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To: {not a cookie}
From: {not a nitwit}
Subject: Thanks again.

I slept a lot better last night, between the soup and the conversation and the deciding to finally call Kitty and see if we could work out some sort of hamster-based code so her mom didn't figure out what we were talking about.

It turns out she's planning to go full-disclosure with her parents anyway, in the continuing quest to get a plane ticket the heck back here, so we didn't have to remember if hamsters meant flashbacks and gerbils meant nightmares or the other way around.  Which is good, because that would have been a really surreal conversation.  And, as predicted, she made me feel a lot better.  And she's gonna write with what happens with her mom.

So, wanted to let you know about my brand-new lack of nitwittedness.  Let's see how long it lasts this time, huh? :)

And I just wanted to say, if you ever have anything you don't want to bottle up anymore, that road goes both ways.  I'm not gonna push, or anything, because I don't know enough to know when to--that's why they pay Doc Samson the big bucks--but just,  you know, if you decide you want to, I'll be here.

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Subject: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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I'm glad to hear that you're mending your nitwit ways. Fun as it is to call you on them, it's much better to see you not turning yourself inside out with oogyness.

I'm not even going to ask about how hamsters and gerbils were selected in the first place. I don't want to know. It will just hurt my brain.

Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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*shrug* I pay attention to stuff. But like I said, not going to push.

And it's much better with the not turning myself inside out with oogyness on this end, too. Throwing up is a lot less fun when there's nothing to actually throw up, and it wasn't all that fun to begin with.

Hamsters and gerbils were selected at random. What, do I look like Richard Gere? ;)

Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Was just a rough week is all and I don't have my boy here so yeah.

There is absolutely nothing to recommend about throwing up. It's an act of violence on your body. Yeah, this is the voice of experience from my days as an idiot.

Actually, I've always thought you looked like you should be on the WB. One of those hour long teen dramedies.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Good thing we're both past our nitwit days, then, huh?

Any of them except Seventh Heaven.

Or Smallville, come to think of it. I'm probably going to end up trying to tap that demographic when I finally start making TV shows--I mean, teenagers, you know, and you're Catholic so I figure you're probably familiar with what Jesuits say about getting 'em young--but I can do better than that.

Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Getting past them anyway.

Not Smallville? But Smallville has Michael Rosenbaum! He's also the Flash! Not that I'm nearly nerdy enough to know that or anything. A friend told me. In a dream. That I don't remember...

Um, look, baby ducks!

Ahem, right. Anyway, I was thinking more like Buffy or Angel. You know, the cool shows that were cancelled.

How goes the screenwriting anyway?

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Smallville is also thinly-veiled anti-mutant propaganda. :p And it had the kid from Home Improvement doing a disservice to the spontaneous-self-cloning community in one episode, and as a representative (and, okay, possibly the sole member) of that very important and vocal minority, I am outraged in an official capacity.

Baby ducks? Where?

And don't you start. My mom is convinced I look like Xander. I privately think she had a little too much wacky fun in the 70's, if you know what I mean, and there's something screwy with her brain.

Screenwriting goes. I have a bunch of ideas--and, okay, yes, probably the strongest one is about this mutant high school at which wacky hijinks occur, but they do say write what you know. They'll probably all have to be seriously attacked with a fire axe when I get to college and start learning how to actually do this, but I managed to finish a couple of one-act plays that I don't think are too bad.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Okay fine, you don't look like Xander. But the one nerdy kid from the first season of Smallville who stole Clark's powers? Totally looks like Bobby.

Out there, see? Aren't they fuzzy and cute?

Sounds like our drama club needs to start having auditions then.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Now that I can see.

Ah, those baby ducks. I see them now.

And . . . actually, I'm of two minds (see, joke, laugh) about that. I mean, on the one hand, it'd be cool. On the other, there's a couple people around who might want to be in on it, who might even be good, who I wouldn't want to work with and I'd get lectured for trying to exclude them for shallow personal reasons. Meh.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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I love ducks. They're birds but they're outside birds only and can be used in many tasty dishes.

I have a hard time attributing shallow reasons to you. Personal, I believe but not shallow.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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I don't think I've ever had duck. I might think I'm eating Daffy, and that would be very weird. (Donald, on the other hand, looks like he'd make great buffalo wings. He just bugs me.)

Boy, do I have you fooled. :) Eh . . . they're probably shallower than I want them to be, part of the time, with some people. I mean, take Warren. A lot of the reason he still annoys me is habit. And I like Jubilee all right most of the time, but get her within ten feet of Amanda and I kinda want to smack her (well, both of 'em) with a rolled-up newspaper. Shiro I can take or leave depending on whether or not he's having an anti-America day--he's been a lot more tolerable since he's been hanging around with Alex, though, and he saved our butts a heck of a lot in Asgard even if he was cocky to the point of being really, really unintentionally funny.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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I can fix that. I've got some wonderful recipes for Huey, Louie and Dewey.

Don't even talk to me about Jubilee and Amanda right now. Those two are /not/ on my good list.

There are definitely people in the mansion who I dislike for no good reason. And some with very good reason. The reverse is probably true as well.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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We'll have to go find them, then. Just make sure you take the little hats off before serving them, because that might be a little unnerving.

. . . yeah, I'd imagine they wouldn't be, at that. Never mind them, then.

See, and this is where I'm gonna get philosophical because it's really, really late, but I don't figure you'll mind because people getting philosophical around here is good for your job security. By "reverse" do you mean people who don't like you, or people you like?

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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The hats are garnish! Chef Marcel would be horrified at the very idea of not properly garnishing a dish!

Just...yeah. Argh.

Both actually. At least, I'm assuming that some people don't like me for no good reason. It's possible that they all have numbered lists of greivances with me.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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I thought parsley was garnish. And lettuce, sometimes. Plants, is what I'm getting at here.

Argh about sums it up. Rolled-up newspapers, that's the thing.

It's possible that . . .

Okay, I just tried to think of something suitably hyperbolically impossible, and the first three things I came up with have happened already. You ever get the feeling somebody is looking at our lives and laughing hysterically? I'll just go with "I don't think there is a good reason not to like you." But hey, I'm biased.

Heh. Y'know, if Kitty were here, I could try to get some non-heavy-lifting use out of the new shoulders and see if she'd go looking for revenge lists in people's computers. There's some comedy potential there.

Re: Subject: Re: Bottling? Me? You must be joking.

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Plants are for amateurs. All the really cool kids are using props nowadays. I read it in Epicurious Magazine.

I'm afraid to resort to hyperbole these days. It's like wishing for it to come true.

As a staff member I would have to frown upon any invasion of privacy by Miss Pryde via a computer. So don't tell me where they came from when she finds them.