Alec Tremont (fireworkatdawn) wrote in we_float, @ 2010-07-04 20:52:00 |
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Entry tags: | character: alec tremont, character: ganesh surendar |
Who: Alec Tremont and Ganesh Surendar
When: Sunday afternoon, July 4
Where: The Server Room
What: IM transcript. Yes, they IM each other from within the same room. They discuss kittens and fireworks, and then Alec gives Ganesh dating advice. About Del. (Yeah, Alec isn't sure how that happened either.)
Status: Log, Complete
Alec: But don't, for the love of god, call yourself John Doe.
Ganesh: I'm not THAT bad.
Alec: Unless you want to look like a total n00b.
Alec: Oops, there goes a kitten.
Ganesh: Excuse me?
Ganesh: I'm not masturbating
Alec: Every time someone uses l33t, god kills a kitten.
Ganesh: You just don't look sorry about it.
Alec: Well it wasn't MY kitten. If it was my kitten, I'd be very sad. ... I wonder if I can get a kitten...
Ganesh: You're not serious.
Ganesh: You stole my robot and now you want a kitten.
Alec: Not to kill it! Wouldn't you like a kitten?
Alec: Stockholm doesn't cuddle very well.
Ganesh: There is so much wrong with that sentence.
Alec: Which one?
Ganesh: The last one.
Alec: About the robot not cuddling?
Ganesh: I happen to like kittens.
Ganesh: Yes. I didn't design it for that.
Alec: See? So we should get a kitten.
Ganesh: We?
Ganesh: Why don't you and Jimmy get a kitten?
Alec: You're the one who said you like kittens.
Alec: I don't know if he likes kittens.
Alec: We could name it Byte or something. Although that might result in some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, because I'm pretty sure cats can't spell.
Ganesh: Have you ever asked if he likes kittens?
Ganesh: I don't like the name Byte. Matt might decide to eat it.
Alec: I've never asked, no. It's never come up. All right, what about... Anode?
Ganesh: How about Aybabtu?
Alec: Someone might try calling it Babs for short or something, though.
Ganesh: I was thinking Base for short
Ganesh: Wait- I'm not getting a cat with you
Alec: I'm pretty sure it would not be well-received if I got a cat, period.
Alec: Although Twinkerbell has that... thing...
Ganesh: Twinkerbell?
Ganesh: Who's Twinkerbell?
Alec: JT.
Ganesh: I lose track of what you call people. Who am I, btw?
Alec: Ganesh.
Alec: Which means I either respect you enough to not give you a mocking nickname, or you are so remarkably unremarkable that I haven't bothered.
Ganesh: I'm voting for the latter.
Ganesh: It wouldn't be hard to give me a nickname, I had billions in school.
Alec: Actually, that would make it incredibly difficult to give you a nickname, because I would hate to call you something that someone already has.
Alec: I am dragging Jimmy out to see fireworks. He has no choice.
Ganesh: I might have to drive out to the hill and look at them. It's such an interesting custom.
Alec: I love them.
Ganesh: I like them as well but it's an odd way to celebrate independence.
Alec: How is it odd?
Ganesh: July 4th isn't exactly a big deal where I come from.
Ganesh: Blowing your country up to celebrate achieving it?
Ganesh: Not that Guy Fawkes Night is much better, mind
Alec: Look at our national anthem: 'O'er the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.'
Alec: We like explosions.
Ganesh: I'm sure other countries would agree with that. ;)
Alec: And England is so innocent?
Ganesh: I didn't say that it was. My grandparents immigrated from India, you know?
Alec: Mmm. I wish I was back home for this. Lay out on the Esplanade.
Ganesh: Oh, you've Jimmy. I would think that's better than home.
Ganesh: I suppose I ought to figure out where I'm going to take Del next weekend.
Alec: They don't feel altogether different.
Ganesh: Jimmy and home?
Alec: Yes.
Ganesh: That's good to hear.
Alec: Mmm. You should go to the Walker Rock Garden.
Ganesh: I've never heard of it. Let me bing that.
Alec: I googled.
Ganesh: I don't think that's a good idea. It looks like someone's house.
Ganesh: And what's your bloody issue with Del?
Alec: He's an idiot.
Ganesh: I don't think so.
Alec: Good for you then.
Ganesh: I suppose we'll see how it goes. Probably I shouldn't take him to a lan party.
Alec: This isn't anyone's backyard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Jap
Alec: He does that whole tai chi thing. He might be into it.
Ganesh: I hadn't thought of that.
Ganesh: It's... nature.
Alec: Yes, it is. People like nature.
Ganesh: I don't.
Ganesh: I hate trees.
Alec: ... why?
Ganesh: People were made to live in cities.
Alec: Do you think so?
Ganesh: I don't know how to survive in the wilderness!
Alec: It's a garden! With paths! In the middle of a city! It's not wilderness!
Ganesh: Does it have wild animals?
Alec: Squirrels?
Ganesh: Squirrels carry rabies.
Alec: You can't be serious.
Ganesh: No, really, they do. http://rabies.emedtv.com/rabies/rabies-a
Ganesh: It says ALMOST never. Not never.
Alec: You are NOT going to be attacked by a rabid squirrel.
Ganesh: It's like shark attacks. Who wants to be the almost?
Alec: There are people who take care of the park who would deal with any rabid squirrels.
