| Subject: Chat with Miriam Carothers |
| From: Miriam Carothers <m.w.carothers@gmail.com> |
8:24 PM Miriam: how's the laptop war?
8:25 PM me: better since I restarted it
Miriam: yay
me: seems to get slower after it's been on fr a while
Miriam: just got "organic" smokes and boooze. Wheeee!
8:26 PM They were outta the "normal" smokes dammit.
me: so, the tobacco was grown in the ground, eh?
Miriam: I suppose. Bastards.
me: don't you live off Broadway?
Miriam: Yep.
me: if so, go to nightline deli
8:27 PM $6 or $7 for cigs stolen by Hamas without tax stamps
Miriam: youknow myhiggity hood?
me: I live on Park street
Miriam: I'min queens yo.
me: oh, thought you lived a couple blocks away for some reason
8:28 PM Miriam: Nope. Queens,Long Island City. It rawks.
8:35 PM Miriam: How's the chaptaaah?
8:36 PM me: man, my ex-girlfriend just came by
to pick up her stuff
Miriam: good times...
me: apparently she's pissed
Miriam: why?
me: wel
8:37 PM we officially brke up weekend before last, and in fact she dumped me technically because I am not interested in participating in the bourgeois break up ritual largely because I am busy
and then we were supposed to friends but she kept coming over to have sex with me
8:38 PM and on THursday morning she got upset because I started working on an article instead of cuddling with her after sex
and left without much explanation
so I invited another girl over on Saturday
8:39 PM meanwhile she had me watch her dog while she went to Boston to meet with other scientists regarding science, presumably
as she is a rather accomplished scientist working in artificial intelligence
and then we hung out briefly on Friday evening
Miriam: ah. Well,at least you're getting laid.
:D
me: and then I watched her dog again on Saturday unexpectedly
8:40 PM Miriam: by multiple wimminz!
Cats are better.
me: the gf came over to get it and hang out that vening
and then the other girl arrived
I love cats
Miriam: CAT FIGHT!!!! Bwa haaa haaa!
ooooh shnap!
me: so at some point I'm in my room with the other girl with the door open and she insists we make out
8:41 PM and then the gf left
and didn't contact me again
Miriam: gnarly.
now she's at yer place again?
wow.
creepy.
me: no, she just stopped by so I could give her the computer she stole for me from the NYU labs
plus some book
8:42 PM Miriam: how odd.
me: said "hi" and that's it and coudn't look me in the eye
Miriam: how long were you two together?
me: I respect her for her incredible inteligence but she's nuts, plus she liked me much more than I liked her
two weks
8:43 PM Miriam: That's nuthin sugar booger.
me: I know
I don't care at all
that was the problem
Miriam: move along....
8:44 PM well, you have anew woman yah?
me: well, the new woman is a friend of mine
who is dating a prominent married neuroscientist
but my old roommate/longtime friend Caleb was in love with her
Miriam: you're the bit on the side? tee hee.
8:45 PM me: and doing poorly in NYC all-around, so there was an unspoken agreement that nothing would happen, but now Caleb is back in Texas
Miriam: She sounds confused.
me: nah, she's pretty together, actually
she's very decadent
Miriam: aren't we all....
8:46 PM me: so, no, i'm not dating her or any such thing
Miriam: I like red wine and pills. sigh....
me: I am simply hanging out with her and getting drunk and having sex on occasion
yeah, me too
the thing about the other girl, the scientist, is that when she met me a few weeks ago I was still a heroin addict
Miriam: sex,pills, booze. So good.
8:47 PM me: and she basically helped me get off
Miriam: just take pills. Those mad pharmacies can replicate and street drug.
8:48 PM It's magic.
me: by extracting me from my room on Halloween evening when I was sitting there, minding my own business and shooting up and whatnot and declared her love for me and whatnot and then staying with me during withdrawal
so, that was nice of her
Miriam: aw.
me: but then it turned out she was actually in love with me
which is a problem since I am a robot
8:49 PM Miriam: But declaring love like that is kinda...um...jarring.
I'm a robot too.
det deeet deet.
dooot. doot.
bleep.
;)
8:50 PM me: bleep bleep, we are in agreement interfacing complete buffering
BUFFERING
BUFFERING
BUFFERING
anyway, you're right about pills but it was easier for me to get heroin as I working with a group of Puerto Rican drug dealers for the summer
8:51 PM plus I live right smack in the middle of the smack
8:53 PM Miriam: well, get some goddamn oxys and shut the fuckup ;)
me: very well
8:54 PM Miriam: there you go. Listen to the pillhead.
I'm right.
me: always do
Miriam: Plus, it's cleaner.
CLEAN
Bleep.
me: well, my new policy is to not be addicted to opiates
bleep bloop blop
8:55 PM because my mechanical body cannot process organic matter anyway
Miriam: II prefer the uppers obviously. I'll give you some concerta and pet your head as you write brilliant mumblings
me: that's a good idea
Miriam: Any time hon.
8:56 PM I have a great doc. too.
me: what does he prescribe you?
Miriam: Hell,i grew up with them. I sure as fuck know how to manipulate the system.
8:57 PM me: medical family, eh?
Miriam: Concerta, ritalin, abilify, lamictrigine.
me: man, they had me on ritalin when I was in 1st grade
through 3rd grade
stuff was nuts
not really to my taste
Miriam: Si senor. All sides.
8:58 PM Well, the new time release capsules are brilliant
me: how so?
Miriam: We are clever hyper minds...
8:59 PM It aides the creative process without any shitty speedy effects, highs and then crashing, very smooth.
I LOVE Concerta.
9:00 PM me: good, that sounds better than fucking ritalin
Miriam: then there's a new one called vyvase which I hear is even better.
me: made me suicidal when I was fucking eight
Miriam: Me too.
me: mom had to take me to like half a dozen psychiatrists
Miriam: But modern advances in science
Me too.
me: AND THEN IT TURNED OUT THAT MAYBE THE SPEED WAS THE PROBLEM
9:01 PM Miriam: I was a 136 IQ at age 12 with "issues" i was forced into eeg brain scans, the works.
me: similar here, but without the brain scans
9:02 PM they thought I was autistic, and then hypo-manic, which is the opposite of autism
turned out I actually was hypo-manic
and I was given lithium
which I threw away
9:03 PM Miriam: lithiumblows.
I like my anti psychotic,abilify.
I'm naturally paranoid.
It helpsbunches.
9:04 PM me: not me,
I like to run into traffic
Miriam: been there done that.
me: and ignore black-op projects performed by the feds
9:05 PM Miriam: Nader and Ron Paul.
9:06 PM me: more Ron Paul than Nader
and more Alexander Berkman than Ron Paul
9:10 PM Miriam: kucinich
9:11 PM me: the best of the Democratic contenders by far, but probably not cognizant of what has really been going on and at any rate lacking the ability to actually do anything of fundamental significance
9:13 PM Miriam: who is then?
9:14 PM me: if he existed, we wouldn't be having this conversation
wait a decade or two and someone will pop up