003 >> June 16 - Afternoon - Text

[hollowleg]

Ok, so all that stuff that happened in the mine? Fuck that. Fuck all that stuff. I don't want to hear about it at all for the next week and do you want to know why

Because it's my goddamn birthday tomorrow (the 17th!!!) and I am going to be 23 and I am having a party because I need a party right now like no one's business. I have been baking all day because I bake when I'm upset and I now have a giant chocolate cake and more cupcakes than I know what to do with and also I seem to have acquired a metric fuckton of booze somehow I don't even know it must have fallen out of the sky and into my liquor cabinet.

My apartment (located at [ADDRESS NEAR THE CULINARY SCHOOL]) has a game room with tables and TV and pool and whatever the fuck all else you could possibly want and I booked it for monday evening and if you want to come and eat my cupcakes PLEASE DO.

only one rule

we dont talk about the mine.

we can all talk about it later, but not at awesome caketime party. saving the earth can wait for like five seconds.

presents are optional but c'mon you know you want to bring me a present.

Comments

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[espigeonage]

lol, only if you don't mind me just not talking! I can text just fine, obviously.

text;

[hollowleg]

perfectly fine. you got a cold?

plz say its just a cold and not some supernatural bullshit.

[espigeonage]

Since you insist, it's a cold. A new and non-contagious cold. Or maybe laryngitis. But I can't fake coughing it sounds ridiculous.

[hollowleg]

ok good now I don't have to ask. just bring your phone or a white board or something and I have heard cupcakes are good for definitely-just-normal-colds

[espigeonage]

lol, I've heard that too. Especially ones with lemon.

[hollowleg]

yep and my strawberry lemonade cupcakes are second to none. lemon cake with strawberry filling, and a sweet strawberry and lemon zest buttercream on top... along with a slice of strawberry and a candied lemon slice. You'll die and go to dessert heaven

[espigeonage]

Any chance of appealing to the big guy for transfer to somewhere with a hint of bitter? I don't think I've been good enough to deserve such sweetness~

[hollowleg]

ha. I guess you can always go to 90% cacao heaven instead :P

[espigeonage]

Or Purgatory! Doomed to wander with the other desultory nibblers who wouldn't commit to one flavor, rootless and migratory. In heaven they say we are lost and might one day find our way.

[yeah he doesn't dislike chocolate or very sweet things, but he's not particularly fond of them, either.]

[hollowleg]

fffs. you're very poetic aren't you?

[espigeonage]

It was my useless major! Imagine how heartbroken I'd be to have put in that work without picking something up along the way.

[hollowleg]

oh you'd probably like my brother then. i guess I can talk about him since i just found out he's part of our secret number club too. he majored in english lit and focused on shakespeare.

he's a barista now ha

[espigeonage]

Excellent. You can now put a bet on one of the three: we'll take to each other instantly, hate each other on sight, or nothing will click and it will be awkward and pointless.

I've been a little bit of everything! But now I'm the one the code monkeys get to devirus their computers. And the chores-doer at a clinic. It's not bad.

[hollowleg]

probably the first. he's always been good at making friends.

oh you work at the clinic with Dr Strider? hes a good guy

[espigeonage]

Better and better. So am I.

He is. Of course the fact I think so is well established, lol. I just hope I can keep working there and get it on my epitaph.

[He is Worried About Strider but wouldn't mention that here even if that stuff hadn't been declared off limits.]

[hollowleg]

Good. You guys can be friends then. You can complain about your useless degrees.

hahah don't be thinking about things like that, though, man.

[espigeonage]

What, that's too weird? C'mon. I've wanted something clever since I heard about this one comedian's. "I told you I was sick."

[hollowleg]

any other time I'd say "go for it", but considering the situation we all find ourselves in...

[espigeonage]

True, true. Guess it's not something to joke about just now.


Okay, the stuff I want on the dedication when I publish something, then.

[hollowleg]

there you go. that's the idea. ha!