I hate the world right now.

[x_cable]

I just felt you all needed to know that. Especially since typing on the laptop is just about the extent of the moving I can do that doesn't hurt.

I hate the world, but I hate Russia especially. I think I'm going to stop going. No more republics, no more 'stans, no more Nathan getting his ass kicked.

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x_skin
2007-08-20 10:53 pm (UTC)
no more Nathan getting his ass kicked

You promise?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 10:54 pm (UTC)
No. Because apparently kicking my ass is a new and exciting spectator sport.
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x_firestar
2007-08-20 11:08 pm (UTC)
no more 'stans.

Poor Stan.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:10 pm (UTC)
Stan deserves no pity. Stan is an evil pitiless bastard who gets me shot, blown up, or otherwise beaten to crap on a regular basis. I have justifiable prejudice against Stan. Down with Stan!
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x_firestar
2007-08-20 11:15 pm (UTC)
Maybe Stan just wants a friend and is totally going about it the wrong way?

Like, with a club?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:20 pm (UTC)
Stan is deeply misunderstood and hasn't been taught how to work out his issues in non-violent ways. That's the ticket. Poor uneducated Stan. I still want to beat him right back.
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x_firestar
2007-08-20 11:25 pm (UTC)
I'd say beat Stan with kindness but, really, beating him with a chicken leg is tastier.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:31 pm (UTC)
I don't think a chicken leg would quite do it. I'll sit here and fantasize about what I could hit Stan with. It's strangely comforting.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:47 pm (UTC)
I think she meants chicken feet, which doesn't seem like it'd work either.

Who is Stan anyway?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:50 pm (UTC)
Stan is the embodiment of evil.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:52 pm (UTC)
I thought Stan was the kid from South Park with the red and blue hat.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:54 pm (UTC)
Stan takes many forms.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:55 pm (UTC)
So if Stan beat you up, where was Cartman?

Does this make you Kenny? Do you have an orange parka?
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:07 am (UTC)
I once had an orange parka. Its fate is a long, sad story.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-21 12:11 am (UTC)
You're not gonna share?

Hey, did they make you have a trainee name before you were an X-Man? I can't find it anywhere.
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x_firestar
2007-08-21 12:03 am (UTC)
Mr. Dayspring? I think you need a new hobby.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:08 am (UTC)
I wholeheartedly agree.
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x_firestar
2007-08-21 12:11 am (UTC)
I hear underwater basket weaving is nice these days.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:14 am (UTC)
Entirely too sedate.
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x_firestar
2007-08-21 12:15 am (UTC)
...you know, you'd think so. Unless you didn't take any diving equipment and then you'd totally have to hold your breath while doing it.
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x_jeangrey
2007-08-21 01:27 am (UTC)
I'm in favor of you getting more sedate hobbies, actually. I think I'd get more sleep that way.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 01:31 am (UTC)
I was a bear last night, wasn't I?
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x_jeangrey
2007-08-21 01:38 am (UTC)
Yes, yes you were. I've decided I'm displeased with your whole gender.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-21 03:27 am (UTC)
RAWR!
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:14 pm (UTC)
I think you should add "no more inviting guests."

The swelling's not too bad today, though.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:19 pm (UTC)
Did you see what hit us, by the way? Because I didn't.
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:25 pm (UTC)
Pipe, for both of us. From the sounds of it my head trauma was lighter, but I'm not sure it was worth getting to watch it happen.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:27 pm (UTC)
A pipe?

I'm going to be over here being utterly mortified. The gas main, the bus, the girder, and various buildings didn't take me out, and a pipe does?
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:31 pm (UTC)
Uh, how many times have you been hit on the head that you're actually upset you didn't get bludgeoned by something bigger?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:33 pm (UTC)
It's a pride thing. It's like an Olympic-level figure skater falling on a single axel.
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:38 pm (UTC)
Well, I guess the spirit of one-upsmanship would explain a lot of your track record in the Medlab.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:42 pm (UTC)
Missing the point. I get laughed at less when it's something less mundane.
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:43 pm (UTC)
Like the considerably less frequent coatrack?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:45 pm (UTC)
Actually, I doubt people will ever stop laughing at me about the coatrack.
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:48 pm (UTC)
Sort of my point.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:48 pm (UTC)
Was it the same dude as the coatrack?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:52 pm (UTC)
No.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:54 pm (UTC)
I think that's probably good, because if it was the same guy, you know he'd have like, little black Nate stickers on his car or something. Or some kind of MySpace with gloaty comments.

I bet someone's made a Magneto was Right MySpace.
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x_legion
2007-08-21 12:01 am (UTC)
I hope there aren't stickers. With all the eligible recipients they'd probably cause environmental hazards.

