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[pointyend]

All the New Order and burgers in the world are not going to stop my friggin' arm from hurting. Bastard vamp

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[monticello_tj]

I do not believe what you eat has very much effect on the pain your body experiences at injury, though I admit modern science has proven me wrong on many a concept.

[monticello_tj]

It is quite all right; I do not mind. In truth, history sees me as a man quite more godlike than I am, and it is a relief not to be confronted with the like of a grocery list of my most enduring accomplishments.

[pointyend]

So people like... go all fanatical on you? Personally I just don't know how you guys do it. I mean, you have a country to run. Not just your own lives. I think it's pretty amazing. Gotta be stressful, though.

[monticello_tj]

It was stressful in the extreme. I quite commonly retired to my estate in Virginia, even as President of the United States. It was more my intent to become a farmer than a statesman, but it seemed history had other plans.

[pointyend]

So are you not happy with anything you did as President? Or proud of anything? Were you always just wishing you were a farmer? I mean, I'm not saying it's bad. We all get stuck doing something we'd probably not rather do. Like me not wanting to be alone sometimes in this particular "job". But I guess sometimes callings are like that. You don't always get a choice.

[monticello_tj]

On the contrary, I have extraordinary pride in my accomplishments, and in the fledgling nation that I, and others, had a great hand in creating. Politics always seemed to call me, rather than the other way around. Perhaps why I now have such affinity for Slayers; I do empathize with the calling you have received.

[pointyend]

Always makes me wonder what the Powers That Be must see in us to think we can handle it. Like, why us? Guess we're all just stronger than we think.

[monticello_tj]

Stronger than we think, perhaps, but still weaker than we wish.

[pointyend]

My job would be so easy if I was invulnerable. But probably not the strength you're talking about.

[monticello_tj]

There is more than one kind of invulnerability, and I think slaying takes its toll on both body and heart.

Tell me, do you find it easier now that there are many of you?

[pointyend]

Wouldn't being President, too? Had to have been some long hours and lack of rest in there.

Hm... yeah, I guess. We're all still pretty spread out. Guess it's nice knowing you have backup and stuff. Or people to relate to. Sometimes it's still a solo gig.

[monticello_tj]

The President was much less of a full-time job in those days, I assure you. I attempted to ensure an adequate amount of sleep each night, after reading and correspondence was completed in the evening.

Sometimes it is not the physical backing that counts, but merely knowing that companionship exists.

[pointyend]

You're a good man for doing that. I can kind of see it as a position that might promote obsessiveness. Always worrying that if you're not there nothing gets done.

Definitely like the companionship. Plus it helps to have girls who know what they're doing and can teach us when we're new. Not everyone gets a Watcher these days.

[monticello_tj]

'Obsessive', I believe, was the right word. There was a better record of the decisions and conferences of my Presidency than any until, I believe, the release of the Watergate tapes. Even then, I would assert that the memos and letters from my governance were both more useful and decipherable than such audio recordings.

[pointyend]

Have you ever read the Watcher Diaries? Because you might find some notes to rival yours. Personally, I couldn't agree more about notes versus recordings. I know we live in the modern age, but there's only so much watching and listening you can do. Reading means you can stick a marker in it and come back to it. Somehow when you stop watching something it's easier to forget it.