While I'm in Paris

[citizendamian]

Could the friends of the nice etre_libre kindly not start bleeding for a little?

I think I have the time to stop by with coffee and potentially lunch, if it's welcome.

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[the_centre]

I can do my best on that front. I can't promise anything but I don't know that I WANT to do more to annoy him lately. He's already being a pain enough. Doctor's Orders are being invoked to control me and I really do dislike it. Not enough to go over his head but...close.

[citizendamian]

Oh dear. Has he taken the epee and relegated it to an umbrella stand or something of that sort? My father made the mistake of wearing hobnailed boots into the house and my mother sent them to the unheated entryway for a week or so until he apologized.

[the_centre]

Wall decoration. He wired it into the holder and pointed out I'm not supposed to BE fencing until the stitches come out anyway, and they say I can get off crutches. Poor boots though. I can imagine the chaos though.

[citizendamian]

Well, it was more that they'd be rather cold when he had to set out. The rug mostly hid it.

Crutches! I thought it was just a bruise and a long cut? Are you okay? You're not alone, right?

[the_centre]

All the little ways people find to punish those they live with, hmm? It really IS kind of amazing. MY parents spoke to each other when they were annoyed, for instance. Really drove the point home THERE.

The cut was sort of on my ankle. I'm FINE but they're insisting I stay off it as much as possible. It cuts down on healing complications. Luckily not for much longer. Two or three more days. And no, no, we have another roommate. And my ex-roommate has been around. My very strange, very sweet ex-roommate. And, well. It's kind of weird but...

[citizendamian]

Yeah. It's ... rough you know? You grow up and they're the guys who tell you how the world ticks, and then later you get told that everyone thinks that their parents are wrong.

They weren't too bad. Mine, I mean. It - the captain I flew here with. He's got a cousin whose parents always acted like wanting stuff meant you had to get judged if you were deserving. Insidious, that. When you're sitting there, listening to guys my age arguing out that a winter coat is a required purchase.

He's off at college. The cousin, I mean. And roommates sounds good. Is the weird that you ... kind of want some quiet? Naps are good for that. I mean, it sounds stupid, but - people just being there can be - quiet and still there?

[the_centre]

That's true. It is kind of weird. I sort of grew up with this I don't know. My parents aren't horrible or anything. Just...really, really...well, they're a part of the worldview that I wound up rejecting. Mostly, they didn't know what to do with me. The heir they'd wanted came along when they were way too old to really figure out what they were doing and I'm...not like my sisters.



But the punishment part in that case I mention is more...I don't think they can stand each other, honestly. So they know and use it.

That's pretty messed up about your friends. My ex-roommate's kind of the same way but he's legitimately been trying to survive on...he knew very very little of the world when he left home. And is determined not to go back. His grandfather's the extreme version of my parents, you know, seen and not heard stuff, and doesn't like that he has his own opinions so...

The poor thing had no idea what it was like out there. He was functioning based on...I don't even know what he'd read about Romantic Poverty but...

Oh actually the weird is one of the other people I could get in check with. Combeferre and Enjolras (aforementioned other roommate) actually went through with making me invite the guy from the other day for coffee. And we talked about a few things after I apologized and...lo and behold, he gets it. Well, a lot of it.

I think I peg his father instinct. He'd probably come too.

[citizendamian]

Swords to plowshares and whatever the quote is?

Well - he gets it sounds good to me. If half the kids I got into fights with got it, the world would probably be a lot more boring. Better though. Maybe.

So - let me dig this out, actually. You might want to bend my ear at some point. So - there's the contact information. When I'm back home, it's dependent on the fog not being bad, but might be nice to - I don't know - something.

Think we could something?

[etre_libre]

You're so kind to try.

And I'd like that. I need to meet people outside of my current, pretty small group.

[citizendamian]

Should I bring a book? I didn't think you'd have much time, so - I thought it - you just looked tired, you know?

I could bring a book. Peace offering? Maybe?

[etre_libre]

you don't have to but that would be really nice. Do you have a favorite? I'm up for near anything. We tend to read the most horribly trashy things at work. Passes the time.

[citizendamian]

Something a hair less than trashy from Lorena? I can do that. I'll see what I can find.

Oh! Important thing. Anything you loathe? Because I don't want to show up with - I don't know - a nice mackerel and discover a sad trauma relating to oily fish?

Today went well too. Dropped off Yvette's medical papers and did my shopping without buying the wrong things. The weather's really lovely out. Well, by Lorena standards.