Subject: Chat with selenaleong@gmail.com
From: "selenaleong@gmail.com" <selenaleong@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

12:19 AM me: lol
  "One time, she asked me to go to the nearby cafe to get her a coffee and a cookie. When I returned, she threw a tantrum, insisting she could never drink from a medium sized cup."
 selenaleong: hahahaha
  also she hated whatever fucking cookie i got her
12:20 AM plus she was convinced i had eaten like thousands of pussies
 me: chocolate chio
  why?
 selenaleong: WHO DOESNT LIKE CHOCOLATE CHIP
  i don't know, but she was a lesbian
  maybe she sniffed something on me
 me: I see
  it's a pretty damned good blog
  you've got good writing mechanics
 selenaleong: well. thank you.
  this is quite a compliment coming from you
12:21 AM me: 've been transitioning off my antidepressant after several years of being medicinally placated and what I've noticed is my sex drive has returned. With a vengeance. Like, it is Steven Seagal and penises are the bad guys who raped and killed his teenage daughter
  I mean, it's not like I only want to be fucked while on my back; I'm not a goddamn turtle.
 selenaleong: oh god
12:22 AM so. how was your thursday evening
12:23 AM me: nice and quiet, usually Mirna's here watching some nonsense TV show while I try to think or write
  I'm very happy
12:24 AM selenaleong: did you enjoy your sandwich
 me: consulting with my various people, jotting down notes, etc
  I did indeed
 selenaleong: i'm curious to learn what kind of sandwich it was.
 me: well, sir
  it was a ham and cheese sandwich
 selenaleong: mayo? mustard?
  lettuce? tomato? pickle?
 me: nah, didn't have any condiments left
12:25 AM a Spartan sandwich
 selenaleong: oh you MADE the sandwich.
 me: yep
 selenaleong: i haven't had sandwich ingredients in years
  the idea of me buying bread is laughable.
 me: laughable?
 selenaleong: i don't really eat bread
  i eat burgers w/o buns
12:26 AM unless it's a BLT, most sandwiches can go fall off a cliff
 me: that's pretty extreme
  check this out
 selenaleong: well wait 'til you hear my stance on raw onions.
12:27 AM me: this guy was on cable access back in Austin
 selenaleong: yes, checking out...?
 me: Calvinist preacher
  http://www.excitementmachine.org/revricky/
 selenaleong: cable access, home of the crazies
 me: friend just sent me this
  Austin especially, man
 selenaleong: holy
  those screen shots are...amazing
 me: it was a fucking nutty scene ten years ago
  he just had a lot of unique terminology
 selenaleong: sxsw hasn't helped at all?
 me: and symbology
12:28 AM sxsw doesn't really impact it, I don't think
 selenaleong: i just think of it as a hip happening music/food city
 me: it was going on at the height of cable access craziness
  I had to write like 60,000 words on SXSW in 2002
  it was a fucking nightmare
  I actually had nightmares about it
 selenaleong: "kids today: they are annoying. we ate tacos"
  there, that's like nine words. or eight.
 me: lol, worse than that
12:29 AM I had to write about bands
  and I don't know anything about any of them
 selenaleong: "music: don't forget your earplugs. get drunk on booze. whee, what fun."
  hmmm
  that must have been hilarious
  a total interloper
  writing about "THE SCENE"
 me: it was terrible, and I was always an interloper back then
  how was your evening?
  did you eat lobster?
 selenaleong: no
12:30 AM i thought how sad it would be for me to go sit in the restaurant alone
  at the bar
  and eat a 30$ dinner
  so i went home and watched "CSI"
 me: very good
 selenaleong: i also realized i forgot to go on a job interview
12:31 AM i thought it was TOMORROW.
  it was today.
 me: oops
  good start
 selenaleong: since i was wearing a ripped tee shirt and cut off denim shorts...
  it probably is a good thing i didn't go
  and massively hungover.
 me: what job?
