night shift...

damn! my freakin back hurts so bad!! and thats the last thing i need considering that i have to put in all nighters till thursday! curse my luck!! i think i should file a petition for better seating arrangements everywhere i go....the library, laboratory, class, park, waterfront, bus, train...everywhere! either that or i could make it easier and just get a new backbone. i wonder where i can find one of those....3 words....food for thought!
so i have a presentation tomorrow. i always enjoy presentations. i think they're interesting! and i find nothing more satisfying than the feeling i get when i get stuff through to people. thats quite ironic considering the fact that i am a relatively reserved person who keeps her thoughts to herself. i think i overstated what i said...getting through to people is one of the several other things that satisfies me. there, that sounds better! so, the presentation means that i also have to complete the reseach paper tonite. its not due till a few days but i wanna get over and done with it. after all, i shall be more prepared for the presentation if i complete the paper.
i think i shouldnt waste any more time here...there's a lot of work to be done besides the paper and presentation preparation (tongue twister??) so lemme see how much i can squeeze into what remains of the day.
Peace.

is it just me or is it getting hot in here?

I never thought I’d live long enough to see this day. That can mean one of two things. Either I have just a few more days (Hours? Minutes? Seconds?) to live or (2) I suck at prophesizing. No matter what I wanna believe, everyone knows that it’s probably the second case at work here. So, why did I think I would never live to see this day? Well that’s coz, as I speak, I’m forcing myself to blog. Blogging has always come SO naturally to me but today I’m pushing myself to do it. come to think of it…I never blog as though I’m blogging. Anyhoo, that’s a story I’ll discuss another time.
Anyway, the last week was damn hectic. I didn’t have the time to step back and relax even for a second! Now that I look back…its all a blur. A fuzzy blur. I don’t remember anything. And this is something I realized this morning. Here’s the dialogue…
Mum: Wake up now! Its 9 am! Do you want tea or coffee?
Me (Groggily): I need to sleep some more. I was studying till late last night.
Mum: Till what time were you up last night?
Me: I don’t know…till 4am I think…but I’m not sure.
Mum: And what were you studying?
Me: I don’t remember….
That’s when the penny dropped! All of a sudden I hated the life I was living. Studying hard is one thing…but when all other things just disappear into oblivion…THAT’S when a line needs to be drawn. And when one loses all sense of timing (after having lost ones sense of social obligations and orientation)….that’s pretty much the final straw and the time when the line MUST be drawn!
BUT BUT BUT! There’s always a but. And this is it! I shall change…but I just wanna get over and done with my examinations first.
Anyway, now talking about something more “interesting”! (That was an understatement). Today, yet again, I was turned on by a cartoon/avatar! People find that weird! I don’t! I remember having a colossal crush on Dmitri (from Anastasia)! I was SO much in love with him. and then there were others…ranging from Max Ray to Max Payne. So when I saw this avatar today….I was lusty like never before. Hey, I didn’t realize how much fun this blogging session was gonna be! Oh Yeah! So coming back to this “God of Raw Sexiness” avatar…isn’t it oozing testosterone? Don’t I sound like a dysfunctional nymph? Well, I don’t care! And after all, its JUST an image right? Its not like I am fantasizing about some real person…Geez! NOW I need a break…I don’t wanna get all raunchy on this blog!!!
Lemme get back to some serious drooling…and dream about falling in love with a macho, sophisticated, sex god type artist! Hmm…I should probably ask Lenny Kravitz what he’s doing tonight!

for the sake of blogging...

