Past the Point of No Return (2 lefts and a wrong turn from easy street)

I talk about you in abstractions because that’s how we communicate, on the whole. (On the whole and never by halves and probably about a third as often as I would like.) You’re quick. Quick to respond and quick to write and quick to laugh and quick to comfort. I imagine words flying straight out of your head and appearing in the little boxes on my screen, no fingers involved. You’re happy in love and dedicated to many things and I envy that, but am glad for you. We’re alike in many ways. It’s the differences that make it fun.

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<333

Do you want me to do your 100 words here or on your lj?

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On my LJ, if you could - I'd like to keep them all in one place so I can memory the post afterwards.

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Okay. ^^ I'll do all the replies on other people's LJs, I think. It makes more sense that way, easier to keep the meme going.

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BUT I HAVE NOT THE TIME (or the inclination!) TO DO THIS PROPERLY! I AM SUPPOSED TO BE WRITING SAID ESSAY! I TURNED DOWN A NIGHT ON THE TOWN FOR THIS SINGULAR ACT OF ORGANISATION! WHAT THEN, SIOBHANOLIO?

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Psst, Eujaaaaar - while you're online, are you coming to Tink's Halloween party tomorrow? Because I know you're one of the ones she's not sure about.

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oh! yes! i am! i'm like, scrambling for a costume, but yes - but i lost my invitation! when does it start? are we crashing there? if so, is it sleeping gear kind of crashing? do you want me to bring any grog or food or what? SORRY TO BE SO LAME, I'VE JUST BEEN REALLY BUSY AND STRESSED AND DISORGANISED LATELY. and answering your meme gets done with i hit one thousand words on the classic mayas ;)

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Starts at 3pm, if you want to crash there it's probably fine but a good idea to ring and let her know, but if not - party ends at midnight.

*reels off information*

Good luck with the essay. I'm pulling together a research paper and trying to make my molecular biology look like I've actually been putting effort into it all semester. Ehehe.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!... probably i should not stay later than midnight, or else all my delicious candy will, cinderella style, transmute into ARTICLES I HAVE NOT READ YET WOE ;_; thanks for the information, and again i'm sorry to suck so much in a single evening. i hope your insanely complicated-sounding molecular biology goes well - i'm familiar with this 'faking-of-effort' assessment technique myself.

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you and i don't see each other all that often these days, which is an ULTRA SHAME, because when (by some mysterious alignment of the planets) we do come to be in the same place at the same time, we usually wind up having a lot of fun - of the hilarious and high-pitched and wildly imaginative and crazy idea-spinning variety i'm only able to have with you, and which i do actually miss. whenever i'm worried that we have a friendship based on nostalgia, i remember how no matter what the length of time, within a couple of minutes this magic click happens: and we go back to the same easy insults we always have. to conclude, you're pretty awesome ;D

EGADS!

one hundred and THIRTY whole words???

i excuse myself in that i have written no less than TWELVE THOUSAND FREAKIN' WORDS WORTH OF ESSAYS this term and have another three to go before i'm finished, and so beg leniency in this instance.

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EW! 12K of essay? That is disgusting! *showers with sympathy*

And I don't think we have a friendship based on nostalgia, awesometown, because it's never hard to talk to each other. We don't see each other as much, but that's circumstances; it's not really about you or me. We're still essentially the same people, and our personalities match just as well as they always have. I want to watch Advent Children with you, we'll have to find a time after the exams!

Are you going to do the meme on your lj or do you want me to do it for you here? ^^

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AWWW, WE SHALL. i'm totally downloading some SWEET, NINTIES ANIMATED BATMAN to go with my stash of angry beavers, so i say we wallow in our childhoods some at the earliest opportunity. and yeah - -;; turns out i accidentally signed up for a second year history course, and somehow they let me? but MASSIVE essays. and uh, here? UNLESS THAT JUST WAS THE MEME, in which case, thank you?