12:32 AM selenaleong: oh product mgr for a private label
  that does licensing for like, enyce boy/girl
  my friend used to work there, she said it's horrible
 me: sounds great
 selenaleong: yeah
  she said she was sexually harassed
  i'm like wait, it's the APPAREL INDUSTRY
12:33 AM there are only women/gay men
  oh and gross old jewish or italian guys
 me: "He kept asking, "Is this pussy mine?" and "Whose pussy is this?" and I repeatedly muttered, "Yes" and "Yours, daddy" respectively."
 selenaleong: (i can only surmise that it was the two latter)
 me: the "respectively" is especially amusing
 selenaleong: are you finding these quotes amusing.
  hahaha i guess you are.
  you know, i didn't mean for the blog to be so funny
12:34 AM i guess my silliness is just...pervasive
 me: I've got a heightened sense of humor
 selenaleong: well i like that
  i find everything funny
  well, ALMOST
12:35 AM like, rape isn't funny
 me: I got suspended and nearly expelled from high school for conducting a threesome in the girl's hotel room during our school paper's trip to New York in 10th grade
12:36 AM they would have expelled me but couldn't prove anything
  other than that I slept in girl's room
 selenaleong: oh lovely.
 me: I explained to officials that the alternative would have been to sleep in room with acne-scarred fucking zeta males
 selenaleong: wow a threesome in h.s.
  that's impressive!
 me: I was precocious
12:37 AM selenaleong: clearly
  ahead of your time.
  what were they going to do, sniff your dick?
 me: and, like, the school bad boy only by virtue of it being a pussified school
 selenaleong: is it a real threesome if the two girls don't eat each other out?
 me: sure
 selenaleong: oh i get the feeling you are quite a dirty bird.
12:38 AM me: used to be
 selenaleong: oh, old age has tamed you?
 me: had nowhere to go but up
  had a series of drug problems
  when I was much younger
 selenaleong: hmmm
  which drugs
 me: all
12:39 AM selenaleong: i mean you probably were a coke addled monkey
  and that's cool because i was there
  if you say E i am going to mock you
 me: was addicted to heroin for a while
 selenaleong: oh god
 me: did everything else but never had a problem with any of it
 selenaleong: well. i am glad that's past tense
 me: yeah, I know
 selenaleong: i've lost way too many friends
 me: me too
12:40 AM or, rather, just a couple
 selenaleong: funerals aren't fun
 me: most of my friends don't really do anything
 selenaleong: would you consider yourself a bad influence
  because i know i am.
 me: a long time ago, yes
 selenaleong: i'll refill your drink when you're not looking.
12:41 AM me: but i never allowed girls to do any heroin
 selenaleong: well that's good.
  it was never really my bag.
  also i am a shitty pot head
 me: so's Mirna
 selenaleong: no i meant i'm not good at pot
12:42 AM me: she works at that damn law firm and then comes home and watches six hours of law and order while stoned
  ah
  I don't mind it
 selenaleong: oh i don't think there's anything wrong w/ it
  it's just an antisocial drug
 me: I know what you mean
 selenaleong: it makes me want to eat a bag of doritos home alone on the couch
  while laughing at stupid "family guy" episodes
 me: I work on it
  helps for re-writes
12:43 AM selenaleong: oh. that's true
  i developed my xanax habit by joking to my doctor "i should smoke more pot"
 me: OMG an e-mail from THE Steve Holmes!
 selenaleong: SHUT UP
 me: lol
 selenaleong: i hate you so much
 me: also, you must be the one girl on chat roulette that all those guys are trying to find
 selenaleong: he's got that dirty older man thing going on
12:44 AM me: the one who actually shows tits
 selenaleong: well i was drunk
  and it was after a date
  so why not
  i was kind of...in the mood to be "risque"
12:45 AM me: OH MY!
  (faint)
 selenaleong: oh mock me all you want
  i don't like the whole webcam thing
 me: "Continuing with the safety theme, we need to discuss how to screen out creeps and serial killers."
  That's a good idea
 selenaleong: it's a little creepy
12:46 AM me: what's NSA?
 selenaleong: no strings attached
 me: ah
 selenaleong: i have met some real interesting characters off CL
  mostly boring dorks though.
 me: and most of it will be replies like "I WANA FUK U."