ALIVE AND KICKING.....JUST WAY TOO BUSY!! NEED SOME MORE TIME TO GET BACK IN ACTION!
--Bitter Genius.

busy bee!

been really busy....this is just to inform my 2 1/2 readers that i am alive! and yeah, one of my best friends is coming to the US in Dec. she got admission in Missouri. cool huh? so i'll go visit her sometime after mid december. but for now, i gotta get back to studies.....ciao!
am freaking worked up about my finals and labs and research papers and presentations and projects and what not.....ALL of which are due by the 1st week of december! damn!
am enjoying every bit of it but i kinda get frustrated when my eyes and brain give up on me after hours of study.....
anyway, next lab is due day after and a homework is due tomorrow so i'd better get back to work.....
hey....i said CIAO like 2 paragraphs back....whats still keeping you here? GEEZ!!!

love actually....

i am SO damn freakin dead!! ohmygosh!! no....not enough exclamation marks! OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!
i've fallen really hard this time! but can i really help it? especially if the guy says that he wants to bring me all the flowers in the world?? and that he wants to bring me the stars in the sky? that the sound of my voice or my emails make his heart beat faster???
for the freakin first time in my life i feel as though the word "love" doesnt really do the relationship any justice. firstly, coz its SO commonly used (and often in cheap taste!) and secondly coz its just a 4 letter word. it should be recoined...something more on the lines of "profoundly intense fondness, adoration, respect and tenderness with a consistent quintessential emotional accord!"
i love you and i cant say it enough. you make me weak kneed and you give me sleepless nights! and when i do manage to sleep....you're right there in my dreams! and perhaps the best part is that both of us know that this isnt infatuation or physical attraction alone. it is...no doubt....but with the perfect blend of everything that makes a relationship healthy. i love you for the individual that you are and the way you make me feel. you know exactly what to say and when to say it and although you think its cheesy....its not! if you were on the recieving side of whatever you say....thats when you will realize how incredibly romantic you are! and whats amazing is the thought that i have spent all my life without you... and now you are such an integral part of my life. i've always used my head over my heart....ALWAYS....and it all worked out well coz my heart is yours anyway!!!

5 hours!

This morning, I had the most animated conversations ever!! One of my best buddies buzzed me from Australia. He and I go back more than 5 years and he is a person who has single handedly affected my thinking, mannerisms, outlook and lifestyle in the greatest way! In several ways, he is my mentor. I have learnt a lot of things from him passively. We have talked about anything and everything…be it sophisticated and respectable, offensive and vulgar or somewhere in between. We share an intellectual chemistry…one that I have NEVER shared with anyone before. Both of us know each other for what we truly are…stripped of all that the rest of the world sees us as. We know each other’s mind and heart and soul…the connection is almost supernatural!
So, coming back. He called me up at around 01:00am. He was all shattered and distressed. It is quite probable that my perception played games with me (His being upset always charges me up emotionally!) but I can swear that he was teary eyed. I found myself uttering words in a manner that I have never done before. I have never been this softhearted with anyone. Not once in my whole goddamn life! I felt his anguish as my own. I was surprised to hear the phrases of comfort I was mouthing and the softening of my voice. Strange! I got to learn a whole new side to me. The tender, feminine side. And boy! It felt awesome!!
It’s always a personal triumph for me when I can be of assistance to my friends. There are a small amount of things I am good at. And one of them is being objective and making people become conscious of what they are doing and why they are doing it. I can make people I know well see reason…except for when they are themselves in denial. And when they are in denial…I step back. I am not the kinda person who churns out advice to anyone and everyone.
So this morning, we worked magic! Our 5 hour-long conversation ended with him re-realizing his priorities....something he had not thought about doing in a really long time! Hearing the excitement back in his voice meant so much to me. He is one of my greatest friends. I was ecstatic to see him as the same person that he was an year back. I care for him immensely! And hope he can keep his motivation levels soaring. He needs sunshine in his life…and I hope and wish that he gets every bit of it!! And for all its worth, I am ALWAYS by his side! We did it again dude! Our friendship rocks! And just one more thing....you have started to cuss way too much!!! But you're okay.....and I love you, you Dawg!!

ghost stories and babysitting....

