annie bananie: tobyyyy annie bananie: come over for lunch today we just got the new stove in downstairs and napoleon is dying to cook things for us again. alas poor toby: oh, hey alas poor toby: ...can we throw a new stove party? we can get it a birthday cake. annie bananie: LOLOL annie bananie: YES. alas poor toby: :D annie bananie: we can christen it too and give it a name. annie bananie: you are in charge of making up the name. alas poor toby: vulcan volscius, king of fire? annie bananie: ooh sounds intimidating. annie bananie: we should add more titles too annie bananie: like emperor of burgers alas poor toby: comte d'grill annie bananie: lord of the pour house alas poor toby: the burninator annie bananie: and omg you don't even realize how glad i am to have it back annie bananie: we've been using the upstairs kitchen and bud hates it so much we've just been having mac and cheese annie bananie: the satyr can't live w/o an industrial stove alas poor toby: mac'n'cheese for the epic fail. alas poor toby: i'll be v. glad to come over & try it out -- nothing much going on back here, just marisa heading out for some sort of lunchdate, i'm not sure annie bananie: osm annie bananie: bud will want your Official Opinion so that he can boast to the customers when we reopen Saturday annie bananie: also yay I will have a job still next term alas poor toby: :) alas poor toby: speaking of alas poor toby: i have good news(!) annie bananie: Ooooh? alas poor toby: your erstwhile poet is finally free from rooming with insufferable cads alas poor toby: weathers emailed me re: being the male RA, so i'll have a single room this year :D annie bananie: oh hey thats great alas poor toby: i can already see scott usurping my rule & demanding that we host parties in there, but "that's whatever" alas poor toby: my kingdom shall include a tv & mario kart annie bananie: i am going to usurp your rule too you know alas poor toby: no problem, your rebellion is welcome :P annie bananie: you will not have a single for long. alas poor toby: i am so relieved, good god annie bananie: especially if my new roommate isn't as awesome is dani annie bananie: which, face it, is impossible. annie bananie: on the downside you have to work with Quintella alas poor toby: oh man, that's right, you're back to luck of the draw. i hope you get an awesome roomie alas poor toby: & quintella isn't bad at all, really alas poor toby: a little prissy, but let's face it: so am i. annie bananie: yeah but annie bananie: well you're right annie bananie: I guess I'm just bitter because I'm jealous. alas poor toby: ? alas poor toby: were you v. set on getting that position? annie bananie: kinda? annie bananie: I mean I think what's really getting me annie bananie: is that I wrote this long letter to email to the deans annie bananie: hold on annie bananie wants to direct connect now directly connected annie bananie:residentassistant.doc annie bananie: there. annie bananie: and between fucking caesar and this wedding I have been putting it off annie bananie: and I was finishing it up yesterday and about to send it in when I saw Quintella's post on the network. alas poor toby: that's awful timing alas poor toby: i'm sorry :/ alas poor toby: i suppose there's still the hypothetical possibility of q resigning her position later, but i can't see her doing it. annie bananie: yeah neither can i alas poor toby: ...haha, you know, if you'd gotten it we would have been the new johnny/jackie alas poor toby: i don't know how you feel about that annie bananie: well i love jackie but annie bananie: we'd really be nothing like them. alas poor toby: i'm not too talented at spinning around ominously in a chair in a dark room, it must be said. or punching things v. hard. annie bananie: i am blonde though annie bananie: but w/e i'm really not surprised I wasn't picked annie bananie: i'll always just be the beer girl in this city alas poor toby: i don't think that's fair alas poor toaby: you're already developing your powers beyond just beer, and you got through circumstances of utter shit like timesplosion & the apocalypse alas poor toby: no one's going to always be known as the person they were at eighteen. annie bananie: but it's still hard for people to look past that annie bananie: whatever annie bananie: sorry annie bananie: I'm just bumming alas poor toby: i know. alas poor toby: <3 annie bananie: <333 annie bananie: I think though that when I go to college I'm not going to tell anyone about my powers. annie bananie: so not only will I be in a normal place but i'll BE normal too alas poor toby: this is a little ironic, considering pre-neopolis i came from that sort of environment alas poor toby: you know, attempting to live normal alas poor toby: i was desperately looking forward to neopolis by the time we moved, but i can absolutely understand you wanting the other side of it, since you're a neo native alas poor toby: you deserve to have the other side of the fence for a while, if you want it. annie bananie: yeah annie bananie: i really do alas poor toby: defining yourself without your powers, &c annie bananie: yeah. and not forever. i'm always going to be a neopolitan and i think i realized that in caesar's arena annie bananie: and that's not a bad thing alas poor toby: glad to hear it. college is the time for experimentation, after all, whether that means being super or trying to be not-super. alas poor toby: as long as it involves minimal sleeping with other men, i'm alright. :P annie bananie: if kevin spacey wants to sleep with me i can't promise you anything alas poor toby: lkfdjgl;df spacey, my man love annie bananie: but aside from him i think we're good alas poor toby: okay alas poor toby: anyway alas poor toby: want me to come over with that cake? annie bananie: um ABSOLUTELY annie bananie: btw. annie bananie: i love you. alas poor toby: love you too.