12:47 AM selenaleong: if you would like to conduct an experiment on the general illiteracy of the american populace
 me: I do not
 selenaleong: put up a profile on plentyoffish.com
 me: stop right there
  don't need to
 selenaleong: haha
  it's fascinating how dumb people are
  HOW DO THEY HAVE JOBS
 me: I'm from Texas
 selenaleong: that require an IQ over 90
 me: no idea
  but the business class in our country
12:48 AM selenaleong: oh. right. home of the people who thought it was a great idea to tie a black man to the back of a pickup truck and drive a couple miles
 me: is illiterate
 selenaleong: how do you get into college not knowing how to write a complete sentence
  or grad school for that matter
 me: colleges are scams
 selenaleong: oh this is true.
  when i applied at lang i asked the adviser "so you think i'll get admitted?"
  and his reply was "i don't know, can you afford it?" ha ha ha
12:49 AM me: yeah, they should all be burned down
  fucking pyramid scheme
  just blind institutions that develop like water flowing downhill and collecting in a pool
12:50 AM selenaleong: hmmm so where did you go to school.
  because i KNOW you did.
  and you probably went to grad school too.
 me: I went to UT for about three weeks and then dropped out
  got some gigs and also a copywriting job with AOL when I was 18
 selenaleong: i'm waiting for the "and then" part
  wait really?
 me: never went back
 selenaleong: wow.
12:51 AM me: nope, but I did give a lecture at Rutgers a couple months ago
 selenaleong: that's really impressive since i totally had you pegged for an over educated academic
  really
  even more amazing.
 me: graduated high school by mail when I was in Africa, too
 selenaleong: so you're an auto didactic
 me: took tests at new embassy, was 1998 when other one was blown up
  yeah, I was militantly opposed to school when I had to go
12:52 AM selenaleong: you are just one fascinating bird.
 me: was always furious about being there under someone else's authority, made sure that would never ever happen again
  thankfully I can do whatever I want now
 selenaleong: would you go back now? just for shits & giggles
 me: with a flamethrower
12:53 AM selenaleong: haha
  i like school
  it makes me feel productive
  i am probably lying to myself
 me: I'll go give lectures, but that's it
  maybe
  there are certain legitimate subjects that schools can teach
  but humanities, no fucking way
  "English"
  lol
 selenaleong: hhahaha i never understood english majors.
12:54 AM me: fucking mediocre half-men
  I'M MAJORING IN ENGLISH GUISE
 selenaleong: are you this contemptuous all the time?
  it must get exhausting
 me: no, just about this
 selenaleong: OK
 me: I'm usually pleasant
 selenaleong: because it might be like hanging out with a comedic act all the time
  and that might become ... trying.
 me: it would
12:55 AM selenaleong: people who are on 100% of the time, oh god go die in a fire
 me: He has a fetish for "shiny things" including baby oil, lip gloss and leggings
  odd
  that sounds familiar for some reason
12:56 AM selenaleong: uh it was some dude from OKC i think
  i never met him
 me: what do you think about a guy with those sorts of fetishes?
 selenaleong: i flake on about 79% of the people i write with
  what do i think? i think that's OK i guess, people enjoy what they enjoy
 me: do you respect them less?
12:57 AM selenaleong: if he had a diaper fetish, probably yes
 me: okay
  good
 selenaleong: but something that's fairly innocuous ...
  like some dude i went out w/ once was all about thigh highs
  he was REALLY into lingerie
 me: dude, this guy
 selenaleong: so i showed up wearing no underwear just to be an asshole
 me: that Mirna was very briefly dating
  recently
  first of all, he was really dumb
12:58 AM selenaleong: nothing sexier than stupidity
 me: like, he told Mirna and another friend of mine, "You guys, you can't trust the news stations"
  as if this was something he had figured out just recently
  and had to tell everyone
 selenaleong: hahahahahahha
  that must have delighted you.
 me: and he asked to put on her pantyhose
 selenaleong: oh wow
 me: and said something to her
12:59 AM when she like held him from behind at some bar or grabbed him or something
  about how he was uncomfortable being held on his right hip because of "something that had happened"
  when he was younger
  all kids of fucked up
 selenaleong: hmmm
 me: finally she got rid of him
  which was good
1:00 AM selenaleong: i wonder what happened
  like did his priest fondle his hip
 me: probably molested
 selenaleong: well yeah probably
 me: but at any rate, I don't want dumb pretty guys around me
 selenaleong: but this is a fucked up thing to say but who hasn't been molested, ha ha.
 me: well, I never was, maybe everyone else
 selenaleong: well iw asn't on a regular basis
  unless you count being a woman
 me: nothing bad every really happened to me
1:01 AM selenaleong: well you're one of those lucky people
 me: yep
 selenaleong: i can't really complain
 me: never even sprained an ankle
 selenaleong: wow.
  i've never broken a bone
  or had a bee sting
 me: well, I've been stung once or twice
1:02 AM we live in a fine, fine age
 selenaleong: yeah i mean i just had consumption
  oh and a vicious case of HIV
  but other than that, i'm GREAT!
