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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 8, 2007 13:29:38 GMT -5
He laughed. "Eep op orp op op?" Calypso smiled. "You have some odd friends," he said, still smiling. "Ooh, can I help with the survey?" He had nothing better to do, and it sounded like it would actually be fun. He'd love to see everyone's reactions when they were asked what noise it made when an arm was poked... It could be quite entertaining, really. He laughed again, just thinking about it. Calypso nodded. "Yeah. She makes me feel like a giant."
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 8, 2007 13:35:34 GMT -5
Jacquie nodded. "Yeah...They always kept me entertained." She had a lot of friends in Norway. But not so many here. She was still the foreign girl. Even though she'd been here for almost two years now. "I need all the help I can get." Jacquie grinned. She liked taking surveys. Like, staring up at the ceiling in the mall and recording how many people looked up to see what she was staring at. Jacquie smiled and nodded. "Yeah, you're a bit taller than I am as well. Jacquie stood at about 5'5, 5'6 maybe.
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 8, 2007 13:47:40 GMT -5
He laughed. "My friends, too." Calypso had the oddest mix of friends, people he'd 'found', or ones he said 'found' him. But they were always the strange ones, because that was just the type he ended up being interested in. The normal people, though he might talk to them occasionally, didn't keep him entertained enough. And boredom he hated most. He smiled. "Yay, I get help with the survey!" Calypso then looked at Jacquie, and nodded. She looked shorter than him, by a few inches. But not extremely short.
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 8, 2007 13:54:56 GMT -5
Jacquie thought about a few of her friends back home for a moment. She really missed them. It had been two years since she'd seen them. Sometimes they'd talk on Instant Messenger or if Jacquie was lucky, on the phone. But it had been awhile. She grinned. "Yay!" Jacquie couldnt help but smile. She sat up and measured herself to Calypso for a moment. Yep. She felt short for a few moments.
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 8, 2007 14:04:46 GMT -5
Calypso picked up his water bottle to take a sip, not saying anything for a moment. Jacquie seemed to be thinking about something, and he didn't want to interrupt her thoughts. He grinned, too, then. "So when and where would we conduct this survey?" he asked. Calypso looked at her, sitting up, and he tried to compare the height difference. Yeah, probably a few inches, or so. But really, they were both about average height. Him around average for a guy, her around average for a girl. So neither was especially short or anything.
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 8, 2007 20:47:08 GMT -5
She finished measuring and grinned. "Hm. We have to plan this carefully. If I had a Bat Cave, I'd use it right now to plot. But sadly, funding is limited in the plotting super heroes sect." Jacquie thought for a few more moments. "How about sometime in the next few days around the school?"[/size]
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 8, 2007 21:01:18 GMT -5
"I wish I had a Bat Cave... That would be so cool," Calypso said, grinning. "Or at least a secret lair... except isn't it usually the villains with lairs, and the heroes with hideouts?" He looked slightly confused, as he tried to remember. Calypso had never read many comics, or watched many cartoons, so he was really quite clueless on that. But he was pretty sure he never remembered the heroes having lairs. "Sounds good," he said with a nod.
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 8, 2007 21:09:39 GMT -5
"I know right?" She grinned. "Yeah. Though, lairs are usually in caves. So does that make Batman a supervillian?" Jacquie pondered this for a few seconds, but eventually brushed the thought away. She was a total comic nerd. Whether it be DC or Marvel. Marvel was her favorite though. Who didn't like Wolverine?? "Yay"[/size]
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 8, 2007 21:19:07 GMT -5
"Batman a supervillain..?" It was really something to think about. What were the qualifications to be a villain rather than a hero, or a hero rather than a villain? Was it the difference between a secret lair and a secret hideout, sidekicks and minions, always succeeding and always failing? Or was it all in the point of view the story was told in? Say you heard it from the bad guy's point of view... would he still seem so bad? "I suppose it's all on how you're distinguishing the two..." He shrugged. "So, now that the surveying decisions are all made...." He tried to figure out just what else to say, but gave up, ending his sentence there.
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 9, 2007 20:41:13 GMT -5
Jacquie nodded. "Its very possible. I mean, I have a friend who thinks Harry Potter is the villian in the books because we only see everything from his point of view. Its giving the reader a biased opinion. But I guess, it's truly the authors choice on how he or she wants to write their books. The stories is, after all, inside their head." She shrugged and smiled. She liked comfortable conversation. It made her feel nice. "Maybe we could do that survey soon. Or nowish."[/color]
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 9, 2007 21:04:54 GMT -5
He nodded. "Yeah... I read this book once, well, a few books.. that made me think about that. They're well-known stories, told by the villain-type's point of view." Calypso smiled. Both books had been surprisingly good, and he didn't even read much. "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which was Cinderella.. And then there was a Wizard of Oz one, from the Wicked Witch of the West's point of view." He nodded again then. "Nowish works for me. I think."
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 9, 2007 22:06:38 GMT -5
"Really? They sound interesting." Jacquie listened and nodded. She'd never heard of the books before, but maybe she would check them out of the library. She needed something to read besides Anne Rice, which was her favorite author. She had the books in Norse and English. It was always nice to be able to read something in a language she understood more than English. It didn't show, but she was still having a little trouble with the language. Hopefully she would get used to it soon. "Cool." Jacquie smiled. It would be nice to go take a survey.
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 9, 2007 22:13:33 GMT -5
Calypso nodded. "They are... and this coming from a guy who terrorizes librarians," he said, laughing. Oh how he hated the library, and the librarians for working in it. It was the whole concept of keeping it absolutely silent, just so that people could concentrate. How was it supposed to help a person focus when the noise of a page being turned seemed deafeningly loud in comparison? But any librarian he'd met would just tell him to 'shhh' if he mentioned it. Stupid libraries... He smiled. "So... how soon is nowish? Now nowish, or soon nowish?"
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Post by Jacquie Seleste on Apr 9, 2007 22:16:57 GMT -5
Jacquie laughed. "Nice, very nice." Jacquie didn't spend a lot of time in libraries. The only reason she ever got kicked out was because she would listen to her iPod too loud and piss people off. Or there were the few incidents where she was playing hide and go seek or 'grab someones leg and scare the hell outta them' game. That one was always fun. "How about now nowish? Cause now nowish sounds pretty good to me."
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Post by calypsoARION on Apr 9, 2007 22:25:23 GMT -5
"Then now nowish sounds good to me, too," Calypso said with a smile, standing up. "I assume we need to get up to go survey people... if not, I'll sit down again." He laughed, looking down at Jacquie. "You'll have to excuse my lack of knowledge.. I've never exactly conducted a survey before. So you'll have to explain a lot." As he waited to find out whether he should remain standing or sit down again, he finished what was left of his water.
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