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xp_communicationTo: (favorite redhead)
From: (absentee fiance)
Subject: sleep well?
I didn't - sleep at all, I mean. Yes, I know. But things are beginning to move along here, and I've never been very good at sleeping while on a job. Plus Haroun was bitching that I snore, so I figured I'd stop giving him the excuse to carp. (Yes, I'm being grumpy. There's this continuing lack of you in my immediate vicinity and I'm just not coping all that well. So there.)
You know, this city never actually sleeps? Went out for a bit of a drive in the middle of the night and there was still activity everywhere. For all that I spent so many years living in the Southwest, I only passed through Vegas once or twice. I really didn't miss much. There is such a thing as too much neon.
Love you,
Nathan
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To: (blinky the firefly)
From: (grumpy bear)
Subject: your boyfriend...
...is a pain in the bloody ass, and whines like a little girl. "You snore, Nathan! You snore like a runaway freight train!" So I went and didn't sleep last night, just for him. Then he complained about me hogging the coffee this morning. If it wouldn't have been such a bad example to the kids - I keep telling them they're not allowed to fight - I would have strangled him at the breakfast table. Wanda is finding it all too terribly amusing.
It must be awfully quiet back there with so many of us here. (At least, I'm hoping it's awfully quiet.) Want me to bring you something less-tacky back from this tacky, tacky city?
Nate
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To: (not-cassandra)
From: (not-tiresias)
Subject: how goes?
Still feeling better than you were, I hope? You might be interested to know that Amanda and Jubilee have not, in fact, managed to kill each other yet. Also, Forge is still convinced that I'm a schizophrenic ninja. I find this very amusing.
I've been doing my meditation - have you been doing yours? Oddly enough, nothing that we're doing here this week seems to be triggering my precog. I'm not sure why. It is fairly significant, after all - but maybe it's not long-term enough for me.
Doug is doing just fine, so don't worry. Did you know, though, that Forge doesn't like him very much? I hadn't noticed that before now. I feel a certain solidarity.
Take care,
Nathan
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To: (Kyle)
From: (Nate)
Subject: hey there
Had a little time to sit down and write some emails, so I figured I'd add you to the list. Everyone's doing okay down here - things are pretty quiet at the moment. I imagine you're probably pretty busy studying for finals and the like just now? Don't be afraid to go to Moira if you need help with anything. I know she'd want you to.
Did you know your roommate thinks I'm a ninja?
Nate
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To: (Angelo)
From: (Nathan)
Subject: hey there
Got some time to sit down and write a few emails today, so here I am. We're having a quiet morning. Everyone's doing okay - I'm keeping a close eye on Amanda, not to worry. She's missing you and Manuel quite a bit, I think.
Do me a favor? Take Joyita up to play with Bella? She's probably in a very bitchy mood this week.
Talk to you soon,
Nathan
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To: (second-favorite doctor)
From: (your very worst patient)
Subject: you can probably guess...
Yeah, this is me wondering how well Moira is doing with the whole not-working-herself-into-the-ground thing while I'm gone. I called her last night and woke her up out of a nap - which I can't help but interpret as a good sign - but I know her too well. I can't help but worry.
I imagine it must be pretty quiet back there, with so many of us trouble-magnets out of the mansion at the same time. Things are okay here. The kids are doing pretty well - very little snarkiness and no fights, amazingly enough. I'm still keeping a close eye on some of the more volatile pairs. (Yes, I mean Amanda and Jubilee, primarily.) I'm also trying to convince myself that bringing Alison's boyfriend back in anything less than mint condition would cause her to pout at me. I should really resist the temptation, shouldn't I?
Nate
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From: (absentee fiance)
Subject: sleep well?
I didn't - sleep at all, I mean. Yes, I know. But things are beginning to move along here, and I've never been very good at sleeping while on a job. Plus Haroun was bitching that I snore, so I figured I'd stop giving him the excuse to carp. (Yes, I'm being grumpy. There's this continuing lack of you in my immediate vicinity and I'm just not coping all that well. So there.)
You know, this city never actually sleeps? Went out for a bit of a drive in the middle of the night and there was still activity everywhere. For all that I spent so many years living in the Southwest, I only passed through Vegas once or twice. I really didn't miss much. There is such a thing as too much neon.
Love you,
Nathan
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To: (blinky the firefly)
From: (grumpy bear)
Subject: your boyfriend...
