(I refuse your merry making and offer annoyance instead) Voice: TheStrandInstitute

[nobasisinfact]

It seems someone felt it appropriate to put some sort of concoction in my tea. While not completely debilitating I find the results, irritating.

I'd appreciate it if someone happened to know exactly what idiotic concoction of the month is supposed to cause color blindness. Complete color blindness.

[There's a grumble after a few seconds.]

Because of course, this place would do something this stupid.

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voice; j.calhoun

[bardish]

Complete color blindness? Like everything's in black and white? Like you're a dog? Or-- ooh! Like you're living in a 1950s TV show!

[ CALM DOWN, JEFF, DON'T GET TOO EXCITED. ]

[nobasisinfact]

Would you like me to give you the same affliction?

[There's a cold warning in those words. He will do it, Jeff.]

[bardish]

[ Pauuuuuse... ]

How would you do that?

[nobasisinfact]

[Oh, he is pleased by Jeff's reaction.]

You do realize that this was done by one of those stupid concoctions that they're selling, right?

[He will not be telling you HOW he would do it. It would ruin the fun of doing it to you.]

[bardish]

Oh! The... soulmate love potion things? [ Man, Jeff does not want rando magic running through his system. ]

Soooo... you think it was a student or a coworker who did it?

[nobasisinfact]

It's unclear, but whoever it was came into my office to do it.

[bardish]

That's dedication! Creepy, creepy dedication...

[ Pause. ]

Trying to get dressed while colorblind ought to be fun. I mean, if this lasts long enough. [ He sounds WAY TOO AMUSED, SORRY. ]

[nobasisinfact]

[Keep it us and he will make you colorblind too Jeff.]

I do have others in my house who can assist me.

[bardish]

Unless they get in a pranking mood, too-- [ Jeff gets the sense that he miiiight be on thin ice. ] Okay, okay, sorry! It's totally not funny.

[nobasisinfact]

[Too late, he's going to be contacting your protege.]

No, no it's not.

[bardish]

[ Not Athena! She's a certified evil genius! ]

Sooo.. what do you do now? Just lock eyes with your soulmate or wait for it to wear off?

[nobasisinfact]

[He knows where to go.]

I haven't a clue, and I don't believe in soulmates.

[bardish]

You know, I actually agree with you on that!

[ But less for skeptic reasons and more for romantic lovey dovey hippie reasons, because it's Jeff. ]

The whole concept of soulmates is pretty limiting.

[nobasisinfact]

Agreed.

[He'd like to not think that Coralee was his soulmate.]

I'm surprised you don't believe in such sapy stupidity.

[bardish]

Thank you, that was only a little bit insulting!

[ Said with good humor, since Jeff knows that Richard's gonna Richard! ]

I think divorce tends to color one's perspective on this. But I assure you, my feelings on the nonexistence of soulmates come from a purely stupid, sappy place.

[nobasisinfact]

Divorce could be considered a blessing in some cases.

[Like in the case of you being married to a legally dead woman who you can't request a divorce from after she abandoned you and your daughter for 20 years.

You know, normal run of the mill cases like that.]

And what are you stupidly sappy reasons?

[bardish]

[ Totally normal stuff! ]

It's just... Your whole life, you make choices to go this way or that, and they can take you to such different places. Each point that branches off, you could've been a different person.

Who you are at one point in your life, and who you become later... your needs could be totally different! Who's to say both versions of you would have the same soulmate?

If anything, we've got soul... harems? Different people who we match best with at different points in our lives.

The person I loved at 21 wouldn't be my soulmate at 44, but that doesn't make that love any less special.

[ TOLD YOU IT WAS FOR SAPPY HIPPIE REASONS. ]

[nobasisinfact]

[That is TOTALLY a sappy hippie reason, but Richard gets it. Who he was when Coralee was in his life is drastically different than the man he is now, and she's the reason why.

He and Alex probably would have never met had he been a quiet professor and single father or if Coralee had never disappeared.

But let it not be said that he would actually agree with Jeff. At least not verbally.]

That sounds more like you dislike commitment.

[bardish]

Nooo... I like commitment! I'm super into it! And I realize that phrasing it like that makes it sound like I'm not, but I am!

[nobasisinfact]

It does seem suspicious.

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[bardish]

You seem suspicious!

2/2

[bardish]

[ Siiiigh. ]

I spend too much time around teenagers.

[ Occupational hazard. ]

[nobasisinfact]

When we first met you asked me where to buy marijuana. I think this sums your personality up perfectly.

[bardish]

No, that was, like, hypothetically! As a thought exercise! And anyway, I've got my own totally legit hookup now.

[nobasisinfact]

Was your hunting down the horticultural club because you thought you could learn to grow some also a thought exercise?