 me: chat roulette is a pretty wondrous thing to have all of a sudden, we don't even think of it because of all the wonders that keep coming
  just drink some OJ, get some rest
 selenaleong: chat roulette is depressing
  a bunch of boring people
  who fancy themselves fascinating to utter strangers
1:03 AM like i'm that much of a voyeur to watch some fucking losers
 me: well, I try talking to everyone, always fine some interesting person in France or China or here
 selenaleong: OK yes.
  on that point i shall concede
  i mean shitty americans
  it's just some dumb drunk sorority girls
  or a bunch of frat boys holding up signs "SHOW UR TITS"
 me: I always do
1:04 AM selenaleong: man i'll show you mine
  in person
 me: You could describe him as "dark and brooding" but that usually comes with the territory of being an eastern European. We met up for supper at a local cafe where he had a watermelon salad (he was amazed by the combination of fruit, feta and mint despite me telling him it was a classic combination)
 selenaleong: i don't need the safety/anonymity of the internet
 me: that's funny, an Eastern European intellectual ordering watermelon salad
 selenaleong: hahahahahah he was a weird dude
 me: America takes Eastern European intellectualism and breaks its legs
 selenaleong: also afterward i was convinced his cat had fleas and bit the fuck out of me
1:05 AM me: watermelon salad
 selenaleong: it was SUMMER
  god what more do you want
 me: could have been bed bugs
  I've spent many a summer in this country
 selenaleong: i KNOW, i'm saying, it was hot, we had fucking salad
  then i shoved a cigarette in my pussy
 me: never had watermelon salad, and I'm from the state where they sell watermelons on the side of the road, and I'm not dark and broodin
 selenaleong: that was pretty slutty
1:06 AM i don't like watermelon
 me: and a waste
  did it not break?
 selenaleong: oh it was uh "Just the tip"
 me: lol
 selenaleong: to prove i wasn't wearing panties.
 me: just the tip
 selenaleong: oh everyone loves that JUST THE TIP joke
1:07 AM me: I had this amusing idea
  to respond to all messages on OkCupid
  with, "IS THAT A THREAT?"
 selenaleong: hahahahahahha
  has that panned out for you.
 me: it just made me laugh over and over again to think about it
 selenaleong: it is pretty funny
1:08 AM did you answer a lot of the stupid Q's for the matching algorithm
 me: because I got this message from this pretty young girl who asked me some question like, "Don't you think that your taste for Dostoevsky contradicts all the Hellenistic stuff you're into?"
  and I wrote IS THAT A THREAT?
  and then I laughed for like the whole afternoon
 selenaleong: halsjfdlasjkfjashahahahah
 me: then told my friend Josh and he, too, engaged in a bit of laughter, he did
1:09 AM selenaleong: did she reply
 me: then we tried to think up other phrases to totally ruin any potential relationships
 selenaleong: i wrote someone and said " you have a weird face like you should have lived during the french revolution"
 me: lol she did not
 selenaleong: bummer
 me: I told another that she looked like a Dostoevsky character and was probably a Sphinx
1:10 AM selenaleong: hahahahah did SHE reply?
 me: that confused her but was also funny
  she did
 selenaleong: i mean how could you NOT
  that's funny and engaging
 me: decided that bizarre accusations are funniest
  ARE YOU A SPHINX GIRL!>?!?!?!
 selenaleong: hahaha
  i would just tell you i'm the oracle at delphi :(
1:11 AM me: that would ruin it
  because then we would actually end up talking about shared interests
 selenaleong: am i doing this wrong?!!!
  i'm SORRY i don't know how to reply to these properly
1:13 AM me: the thing is that in New York a male can afford to sacrifice potential mating for a quick and hilarious joke
  or, a male of any caliber
 selenaleong: wait are you saying women can't
1:14 AM me: well, here, the ratio is all skewed
 selenaleong: oh yes
  you're right
 me: between single men and women
  and then
  you have the rampant homosexuality among the men
  and then the rampant wannabe-creative class faggotry of the heteros
1:15 AM selenaleong: bahahahaha man you are one embittered fart
 me: who, me?
