(backdated to earlier in the evening)

[notaleftover]

Yeah, so that nightmare curse was pretty bad. I wasn't affected, but Konata was and she hasn't been feeling that great. A lot of kids have been absent from school the past couple days, too, so it's not really just business as usual. I hope everyone gets better over the weekend

Comments

[guardianed]

Interesting, that you can separate things into curse and normal like that. On the other hand, the curse itself disrupts normal life.

And today's another curse.

[notaleftover]

Yeah, but it's one thing when it's just the curse by itself, you know? I dunno, I guess I'm kinda just ranting.

Really? Wow, I guess that's what I get for not checking the network all day.

[guardianed]

Curse days by themselves are somehow excepted for you, then?

That will do it.

[notaleftover]

I guess so. My life's pretty boring, otherwise, so it's kind of easy to separate out the days where I'm a dog or whatever. You don't see it that way?

Most of the time you can just get by on just what you can observe in real life, but not today I guess.

[guardianed]

I don't think there's such a clear separation.

That's true in the City less often than I'd like to admit.

[notaleftover]

Why not?

Yeah, but usually you don't go all day before you realize your roommates are gone, at least.

[guardianed]

Previous curses influence us all the time, whether we're in a "normal" day or not. It's not as though the days in which there is no curse are like the days we might spend at home.

Granted.

[notaleftover]

No, because we're not at home. It'd be different even if there weren't curses at all, but at least on the days in between them we can still get things done - go to work or school, whatever passes as normal for us here. You don't spend every minute recovering from the last curse.

[guardianed]

You don't need to be to the point of needing to recover from a curse to be altered by it. That last was more severe than most, yes, but if you look at the network on any given day after a curse you'll note any number of people complaining about the previous day, even though they're no longer affected by it. Days between curses become something of a break rather than the norm.

[notaleftover]

I think we're looking at the same thing but seeing it in different ways.

[guardianed]

Most likely.