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

[menial]

['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.

Comments

[menial]

['Wow. Ushiromiya saying it mostly emphasizes how cute it was when Asahina-san said it. Sorry, Ushiromiya, you can't match up there.']

In other words, it doesn't exist?

[repudiate]

[ .. give her a moment to think of how to say this while maintaining some dignity. ]

I don't need some concept like 'hobbies' for my free time. [ good job, ange, now that just makes you sound like a weirdo. ]

[menial]

...

So what do you do with your free time instead?

[repudiate]

.. I like to read, I guess.

[menial]

It took you that long to come up with "I like to read", huh, Ushiromiya?

... Well, it's okay, we can be the mostly-hobbyless together.

['Unless "listening to Haruhi ramble" counts as a hobby.']

That or someone was teaching me how to garden.

[repudiate]

You can't blame me for saying that and then bringing up something like 'someone's teaching me how to garden' right afterwards.

It makes you sound like an old man.

[menial]

.... You do have a point there. ['Even if I was learning how to garden only to cheer up a cute girl!']

Though at least mine was with another person. Socializing is a hobby too.

[repudiate]

Dealing with idiots is only a masochist's hobby, you know.

[menial]

So is watching a masochist deal with idiots a voyeur's hobby?

...Anyway, who said it was an idiot?

[repudiate]

Have you seen the population of this place? The odds are pretty big. [ ignoring the other comment. ]

[menial]

... Okay, maybe. But are any of us really that smart? I mean, no one's figured out how to get out.

[repudiate]

Have you tried clicking your heels together three times already and saying 'there's no place like home'?

[menial]

I think I'd have to borrow a witch's shoes for that. Or at least yours.

[repudiate]

You're going to try getting out of here that way and leave a poor girl without her shoes? Now that's just cruel.

[menial]

You'll get new shoes. And if you're forced to go barefoot so I can return to my loving home and family, maybe you could make that sacrifice, right?

[repudiate]

...

Fine, just this once I might consider giving up my shoes for you. Be grateful.

[menial]

Ushiromiya-sama is too kind, and I thank her profusely from the bottom of my heart. Or even further. From the bottom of her shoes.

['Though actually, that is nice of her.']