 selenaleong: mental note: do not watch CNN with you. got it
  yeah YOU
  no, the dude behind you
 me: OH FUCK
  I think he's gone
 selenaleong: he's in the bathroom
1:16 AM me: I just don't have much respect for these Williamsburg males
  or males in general, really
 selenaleong: neither do i
 me: I guess I'm kind of a codger
 selenaleong: you are a contemptuous fart
  curmudgeon much?
  don't worry i shake my fist at the kids on the lawn too.
 me: I just have certain expectations
1:17 AM well, somebody has to
  ah, toe-sucking
 selenaleong: shit if i could have a shotgun...
  what are you yammering on about now.
 me: I was hanging out with this girl for a little while like two months ago
  she was fucking nuts and I stopped hanging out with her pretty quickly
1:18 AM anyway
  she was a foot whore
 selenaleong: oh
 me: went to these "parties" where men paid to play with the girls' feet
 selenaleong: oh yeah
  i'm aware of those things
 me: I really want to learn about these men
 selenaleong: it's just...weird
 me: yeah, she told me a lot of interesting stuff
  oh
  and then I was reading something
  on reddit, probably
1:19 AM this gay male prostitute
  had one client who had him over, told him to bring his glasses
  he had this thing for thick glasses
  and all of these pairs of glasses set on his dresser
  and had him try on various pairs and tell him about how they felt, what he saw
 selenaleong: hmm
  at least he wasn't into blowing loads onto the glasses?
1:20 AM me: and he was like, "I can't see anything, none of these are my prescription"
  which I think to be hilarious
  no
  he just sat on his bed and watched the guy watch porn and jacked off
  then cried and apologized for how much of a "loser" he was
 selenaleong: faahslajfjlasjfklajsd ahahhaha
  that line is the funniest thing ever
 me: I really love anecdotes like that
 selenaleong: yes
  well then
1:21 AM i have one for you from my friend
 me: I interned at nerve.com back in the day
  fucking sucke
 selenaleong: he is a 6'4 good looking british guy
  oh wait my friend worked there
  he was an executive there
  back in like 2001?
 me: shit, name?
 selenaleong: brian battjer.
 me: ah, don't know him
  I was there in 2003, I think
 selenaleong: ah OK
  that was after they got bought out, right?
 me: hmmm
1:22 AM I thought it was the same owner
  don't know
 selenaleong: no i think it changed hands at some point
 me: or maybe he's the one who bought it
 selenaleong: yes i think you are right on that
  bc the whole format/layout/interface changed
 me: I don't know, there was a mini civil war going on in editorial
 selenaleong: and i lost all my credits
  my friend does marketing so
1:23 AM me: I remember one of the tech guys was smoking outside and saying that nerve was getting all the "buzz" that myspace or something used to get
  and I was thinking, uh, no
 selenaleong: hahahah myspace
  the siberia of the internet now.
  are you on facebook
 me: yeah, Mirna made me an account
  and now
 selenaleong: HA HA HAHAHAHAHA
 me: I use it for stuff
1:24 AM selenaleong: "stuff"
 me: my political action committe and whatnot
 selenaleong: well that's a good thing
1:25 AM i use it to remind myself that i am socially quite endowed
 me: socially endowed
  very good, it's nice to talk to another writer
 selenaleong: hahaha
  it is
  i'm enjoying our exchanges
1:26 AM me: I mean socially, I'm working with a bunch of them but don't really talk to them
  although I tell all of my romantic and sexual quandries to this gay editor I used to write for
 selenaleong: well that's all you need, a few good confidantes
 me: just one gay editor will do
 selenaleong: does he give you good advice in return?
1:27 AM me: oh, maybe
  I don't know, I just enjoy typing
 selenaleong: hmm
  you probably have ADD
1:28 AM me: perhaps
  I was diagnosed with it back in the days when people were constantly diagnosed with it
  but also diagnosed with hypo-mania
 selenaleong: what is hypomania
  like you're apathetic?
 me: like manic depression
  except without the depression
1:29 AM but that was when I was like eight
 selenaleong: so you're just always UP
 me: my dad was, too
 selenaleong: maybe you were just eating too much sugar
  that's the kind of shit "you grow out of"
 me: maybe. I'm just a happy, reasonable person with plans
 selenaleong: certainly nothing wrong w/ THAT either.
