scenes from a beta relationship

[heresluck]

Today was a sucky vidding day. I thought I knew what I was doing with the second chorus. I spliced and shuffled with glee. Then I looked at what I had wrought and lo, it was crap

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[renenet]

she refrained from being helpful while I was whining, which is not quite true, but she only tried it once and then remembered that it never does a bit of good

Ha! But I did catch myself this time. And then I suggested that you whine some more so I could practice remembering. Huh. That sounds kind of sarcastic written out like that, but I was serious. (You know, sometimes I think you're right when you say that I'm very strange.)

I think you and I communicate through translator microbes. Or something. Direct neural link, perhaps. Except when it goes on the fritz, as it is prone to do when spatial relations are involved. We should really try to upgrade the system for better 3-D data transfer.

[heresluck]

Now that we're not actually trying to extract unwieldy things from a truck or carry them up stairs, I find our inability to communicate about spatial relations hilarious in its ineffectualness. I am inclined to blame the problem on Mely, who has apparently been absconding with the brain cell again.

Also, I cannot *believe* you actually encouraged me to whine. Whining is never attractive, and I suspect mine is more unappealing than most. That's some serious invocation of the Foibles Principle.

[renenet]

Mely's hoarding the brain cell, isn't she? It's no wonder I've been such a sub-verbal spaz lately. You go through her things when she visits you and see if you can steal it back, okay?

Whining, although never attractive, is sometimes useful and even necessary. Since friendship with superpowers is all about the useful and necessary (among many other things), they totally trump such superficial categories as attractiveness. Besides, your head exploding from pent-up whining would be far less attractive. You police your own whining pretty damn well. You either cut yourself off or exhaust yourself from it *long* before it's wearing on my nerves; consequently, it's just another mode of communication from my favorite, as far as I'm concerned.

[par_avion]

The toaster/teapot exchange made me laugh! Too cute. If I had talent, or even PSE and no talent, I'd make you a "bravest of all the kitchen appliances" icon.

[heresluck]

You know, on reflection, it really should have been "teakettle"; I'm not sure a teapot is an appliance per se.

Possibly I'm overthinking.

But I do like the idea of a teakettle icon. I would want it to look just like MY teakettle, which is a delightfully shiny little thing.

[renenet]

You know, on reflection, it really should have been "teakettle"; I'm not sure a teapot is an appliance per se.

I've been waiting nearly 24 hours for this. Thank you.

Possibly I'm overthinking.

Predictably. And I love that.

[heresluck]

Words to live by. *g*

[tzikeh]

Remind me, at our next meeting, to do the "I'm a Little Teapot" dance for you.

[heresluck]

Uh-oh.

[sisabet]

Oh. Yes, you're right. It's "I'm a little teapot," and "the brave little toaster." You're the bravest of all the kitchen appliances.

I wanna be somewhere, that both of you are also at, right now. Forgive the awkwardness of that sentence and my inability to contain prepositions and also control the commas. My love for you both has stricken me.

[heresluck]

We were both in Milwaukee last night. You shoulda been. You were invoked, actually. I started organizing renenet's CDs, because I just could not live with the chaos anymore, and she said "it's like sisabet organizing electronic equipment cables!" And we both smiled and sighed and missed you. In fact, we were doing that riiiiight around the time you posted this comment. Coincidence?

And yes, aren't we loveable? We *really* are.

[renenet]

I certainly love us. And I should know.