Little Numbers

Chapter 3

Tues 11 Nov (1:33pm)
B: I hate Tuesdays.

(1:55)
Not Mondays?

(1:57)
No, Tuesdays.

(1:59)
Do you like going against the tide in general or is that really how you feel?

(2:03)
I don't hate Tuesdays ironically. What am I, a hipster? I really just hate them.

(2:04)
Why?

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Because they're pointless.

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Care to elaborate?

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So everyone knows what to expect when it comes to Mondays, right? You go back to work or whatever you go back to on your Mondays and it sucks but you know it's supposed to suck and that it sucks for everyone. You know how to deal with it and you've got some common ground. People like hating on Mondays. It's a group sport. And then it's over and you think "Hey cool, we survived another Monday." But then Tuesday comes around and the group sport is forgotten because "Calm down, it's just a Tuesday" and it's useless. It's not the beginning of the week, it's not the middle of the week and good god, it's sure isn't the end of the week, is it? It just is. It just is and it sucks.

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Wow.
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That was...
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You read the word "elaborate" and really went to town with it.
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Are you sure this is a general thing?

(2:27)
Positive.

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So nothing out of the ordinary happened today? Nothing at all?

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No.

(2:33)
I think I liked you better when you were sunshine and rainbows.

(2:35)
Okay, maybe I don't feel like sunshine today. Maybe today I'm cloudy with sunny intervals. Would that still be okay?

(2:36)
Sure.

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And what about cloudy with outbreaks of rain?

(2:39)
Heavy rain?

(2:39)
Patchy bits of light rain.

(2:41)
Sure, yes.

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Good.
(2:44)
How about full on hurricane?

(2:45)
Are you a hurricane, Blaine?

(2:45)
Not today.

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Then let's cross that bridge when we get there.

(2:55)
Thank you.

(2:56)
What for?

(2:57)
For letting me elaborate.

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Anytime.

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Wed 12 Nov (1:03am)
K: Did you know that a squirrel loses its fur if you feed it only peanuts?

(1:06)
I did not know that!

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Well, apparently it's true. And the peanut isn't even a nut.

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Such wisdom at this late hour!
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How do you know that?

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I know things.

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Did you google squirrels, Kurt?

(1:15)
I know things!

(1:17)
You totally googled squirrels. I don't know whether to be touched or appalled.

(1:17)
I do know things!

(1:18)
Kurt.

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I'm very knowledgeable!