...is a pain in the bloody ass, and whines like a little girl. "You snore, Nathan! You snore like a runaway freight train!" So I went and didn't sleep last night, just for him. Then he complained about me hogging the coffee this morning. If it wouldn't have been such a bad example to the kids - I keep telling them they're not allowed to fight - I would have strangled him at the breakfast table. Wanda is finding it all too terribly amusing.
It must be awfully quiet back there with so many of us here. (At least, I'm hoping it's awfully quiet.) Want me to bring you something less-tacky back from this tacky, tacky city?
Nate
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To: (not-cassandra)
From: (not-tiresias)
Subject: how goes?
Still feeling better than you were, I hope? You might be interested to know that Amanda and Jubilee have not, in fact, managed to kill each other yet. Also, Forge is still convinced that I'm a schizophrenic ninja. I find this very amusing.
I've been doing my meditation - have you been doing yours? Oddly enough, nothing that we're doing here this week seems to be triggering my precog. I'm not sure why. It is fairly significant, after all - but maybe it's not long-term enough for me.
Doug is doing just fine, so don't worry. Did you know, though, that Forge doesn't like him very much? I hadn't noticed that before now. I feel a certain solidarity.
Take care,
Nathan
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To: (Kyle)
From: (Nate)
Subject: hey there
Had a little time to sit down and write some emails, so I figured I'd add you to the list. Everyone's doing okay down here - things are pretty quiet at the moment. I imagine you're probably pretty busy studying for finals and the like just now? Don't be afraid to go to Moira if you need help with anything. I know she'd want you to.
Did you know your roommate thinks I'm a ninja?
Nate
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To: (Angelo)
From: (Nathan)
Subject: hey there
Got some time to sit down and write a few emails today, so here I am. We're having a quiet morning. Everyone's doing okay - I'm keeping a close eye on Amanda, not to worry. She's missing you and Manuel quite a bit, I think.
Do me a favor? Take Joyita up to play with Bella? She's probably in a very bitchy mood this week.
Talk to you soon,
Nathan
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To: (second-favorite doctor)
From: (your very worst patient)
Subject: you can probably guess...
Yeah, this is me wondering how well Moira is doing with the whole not-working-herself-into-the-ground thing while I'm gone. I called her last night and woke her up out of a nap - which I can't help but interpret as a good sign - but I know her too well. I can't help but worry.
I imagine it must be pretty quiet back there, with so many of us trouble-magnets out of the mansion at the same time. Things are okay here. The kids are doing pretty well - very little snarkiness and no fights, amazingly enough. I'm still keeping a close eye on some of the more volatile pairs. (Yes, I mean Amanda and Jubilee, primarily.) I'm also trying to convince myself that bringing Alison's boyfriend back in anything less than mint condition would cause her to pout at me. I should really resist the temptation, shouldn't I?
Nate
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Date: 2004-12-08 05:49 pm (UTC)From: [blinky the firefly]
Subject: My boyfriend...
Is entirely too amusing. So are you for that matter. You'd better both come back soon so I can point and laugh at you both for behaving like two old women bickering all the time. I need my dose of laughter and it's sorely lacking these days with so many going away to have fun in Las Vegas without me!
Ok. Maybe you're not having that much fun. ;) I need to email Wanda and get a report from her on this. That should be amusing. Very.
It is, indeed, awfully quiet. Nice, in a driving me stir-crazy from the quiet sort of way. :) Miles is dropping by regularly with food (lots, woah) and movies. And Madelyn is prepping me up for the FBI thing we need to go to end of the week.
Presents are always fun and always appreciated. Though even the tacky ones can be amusing, if you pick them well. *g*
Alison
Subject: You...
Date: 2004-12-08 10:33 pm (UTC)Just for you. A very, very tacky present. Something with rhinestones, maybe.
Nate
Subject: And you...
Date: 2004-12-08 11:27 pm (UTC)I already have three tiaras. Just saying.
Alison
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Date: 2004-12-08 05:50 pm (UTC)From: (Not Jeanne D'Arc either)
I am feeling a bit better. The visions are still -there-, but it is somewhat easier today to tell them from reality. I must admit though, that being able to predict which of my classmates will go bald before thirty-five is proving amusing. It is a nice contrast to predicting which will be pregnant and working at the grocery because they think school is a waste of time.
If Jubilee tries to kill Amanda, I am going to be rather cross with her, but I do not think they will end up killing each other this week. Or next week. Beyond that, I am not sure I can say.
