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[quicksteps]

Apparently it takes 30 days of resistance before a habit becomes just another ignored temptation. But, [ she pats the substantial workload in front of her and cards a blunt nail through the sheets ] I still can't quit this! Not working through the break. Coming back, and there are towers waiting for me.

And because our holidays are never 30 days

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[parlezvousnaps]

"Safe"? Why wouldn't it be? [ She just happens to be in said Quad, leaving the ground floor laundry room with a heavy sack slung over one shoulder, cell phone gripped in the other. ]

[quicksteps]

Just, things seem to be going fruit-shaped with the other ones. [ she is now guessing expressions. thumbs up ] I don't want anything to happen to any of them, of course.

[parlezvousnaps]

"Fruit-shaped"? [ Meiling actually stops in her tracks as she tries to figure out that particular idiom.... ]

[quicksteps]

Pear-shaped! That one.

[parlezvousnaps]

Ah, okay! [ One step. Two. Stop. ]

--I don't know what that means.

[quicksteps]

It means "it's gone wrong", though I don't see what's so wrong with pears. English is always interesting, in those kind of ways.

[parlezvousnaps]

Ohhhh, okay.

[ She shakes her head, cheerfully. ] I don't get it, either. It's not like saying good things come in pears! [ Meiling looks upward. ] --though I bet they're not talking about the fruit, there...

[quicksteps]

I don't think they are either, but that would be good. If they were like russian dolls. [ english is such a fun language ] Russian dolls are definitely pear-shaped, though.

[parlezvousnaps]

[ A giggle. ] I know those! They're pretty cute. I think they come in more than a pair, though... [ She makes her way over to the elevator now. ]

[quicksteps]

More than a pear? Probably. [ perhaps they are apple shaped too. banana ones would make her laugh ] What are you called?

[parlezvousnaps]

A bunch of differnet things! [ A little laugh. ] But my name's Meiling. What's yours?

[quicksteps]

Ahh, I'm Lenalee. You're Chinese? I thought we might be on the same boat, with all these word games.

[parlezvousnaps]

I am! [ She smiles, but then stops. ] --word games? Oh! [ Sheepish chuckle as she presses the elevator button with her elbow. ] I've never been very good at those.

[quicksteps]

I don't think that. [ doesn't get that someone might be bad at them, Lenalee mostly does it on purpose when memory allows ]

[parlezvousnaps]

No? [ Headtilt. ] I think it's just the English ones! And French ones. Maybe a few of the Japanese tongue-twisters, too...

[quicksteps]

I think they're fun. I can only do the English ones a little bit though! I have no French at all.