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spannerinworks

1 Sad, Sad Story

Jun 25, 2011 15:15

I found my journal! It was exactly where I left it last summer - ripped into exactly 107 pieces and buried 20 feet below the swing set at a nearby playground. It knows what it did.I, however, have completely forgotten what that was ( Read more... )

break it down, journal, oh god somebody distract him

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wrestlingwitch June 26 2011, 07:16:59 UTC

Good to know you haven't changed much between getting rid of your old journal and getting a new one.

spannerinworks June 26 2011, 13:06:45 UTC

I've heard it argued that people only have personalities if they are observed or somehow documented by other people - or in this particular case, magical journals with some long-forgotten yet clearly unforgivable flaw. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?! The answer, of course, is OBVIOUSLY YES: a big THUNK. Or possibly a SCREE if it lands on a squirrel!

I'm pleased you disagree with that stupid logic. So pleased, I am willing to ask a non-hypothetical question! In fact, I'll throw in an extra because I like you so much! And here they are, you earned them: How is your summer going so far, and do you have any plans?

wrestlingwitch June 26 2011, 16:12:11 UTC

Gee, thanks for the questions, I'm really pleased and touched that I've earned them. I don't know how I lived life without them before now.

My summer's fine, and I have plans, thanks for asking, Specter. I suppose now I should ask the question back: How's your summer, and do you have plans? Anything artfully broken yet, other than your old journal?

1/2 spannerinworks June 27 2011, 03:46:21 UTC

I'm pleased to have shed some light on your day in this way, Zizes! But

My summer started off with complete and unending disappointment, but I've got so much to do that maybe it will keep my brain from going on and on and on about that frustration! But does coming up with a strategy like that mean that I am still thinking about what my brain is thinking about? DAMN!

Since Jones somehow managed to graduate, I've got my eye on the captain seat. Training is going well if the Bludger bruises on the boys in my gang are anything to go by!

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italianscanspar June 26 2011, 17:50:24 UTC

Hey, nice to know you got yourself a new journal.

And just in time for summer hols, innit? But, shoot me for being curious, where's the old journal now?

1/2 spannerinworks June 27 2011, 03:53:39 UTC

It's in pieces all over my desk! Though it's in 114 pieces now - some of them looked so inviting, as if they were saying, "Graham! Free us from the oppression of being inadequately destroyed!" So I graciously and selfishly obliged!

In fact, I'm giving thought to having the whole thing framed in honor of the occasion. How would it look hanging up in our dorm? Personally, I think it would be-

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2/2 spannerinworks June 27 2011, 03:54:09 UTC

Sorry, I just realized I could smash the glass in the frame, too.

FIRO WHAT ARE YOU DOING DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM italianscanspar June 27 2011, 10:15:31 UTC

Hey, smashing in the glass would be a really great touch! A pristine glass is too boring sometimes, innit?

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grimdarklight June 26 2011, 20:03:26 UTC

What a pleasure to see you back, Mr. Specter. Your contradictions are as imaginative as ever. I look forward to completing my further studies on your neuroses.

spannerinworks June 27 2011, 04:07:20 UTC

If I appear to say contradictions at any time, it's only because people don't realize that these things exist on a much broader spectrum than they think! I don't know why, since it's all so obvious. In fact, it must be so obvious that only certain people can fully comprehend how completely and utterly graspable it is!

And you're still keeping notes on me? How flattering! Although - and I'm sure I don't have to say this to you because it's probably a whole chapter if not novel-length treatise - I really hope there's no personal agenda in these studies as, when it comes to that sort of thing, I greatly prefer older women!

grimdarklight June 28 2011, 02:52:47 UTC

I understand, such a spectrum exists in many things outside the conventionally accepted boundaries - however at times I think you seem to push them beyond the usual level of eccentricity.

Of course, this is what makes you so interesting to study. I must admit that my notes on you are extensive, but have no fear - it is all strictly academic. If I were keeping notes on all my romantic interests, I would have a far smaller file.

spannerinworks June 28 2011, 06:12:12 UTC

AH, BUT ANSWER ME THIS, MS. ROSE LALONDE! Can there be a usual level of eccentricity?! Eccentricity implies oddness and oddness implies straying from the usual and the usual implies a great many people who all behave in the same way and a great many people who all behave in the same way implies DANGEROUS CULT ACTIVITIES! In a worst case scenario, of course. But no matter the scenario, for people to be "usual", they can't have things that set them apart from all others who are "usual" or there just wouldn't be enough usuals to make up one solid unit of usual!!

I'm glad to hear your extensive research in the field of me is strictly platonic! I can only imagine how much that would taint your findings!

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