Lady Luck

Well, you got thrown around and effectively hit with a cannonball. I'd make some quip about being lucky to survive - but that would kind of be redundant, wouldn't it?

I wonder if we can get little Vicodin sprinkles for your birthday cake.

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Yay vicodin sprinkles! They cut back my dosage after last night. So instead of being in a lot of pain and not really caring, now I only mildly don't care that I'm in a lot of pain

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I believe you have just given me an idea for a combination birthday present/mission accomplished reward...

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what? you going to finally invent those flintsones chewable morphines for me?

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Even better. Have they told you "no swimming"?

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Buddy, I don't think that I could in this state.

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Worry not, Birthday Girl. I have a cunning plan.

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And suddenly, I am Afraid.

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Do you remember how I spent my 18th birthday? I know there's supposed to be some sort of school field trip curse, is there one for birthdays, too?

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Probably. I got dinosaurs for mine this year.

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Well, considering the first year I was here I got seven hours on a plane and then a big bloody riot, and then the next year I got a birthday party and a bald Marius.

So maybe it skips a year? I dunno. At least I'm not still stuck in Australia, so maybe with enough painkillers, I might be able to leave the house.

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Happy birthday. I would applaud, but I cannot seem to entirely raise my arms at the moment.

You know, this begs the question of what precisely your birthday has against my bodily integrity, and, more generally, why October includes a mandatory beating. Ah well. This year's transformation is somewhat less attractive than the last, but at least the recent thumping was administered by someone not employed by the school. Which I believe is actually a first.

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Hey, in my defense, we didn't even know each other the first go-round.

And congrats on that, you are moving up in the world. Some of the birthday elves brought me muffins. Have some. You do have enough mobility in your arms to put hand to mouth, right? If not, I'm sure you can make someone feed you.

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Is a bald Marius a good thing?

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And you didn't even get to keep one as a pet, aww...

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Yes. Because before that, there were dreadlocks.

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Indeed, I remain master of all situations which require only the bending of my elbows. As charming an image as having food pressed to my lips by oblidging young ladies presents, given my current anatomy the practice would be somewhat less than attractive. The lack of actual lips, for example, presenting something of a problem.

(And yes, no worries about Year One. Happily, your initial innocence was more than balanced by the amount of blunt-force trauma you inflicted upon me in Year Two.)

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Quite. I've been through something to the tune of three different sets of skin whilst at Xavier's. The baldness is better taken to signify my passage from Skin 2 to Skin 3. Whilst possessing certain assets, trust me when I say the loss was celebrated.

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I think this goes without saying, but... ew. That doesn't sound like it was fun for you at all. And now you don't even have any lips, but you do have the best Halloween costume EVER!

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This is why it's probably agood idea to start learning how to turn things off. I make my offerings of food out of compassion and considering you all but started chewing on the seats in the jet on the way to South Korea.

And again, in my defense, you kinda deserved it. I don't arbitrarily drop large heavy objects on people without a reason. Usually because they are intending damage to my person.

I wonder what would happen if I took pictures of my bruises and sent them to my college friends? "Sorry I can't come party tonight, and Wally says hi"

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Just say it's part of your costume!

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Who the hell am I going as? And episode of cops?

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Actually, hasn't it been four? There was the first one you regrew right after...prom? So that would be skin #2. Skin #2 fell off into your fetching incarnation of Skin #3. You molted Skin #3 right before my birthday. You are now on Skin #4.

And College Friend Marnie wonders why I start laughing hysterically whenever she says: "I can always depend on you Jennie, whenever I'm having a crisis with my boyfriend you're always so calm..."

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Throw on some fake blood. Seriously, some people's entire costume is just a fake gunshot wound or something.

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