1:30 AM me: so, you have a good relationship with your parents?
 selenaleong: yes
  i love them so much
 me: "Am I reclaiming myself? Or am I just distracting myself from the true issues at hand?"
  are there issues you're not dealing with?
 selenaleong: yes
1:31 AM my inability to clean
 me: that's not much of an issue
  I used to be King of the Fruit Flies
 selenaleong: the fact i was a piece of shit drunk for the past five years?
 me: meh, could be worse
 selenaleong: got fired a lot
  i'm facing eviction.
  ha ha haaaa
  :(
 me: how long you been out of work/
  ?
 selenaleong: i was out of work for five months
1:32 AM i worked for four prior
  and was out of work for like 8 before that
  it allowed me a lot of wallowing
 me: right
 selenaleong: and avoiding reality
  and i was just a general piece of shit
 me: Wikipedia is good for that
 selenaleong: oh trust me, i used wiki quite often.
1:33 AM me: information addiction
 selenaleong: i love the internet :(
 me: what I binged on when I was dope sick
 selenaleong: so how long ago were you a junkie
  and how long did the heroin phase last
 me: got off about five or six months ago
 selenaleong: wow
 me: in order to better run Project PM
 selenaleong: well that's good.
1:34 AM i'm glad you were able to do that
  so we're not going to avenue D right
  hanging out at the projects
 me: it was a choice between going on like that and potentially failing or going through withdraws and then having everything I want
  what do you mean?
  buying it?
 selenaleong: haha i just meant yeah
  that.
  i was going to make a baltimore joke too
  i'm sorry, that was just rude
  i don't mean to make light of your plights
 me: I had a Puerto Rican gang selling weed out of my apartment
1:35 AM so had access to dealers at home
 selenaleong: how convenient
  and dangerous
 me: yeah, but I was at this time far crazier than the dealers
1:36 AM selenaleong: wow
 me: had several local enemies
 selenaleong: were you playing russian roulette
  did you inject or snort
 me: and allies with guns and whatnot, several fights
  injected
 selenaleong: yikes
  WOW.
 me: keep in mind that this was all going on while I'm director of communication for a PAC
 selenaleong: you're quite fascinating
 me: and writing for Vanity Fair
 selenaleong: hahahah i really hate you
1:37 AM me: and Skeptic and all sorts of other respectable shit
  so it was a weird life
 selenaleong: your ability to achieve all that while being a piece of shit is...just amazing
 me: yeah, I worked in bursts
 selenaleong: i'm intrigued
1:38 AM me: then the project began
  and my mom was coming up to get a hotel room for my birthday and all that
  and decided I had to quit all of it
 selenaleong: did she know?
  how long were you shooting up for?
 me: plus I was supporting those two jackass crybaby honkies
  she didn't know
 selenaleong: you'd break her heart you know.
 me: snorting for a year, shooting for half a year additionally
1:39 AM I know
 selenaleong: well. i am glad that portion of your life is pretty much over.
 me: that's what I thought about during the withdrawals
  so, I moved out and in with my old friend/lawyer here
 selenaleong: does she keep you in check?
 me: sort of
 selenaleong: that's great
 me: I keep myself in check mostly
 selenaleong: even better.
1:40 AM i wish i had a stronger self will/congrol
 me: towards the end, I was plotting to kill this guy who was himself a 17-year vet of upstate for a double homicide
  and that was pretty much the point when I realized things had gone too far
1:41 AM selenaleong: um. yeah.
  that's kind of an epiphany.
 me: just have a lot of criminal behavior among males of my family
 selenaleong: hmm
  perhaps you enjoy the excitement of it
 me: sort of naturally inclined to it, so have to be doubly sure to go the opposite direction
1:42 AM I did, adrenaline addiction is a real thing
 selenaleong: maybe you find life so boring and people so stupid that you purposely create fucked up situations
  (here is where i project)
 me: perhaps, but a lot of it was just incidental to heroin lifestyle
 selenaleong: as i am not too familiar w/ heroin lifestyle, i shall take your word for it
1:43 AM me: but anyway, I'm now drinking chocolate milk and listening to classical music
 selenaleong: how refined
 me: try to basically do now what would make my mom happy if she saw me
 selenaleong: aw.
  your own little self internalized police.
 me: yep
  anyway, this is all classified of course
 selenaleong: you're strengthening your super ego
1:44 AM me: too many fucking people know too much already
 selenaleong: what, i was going to make a tee shirt w/ the entirety of this conversation on it
 me: luckily, no one would believe most of it
  DUDE DON'T DO THAT
  EVERYONE WOULD KNOW
  FROM THE SHIRT
 selenaleong: it would just look like houndstooth
  don't worry
 me: THE SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRTY
  damnit
  Y was unintentional
1:45 AM selenaleong: i still got the gist
 me: you should read William Gibson
1:46 AM selenaleong: i'm going to sound stupid and say "who?"