damn! me and my big mouth! remember DLP? well, she is home alone this weekend and being the sadistic creep that i am, i scared the living hell outta her by telling her ghost stories and spooky incidents. damn! i dont know why i carry jokes so far! someone ought to stop me! i scared her so much that she screams everytime her house settles. so now, she says she needs me and wants me to come over to her place to spend the night with her. its mighty kiddish of her i know...but i kinda feel bad for her coz she's scared. i couldnt help being guilt ridden when i heard her squeaky voice on the phone. after all, it was me who scared her. and the least i can do is go over and make her feel comfy. but damnit anyway!!
i can see my beautiful saturday night slipping away....the movies i planned to see, the book i planned to read, the emails i planned to reply to, the calls i intended to make....drat!!!
so, we'll take the 12am bus outta the university district and be at her place by 1230am. sheesh! she'd better have fun stuff to do and good stuff to eat! i'm not gonna travel by bus at 12 am JUST to babysit my lab partner!
and finally, all i really hope is that she doesnt snore! if she does i'll make it a personal mission to scare the living daylights outta her!

FYI...

WRITER'S BLOCK STRIKES!

so dont expect too much....both in terms of quality and quantity!

-The Bitter Genius.

boring! boring! boring!

mmmmm....its 2 am and i just got up for a midnight snack. seems like its not gonna be long before i gain back those 4 pounds. it was a tough choice....left over pizza or ben and jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. the cookie dough won! :-)
although....garfield is tempting me to grab a slice of the italian sausage, ham and olive (extra cheese) pizza. mmmm....what the heck!
i got soaked in the rain today....i got home col, wet and tired. made up for it with a mint hot chocolate and a warm bath! sheesh! WHY the hell am i blogging about food?????
anyway, i'm bored! 2 am isnt really the time for one to get bored but i cant sleep and am too tired to do anything.
i went to the mall today....this obnoxious drunk creep sitting next to me kept cussing the republicans in some wierd language....all i could understand was "so and so is effing garbage!" and other phrases meaning pretty much the same thing. and on the way back i was sitting next to another creep who kept abusing his girlfriend. what is this world coming to??
and yeah, i met some friends at the mall. i watched some really awesome figure skating. i bumped into this one gal who seems to have major ego issues vis-a-vis me. hell knows why! i bought myself a solder kit, 10 resistors, 7 capacitors, an 8 bit microcontroller, an led display and some other components (dont ask! well, if you MUST...i'm trying to make a PCB....hopefully one that does something....what that something is remains to be seen!). i saw a 200$ jacket that i would like to buy sometime soon.
damn! i'm bored as hell.....

the fun starts now...

Whew! Am finally done with my mid terms!! I have one week before the result if out but I shall still be really busy till mid January. Blogging frequency is inversely proportional to a hectic schedule…we all know the math! I lost 4 pounds this week! With the plethora of fad diets maybe an “examination diet” isn’t too far away. Examination diet…or a diet which loads you up with SO much work that you forget to eat! But then again, to make that successful, one has to be passionate about something other than eating!
I gotta go to the mall tomorrow…have loads of shopping to do. And then I also have to complete a laboratory assignment by 15^th. Thank God for that! Now I don’t have to worry about getting bored on the weekend! I’m also going ice-skating with a few friends on Saturday and then there’s another spree at the mall lined up for Sunday. I love days that are full of activity!
My Mum’s visiting me from mid November all through to mid January. That’s got me really excited! My quarter ends in mid December so that means we have an entire month to have fun and go traveling! Road Trips!! YEAH!!! We’ll enjoy the heat of California and the chill of New York! A couple of trips to Canada and one to Montana. WOWEEE!! This is life!! And it starts right after 15^th December! That means that I have to slog my ass for just a month!
Hmmm…I seem to have been hit by the writers block! I’ve no idea what to write next…but what the heck? This is MY blog!
Peace!

