menial | 10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.

Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

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.... So you didn't see it, huh.

No, I... Oh, hold on! Is it a face?

Yup. Good work.

Is this the kind of stuff you read often?

Well, not really. It was just something interesting I saw in the library.

...I've been a little bored lately.

What, Haruhi's not making you do errands every day?

Not enough to fill up the day, anyway.

...Don't tell her that.

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All right, my lips are sealed.

As always, I count on your discretion, Rockbell.

So, what about you? What have you been up to?

A lot of my time has been trying to learn how to cook for Ed and Elicia, since we're the only ones in the house now. Haruhi has been helping with that, though.

['Well, I didn't actually know who was in your house before. But...']

Haruhi's a good cook. As she is at most things. I guess you're in decent hands if that's how it's going down.

Yeah, I just hope it's not too weird for her, even if she offered.

Well, it's only going to keep being weird until it happens so often that you forget that it's weird, right?

I guess. [...]

Do you think she's been okay recently?

... Huh, well... As well as can be expected, right?

Right...

And you guys have been getting along well? [Or at least as well as they can?]

Well, it's mostly the same as usual. As this place's usual, anyway. I think we understand each other fine by now.

...You really are keeping in touch, huh? As far as I knew, she always... Well, that can't really be compared.

Keeping in- What do you mean by all that?

Well, I--Uh--What do you think I mean by it?

That you think I wouldn't care how Haruhi is doing? Especially when it comes to someone important from her home?

Okay, I'm not surprised you care, I'm surprised you think it's better to ask me questions about it directly like that.

I don't see the point of tiptoeing aroung it.

Out of curiosity, how often do you see a point in tiptoeing around things?

Not very, I guess. But I do understand something need to be handled gently.

[Tiptoeing and handling gently is two different things.]

Just not me, huh? Well, that's par for the course. Haruhi and I are fine, as usual. She hasn't done anything too crazy and as far as I know I haven't done anything too dumb.

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