But anyway, you might want to check for the database for the report in a couple of days.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-21 12:04 am (UTC)
Why? Did Magneto make a MySpace? That'd be pretty fucked up right there.
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x_legion
2007-08-21 12:07 am (UTC)
. . . actually not what I meant, but from what I've heard about Toad and the amount of time the Brotherhood probably has the more I think about it the more probable it seems.

But no. For the mission report I just meant more detailed news. (Tell me if there's a map attached for the location. I'm not sure where we were either.)
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x_wildchild
2007-08-21 12:12 am (UTC)
Toad's enough of a lameo dork to make a Myspace. I mean, dude, Myspace is like, so 2005.

Were you in Stanstanistan?
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x_ccelerate
2007-08-20 11:23 pm (UTC)
Foolish optimism, Dayspring. All avoiding Russia will do, knowing you, is inspire you to find new and different ways to get your ass kicked. What you really ought to promise yourself is "duck better, and not blow things up."
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:25 pm (UTC)
I dislike you very profoundly right now.
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:27 pm (UTC)
Weird, I feel a surge of kinship.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:29 pm (UTC)
That's because you have your pedantic moments too.
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x_ccelerate
2007-08-20 11:33 pm (UTC)
Nobody likes hearing the truth.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:36 pm (UTC)
Bite me. I'll have you know that I didn't blow anything up. At all.
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x_ccelerate
2007-08-20 11:42 pm (UTC)
I notice you say nothing about needing to duck better.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:43 pm (UTC)
Oh, pardon me for not having eyes in the back of my head.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-20 11:51 pm (UTC)
Aren't you supposed to have shields, Lobotomy boy?
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:53 pm (UTC)
I used them all up.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-20 11:56 pm (UTC)
They're not exactly food stamps, Nathan!
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:59 pm (UTC)
Food stamps! I love your metaphors, Lorna.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 12:01 am (UTC)
Of course, if they were food stamps, you might be more careful with rationing them.

Well, perhaps not. You'd probably give them to some orphan on the street then bring her home and enroll her in classes.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:03 am (UTC)
Are you casting aspersions on my recruitment abilities, woman? I think you are.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 12:05 am (UTC)
Would I do a thing like that?

That reminds me, I need to talk to Sooraya about doing a theme menu.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:09 am (UTC)
You would. It's you.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 12:11 am (UTC)
Adorable and witty and you love me. Just keep telling yourself that.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:14 am (UTC)
I could, but there are other things I would prefer to keep telling myself.
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x_ccelerate
2007-08-20 11:55 pm (UTC)
Whyever would I do that? Between the telepathy and the telekinesis, you damn well ought to have.

Not to mention, as Dane points out, the shields.
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x_legion
2007-08-20 11:57 pm (UTC)
We were both drained -- the shields weren't his fault.

Continuing to bait people after he'd used them up was, though.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:02 am (UTC)
And if I'd been a little more careful about what I picked to throw, we'd all be sitting here celebrating.
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x_legion
2007-08-21 12:03 am (UTC)
Or just back in Dagestan under a bus.
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x_cable
2007-08-21 12:05 am (UTC)
Positive thinking, my companion in blunt-force trauma.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 12:07 am (UTC)
Oh, don't think you're off the hook for this either, boyo. Don't think that either of you are excused for dragging me halfway around the world so that I missed what promised to be a very nice evening with a gentleman.
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x_legion
2007-08-21 12:11 am (UTC)
Sorry. I'll try to cut down on getting knocked unconscious, or at least limit them to places where you can be there and back in time for dinner.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 12:15 am (UTC)
That would be much preferable, yes. It's bad enough getting someone to watch the puppies when I go out at night, let alone coming up with an excuse for dropping everything and vanishing.

There's probably something to be said for the fact that he called me to check up the next day. By the way, if it ever comes up, you had to have emergency surgery.
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x_jeangrey
2007-08-21 01:31 am (UTC)
Easier than claiming to have lost a relative. After a while people stop believing you have that many relatives.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 01:46 am (UTC)
I try not to burn up relatives for anything less than a week long absence. If I'm going to kill Grandma again, it had better be a good reason.
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x_jeangrey
2007-08-21 01:50 am (UTC)
I'm sure she'll appreciate that, yes.
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x_wildchild
2007-08-21 03:29 am (UTC)
Woof!
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:50 pm (UTC)
Quack!
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x_wildchild
2007-08-20 11:50 pm (UTC)
Quack!
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-20 11:47 pm (UTC)
Is this like when I swear that I'm never going let Paige drive again but then I have a bad day and we have to take off for Quebec?

Well...no, I suppose not. I don't go to Quebec nearly so often as you sustain head trauma in Russia.
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x_cable
2007-08-20 11:56 pm (UTC)
Oh, Lorna. So funny.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-20 11:58 pm (UTC)
I'm adorable and witty and you love me for it.

Even when you're concussed.
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x_legion
2007-08-21 12:02 am (UTC)
Also probably right.
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x_polarisstar
2007-08-21 12:02 am (UTC)
Definitely right.