I have been doing the meditation - I found that it seems to help if I do it in the morning rather than at night, and trying to do it after eating just puts me to sleep. But then, doing many things after eating puts me to sleep.
Is Doug remembering to eat? He forgets to when he is doing computer things. He also forgets to talk and sometimes to sleep, and I am very aware of how hypocritical it is for me to point out that last item, but he does.
I am not surprised Forge dislikes Doug. I am not sure Forge likes -anyone-, he is a very unsocial young man. Did he say why he dislikes Doug so much?
Angie
Reply to Angie
Date: 2004-12-08 10:36 pm (UTC)If you're finding the meditation most helpful in the morning, you go right on doing it that way. Once I'm back, we'll try it together a couple of mornings so that I can get a good look at your mind while you're doing it. Sound good?
Doug is... well, okay, so there have been a few moments so far when I've had to make pointed comments about getting him surgically detached from his laptop. But I'm a great big bully.
And re: Forge - did I say I've been talking to the charming young man?
Nathan
Re: Reply to Angie
Date: 2004-12-09 02:28 pm (UTC)From: (Angie)
The boy with the black hair and the double-joints in joints that should not be able to be doubled? I think he was in my Literature class last semester? He and the Professor will be sharing hairstyles before he is thirty.
As for Jubilee, I am honestly trying not to think about it. If she survives to twenty, it will be a miracle. Would it be very wrong to try to convince her that there spider-eggs in certain brands of gum?
Doug loves his laptop. I would be jealous, but he says that cuddling the laptop is not any fun at all. And yes, you are a big bully, but we love you anyway.
I try to avoid Forge. He strikes me as ... well, just not terribly socially well adjusted.
Angie
To Nate
Date: 2004-12-08 05:59 pm (UTC)From: (Kyle)
Yeah, algebra's kicking my butt. Forge said something about see-saws but I just kinda want to throw this book out the window. Again.
English Lit's easy. Cake. Allergy-free cake, even, cause I had most of this stuff last year and they're giving me extra time on the exam because of the can't-sit-still-thing. Dr. Moira's idea, and it worked for her Biology class, so hopefully it'll go okay here too.
Forge thinks you're a what? I mean, I knew he kinda didn't like you, cause he keeps calling you "Mr. Dayspring", or "Dayspring" or stuff like that, but a ninja? Why does he think you're a ninja?
Forge is pretty beaned in the head sometimes, I think. He's convinced the girls in the music store were giggling at me.
Reply to Kyle
Date: 2004-12-08 10:40 pm (UTC)And the ninja thing is going to take more explaining that I think I can or should be doing over email. I keep wanting to tell him, I'm too big to be a ninja.
Nate
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Date: 2004-12-08 06:48 pm (UTC)From: [Angelo]
Yeah, I got that idea from the phone calls every night this week so far. Not that I mind at all, of course, but... yeah.
Done and done. I'll even take her out for a walk, if you want. Would say I'll let her go swimming, but the pool's covered now and the lake's probably a bit cold for that. Don't want a frozen bird.
See you when you get back,
Angelo
Subject: Two whole days before the question. I'm impressed. ;)
Date: 2004-12-08 10:39 pm (UTC)From: [maddie]
You'll be pleased to know that Moira is complaining mightily about being bored. Hank and I have taken her off nights entirely, since she was fairly run down after the Month(s) from Hell and hasn't had a chance to catch up with herself. I ran the full workup on her today, and everything's fine, apart from some minor vitamin deficiencies which we've taken in hand - the doctor's diet is not always big on the green leafy vegetables. Hank's looking at things a bit more closely (and yes, I mean from a genetic standpoint), but for now your bride-and-child-to-be are healthy. And will continue to be so, even if it means Hank and I have to lock her in her room and take away her computer access. ;)
It is quiet. I'm even attempting to have a social life, and inflicting the same on others, such as our erstwhile Captain. He needs a perspective check desperately, so I'm hoping a movie and an evening away from the school will do that. I'm also trying to catch up on my classwork and get these finals written - night shift is good for uninterrupted work time, especially now it's just Jono down here and Hank's rigged some monitors to check on his status and make horrible beeping noises if anything changes. And there's our resident night light, too - Al still isn't sleeping a lot, and needs lots of distraction from the pain. I can't say I mind terribly much; I'm discovering I like people now I've started interacting with them again.
No breaking Haroun, as tempting as it is. Al has a pout of mass destruction.
Maddie.