A few things

[xp_cypher]

1. Okay, are Angie and I really that annoying?

1a. Also, contrary to some thoughts, Angie and I do _not_ have to be surgically attached at the hip, and are perfectly capable of having our own lives.

2. Kyle? No offense, but the twins thing is a little old, and kind of annoying.

2a. Why does it seem to be so inconceivable that I'm a nerd and enjoy nerdy things, and yet I also happen to be the lead singer of the band and have a nice, attractive girlfriend?

3. Yes, I'm a little cranky and touchy. As much as I dislike being melodramatic, this stuff has been bugging me.

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[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

2. .. I thought it was funny. ;( Cause, I dunno, you sometimes smell like books and sometimes like the gym and those pants.

2a. Because nerds aren't cool and cool people aren't nerds. Also, sometimes I'm a jackass. Sorry... Mostly the part where I'm a jackass...

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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

It's a bit of a sore subject, sorry. And it's not just you.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Why does it seem to be so inconceivable that I'm a nerd and enjoy nerdy things, and yet I also happen to be the lead singer of the band and have a nice, attractive girlfriend?

For the same reason you cannot expect water to spontaneously freeze at room temperature, or apply force without there being an equal and opposite counterforce. There are laws of interaction, obviously, as sure as there are laws of physics. You can be brilliant, or you can be popular. They won't let you be both.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Is overgeneralization your friend or something? The laws of physics are hard and fast. The 'laws' of social interaction are not.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

1. Only in the sense that if the two of you ever get soppier than Kitty and me, thus threatening our reputation, I'm gonna be forced to smother you in your sleep, and smothering people is annoying to have to do.

1a. Do you want to be? Because I bet I can borrow some of Doc McCoy's surgical thread if I tell him it's for something else.

. . . Well, okay, I can't now, but the point stands. And hips would be tough to surgically attach people at anyway, there's not enough meat over the bone.

3. You're obviously missing your daily recommended allowance of Silly String. As a concerned and conscientious roommate, it is my duty--no, my honor--to help you solve that problem.

It's really very simple.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

You are no longer a nerd. You might enjoy nerd things, and even be good at them - but part of being a nerd is having no social life and being awkward and gawky.

While no one will ever mistake you for being smooth or suave, I think you have moved beyond the awkward nerd stage.

Marie-Ange is a saint, to have put up with you through this transition. Have you told her this recently?

You are right about one thing - she is quite nice and very, very attractive.

Manuel

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

what's with this nerd obsession?

we go to a school for "GIFTER YOUNGSTERS" which by euphemism means "mutants", but definition mean "smart." so everyone NOT at Xavier's thinks we're all nerds anyways. and I don't think anyone cares about what non-Xavier people think about us.

and Jamie's right. can't suture hips...but torso's are possible, although it would hurt and be really impractical. you and Angie don't wear the same clothes and all that.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

1. It just occasionally seems like Angie and I get the journal equivalent of the rolled newspaper on the nose for being too saccharine.

1a. No, thank you. And ew.

3. Oh dear.

Re: It's really very simple.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I understand that that's the connotation of 'nerd', but I just don't get how certain things seem to be mutually exclusive.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Spoken like someone who's forgotten what it's like to be ostracized for being different. You may be a linguistics genius and a competent programmer, but apparently you've gone soft and forgotten what the real world is like out there.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Um, ew? I was wanting to avoid the whole conjoined twins thing.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

The key to suturing anything together is steel wire and looping it around the bone. As long as you can keep them from struggling too much and avoid all the major arteries.

Fishing line works in a pinch, but nothing is as good as guitar or piano wire, oddly enough. It binds and cuts.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Um, thanks for the completely gross advice? Where do you learn this crap?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

1. Well, if I'm ever the one doing it, point out the way I'm seriously considering one of those utilikilt things. Nobody is more aware of their marshmallowitude than I am. :)

1a. Just checking. Stranger things have happened.

3. Muahahaha.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Forgotten what it's like to be ostracized for being different? I guess I must have dreamed the part where I got the crap beaten out of me, then.

Forgotten what the real world is like? When I made that comment about people having bullets with our names on them? I was _not_ being facetious. I took the one that had Rahne's name on it.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Utilikilt. Hee.

Also, there's...well, not something I really should probably be discussing in a public journalspace.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

On the job training.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

You seen the specifications on the pockets in those things? I swear, if Batman was a Scot he'd use one instead of his utility belt.

And now I'm all curious. Once I'm done burying you in Silly String, wanna grab lunch? Assuming you can find the kitchen, anyway. There's a reason I have a whole labeled drawer set aside for the stuff in my desk. :)

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

How much you wanna bet Bats owns one anyways for if he ever finds himself stuck in Scotland as Bruce Wayne or something?

And lunch sounds good, I guess. Not really sure how to approach the subject.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I bet he probably has a set of actual authentic Highland regalia that Alfred whips out if that ever happens. Mind you, I wouldn't be surprised if he added pockets to it.

Sneak up on the subject and hit it over the head while it isn't looking, that's what I always say. The Conversational Ninjas are always looking for a few good men.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

I'm going to remember this, you know.

rule one of the medlab: you must be creative.
rule two: you do not talk about medlab!

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Actually, you're probably right. Bruce is probably distantly related to some Highland clan, and has a full set of authentic regalia just in case. Because Bats pretty much has one of everything 'just in case'.

And I get the feeling that ninja-ing this particular subject might result in you choking on something.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I think the docs might have a bit of an objection to you going all Dr. Frankenstein on us there, 'Rice.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

If not two. And now I sorta wish Alfred wasn't quite so much the perfect butler, because it'd be funny to hear him complain about not being able to find a dry cleaner able to handle Masai ceremonial headdresses.

And so what? I happen to know I look damn funny with milk dripping out my nose.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

You gotta wonder if maybe being Super Butler isn't Alfred's mutant power. ;-)

This is true. Just don't say I didn't warn you.