*sigh*

I wasn’t gonna blog for a couple of more days coz I am maintaining a tremendously hectic schedule these days but this is just the kinda ground breaking, earth shattering episode that could have made me blog.
Today, he told me he is in love with me.
I knew this was imminent but I still wasn’t prepared for it. I feel the same towards him but I guess I was just waiting for him to feel the same way as well. I was so overwhelmed when I heard him say those 3 words. Those 3 words…sigh…look at me…look at the words I’m starting to use! Am I smitten or what?
I love you too!
I’ve known him for almost 5-6 months now. But my relationship with him never felt so fresh! So much was unsaid and only understood up till now. It feels as though I am starting a whole new journey. I feel secure, happy and stronger. True love DOES liberate a person. All of a sudden, I don’t feel the need to even glance at another male with the thought of “What if?”. I know, this is me speaking at 3 am…just minutes after conversing with him. But this thinking isn’t gonna be transitory. I feel it!
I love you too!
Life IS exquisite. And it’s even more wonderful when you have someone to share it with…someone who understands you, respects you, cares for you. Someone who makes you laugh…someone whose smile can make you beam. My brightest days are the ones when I make him smile. I like nothing better than the sound of his laughter when we talk. So, this was fo rmy one and only....from his forever!

angry girl!!

my professor is an ass!!!! an ass of the highest and purest degree!! he's got ass genetic code, ass mannerisms, an ass brain...and i am so pissed right now....he's posted a new laboratory project before the submission deadline of the current project. so he's technically safe with the fact that we get about 10 days for the project but in essence we get less than a week coz we got this project and then the mid term! aaargh!! and he effortlessly states...."lab projects are weighted increasingly in order of succession and the level of difficulty OBVIOUSLY increases as the weights increase!". i've been cussing him for an hour now....messing up the pics he put on the course website!!! damn! i'm so .....aaargh!!! i am SO annoyed!!! he's surely goin to hell....i tell ya! and my anger has been toned down by the fact that i am infatuated with him so you can well imagine how mad i really am!! he's a big, jerkish, moronic psycho who is also a sadistic creep! he gets a kick outta making us suffer!! yet another marquis de sade.....
and yeah, i know i'm going to hell to....

a note before dinner...

Don’t weekends seem more stretched than weekdays? There was a really long phase in my life when I just loathed Mondays…and now it’s quite the opposite. I dislike weekends and absolutely love weekdays. There’s just so much more bustle in the university district on weekdays. Although I am essentially a very reserved individual, I fancy seeing people doing what they do.

Tomorrow is Sunday…that’s the day I go to the shopping mall. I need to get a few sweatshirts and a jacket. I enjoy shopping a lot more than I did earlier. I can indulge in it for hours at end and never get exhausted. And I love shopping with my boyfriend (or should I call him my fiancé now?). I love the fact that although he hates shopping…he can wait around for hours till I find the perfect pair of jeans!
I was at Starbucks today when I overheard this one girl talk about her boyfriend of 4 years who still opens the car door for her. Well, mine opens the car door for me AND gets me flowers. He also has flowers delivered to me every now and then. Ain’t he a sweetheart? There’s a whole lotta other stuff he does but I don’t wanna make this post a version of “Things your boyfriend can do to show you he cares!”. I am in no mood to be the object of the wrath of all the boyfriends out there.
I’m excited about meeting him next month though. I’ve had shared some of the most magical moments with him. I vividly remember our last rendezvous…we had warm cinnamon rolls and hot coffee for breakfast right before I boarded the flight to come back home. That was 2 months back. I think I should stop writing about him now…I don’t like sighing!
I have a zillion emails to reply to and quite frankly, I don’t know where to start. But I gotta to that before people start getting the wrong impression. 3 emails per day…that’s the target I’m gonna hit. Shouldn’t be too hard. But for now…I gotta go get something to eat. I’ll probably end up going to Chipotle…I love their burritos!

number crunching!

