{"id":3499,"date":"2011-10-07T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:33:19","slug":"an-im-conversation-or-what-2-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/an-im-conversation-or-what-2-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"An IM conversation (or What? 2 in one week?!?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaged a friend this morning: This was the discourse &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nGood morning, Starshine. The Earth says, &#8220;How ya doin?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>C:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Earth, as a rule, doesn&#8217;t give a damn how I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nOh, no it does. It told me. It has about 14 people in the world that it decided to consciously concern itself with and surprisingly you are one of 3 Americans. One is a paraplegic in Wyoming, the other is an intern with Henson&#8217;s Creature shop<br \/>\n<em>I pause for a moment<\/em><br \/>\nUm, could you forget what I just said. I don&#8217;t think I was supposed to tell you that<\/p>\n<p><strong>C:<\/strong><br \/>\nI love my friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\n?<\/p>\n<p><strong>C:<\/strong><br \/>\nHow many people do you know who&#8217;d just come out with that, spontaneously?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat, besides me?<br \/>\nYou<\/p>\n<p><strong>C:<\/strong><br \/>\nMy point exactly. Not many of us, so I like the ones there are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn a regular basis, I check in with my wife, &#8220;So, are you bored with me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>C:<\/strong><br \/>\nI take it she says No.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nSo far<\/p>\n<p><em>I then relayed the conversation to my wife and it continued:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>H:<\/strong><br \/>\nThough why would the Earth tell you about these things if you weren&#8217;t one of the people it concerns itself with?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nOh, it doesn&#8217;t concern itself with me. It assumes I can do fine on my own. Actually sometimes comes to me for advise. Well, sometimes; normally it gets annoyed with me when I accidentally tip the vessel of knowledge when it comes to its personal interests. But, you know how it goes \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>H:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou give advice to the Earth. And it hasn&#8217;t spontaneously sprouted a volcano in Washington DC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nTemporally. What the hell do you think Mt. Saint Hellen&#8217;s was. It was the time equivalent of a shot just over the bow.<br \/>\nOh, wait, you said DC<\/p>\n<p><strong>H:<\/strong><br \/>\nyeeeess<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re working on that<br \/>\n<em>I pause for a moment<\/em><br \/>\nUm, could you forget what I just told you. 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