In Which Boredom Reigns Supreme

[ceasetoexist]

You know, I tried watching the television today, only to remember just how bad it sucked. Seriously, there's nothing but happy crap on and, I'll tell you, not too interested in that. I'd have gone to the library, but I pretty much read most of the stuff they have in the kids section and there's pretty much little to nothing in any of the other sections friggin' worth anything.

So I was thinking: a lot of you people probably came from some interesting places, or did some interesting things, or know some interesting people, or yada-yada-yada. Basically, I'll cut to the chase: tell me about the places your from or the people you know, cause I'm bored as can be and I'll pretty much take anything as a way to entertain myself. You want a story in return? Fine, I can do that; there's a lot of crazy junk I've seen.

But c'mon. Entertain me. I'm bored here.

[Filtered to Franken Fran]

Hey, you're the crazy doctor or nurse or whatever I talked to a bit on the phone during the Soviet schtick, right? 

There's something I want to ask you.

Comments

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Well, the most common example is the humble rose. It doesn't mean anything on its own, for it, the colour is what's important.

You know, red is for hot passionate love, and pink is friendship and all that jazz. Teenagers and housewives eat that stuff up.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

So is the message really there, or is it just some kind of ploy meant to trick suckers into buying specific flowers?

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Well, 'parently the practice is from Victorian England or something like that. My boss made me learn the more common ones. I kinda just went from there.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Hey, not faulting you for it.

Good marketing is good marketing.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

I guess so. But man, some of the messages those school girls wanted to send. Made for some awkward as well arrangements. I usually made Aya do'em. He was the best at those.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Girls are weird a lot of the time.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. Sheesh. [He likes girls, they just confuse him sometimes]

I liked playing soccer more then workin' though.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why?

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Because playing soccer is fun! Working isn't.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

You can make your work fun, if it's something you actually want to do.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't really mind doing the arrangements, and I liked doing deliveries cause it meant I got to go outside and not be stuck in the shop for hours on end.

Mostly though I had to do all the heavy lifting. Like moving the big bags of dirt around and stuff.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would guess that'd suck.

Mainly the job I had was an office job.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

You're kinda young for a job like that.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I'm old enough.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Alright, if you say so. Office jobs sound really boring though. Yuck, paperwork.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

It's not too boring when your an adviser for a high-ranking company, really. Though it involves a lot of politics.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Politics make my head hurt. Why can't everything be simple and straight forward.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Simple and straightforward's rarely fun.

Sometimes, it's just entertaining to make things as complex as you can. For the challenge, to a degree.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

I dunno, politics usually means that someone gets screwed over in the end, and often times it was someone who didn't deserve it.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Now that's just life in general.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Life doesn't have to be like that though. I know life's not fair but... you kinda have do the best you can.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

You do.

But sometimes to do the best you can, you have to step on a few backs. Just the way it is.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

I know, trust me.

Ah, what a crazy word we live in, huh?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Your good mood and stance completely takes him off guard. He has no idea how to deal with this.]

Yeah. It's pretty frickin' insane sometimes.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

[Sorry Pokey, unless he's been provoked, Ken's a pretty easy going guy who likes kids and wants to keep them happy]

But the world is where we live, and it's our only world. We gotta make it the best we can for everyone.