I don’t intend to sing my own praise…well…maybe I mean to show off a little bit…but I’m getting decent at Cadence. (That’s the software tool I’ve been working with). I don’t detest it as much now. I successfully completed my part of the project 48 hours before the deadline and am quite pleased and smug with myself. DLP is giving me ulcers though…she’s nowhere near completion of her half of the project and doesn’t seem too driven to complete it by tomorrow either. And I am in absolutely NO position to help her coz I have a mid term on Monday. All the same, I told her to fire all the output data files at me so I can sit and compute the values we need to fill in the 3 page excel spec sheet. That’s not as easy as it sounds though…I’ll have to manually (well, I’ll be using a scientific calculator…but that IS manual!) calculate around 150 values and then double-check ‘em! That’s gonna cost me at least 2 hours! Both of us have another mid term on Thursday and she is keener on preparing for that. Bullshit! I kinda yelled at her today coz I don’t like it when people (1) behave slack and (2) try to pitch the responsibility on me. She told me that the reason why ‘WE’ were lagging was coz we weren’t working as a team. She has some nerve! Whatever happened to the gratitude I ought to have for doing her job? Anyhoo…
I HAVE to do exceptionally well on one of my mid terms. I have to do exceptionally well on ALL my mid terms but I MUST do exceptionally well on one particular mid term. The course of the mid term in discussion is being taught by our department chair and if I do well, I shall be bestowed with the opportunity of being a research assistant next term.
The temperature was about 40 today...it was pouring and there were a few moments when I thought I would pass out. All I had on was a sweatshirt (I didn’t wear a Tee underneath coz I was supposed to do the laundry yesterday.) and jeans. I didn’t carry my slicker/umbrella coz I didn’t expect the drizzle to turn into a downpour. The chill got into under clothes like a nymphomaniac who hasn’t had a girlfriend for a century…ummm…I don’t know what the male equivalent of a nymph is…but you get the point!! That was MY foolishness…I have no one to hold responsible…not even nature!
Whoa! Lookie at the time…its past 1. I was up at 7am today so I guess I’ll turn in now.

i'm beat!!

whew! watta day! am so tired i cant bother any less about getting punctuation or spellings right. but i gotta blog....if i dont...i'll end up having a sleepless night and getting off the bed to jot down something here. so, might as well do it now and have a peaceful nights sleep! although, i dont know how well i will be able to sleep after having 2 coffee shots! i just HAD to take em...i was beat! and nothing can quite beat the jolt one gets when one downs 2 shots! i worked at the lab from 9am to 2pm, attended a class from 2pm to 4pm. got back to work from 4pm to 6pm, attended my second class from 6pm to 8pm, had dinner, wasted some time, went out to get coffee and here i am. i was so busy today that i didnt end up having any breakfast or lunch...just a stick of gum and half a snickers...both of which were donated by some very charitable people who couldnt see me working so hard. i ought to study before i sleep coz my mid terms start on monday...lets see how that works out. and yeah, a really wonderful thing happened today. just when i was considering giving up on my not so perfect lab results (a timing delay of 0.002 nano seconds isnt the same as a delay of 0.0021 nano seconds! hey....i'm serious here! when you have a billion plus transistors on a chip....this difference is MASSIVE!! do the math!), the professor announced that the deadline had been extended till Sunday. aint that just perfect! now i see more hope....i know i shall complete the project by tomorrow. i cant describe how relieved i was when he said that....i could hug him and kiss him! (the fact that i am in love with him has something to do with the hugging and kissing part as well!). i dont believe in God....but THANK GOD i got an extension. i say "thank God" coz thats what the staple expression seems to be....otherwise, people just dont get me! :-( but necesscity is the mother of invention....maybe next time i will figure out something more apt!
DLP (dorky lab partner) is at the lab right now. she tried her best to talk me into coming but there's no way that was happening since we got the extension....i dont procrastinate....i'm just too tired to do anything today. YIKES! i thought i just lost this page....sheesh! what a total waste of a scare!!!
anyway........gots ta goes now! toodles! (this is when you realize that i have totally flipped out and now you no longer want to have anything to do with me!)

showdown time!

