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RP: Lazy Night Routine

May 03, 2011 20:06

Date: May 3, 2011
Characters: Isaac Greenberg, Luke Rafferty
Location: Their condo
Status: Private
Summary: Just a relaxed night in with fast food and herbal soothers.
Completion: Incomplete

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character: isaac greenberg, post: private, location: private residence, character: luke rafferty, may 2011

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luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 00:25:01 UTC

"Huh?" Luke was zoning out, elbow on the arm of the sofa as he watched the tv screen. He hadn't been smoking, but a contact high was pretty much unavoidable. He didn't mind, though.

Focusing on Isaac's question, he glanced at the little watermark at the corner of the screen, then focused on Detective Benson, who was striding somewhere. "Oh. SVU. It's a rerun, I'm pretty sure, but um, not really sure what's going on either."

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 00:46:37 UTC

"TNT." He determined with a squint. He wasn't sure where he'd put his glasses down last and he'd taken his contacts out ages ago. Pot tried his eyes too much to make wearing them comfortable. "Probably just keep rolling into each other on a recursive Law and Order loop. Law and Order mobius strip....fuck. How was work?"

He hadn't actually asked him yet today he didn't think and he liked to know. Wanted to know about the mundane ins and outs of Luke's life which seemed to make more cohesive sense then his own.

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 01:00:01 UTC

"So it's all technically the same episode playing forever? Which means it'll never, ever end?" Luke frowned and tilted his head at the screen, then shrugged. "Whatever. SVU marathons are like really disturbing comfort food...slash-background noise."

He tipped his head back against the couch cushion. "Busy, mostly. I think it must be finals week, or close to it. Getting lots of overflow from the colleges."

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 01:02:00 UTC

"Well each episode is practically identical, so yeah. And TNT barely show anything else." He stretched one leg until his knee popped then sagged back with a happy sigh. "Yeah, it's biscuits for the brain.

"Do you have to keep telling them that they're paying to use their college library which actually has the stuff they're looking for?" He closed his eyes, easily conjuring up a public librarian who'd scolded him for just that not long ago.

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 01:10:11 UTC

"I'd like to tell them that," he admitted, "but they get really desperate this time of the year. You know how it is." Neither of them was that far removed from all that, he supposed, between college and grad school. "Don't really have the heart to tell them all is lost if they're having to resort to a public library. I mean, I like our reference section I guess, but for a student it kind of sucks."

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 01:12:48 UTC

"Maybe you should just put 'Abandon all Hope, Ye Who Enter Here' above you instead of 'Reference Desk'." He offered, chewing on a bit of biscuit contemplatively. "And listen to you being all nice to the wee undergrads. Weren't we just mocking them two years ago for their fresh faced naivete?"

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 01:19:58 UTC

Luke giggled. Not that he was a giggler. But yeah. "Just Buy The Essay At This Point," he intoned, and reached for a biscuit himself.

"You were mocking," he corrected. "I was only silently colluding in the mocking. I tried not to laugh, anyway." Isaac was better at mocking even if it was never malicious. It was one of those things that required a quick tongue.

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 01:24:40 UTC

Isaac grinned up at him.

"You totally encouraged my mockery. You're...a mockery enabler." He blinked blearily at him. "Essay writing....I could totally subsidize our income doing that. I read this article about this guy that makes his living writing other people's doctorates. Isn't that crazy?"

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 01:34:50 UTC

Luke snorted and looked down at Isaac. "I think the better question is what don't I enable with you?" Probably too much, but...what was too much anyway? Luke wasn't his keeper even if it seemed that way occasionally, and besides, Isaac lived kind of balls to the wall, and Luke admired that. Another one of the ways they balanced out, and he wouldn't want to stifle it. But his mind was wandering. He watched a wisp of smoke curl upward.

"You used to write your own papers so fast," he remembered. "You could definitely do it. But essays is one thing. What kind of guy enjoys writing doctorates?" Luke was bookish, but even he had lines.

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 01:37:51 UTC

"You don't let me urinate in public when drunk." He offered after some speculation. "Thanks for that, by the way."

He didn't expect Luke to mind him and was usually pretty miffed that his sister thought he did. They watched out for each other and that was good enough.

"I don't know if he enjoys it." He pointed out. "Just makes his living doing it which is different, but yeah. He had to be super anonymous which would probably be annoying. Still it does sound like some easy money and gives me an excuse to keep up all my random research."

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 01:53:56 UTC

"If I let you do that I don't think enabling would be the right word," he mused. "It'd be unspeakable. Friends don't let friends pee in public."

"Guess not," he said, "not everyone can afford to actually like what they do I guess. But would really have to do much research? Those papers get so repetitive. Though you could switch majors, write for different students from different departments." He wondered briefly if Isaac was really considering it. "Wonder how you'd get into a business like that. You'd have to be really sneaky. A paper dealer." He laughed."

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 01:58:13 UTC

"It'd be like uh...oh the Unforgivables!" He wasn't a huge Harry Potter fan, but he'd have to have been on another planet to miss the movies growing up and he'd retained some of it. "I'd have to send you to friend Azkaban or something."

"Probably even less glamorous than in sounds. I think they work through websites or something." He thought about it. "Nah, sounds like too much trouble. I'll stick to odd accounting bullshit while I figure out how to make art lucrative."

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 02:04:27 UTC

"Friend Azkaban," Luke repeated slowly. "You are high."

"Yeah it's no fun unless you can lurk in alleys and such, or have your own phone tree," he mused. "Speaking of odd accounting bullshit, how are things going at the ranch?" It was still weird to consider that Isaac was working for Shosh.

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 02:08:06 UTC

"Well, yeah. That's what happens when I inhale." He said sagely. "Anyway, I'm not really really high. Shit's too mild for that. Pleasantly buzzed."

"Phone trees are fun? Thought they used those for snow days or something." He shrugged a little, shoulders pushing into Luke's thigh. "It's all right. Her books weren't as bad as I thought and I've got most of it into a decent online system so she can enter stuff on her end and let me balance stuff on mine."

luke_riffraff May 4 2011, 02:32:17 UTC

"No, I've seen you really really high," he agreed. "You're not even getting existential yet, or anything."

"Online'll make it so you don't have to go in as much," Luke mused, "which is nice work if you can get it. But you know I don't have a problem running you over there."

isaacgreenberg May 4 2011, 02:35:43 UTC

"I could totally start though. Have I given you my Descartes lecture recently? You'll stop having it memorized if don't give you judicious reapplications." He savored the word judicious making it several syllables too long.

"Thanks for that, but it'll mostly be here. I'll figure out the buses around here eventually to get there. Or something. Only think I miss about New York aside from the food is the public transport." He sighed. "Might have to do something drastic. Like learn how to drive."

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