Ganesh: But... what would we do there?
Alec: Walk? Talk?
Alec: Feed ducks?
Ganesh: I am not feeding anything that's not on a leash. Except Del.
Alec: You could have a picnic.
Alec: Ducks don't have teeth. OR rabies.
Ganesh: No. They have beaks.
Ganesh: That's worse. It takes longer to die, I'm sure.
Alec: There is no possible way for a duck to kill you. NONE.
Ganesh: http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=13
Ganesh: Fear my Bing.
Alec: SPEEDING WATERCRAFT.
Alec: You will not be on any watercraft.
Ganesh: Not unless things go badly and one of us tries to escape, James Bond-style.
Ganesh: I could never face you all if I got Del killed by a duck.
Alec: Good luck with that, as there are no watercraft on that pond, period.
Ganesh: Come on. There must be something else.
Alec: Do you think, maybe, just possibly, you're overthinking this?
Ganesh: Possibly.
Ganesh: But it's important.
Alec: What else does he like, then?
Ganesh: I heard there's a historic reenactment happening in Volunteer Park.
Ganesh: Maybe that would be interesting.
Alec: Historic reenactment of what?
Ganesh: It's a bunch of wargamers at work.
Ganesh: ...maybe that's a little geeky.
Alec: That would not be interesting.
Ganesh: What about that haunted castle in Lakewood?
Alec: It's a hotel. That might be a bit... suggestive.
Ganesh: Oh. Right. Hm.
Ganesh: It's still a haunted castle.
Alec: Or a bunch of crazy people have stayed there.
Alec: Okay. What is the best date you've ever been on?
Ganesh: Well. I don't really want to copy it.
Ganesh: But it was on the London Eye.
Ganesh: Then again, I was drunk and it ended up with my ex vomiting in my lap.
Alec: *headdesk*
Alec: What made it the best? Before the vomiting, I mean.
Ganesh: Until that point, it was brilliant.
Ganesh: Hm... really, it was just the talking.
Alec: What was the worst date you've ever been on?
Ganesh: There's been so many.
Ganesh: Normally, the ones where I get dumped 20 minutes in are the worst.
Alec: What's the worst completed date?
Ganesh: Probably going to Piccadilly Circus and walking around the shops with a woman who seemed more interested in them than me. And it was clearly one of those things where we were both on it to make our partners angry.
Ganesh: Partner being a rather loose term at the time.
Ganesh: You?
Alec: I've been on one date.
Alec: Okay, so the worst was going out and doing something you completely weren't interested in with someone you didn't want to be with. The other was being with someone you cared about and getting the chance to talk to them.
Ganesh: I am overthinking this, aren't I?
Alec: Just a bit.
Ganesh: I suppose it's because it seems... I'd like to be considerate. I'm kind of thoughtless, all of the time.
Alec: Considerate about what?
Ganesh: Thinking about the other person involved
Alec: What are you afraid is going to go wrong?
Ganesh: I've never actually gone out with someone I had to live with.
Ganesh: In uni, it was always people from other dorms.
Ganesh: And bloody hell, we're trying to save the world here. It's- I shouldn't be messing about.
Alec: Nice dodge. Answer the question.
Ganesh: I like Del. I like him a lot. He's interesting and funny and he'll actually go places and have my back. It's not something to be tossed.
Alec: That still doesn't answer the question. What are you afraid will go wrong? What, specifically, are you afraid will happen that will make things go sour?
Ganesh: That I'll be dull.
Ganesh: My ex was artistic also. It didn't work out.
Alec: How like your ex is Del?
Ganesh: I don't know.
Ganesh: I don't think that they're that similar but I don't know Del well enough.
Ganesh: Pablo was a journalist. He danced with words.
Alec: You're not dull. Believe me, if you were dull, we wouldn't still be having this conversation.
Alec: Did you break up because you bored him?
Ganesh: I think that it was part of it. Bloody hell, I don't know. By the end, we hated everything about one another.
Ganesh: And yet, I'm not actually sure I finished it.
Alec: Look. He agreed to go out with you. He wouldn't have done so if you didn't interest him.
Ganesh: I know, I know.
Ganesh: What I feel is... it's very easy to be blithe about it all when you're going out with people who are somewhat disposable.
Alec: And you think if things don't work out with Del, it's going to make it difficult to live and work with him?
Ganesh: It could.
Ganesh: Not if it's broken off after the first time but if things progressed.
Ganesh: I lived with Pablo for months after things went bad.
Alec: I can understand that.
Alec: But is that a reason not to take the chance? To doom it from the start?
Ganesh: I said yes. I could've backed out.
Ganesh: And why are you, of all people, telling me this?
Ganesh: Hypocrite.
Alec: I won't deny it.
Alec: But you need to hear it.
Ganesh: I said yes!
Ganesh: Which is an improvement over this sort of thing: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/1
Alec: Stop thinking so much about it. You'll talk, you'll laugh, you'll have a good time. If you don't stress so much about it you have a heart attack and don't get to go on the date in the first place.
Ganesh: Yes, Obi-wan.
Alec: Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go get ready for my DATE.
Ganesh: Oh, is that what you're calling it these days?
Alec: Yes, it is. Which probably makes him certifiable, but there's no accounting for taste, is there?
Ganesh: You're not so bad... if I squint.