So, what do I blog about today? Am sitting at the library…am dead beat but I don’t wanna go back to my apartment just yet. I have to be at the laboratory at sharp 8:00am tomorrow coz the TA is gonna stop by to educate me and get some stuff into my thick head! Which means I wont get any sleep tonight. If I DO end up sleeping I wont be able to come around anytime before 11:00am. But if I don’t sleep I’m in for massive disorientation coz I gotta stay at the lab all night tomorrow (The return of the dorky lab partner). And seeing that I have my mid term on the 7^th…I’ll end up losing lotsa precious time the day after. Wow! This is perhaps the first time in my life that I am forecasting and scheduling things up to 2 days in advance.
I am extremely concerned about the lab work though. I am not a software enthusiast…especially when I am pressed on time. In fact, I loathe software. (Not all software…I like entertainment oriented software!) For the first time in my life…I’m regretting taking up a course. Why cant I just stick to fabrication? Why cant we electrical engineers work in sync with computer science students to get a job done? Why can’t I design an integrated circuit and have someone else synthesize and simulate it? I don’t mind deciphering the output graphs either…but I just don’t like the process associated with getting the system to barf em out!
When I work with software…I have no idea as to why I am doing what I am doing. Today, I used 3 new tools without knowing why I am using them. They worked pretty well…I can give em that credit…but like I said, I can never understand software. There is just SO much going on behind the scenes that it’s annoying. And when I question people about it all they say is that…”THAT’S the characteristic of the tool. THAT’S why it’s better than the other CAD tools around. THAT’S the way its been designed.” . And they’re right. My question was probably as stupid as someone asking…WHY do we have to click on the Mozilla Firefox/Internet Explorer/Netscape icon to surf the net?
Anyway, guess I gotta suck it up and make it work anyway!

what to do?

So, I spoke to HIM today. It had been almost a fortnight since we talked. It wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would be. Actually, it went fairly well. No questions asked, no explanations demanded…and that went both ways. And the reason is not because we don’t bother…but because we know that both of us have been really occupied of late. And we talked for 2 hours… talking about the past, present and future. That’s what I like about HIM. He always makes me feel so comfortable and always makes me smile. I make him smile too, by the way…I’m not a dork with no sense of wit.
Today’s exchange didn’t make life any easier for me. I mean, it did in the sense that now I no longer move around with the “Call Him” post-it glued to my forehead! But it also makes it equally tough. Why? For the simple reason that now my plans of “guiltlessly” dumping him are in the dumpster themselves.
The next commonsensical question would be “But why do you wanna dump him?”. Long story. One threaded with lotsa compound emotions and thoughts. No one will identify with what’s in my head…so I won’t explain. And you don’t ask!
All I wanted was for this to be uncomplicated…but it now seems like its gonna be the hardest part. I’ve blogged about how there is no correct way to turn a person down. But the people I have talked about in that blog were idiots of the highest degree. Now, I have a lovable, affectionate, understanding, caring and polite guy on my hands. I don’t wanna offend or hurt anyone…but does that mean that I should put my happiness on the line just to make someone happy? And if that person really cares for me…will he be happy knowing that I am just compromising?
My heart says one thing and my psyche says another…and they keep changing sides (very conveniently disagreeing at all times!). How do I know if someone is right for me? And how do I know someone isn’t?
As far as emotional attachments are concerned…I feel like a splotch…an opaque splotchy blob…wrapped up in a barbwire. Damn!
What to do? What to do? What to do?

Too hot to handle?