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AUGH MY COMMENT GOT EATEN. *hulkSMASH!*

Okay, so like, as I was SAYING: 2nd year is teh bitch! I'm in a second year Japanese Linguistics course, hence the stacks of reading and 3000 word research essay. *weep* But 12K is just... way excessive. O.o; (Law is also a bitch, which makes me fear next year's workload for it. Eeeeep.)

NINETIES BATMAN! HAHA, OH YEAH. Wallowing in our childhoods sounds grand to me!

And that was just me responding to what you said, so now: response. (I'm not counting the words, but I should be able to judge approximately.)

You're right that we haven't seen each other much this year. That's a lot uni's fault, but it's also a lot my fault too. I'm sorry for that; over the last few years, I've become quite bad at socialising outside the internet. But, to me, it matters that the times I do spend together with important people are fun. If I had to choose, I'd rather have a few long happy outings than short meetings where we don't do or talk about meaningful things. I'm not even sure if that makes sense outside my head, but I hope it does. For all that we sometimes fight, and for all that I get scared of conflict at times-- you are a very important part of my life. You have been for years, and even when I don't see you that often, you still are. Recently, I've been talking to a friend about FFVII a lot. Every time I do, it makes me think of you. Certain things are always linked to you in my head; and I suppose that's part nostalgia, but those shared experiences are also what makes you a part of me. Just like they continue to do.

Hm, I think that was more than 100 words.

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*HUGTOWN*

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*SUPER HUGTOWN!*

MY FAULT ALSO!! i've been pretty horrible at making time to be on msn and hang with you that way - so it's not that we don't love spendin' tha time together, it's just finding a medium in which to DO it in, hah *grin* we suck, in a really cute way. though i know what you mean about special times - it DOES feel really special when we get together. old friends are special friends, and there's no feeling like old friends reacquainted (i think there might even be a saying about it.) hey, maybe next year our schedules will be less spectacularly not together, and we can have like, lunches and coffees and stuff? we haven't had a decent fight in like, at least a year, maybe even two - i'm totally looking forward to fights in a whole new cafe atmosphere! >:D just kidding. every time i see rufus, i think of that adorable book you used to write in maths. you still have that? AND

OMG IN MY ENGLISH TUTORIAL HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE GUY WITH THE HOLE IN HIS SHOE????? HE PLAYS FF7 NOT AS PRETENTIOUS AS I THOUGHT OMGOMGOGMGGOMGG SRSLY THIS IS A COMMUNICATIONS BREAKTHROUGH WITH HIM

and THIS is why we need to get together, so we can rant at each other about stuff like this, because i know you'd understand. man! i wish you were here! i really want to tell you about the saga! my lecturer talked about slash, he described it as "ALL WHOA" (DIRECT QUOTE!) i've gotta get back to work, but basically, you're super important to me to and most deeply mutually integral to the horrible evolution process i've undergone over the years, and i do miss you JUST A LITTLE, so let's hang out REALLY SOON, K? like, in three weeks time! my exams end on the 8th!!

AND TO MAKE CLEAR: several essays make this 12k, not one, because that truly would be a bitch of a subject (OR AN HONOURS YEAR HAHAHAHAAHAHAAH *DIES AT INEVITABLE DOOM OF THE FUTURE*) though i ultimately pity you your japanese, because three thousand word essays are both too long, and alarmingly, TOO SHORT for any decent thing you want to write ;__;

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Oh, yes, I know you meant cumulative 12K (and yes, it IS honours thesis length otherwise XD) but I only had to write the one essay for JapLing. That's what I find so feral.

*SUPER HUGTOWN BACK*

Man, I can't stop grinning right now, duuuuuuude. <3333 We've always sucked in a fairly spectacularly cute way, you and I. And sometimes in a not so cute way, too. ^~

Which book? The shiny silver one with the FFVII crack in or another one? And if you mean that one: I'm not sure! I was thinking about it earlier today, actually (psychic!) so I think I may try to hunt it out.

OOH OOH THAT IS A MAJOR COMMUNICATION BREAKTHROUGH! No one who plays FFVII can be ALL bad.

