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[balancethebooks]

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[saikyou_saiaku]

It seems rather superfluous, since the journal serves a generally similar purpose already.

[balancethebooks]

Not really. Newspapers are a pretty unique reading medium. The journal's more like a live news feed, than anything else. And it's noisy.

Newspapers are a lot more quiet, and they let the reader digest them at their own pace.

... How've you been, Shizuru?

[saikyou_saiaku]

True. Sometimes I wish the journal had a mute button, then my attention wouldn't get attracted all the time by unimportant things.

Been doing fairly well, except I somehow managed to defy conventions of nature and make a stranger pregnant. [dry laugh]

[balancethebooks]

I tend to keep mine closed as much as possible for that exact reason.

... Wait ... you ... you what. [let him 'WTF' over this for a second] Please tell me it was some kind of loss.

[saikyou_saiaku]

The pages tend to flutter open at strange times, though.

...it was some kind of loss. [straightface -- oh wait you can't see it, heh]

[balancethebooks]

They do. I had a paperweight on it once, and it still came open. I guess this place has decided we'll hear things when it damn well wants us to.

[he heard the deadpan, though, and that'll earn her a dry chuckle]

[saikyou_saiaku]

Well, it does keep residents from being complete shut-ins by forcing updates upon them...what happened to the paperweight, if I may ask?

[\mission accomplished!/ someone's got to poke fun at the situation, after all]

[balancethebooks]

Heh. Maybe that's why mine keeps coming open. ... The paperweight? Oh, it just kind of rolled off the desk onto the floor. I'm glad it didn't break, though.

[saikyou_saiaku]

The upside of carpeting, I suppose.

What about you, sir? How have you been?

[balancethebooks]

I didn't really ever think carpeting had a downside.

I'm well. Keeping myself busy... enjoying the downtime before whatever this place decides to throw at us, next.

[saikyou_saiaku]

[...is tempted to say "the downside's pressed against the floor tiles," but she reckons he's had enough lame jokes for now]

The swamp and its wildlife's to your tastes, then?

[balancethebooks]

[mun just LOL'd like crazy - and needed it. THANKYOU. Timmeh would probably not have been as amused, though]

Not necessarily, but ... I don't leave the castle unarmed. So it's nothing I can't handle. ... Tch, never thought I'd be saying that about mutant alligators.

[saikyou_saiaku]

So long as you don't provoke them, they're not too bad. [bias? what?] Did you know that someone's trying to capture one to keep as a pet?

[balancethebooks]

.... Really? Good god. [makes a face, though he's kind of glad she can't see it]

Someone I know said they'll eat pigs. Don't ask me how he knew, he's ... kind of weird like that.

[saikyou_saiaku]

[o_0] Okay, I won't ask.

Perhaps you should be careful around the indoor pool, in any case. I don't know how the capture attempt went.

[balancethebooks]

.... I didn't even know we had a pool.