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So, Nora is your wife, yeah?

She is. I'm guessing there's a part two to this question?

Not a question part two. Just that Nina's here, too.

Seriously.

Is she a nurse?

Why

Nothing, just comparing notes.

I swear that sounded less creepily chauvinistic in my head.

Right. Deleting it off my phone now, just in case. If Nina got a hold of that and got offended, fair warning, she would tear you to little bits.

Only if Nora didn't beat her to it.

But seriously, man, congratulations. Did she just get here this last jump?

Yeah. And congratulations to you, too, I suppose, if that's the right word for it. I'm not fully convinced.

Yeah, not exactly the ideal setting for a reunion.

[ also wait. ]

You did't speak to Nora, did you?

God, no. I thought you'd probably wish to have that particular discussion without me mucking up the works from the start.

Thank you for literally being the only person on this ship with some common sense.

But speaking of that conversation, Aidan's here, too.

[He's not even being sarcastic when he writes:]

He's your Mitchell, yeah? That's great. Congratulations.

[ hard to tell with text, but whatever, he'll take it at face value. ]

Yeah, "my Mitchell".

I honestly can't figure out if we're supposed to quietly ignore each other's existence now or arrange some kind of international dinner party and introduce everyone.

Well, my vote is always for "nod in passing, pretend there's not some sort of interdimensional cloning plot."

[But, and here's a mark of how soft he gets as soon as Nina's here:]

Though I have got a decent mystery meat bourguignon recipe that can be scaled up without difficulty.

Don't get me started on cloning theories.

[ no really, don't. somehow he doubts arguments about which one of them is the 'original' might sour this rocky truce. that said, unsure if the bourguignon thing is a joke or serious, because come on, who else makes bourguignon in space. ]

And just for the sake of clarity: seriously?

[Well fine]

There's not much of an alternative to mystery meat here. Don't have to get shirty, and if you've got something better, you're welcome to it.

No no, sorry, not that. I mean more about anyone actually attempting to make bourguignon here. The pasta options in space are pretty dire, but fresh bread is easy if you want to substitute.

[oh]

Sorry, thought you were being sarcastic about my cooking. No, it actually comes out rather well. There are some dried mushrooms which reconstitute quite well, and the ship-wine isn't too tannic, so you don't get that bitterness that bad bourguignons sometimes have. Carrots and onions from the garden, of course, and there's a bacony-flavored protein that cuts quite neatly into lardons...So I'd say if you can make a bit of fresh bread, that'd actually make for a pleasant meal. And some sort of galette for dessert? Apples, perhaps?

[And at long last, Josh, here he is: Chipper George.]

[ oh. well this is different. ]

That sounds incredible, actually. Sorry if this is a weird question, but did you ever consider culinary school? You know, if you didn't do

whatever it is you do. What is your job, exactly? You said you were getting a teaching degree, right?

[ things they failed to compare. it seemed slightly irrelevant when compared to their various life traumas, frankly. ]

Edited (oh wait!!) 2014-01-02 05:46 (UTC)

[oh
that is a question that makes him sad]

Hospital porter. Sort of the only job really available. Mitchell helped me get it. I did want to be a teacher, but that would have been a bad idea, really.

Edited 2014-01-02 05:50 (UTC)

Probably no worse than a werewolf nurse.

[ you're right, this is a terrible topic. although josh has gotten enough perspective to be weirdly content with the direction his life's taken - mostly because of nora. still- ]

Wait, does that mean you're good with kids? Or are we talking college level.

Looked mostly at upper-level. I thought I'd be a professor, really, and that I'd go back to school, but that didn't really work out.

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[text] hope i'm sorry this is going to go downhill i can feel it

[text] What thread of theirs doesn't, also nice matching icon