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- From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
- Subject: New Year Pizza Party
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.044712.17003@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:47:12 GMT
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- Alfvaen ponders for a moment the garb he should adopt for the Undersea Pizza
- Party. Then he casts his mind back. To a time when he accepted an invitation
- to dine with the King of Aquatic Elves...
-
- Alfvaen disappears into the Folks Room and returns in a rather...revealing
- costume of gossamer sea silk, a few strategically placed shells, and the like.
- Patrons see him blushing furiously. "If I had anything else at all to wear,"
- he mutters. But soon he relaxes and gets into the spirit of things, and turns
- to the task of figuring out what his perfect pizza is.
-
- For, you see, Alfvaen is not very experimental, as a rule, when it comes to
- pizza. There are too many toppings that Alfvaen just does not like at all--
- any form of seafood, for instance, or most vegetables(as pizza toppings--in
- other settings, Alfvaen likes most vegetables just fine, as long as they're
- not cooed). And while he does tend to order the same type of pizza all the
- time, can he really claim that it's ideal?
-
- "Ah, what the hell," he mutters. Then, louder, "Okay, VPM, give me a
- pepperoni, bacon, mushroom, and half-pineapple pizza. If I can't have the
- ideal, I can at least have what I like. Wench, bring me a drink." He picks
- up his pizza from the VPM, and kitten(in mermaid costume)brings him a Wildberry
- Cooler.
-
- Alfvaen starts to ruminate on the year past. "It's been an interesting year,"
- he says. "Of course, what makes it the most so is my having discovered Usenet
- and alt.callahans. The rest has been overshadowed by that one discovery.
- I've been spending a lot of time on the Net, and have cut back on other things,
- like seeing friends. Not that I spent too much time doing that in the first
- place...but being on the Net all the time precludes them phoning me(the modem
- connection, you see), and puts the onus on me. And I hate phoning people, in
- general.
-
- "So maybe I should resolve to spend more time with friends next year. My
- record with resolutions hasn't been good, so I don't tend to make them often,
- and I don't know how well I'll keep this one. But maybe I can guilt myself
- into doing it anyway.
-
- "And I've been unemployed since September, mostly due to my lack of desire to
- get off my butt and do anything in the job search area. Maybe I should go
- Liralen's route and try to start slowly--one a day, or one a week, and then
- a slow increase. But I'm really looking forward to going back to school in
- September, if I can keep myself occupied and hopefully make some money in the
- interim.
-
- "Ah, hell. I'm spoiling the party." Alfvaen brightens with a visible effort.
- "Happy New Year, everyone! It's still about 26 hours away here, but net lag
- will lessen that, perhaps... I might add that I have no RL plans for New
- Year's Eve whatsoever. My wife wants to do something, just to do something,
- even if it's not going out to a party or to see the fireworks(it'll probably
- be -30, and I'm not going downtown and trying to get back in horrific traffic
- in a car still tending to stall at stoplights, or walking, or waiting for buses
- that never come). Last year I sat at home and entered her mother's family
- tree into a database program, while she went to bed at 9:00 and slept through
- midnight. We're just too exciting, and I'm getting depressed again. This is
- a party, isn't it? Don't mind me, it's just end-of-year angst..."
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
- "Give me your mirth. It bores me when you weep. My loves you cannot touch. They're buried deep." ---Don Marquis
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- Current Read--Tesseracts4
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