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The National Midnight Gaelan

Posted on 2008.10.15 at 10:25
Current Music: Mogwai - I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School (The Hawk is Howling)
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OpEd:

One of those days where you accidentally made a minor mistake, but instead of moving on you attempt to tear yourself down and reconstruct yourself into not being able to do that again.

That being said, I could use a change. I've lost a lot of the anger I've had in the past, I've become pastoral, and that's worrying me. I don't necessarily want to revert to my pre-grad days of seeing past-September black, but hatred has been good to me. Hating people netted me many friends.

I want to say something akin to: "I just bought a cast-iron pan and a butterfly apron. I just made something chi-chi for a dinner party. One day I'll shell three hundred quid on a food processor, and on that day you can suck my dick." But it's not coming out right, it's not coming genuine at all. Where were the days when I could spit out childish obscenities just 'cause? Oh the days of salad, those days of coloured roses.

Come back, Discordia. I didn't mean it, I'm sorry! We can listen to some HEALTH and Mogwai! Maybe we can make out? I'll cook you dinner!

In the words of Kid 606: "Fuck Up Everything You Can Before You Plan On Slowing Down." And, musically, that's pretty much what he did.

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Letters to the

I am honour-bound to post this:
Comment, and I’ll:
a) Tell you why I friended you.
b) Associate you with something -- a fandom, song, color, photo, etc.
c) Tell you something I like about you.
d) Tell you a memory I have of you.
e) Ask you something I've wanted to know about you.
f) Tell you my favorite userpic from your list.
g) In return, you need to post this on your own LJ.
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oneyebrowedbaby
[info]oneyebrowedbaby at 2008-10-15 21:12 (UTC) (Link)
I'm going to have to decline the dinner party invitation, for a reason I think you can respect.

There's this guy I've started chatting with but I only see him Wednesday nights after my evening class at the bus stop. Wanting to see where this goes plus my 9am class tomorrow are enough that I can't attend, and I apologize, but hope you understand.

(I've decided against mentioning to you that he's in CS. Because I want you to approve of me talking to him, not discourage it.)
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man why you even got to do a thing
[info]gaelotek at 2008-10-15 22:20 (UTC) (Link)
CSers deserve to be shot not because they are in CS, but because they are all dicks. So there is hope! Good luck and godspeed, happy seduction!
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oneyebrowedbaby
[info]oneyebrowedbaby at 2008-10-16 03:57 (UTC) (Link)
Like you. You didn't do the meme.
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The Enforcer
[info]theenforcer at 2008-10-17 02:08 (UTC) (Link)
God I hate people in CS.
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man why you even got to do a thing
[info]gaelotek at 2008-10-20 17:34 (UTC) (Link)
a) I know you, simple as that. You're worth knowing as a person, and that means you're worth consuming in all available forms.
b) Your pose. Maybe it's changed post-graduation, but your posture is iconic in a way I can't explain. It confirms your attitude, or vice versa. It is the backbone from which all quintessential Graeme springs forth.
c) I am always comforted by your existential presence. I have confided more in other people, but I have always* felt this common understanding with you that comfortably supplements an actual desire to speak with you in anything but witticism. In a possibly disturbing manner, you exist to me as a sort of guardian angel. A mocking one who always wears shades, but a ever-present floater nonetheless.
d) In 1A you were this guy I barely registered (I think, those times are misty now. My personality was pretty embryonic so I doubt anyone beyond Jeremy and Renjie should have bothered remembering me.) and in 1B you were that guy hugging the wall who made Simpson's references.

However, in 2A I was given my own room. You mentioned early on that, for a short time, the admin was considering pairing us, but that you were pretty glad because you'd have to, "nothing personal Gaelan", throttle me. That was the moment when I first truly appreciated the cut of your jib.

e) How is life at Microsoft / in Seattle? How content are you, overall? Are you finding tinders to strike your various fancies? I normally hate such generic questions of well-being, but you're one of the only people of whom that question fascinates me.

f) All of your userpics are consistently storied, but this one always rubbed me the wrong way. It becomes you in a small way, but not at the large. Then again, perhaps it's a facade. That I can very much respect.
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The Enforcer
[info]theenforcer at 2008-10-21 07:05 (UTC) (Link)
Whoa, okay, I was just saying I hate people in CS. I wasn't expecting an actual answer.

b) Ten or so of us were watching a video that someone had shot of the chaos occurring in the courtyard of move in day during frosh week. There were people coming and going, sort of doing their thing...and as if it were pre-arranged, I slouched into frame from the left, be-sunglasses-ed and looking extremely surly. As I hit mid-frame, I looked to my right, straight into the camera, and stared it down...and then faced forward again and slouched the rest of the way out of the screen. Everyone laughed like hell.

d) In retrospect, I probably wouldn't have throttled you. I've just been conditioned to expect the worst in roommates.

e) I'll get back to you.
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