Questions and answers
Since this pattern provides me with an unexpected opportunity to learn more about fellow citizens, and since I have well and thoroughly learned the hazards of a perceived imbalance in social exchanges lately, here is my required response
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2. No, I'm not human. Technically I never was, although I was designed upon a human's genetic base. If you've never heard of Shinra, consider yourself fortunate. Rufus and I are maintaining an uneasy truce, but his father was responsible for some of the most insupportable abuses of power imaginable -- and I say this fully aware of the abuses of power in my own past.
3. I don't understand the appeal of dogs either. They drool, and they lick you after licking themselves, and they bark and growl and sometimes bite, and they have to be taken for walks since they usually can't be convinced to take care of their physical needs in a small tidy box the way cats can... cats are much more self-sufficient, which is attractive when one has a job that requires extended and unexpected absences for long hours.
4. ...I'll take your word for it? Judging by the word's derivation, I take this to mean that it is expected that I am defensive, antisocial, venomous, and prone to stinging things when provoked? If so, that seems a ...surprisingly accurate description to base on something as random as one's date of birth, which has more to do with when one's parents felt amorous than with anything to do with oneself.
5. Good.
Mostly, I've been trying not to panic ...making plans for dealing with the insurgence of state-sponsored criminal activity by heavily disguised individuals in the name of this upcoming holiday. And yourself -- how have you been?
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