attempt number twenty-one ♻ (voice)

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

Travel tip: if any of you have plans to head the way of the Fire Nation, I suggest brushing up on your … I don't even know. What this is, Japanese? Chinese? The books are all in Chinese. I don't know if this elaborate blob of ink is supposed to mean elephant, oak tree, or "simmer for fifteen minutes or until golden-brown."

[ There's a sigh, followed by a thumping noise as she tosses the book aside. ] I guess I should be focusing on catching up on my own books, anyway. I've got like a million chapters of Spanish to catch up on, and Nietzche doesn't read itself.

Oh, and also? Don't let seasons fool you. It's always warm here. I swear, it's like fifty degrees warmer here than it was in Washington. Which, don't get me wrong, is a good thing. Awesome, even. [ Of course, that might have something to do with the volcano that the castle is on. Which is ... a tiny fact she hasn't picked up on. ]

Comments

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

It's not like I wasted high school away reading his completed works. My philosophy class required all that campaign against morality stuff, and I pretty much threw in the towel after God died and we began living unimportant lives without purpose or direction.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

You took philosophy in high school? God, what did you do, play connect the dots with a picture of Descartes?

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

No, I took philosophy in college. I just ... happened to have read some of his stuff before I picked it up. But thanks to you and Danko, wound up with an incomplete for a grade. And now I'm playing catch up. So, thanks, Sylar. Again.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Philosophy's overrated, anyway. You should be thanking me.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

I happen to enjoy it. What do you know? Another thing we don't have in common.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

But there are so many other things we share.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

The only thing I share with you is a mutual hatred for who you are.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

I think that's another thing we differ on, actually.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

Right. You like yourself so much you're coming to me on your knees, begging me to help you change.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

When are you getting around to that, by the way?

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

Make an appointment. I'm busy.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you sound busy, with all that Nietzche and Kung Pao chicken crap.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

If it were as easy as kung pao chicken, I wouldn't be wanting to tear my hair out every time I try to decipher a cookbook.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Crab rangoon?

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

You're not funny.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

I just want some crab rangoon.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

I'll make you some broken glass rangoons instead, how about that?

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

I think I'll just stick with the crab rangoon, thanks.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

Whatever. Just as long as you're eating them far away from me.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

I'd share if you wanted some.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

Bite me.

[intuitivelyapt.livejournal.com]

Only if you're made out of crab rangoon.

[autophoenix.livejournal.com]

... I'm considering that a good thing.