I sense there is something seriously wrong with the lady who manages my apartment building...lets just call her supervisor lady. A noun always works better than an adjective! Last night she cranked up the heat to the “are you insane” limit on the thermostat…either that…or I am starting to get hot flashes. But 23 is kinda TOO premature to get menopause don’t you think? So its gotta be the thermostat! I work up really groggy at around 4am, opened up the windows to let the cool come in, just about fell outta the window, was petrified, lost all forty winks, lay in bed awake for 45 minutes, sponged down last night’s dishes, experiment with some clothes, eventually got jaded, drank some hot chocolate, mentally started to count sheep, felt sleepy and then finally went off to sleep again. Sheep always work for me…always! Either sheep or breaths. I wonder if sheep count humans when they wanna sleep.
I need a new pair of spectacles. My current (and last) pair is all set to give up on me. And that’s the LAST thing I need with my mid terms approaching. Doing badly on exams coz of optical problems is just sad! Pathetic! I’ll probably get a new pair on Tuesday. Its kinda interesting to try on all those frames though…not as good as trying on jeans…but yeah…pretty close. And this time, I shall try not to step on ‘em, sit on ‘em, lose ‘em, sleep with ‘em on, repair ‘em, clean ‘em…in fact…I’ll try my best not to bother ‘em at all! They can just sit on the bridge of my nose and relax!!
So I have decided to undertake a project. I wanna change the look of my blog. Now there are 3 ways I can go about it. (1) Modify the present source code (2) Get a good source code from some website and then personalize it and (3) Make my own code.
I make no false pretensions about being an ace programmer or a web guru so I’m obviously not gonna chose option #3. I’ll leave that job to the real programmers out there. I barely qualify as an amateur…I just like messing around with code to see what all it can do! And I can always get away with it coz its educational messing around! Hehehehe!
Anyway, the rest of today was smooth. Today, I ended up scribbling down a rough draft for my blog while I was supposed to be studying at the library (Sheesh! Talk about obsession and wanting to be heard! I’ve started leaving papers with my writing all around the place as well…Gotta stop doing that!! It’s plain stupid!). It took a good shape though …so that will be on my next post! I think I’ll turn in early tonight coz I barely slept last night. And I also gotta go grocery shopping tomorrow…hmmm…I’m gonna pretend that last thought didn’t come to me today.

i was with stupid!

okay...i just HAVE to get this down before i forget any details. this is an ACTUAL converstaion that transpired no more than 5 hours back! and i have been dying to get to my laptop and punch it all down! for the sake of stupidity....ummm....i mean simplicity, lets just call the other person in the dialogue DOOFUS!
Doofus: its dead.
Me: huh? what?
Doofus: ite dead!!!!!
Me: whats dead?
Doofus: my pet.
Me: oh no! i'm sorry! oh no! i hate it when this happens! thats why i didnt keep any pets when my dear Simba died. i can understand youre upset! anything i can do to make you feel better?? get you come coffee perhaps? say, how come you never told me you had a pet?
Doofus: i didnt.
Me: huh? i dont get it.
Doofus: i didnt have a pet.
Me: ummmm??? what died?
Doofus: the ladybird.
Me: the what? you had a ladybird for a pet?
Doofus: NO! youre not understanding what i am saying.
Me: youre not saying anything dude!!! what is it with you today?
Doofus: the ladybird died.
Me: are you drunk?
Doofus: i dont know....i just had 2 shots of vodka and a breezer.
Me: hmmmm....that figures.
Doofus: the ladybird died. it wasnt my pet.
Me: yeah!
(By now i knew that doofus was drunk...no point in continuing this conversation....BUT.....)
Doofus: she just came into my apartment one day....
Me: are we still talking about the ladybird?
Doofus: yeah....and i started to look after her....i kept her in a bottle with a lettuce leaf for her to eat.
Me: i see....how do you know it was a she??
Doofus: LADY bird! sheesh! are YOU drunk or something?
Me: no...sorry i asked...i was just thinking about something else.
Doofus: you gotta pay more attention you know....this lack of concentration isnt good. you should be more alert.
Me: how did she die?
Doofus: who?
Me: the LADYBIRD.
Doofus: yeah...i think she drowned or something?
Me: HUH??? drowned? you filled up the bottle with water?
Doofus: well...i thought she was thirsty...i put a little water and then my doorbell rang....remember i told you it was real loud and clangy?
Me: yeah, i get it....it drowned.
Doofus: but it wasnt my fault!! i didnt kill her!!!
Me: but you DID!
Doofus: it was an accident!!
Me: ever heard of manslaughter?
Doofus: yeah, i watched the practice...
Me: you killed her....
Doofus: youre a creep....get off me!! argh! and i thought you were my friend! you backstabber....
Me: yeah! right! shoot the messenger!!!
Doofus: hmmm.....i think i am drunk....
Me: i know you are...
Doofus: yeah...
Me: yeah....
Doofus: so you done preparing for the mid term?
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