morn_hyland: I'm sorry, for the cold, Thelma. I can't

Morn Hyland (

morn_hyland) wrote,
@ 2008-09-05 19:09:00

I'm sorry, for the cold, Thelma. I can't help the ice storm.

I'll just stay in my room until this passes.

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	not_avampire 2008-09-06 03:46 am UTC (link)
	Ice storms, huh? Those aren't too common. ...Well, I mean, today, but yeah, in general, too. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 03:48 am UTC (link)
	At this point I'd be happy for rain. I'm freezing. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 03:56 am UTC (link)
	...You could turn the heat up? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 03:58 am UTC (link)
	It doesn't really help when I'm being pelted with ice. I put on a coat and covered up with my blankets and got in the tub to keep the mess down. It's still cold, but midnight's coming. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:08 am UTC (link)
	Wow, sorry. Seems like you really got the short end of the stick. The worst I'd heard so far was a thunder storm. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:09 am UTC (link)
	I guess so. I'm kind of done with asking "why me?" Nobody ever answers anyway. I'm Morn. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:12 am UTC (link)
	I always thought those questions were supposed to be therapeutic. Eventually, they got annoying, though, yeah. I'm Cal. Nice to meet'cha, Morn. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:14 am UTC (link)
	Hi, Cal. Are they? Nobody ever seems to have an answer for "why me?" when it's really bad. I don't know how that helps at all. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:19 am UTC (link)
	Hi, Morn. I'd ask how you're doing today, but the ice storms... yeah. If it helps any, I've been covered in mist since I woke up. That's what the Shrink said. Mostly I just try not to think about it. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:22 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. That's about right. At least it's stopped now. What does mist mean? That you can't think well? Not thinking about it is about the only way to ~~keep from screaming~~ keep going, I think. [ooc: Strike not there.] (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:26 am UTC (link)
	Considering I'm a biologist, if that's what it means, I'm kinda out of a job, once I get back home. Your guess is as good as mine on the mist factor, really. It's worked out for me pretty okay so far. I plan to stick with it 'til something else comes along. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:29 am UTC (link)
	I like your ideas better than that Dr. House. Talking about some things doesn't do any good at all. It just gives them more life. You're a biologist? Well, I mean of course you are. But what do you do with that here? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:32 am UTC (link)
	And then I just end up spending the entire day thinking about it. Which is kinda a waste of a day~~, not that I do much with mine anyway~~. Mostly I sit around reading textbooks. I don't... leave my apartment much. I'm kinda unemployable, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:34 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. I don't leave much. I got lucky when I got here and someone gave me a job where I don't have to. Why don't you go out? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:36 am UTC (link)
	What's that? Mostly clerical work, I'm guessing? ~~...~~Medical condition. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:40 am UTC (link)
	Close enough. One of those immune disorders? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:48 am UTC (link)
	Autoimmunity? No. More like... I'm a carrier? Just highly contagious. It's kinda complicated. Sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:50 am UTC (link)
	That's okay. I just have a habit of asking questions. I do it to everyone. It gets me in trouble sometimes. They can't cure it? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 04:52 am UTC (link)
	There're worse habits. Well, it's technically a parasite. So... no, not really. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 04:54 am UTC (link)
	Some people don't think so. I expect that from the bad guys, but sometimes the good guys hate it, too. Really? I thought parasites wouldn't be that hard to cure. But medicine around here isn't what I'm used to. Is it like this where you're from? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

not_avampire
2008-09-06 04:58 am UTC (link)

Really? I figure it could only just be weird sometimes. It doesn't actually hurt anybody, though. At least, not as far as I know. But my girlfriend's a journalist, so I'm kinda biased, I guess.

Medicine's pretty okay, where I'm from. But the Parasite is stronger than antibiotics, and has cysts in my spine and bone marrow and... well, pretty much, it's a lifetime deal.

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	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 05:05 am UTC (link)
	You'd be surprised how much it can hurt people. I guess maybe I've just come across some hard questions. Does it hurt? Will it kill you? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 05:07 am UTC (link)
	Well, yeah, they do, I guess, but not... in a bad way. I mean, the truth is... I dunno; it's complicated, too, I guess. Sometimes. And all parasites eventually kill the host. That's part of the definition of a parasite. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	morn_hyland 2008-09-06 05:16 am UTC (link)
	It can be devastating. The truth can be... the end of everything, but a beginning, too, I guess. I don't know much about parasites. Just that they're things you don't want, whether they're cysts in your body or things like pirates. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	not_avampire 2008-09-06 05:18 am UTC (link)
	'S better than lying. Um. Cysts are kinda like parasite eggs? And, yeah, you definitely don't want 'em. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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