Strange Conversations: Part Seven
Posted 27 April 2008 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
After a highly convivial Doctor Who night, Nick and I are both feeling a little tender. We were committed to another event today, but when we rang up to get directions we found that it had been cancelled.
So, with the unexpected gap in our schedules, Nick is planning on downloading more of the Sam and Max episodic video game, and I’m reading another Stephenie Meyer book.
(I should be finishing my marking, yes—but werewolves are more compelling right now.)
But the conviviality of last night might explain the following conversation, held while Nick was trying to put together a load of washing.
NICK: Once again, key T-shirts remain elusive.
ME: You just don’t have the skills. Treena has mad T-shirt-finding skillz. [Yes, I occasionally speak of myself in the third person. It’s perfectly normal. Shush.]
Pause
ME: I’m sadly domesticated. I don’t want mad T-shirt-finding skillz. I want mad ninja skillz.
NICK: Ah, well—you have to work for those.
ME: Hey! I worked for my T-shirt-finding skillz!
Still, you don’t get quite the same kudos for being able to regularly locate a Penny Arcade Photoshop Hero T-shirt as you do if you just flip out and kill people all the time, do you?
Share your thoughts [4]
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Tim wrote at Apr 27, 02:17 am
Less kudos, but you probably have better karma for it.
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Catriona wrote at Apr 27, 05:13 am
Plus, less internal conflict if you want to hold a pirate party. Can you imagine, a bunch of ninjas struggling with their desire to celebrate Internal Talk Like a Pirate Day?
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Matthew Smith wrote at Apr 28, 04:42 am
Paired sock finding skillz are in high demand at our place. Also shoe and slipper finding since we got the dogs.
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Catriona wrote at Apr 28, 05:00 am
Sadly, I have no paired-sock finding skillz, since the only shoes I own that require socks are my Docs—and since they’re knee highs, no one can tell whether I’m wearing matching socks or not.
It’s bred a blase attitude towards socks, I can tell you.
I do wish I had mad skillz at finding my glasses when I’m not wearing my glasses, though—that would come in handy.