarsgo [10:45 pm]
1) no, but maybe i would, just for this occasion! what about that, hm? 2) she so would. especially if it meant that she got some alfredo! 3) mrs. tibbits adores me and would let me get in there!
briefcandle [10:46 pm]
1) what, can you just randomly generate new bones now? 2-3) Okay fine. But I still have you one point one. You wouldn’t do it in the first place. 4) You have never yet been able to resist my sad face.
nocarsgo [10:47 pm]
1) stranger things have happened around here recently! 2-3) you know me too well. 4) WAIT A SECOND. why are you making sadface against getting food?
briefcandle [10:48 pm]
1) You just admitted you wouldn’t do this (the vindictive thing, not the bones thing) in 2 and 3 so I have nothing to worry about. 4) The sad face will ensure that, if you somehow develop vindictiveness overnight, it’ll melt away when you see my eyes get all big and my lip get all quivery. So either way I’m getting alfredo.
nocarsgo [10:50 pm]
...someday, i’m going to beat you at this game. though i’m pretty sure that will signify the apocalypse.
briefcandle [10:51 pm]
Well that’s no good. Maybe you should just stop trying then. You wouldn’t want to be herald of the Apocalypse now would you?
nocarsgo [10:52 pm]
if it meant winning an argument for once? yeah, i would. selfish, huh?
briefcandle [10:52 pm]
I would like to point out that if you can’t even selfishly give alfredo away to spite me, I have a hard time believing that you’d be vindictive enough to want to end the world just to win an argument against me. It would be rather a hollow victory, don’t you think?
nocarsgo [10:53 pm]
this is why you’re friends with me, isn’t it? because you always beat me mercilessly when it comes to faux-arguing?
briefcandle [10:53 pm]
I resent that! I’m often very merciful!
nocarsgo [10:53 pm]
right. merciful. lawyers-to-be can’t be merciful and you know it.
briefcandle [10:54 pm]
ARE YOU CASTING ASPERSIONS ON MY POSSIBLE FUTURE PROFESSION MR. BRADBURY?!
nocarsgo [10:54 pm]
1) i needed to look that word up. 2) no. :P
briefcandle [10:58 pm]
… I would say something clever, but I’m laughing too hard.
nocarsgo [11:00 pm]
because i had to look the word up, or in general?
nocarsgo [11:00 pm]
if you mean just in general, me too.
briefcandle [11:01 pm]
Both. And if you like, we can call this one a draw. Since you disarmed me with your adorable sinister, well-placed dictionary necessity. You snake in the grass you.
nocarsgo [11:02 pm]
HOLY CRAP A DRAW? i don’t think i’ve ever done that well before. MY CUNNING PLAN HAS WORKED......or something.
briefcandle [11:02 pm]
A day that will live in infamy. My only regret is that I can’t see the big, dopey grin on your face.
nocarsgo [11:03 pm]
the draw is the first step, my friend. the next one? THE WIN. JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE.
nocarsgo [11:04 pm]
and you can’t tell me that you’re not smirking to beat the band, too.
briefcandle [11:05 pm]
Or this is just part of my clever plan to appease you. So you only get half a step closer to the win each time.
briefcandle [11:05 pm]
Yes. I’m smiling. Thank you.
nocarsgo [11:05 pm]
...that sounds like you, too. man, just when i think i have your strategy figured out!
nocarsgo [11:05 pm]
that’s my job, dude. making people smile!
briefcandle [11:06 pm]
Mwahahaha. You will never beat the master! Which is a good thing, since I don’t particularly feel like bringing about the Apocalypse. Talk about guilt.
briefcandle [11:06 pm]
One day you will be paid in rainbows and kittens. Although I thought it was your job to make Lexie smile.
nocarsgo [11:07 pm]
true. damn, i doomed myself with that, didn’t i? now i always have to lose, even if i’m winning.
nocarsgo [11:07 pm]
rainbows and kittens? how about guitars and itunes gift cards? those are more my thing. and it’s my job to make sure everyone i love is smiling. so ha.
briefcandle [11:08 pm]
Sometimes when you win, you lose.
briefcandle [11:08 pm]
That’s kind of a tall order isn’t it? You love a lot of people.
nocarsgo [11:09 pm]
what dreams may come, right?
nocarsgo [11:10 pm]
i seem to do okay, though.
briefcandle [11:10 pm]
Very good, Eisen. I’m impressed.
briefcandle [11:11 pm]
You do. You’re good at your job. And hey, look what time it is. Make a wish.
nocarsgo [11:11 pm]
we watched it like two weeks ago, remember? my memory isn’t that bad!
nocarsgo [11:12 pm]
i try, heh. oh wow, feels like i just got on here like twenty minutes ago! wish made!
briefcandle [11:12 pm]
I have to make sure it’s sharp, you know. To make sure all those times you’ve brained yourself haven’t killed too many brain cells.
briefcandle [11:13 pm]
Time flies with you friends.
nocarsgo [11:13 pm]
you mean too many think cells.
nocarsgo [11:13 pm]
i guess it does. and i’m surprised you’re still up this late!
briefcandle [11:14 pm]
Did you hear that? I swear you could hear me groaning from here.
briefcandle [11:14 pm]
Yeah, I’ll probably be paying for it tomorrow. I should probably go to bed.
nocarsgo [11:15 pm]
you wouldn’t change me for the world, admit it.
nocarsgo [11:16 pm]
all right. i’ll see you tomorrow at practice, dude. with or without alfredo.
briefcandle [11:16 pm]
You’re right. Not for every star in every galaxy of every universe.
briefcandle [11:17 pm]
Until tomorrow. Sweet dreams.
nocarsgo [11:17 pm]
later, rory!