Strange Conversations: Part One Hundred and Twenty-Eight

What happens when you combine a lack of sleep with instant messaging?

This:

ME: Oh, it’s going okay. Not as motivated to work today as I was yesterday. Life is odd like that.
NICK: Yes, it sure is. I’m having more motivation today than yesterday, oddly enough.
ME: You sucked my motivation away while I was sleeping?!
NICK: Not deliberately!
ME: You’re admitting it?
NICK: Erm, no!
ME: I think you just admitted it . . . Plus why would you “have motivation”? Why do you need that verb plus a nominalisation? Why not just “motivated”?
NICK: Because it is a thing that may be extracted from others when they sleep.