[IC] Slackers...You Figure it Out

[RumikoOhara]

I've known a lot of people who've hated their High School teacher well into their 20s and 30s for some punishment they meted out which that person thought unfair; their Parents because they kicked them out for being gay or living a lifestyle of which they disapproved. They walk by here they come in here and even drink my coffee every day and they hold onto those slights for years, some even die holding on to it.

Its all a waste of time. "What was, was, what is, is important because its where we can alter the path we will take in the now"

I'm too lazy to waste my time hating someone or everyone around me because my life sucked or sucks. I will confront those who confront me because it is at that time important to me but as soon as the wheels of time move on and the threat moved on with it I return to better and happier things. said Mandy with a sigh looking at her friend Amy

Then she lights a cigarette and leans back as she selects some relaxing music



@Deadlyrose9641

[Blueflame]

"hey you two, I think I'm dying" mason said as he came downstairs(?) still wrapped in a fuzzy blanket. He slipped into a booth and into a coughing fit. After he was down he said "I swear I think my lungs have it out for me"
@RumikoOhara@Deadlyrose9641

[RumikoOhara]

@Blueflame

Mandy sees Mason's condition and stands, exits into her apartments at the back and returns with a cardboard box the says Coughing Sickos and sets it down on the table with him removes an electronic thermometer and a case of sleaves pops a new one on then without asking plugs it in the guys mouth after which she pulls out a vaporizer and starts it up. Once those things are done she pulls the beeping machines and reads it before pulling out a nice collection of cold medicines

"100.4 degrees" she says as she walks away and back around the counter where she reaches into her private stock and pours the guy some Lemon juice, spring water, honey, and a shot of whiskey which she stirs on her way back to him.

"Here drink"

[Blueflame]

@RumikoOhara
"Damn, and I was just gonna drive down to med express." Mason says taking the glass from Mandy's hands and downing it. Coughing into his elbow slightly Mason says "Thanks, ill have to return the favor sometime" he returned the glass.

[RumikoOhara]

@Blueflame

Mandy pulls a box of tissues from the box and sets them on the Table

"Can't have you making everyone sick"

Then she goes and fetches an extra wastebasket for the tissues

"Don't get used to it and try not to cough into the room

Don't need another Tamako Maru"

Then she returns to her spot behind the bar and washes her hands and mixes herself a lemon punch

[Blueflame]

"Even if it is only to keep others from getting pick it till a nice jester." Mason said pulling a tissue from the box and blowing his nose into it before tossing the tissue into the waste bin.@RumikoOhara

[RumikoOhara]

"I'm not heartless just a Slacker who wants to get by on only what is required with the least effort.

If everyone gets sick then I have to constantly disinfect clean up and well work my rear off; I hate it.

I only perform a logical function to limit your chances of cross infection; part of that is shortening your recovery time" said Mandy as her fingers fly across the keys of her laptop at 115 wp.

and the music shifts



"Did you know that during a ritual a Voodoo worshiper is filled by Loa, lwa and the like which compel the person to either act like an animal or a lust filled being.

Some believe its possible to make people into a living zombie kind of like the date rape drugs work but on a more permanent level and one of the key ingredients is a fungus? "

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Mandy stands when the normally dull-witted algorithm picks a good song to follow.
Her hips begin to sway in slow arcs like a belly dancer

"Then there's what I discovered about hormonal levels and their effect on viruses.

You see the immediate effect of altering the body chemistry is to shift the power of those antibodies native to the body as compared to an invader.

I read somewhere that long ago to help a king or hero recover it sometimes only took a dance from a young woman. They attributed the effect to a goddesses intervention but I believe it was active body chemistry"

[Blueflame]

@RumikoOhara
"Biochem never was my strong suit, preferred astronomy." mason said resting his head on his arms on the table, his hand on the tissue box incase he needed it.

[RumikoOhara]

@Blueflame

"Astronomy?

I'm an Aquarian" says Mandy picking up some of the lose cups

[Blueflame]

@RumikoOhara
"Aquarian, let me think." mason says propping his head up. "air, water barer, amethyst or garnet, how close was I?"

[RumikoOhara]

Mandy Laughs softly and looks in the bar back and pulls out an Old Book that says in hand drawn lettering.

My Year in Obscurity

It is a weathered and beaten old leather book that is scuffed and scared which she opens and opens an old fountain pen

You displayed your talent for superstition beautifully

[RumikoOhara]

She begins writing

[Blueflame]

"Whatcha writing?" Mason says watching from the table.

[Blueflame]

@RumikoOhara
(I forgot to mention you)

[RumikoOhara]

Babbling into a book Ah la old school; this chapter I call the "Idiot Chronicles"

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Who cares if you don't?

next entry

@Blueflame

you see her write in painfully small strokes of her pen, her lettering showing great practice in the waning art

[Blueflame]

@RumikoOhara
"I hope it's nothing bad about me." Mason said jokingly, watching her write.

[RumikoOhara]

Its nothing but thought teasers with a little homegrown philosophy

And yes it is partly about you, its about all those who enter my orbit

[Blueflame]

"glad I could help contribute to the book."

[RumikoOhara]

"Oh I could wail away the hours and still retain my powers to spew and fertilize
They certainly are real handfuls an heavy as two anvils and they're Avocado size"

Sings Mandy perched on her stool behind the bar and swiping her finger across the face of her Pad like she were casting some arcane spell

[Blueflame]

Mason walked down from the apartment. "
morning"