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[not_avampire]

I think I told everyone everything I'm ashamed of. Thing about curses is, stay here long enough, and you'll be hit every which way. I don't know. Shit. I mean

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[ohrosalita]

I can think of other things to do with your wrist than raise welts on it, Cal.

And I think most people pity themselves for something. It just sounds like you've got better cause.

[not_avampire]

Bleeding'd spread the parasite. Not that I would, but... yeah.

Thanks for the ego boost.

[ohrosalita]

I hope you're being deliberately obtuse.

[not_avampire]

I'm a bio major, I don't speak your fancy English unless it involves words like 'vector' and 'optimum virulence'. So, what the hell does that mean?

[ohrosalita]

Dumb. It means I hope you're being dumb on purpose.

[not_avampire]

...No, that's just normal, socially awkward Cal.

Um. Sorry.

[ohrosalita]

Okay, do over. I was talking about jerking off, not slitting your wrists. The other part was a probably misplaced way of saying it's okay to wallow a little; everybody does it.

[not_avampire]

Isn't it still kinda taboo to talk about other people jerking off? ...How much has the world changed since I've been hiding from it? I watch the news, I think that would've gotten a special report.

I wallow a lot.

[ohrosalita]

It's a little forward, but when someone's already mentioned how they're trying to behavior train their sex life I don't think it's all that out there. I do work for the news station here, though, I can give somebody a report if that's what you need.

That's okay too, though another hobby couldn't hurt.

[not_avampire]

Yeah, but I didn't have a choice about that, right there. But- whatever, I get it. Sorry.

I have hobbies! I feed my cat... talk to my cat, read lots of books, study. I do things, it's not like I'm in suspended animation or anything. I'm not that pathetic.

[ohrosalita]

Helpful suggestion, that's all, I promise. It'dve been more taboo if I was suggesting you slit your wrists.

Quit putting words into my mouth, I'm not calling you pathetic. What kind of books?

[not_avampire]

...Yeah, probably. But people seem to be obsessed with asking me if I'm going to kill myself, here. It's happened three times in the past year, which beats my past average of 'never' by landslide.

Um. Sorry, again. But, uh, books are And the Waters Turned to Blood: The Ultimate Biological Threat, Bioinformatics, Sequence and Genome Analysis, Principles of Biochemistry With a Human Focus, Research in Computational Molecular Biology, The Plague... to name a few.

[ohrosalita]

That's weird. Here's the one place where killing yourself could get repetitive.

Wow. Have you ever tried chick-lit?

[not_avampire]

And messy. Corny'd probably eat me, he's so damn domesticated. If there's one thing I really don't want to do, it's fish my finger out of my cat.

My girlfriend is a journalist, so I can say with experience that I've kind of given up on books without pictures. Uh, you know, diagrams. All of those books have diagrams. The Plague has some really good ones, too.

[ohrosalita]

He'd need more than 24 hours to eat you, unless he's a really big cat. I've never figured out exactly how the people who get eaten here come back, anyhow. I'm not sure I want to.

I guess I won't recommend Clifford the Big Red Dog, then. How about something not pestilence related, at least?

[not_avampire]

Cortnelius is gigantic. I can't let him outside, so he can't excercize, so... yeah. Big cat.

Lace tried to get me to read some... Bronte stuff, and I almost fell asleep. And then she tried some book called Sula and I actually did. But, hey, you're welcome to try? I'd appreciate the effort.