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[dcneversleeps]

What do you have to be thankful for?I work for the President of the United States of America, Jed Bartlet, who is both the strongest and most compassionate man I have ever had the honor of getting into office. And the people I work with-- Leo, CJ, Toby, Sam, and Donnatella, they have my back. I don't worry about money, and I was blessed to be born

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[bravotwozero]

As well they should fear me, for I am Joshua Lyman, kicker of Congressional legislative ass.

I want a cool title like that.

Good to see you're back in action, Josh.

[dcneversleeps]

Thanks. It is a pretty awesome title, but don't you get to have a cool one yourself? Like Brittany Colefield: Secret Agent?

[bravotwozero]

Well ... I always thought 'Assistant Special Agent In Charge' (yeah, I got promoted) sounded boring.

They tried to change my title to 'Special Agent In Charge of Superheroics' once. But I mean, it was just overly flattering, didn't sound awe-inspiring or anything.

[dcneversleeps]

They're going about it all wrong. You should be... Defender of Justice! Or something.

[bravotwozero]

See, that I could do. I grew up as an X-Men fan. I could pull that off.

[dcneversleeps]

I was a big X-Men fan in college. Mmm, Kitty Pryde.

[bravotwozero]

I had a crush on Cyclops, which was so not cool. Of course now with James Marsden playing him in the movie it only made things worse.

[dcneversleeps]

Yeah, well, naked Rebecca Romijn Stamos, save for some plastic bits and blue paint? Yeahhh. Best movie ever.

[bravotwozero]

*laughs* I will admit to having watched certain movies for staring purposes. But not that one. That was "I've waited 15 years for this stupid movie to come out, damn it."

[dcneversleeps]

By the time they finally made it, I had been pretending to be a respectable adult so long that I didn't even know they were making it until I read a review in the Times.

[bravotwozero]

*laughs* Pretending? Well, you have my respect, Josh, if that counts for anything.

I actually wanted to make movies once. But then Jack posed me a question. And yeah. Now I chase terrorists. Makes very little sense but here we are.

[dcneversleeps]

Yeah, sure! I like that a hot twenty year old with a license to kill thinks I am cool. I am cool. But maybe not quite that cool.

It could be weirder, I suppose. I dunno how...

[bravotwozero]

You are cool. Cool is a state of mind. Like, I'm finally cool because I drive the same model car driven in X2 and that makes me think I'm cool. Or something.

Eh, probably not much. I've always had a streak of selflessness. Like, I thought about being a D.A. or a homicide cop for a while. Writing is - was, whatever - just my gift.

[dcneversleeps]

Speaking of cars, I need a new one. While I still have a job. Something cool, but not too cool, because then you get the whole 'fourty year old with a crotch rocket' stigma. I was thinking an SUV, like a Hummer, but then I'd be contributing to global warming.

My gift was always being good at memorizing arcane rules and then breaking them. Politics is about the only legal way to use that.

[bravotwozero]

Hmmm. Well, I drive a Mazda RX-8 and it works pretty well. I'm also fond of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, but I don't have the look for that thing. I'm a bit too short. And I want better gas mileage.

*chuckles* Hey, I don't even delude myself into thinking I'd be any good. I role-played a Senator in my high school government class and about had an aneurysm, so yeah. Not good enough for your line of work.