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Cain Hargreaves ([personal profile] misterblackbird) wrote2008-08-15 11:24 am

Entry 200; Day 469

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Those stupid pictures of cats and misspelled words again. I don't think I'll ever entirely understand it. For example, 'snake cat has bited before, snake cat will bite again'. I just have to hope to endure it when it comes around again.

Perhaps I should apologize for my behaviour yesterday. Although it wasn't as untoward as some curses make one behave, I'm sure it was still trying for everyone to whom I spoke on the Network. It even struck Riff, who proceeded to 'Riff roll' me, whatever that means. It annoyed me at the time, for some reason.

I think seeing him write like that was the strangest thing I saw all day, stranger than the cats with their captions.

All the same, I think I spoke to more people in the Network yesterday than I have in weeks--some I knew, some I didn't.

It was very good to meet you, Miss Kagami. I hope that we can meet again sometime when we're both feeling more like ourselves--or when I'm in a slightly better humour. I did very much enjoy our walk. It took that much to get me off the Network at all, I think.

And, Killua, for the record, no profit was made, despite those four stage plans to turn a profit. I'm sure you're disappointed.

Yesterday's curse frustrates me beyond all reason. It's rather like dreaming one can speak a foreign language. In the dream, everything makes sense, but when one wakes, everything is nonsense again. I understood myself, more or less, yesterday. At least, I knew what I was trying to say. Although, most of what I wanted to say yesterday was that I didn't want to talk like that. And yet I seemed to say it over and over and over.

Some of the photographs of the cats are somewhat funny, though I don't understand the giant pear with teeth, and I certainly don't understand 'lazor'.

At least this curse only seems to come around once a year. I couldn't take it if the Network looked like that all day every day. I'd either go mad or go silent entirely.

I also didn't think, or couldn't think, to screen my entry yesterday. None of them took me up on being out in the open like that, fortunately.

Now that that's over, I suppose I'll pick things up where I left them the day before. Back on his trail again. I need Crehador's information.

And this is the 200th post I've made on this Network contraption now, and nearly 500 days. I rather feel this sort of post ought to be more monumental, somehow, being both a round number and such a large number, 200. But I'm too exhausted after those stupid cats all over the place, and who would want to celebrate having been here so interminably long? Bravo, number 200.

~C.

[ooc: 200 posts! Wow! I feel like I ought to say something here XD Uhh... Thank you, POLY! For playing with Cain and me for so very, very long. I always hoped to hit 200, but never really thought about it. And here we are! Thank you~!! Also, Godchild crew (small but growing?), I'm not planning on cursing Cain this weekend, but if you've got plans, drop a line :D]

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It hardly sounds like a strange theory. I've thought the same thing myself, especially after Merry left the City the first time, only to come back telling me that I was in London even as I was here.

It was sad in that I saw her picture in the Hall of the Missing, and I know what that means, to see a picture in the Hall of the Missing. But there was a light in her eyes in the picture as well, as though she knew she was leaving, or perhaps she was already halfway home. That was comforting.

[identity profile] monochrome-mind.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad that you don't disagree then.

...

Acceptance is the most difficult part. I would be happy if people I know make it back home safely. However, I wonder how much longer any of us will be here. To know that I've left things unfinished on my world bothers me greatly.

[identity profile] misterblackbird.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It is difficult, but I feel certain those who leave, if they can leave, do make it home safely. What happens in their own world, though, is another matter. The journey from here to there must not be that bad, nor can finding oneself in one's own world be so bad, given how one sees swearing posts from those who've found themselves here again.

Yes, likewise. I've left more than a few things unfinished in my world, although some of them seem to have followed me here. Perhaps if I finish them here, they'll finish there.