 me: well, I don't think one is stupid by virtue of not knowing a certain author
  this isn't the 16th century
  the culture has exploded
1:47 AM he invented cyberpunk
  but moreover
 selenaleong: is that the neomancer dude
  or was it necromancer whatever
 me: he introduced and predicted a lot of concepts
  yeah
 selenaleong: i know the NAME but not familiar w/ him
 me: including concepts that shocked me into doing the project
 selenaleong: i'll have to insist you dumb it down for me
 me: you should just read it
 selenaleong: OK
 me: also, you're being overly-modest again
 selenaleong: i am NOT
1:48 AM me: fine, you're not
 selenaleong: hahaha
  there are just some things i'm just...unaware of.
 me: or ARE you
  I don't even know how to tie my shoes
 selenaleong: thank god for loafers
 me: which is why I wear cowboy boots
 selenaleong: wait no you don't
  do you?
 me: yep
 selenaleong: oh god
1:49 AM me: yeah, I get that a lot
 selenaleong: well. you are from texas.
  i guess i can't complain
 me: I mean, all males in my family wear cowboy boots
 selenaleong: who am *I* to tell you to change your entire sartorial expression
 me: a lot of them are ranchers
  even the urban ones wear them
 selenaleong: what about the HAT
 me: nope
  don't wear hats
1:50 AM selenaleong: uh
  your profile photo begs to differ.
 me: that's from hunting
  different deal
  you have to wear a hat or burn
 selenaleong: also you look pretty fucking pasty
1:51 AM me: again, I'm not into hunting, this is just an important cultural aspect from which I come from
  in that pic, yeah
 selenaleong: how about skeet shooting.
 me: lol no
  I hate shotguns
 selenaleong: just checking.
  the kickback on those are brutal, no?
 me: I have one, but it was bequeathed to me
 selenaleong: i've only fired .22's
 me: I just don't care about birds
1:52 AM selenaleong: i like shooting things.
 me: also have a .270 or some such
  my dad's just a psycho
 selenaleong: ha ha
 me: he's killed everything
 selenaleong: are you on good terms w/ your dad?
 me: sure
 selenaleong: now?
1:53 AM me: now, yes, he was intentionally absent when I was a kid
 selenaleong: why intentional
  couldn't handle the strain of having a kid?
 me: to get back at my mom
 selenaleong: ah.
 me: he told me he wouldn't see me again when I was like seven
 selenaleong: yikes.
1:54 AM i'd be pretty resentful
 me: he's not very mature or noble
  not his fault, his family is just immoral
 selenaleong: fair enough
 me: I was lucky to be raised by my mom, who's very noble
1:55 AM selenaleong: well then that is a good thing.
  holy smokes it's almost 2am
  and i am sober
  ha ha
 me: is that rare?
 selenaleong: no
  i went months w/o drinking
  it was why i picked up poker
  to stay clear headed
 me: poker, eh
 selenaleong: yes.
  don't mock me
  i'm pretty decent
1:56 AM me: I can show you some better games
 selenaleong: really
  what, no texas hold 'em
 me: no card games
 selenaleong: what other games do you suggest
  is this a sexual innuendo
 me: strategy games
 selenaleong: hmm OK
 me: no, you've got the sexual innuendo covered
  trust me
 selenaleong: you do realize hold 'em is strategy too
 me: I know
 selenaleong: oh i'm a walking innuendo
 me: but it's pure mathematics, largely
1:57 AM selenaleong: it IS
 me: and sort of two-dimensional
 selenaleong: BUT it's also in the betting
  and knowing when to bet
 me: these games have thousands of major factors in play
 selenaleong: and coaxing the most $ out of your opponent
 me: you have to integrate all of them at once
 selenaleong: hmmm
  alright
 me: better for your mind
 selenaleong: i'll take you up on it
 me: very well
 selenaleong: alright. i must go to bed.
1:58 AM me: word, nighty night
 selenaleong: yes.
  enjoy your evening
  and uh i am looking forward to meeting you tomorrow
 me: yep
 selenaleong: alright. sleep tight and all that crap
 me: thanks and whatnot
 selenaleong: hahaha
1:59 AM good night