Okay, work, I'll let you get back to it. *hug* Work is what I should be doing, but instead I'm reading yaoi manga! Wahahahah!

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we DEFINE spectacularly-lamely-truely-pathetically-cute. we always did, from the time mrs fry in desperation said we could draw hideous pictures of link in class if we related them to what we were learning in ANY way. and shiny silver crack one! seriously, find it, that crack was the best! DUDE, DID YOU KNOW THAT FRITZ FRAUNDORF - of bluebluebluegreenblueblueblueYELLOW! fame, remember that, or it is only me? i swear, we used to chant that ALL THE TIME - has an lj? i found it ages ago and forgot to tell you. i would friend him, but after all these years i am still too ~~starstruck~~, for he was genius.

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OH MY GOD I'D FORGOTTEN THAT! *laughs hysterically* And in that spirit I once drew triganometry slash! Which was kind of Mari's idea! Did I ever tell you about that? Because, like, Opposite was always on top! Hypoteneuse was always on the bottom! XD

ARGH I'VE SEARCHED EVERYWHERE BUT I CAN'T FIND IT! >< I've turned up heaps of old crap but not the old crap I WANT. I really hope I didn't throw it out in the fit of zealous cleaning in January...

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OMG OMG OMG I FOUND IT.

Also I forgot to reply to the second bit-- That rings bells! I don't quite remember! DID IT INVOLVE REEVE OR AM I INSANE.

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littledust.livejournal.com

I love you so much that I actually opened Microsoft Word for you. I desperately want to visit you, so of course you live FAR AWAY. But when that visit does happen, some wild wackiness is going down. You’ve really been amazing for me, you know. My writing partner, my friend, my e-shoulder to cry on (although we know my love of RL-shoulders), my hope that if I can find a braintwin across the globe, then I can certainly find one somewhat closer to me. And you know, at college I finally have, but you’ll always be special to me.

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... That's so sweet. *hug*

I'll answer yours over at your LJ.

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schiarire.livejournal.com

It’s coming up on our second spurious Internet anniversary but there are still so many things I don’t know about you (though the interview helped). What’s to say? someday we’ll live sinfully somewhere terribly exotic and try to out-laze each other.

You are very smart. Poor grades are about as meaningful as the less-famous legacies of Martin Luther’s privy in this respect and I just hope that you will remember that (diddums). Your Japanese has come so far just in the short time we’ve known each other! And you should be really proud.

You’re perhaps the most fluent person I know, and by that I mean that you have the greatest sheer word count output, which is something I personally admire immensely because it’s like pulling teeth to get just ten words straight out of me. I’ve compared this quality before to the fecundity of ignorant immigrant couples with no birth control, but only because I’m a smartass. We both know I didn’t mean it really. But you can still smack me for that one.

I’m always impressed with you. I wish I were that competent.

WHOSA PRETTY GIRL DEN

*ooze and goo*

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*oozes and goos back* I love you so much. <3 Most of the people I really care about have answered this meme, and that makes me so happy.

What things don't you know about? You should know you can ask me questions at any time and I'll always be happy to answer, whatever the question.

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corialis.livejournal.com

You are you and therefore amazing. *g* In all seriousness, though, you are, and I envy you your astonishing skill at being able to come up with so many pretty story words and you have a fantastic, contagious laugh and we need to meet so very badly. I can have crack-addled conversations involving excessive capslock – well, or they would if there were such a thing as too much capslock – with you one day and then cry to you about my problems the next and you’re there regardless. Your emails this summer brightened my days completely and whenever you’re worried or upset it makes me distressed and I want to make you happy.

I really, really need to get better at answering emails, because not being able to talk to you as much as before is very not-fun.

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... I love you. *hug* You should come online. Come on Googletalk, maybe. Even though I shouldn't seduce you away from your work.

Are you going to do the meme on your journal or should I reply here?

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corialis.livejournal.com

*hugs back* Love you too dear.

I ended up crashing last night, but I might be on tonight. Lots of essay writing to do. Yaaaay. ._.

Hm. *weighs hands* Will post on journal. Why not.

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