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May 10, 2005

Fantastic!

(transcript of IM conversation with friend I fessed up to
and from whom I asked for help)

Session Start (me:her): Mon May 09
14:15:26 2005
[14:15] her: are you back from lunch?
[14:15] me: y
[14:15] her: so we never got to your weekend
[14:15] her: how was it?
[14:16] me: it was good
[14:17] me: went to lava gina saturday night
[14:17] her: what’s lava gina?
[14:17] me: a little e. village bar with a
great name
[14:17] her: indeed.
[14:17] me: i entertained the bulgarians
[14:17] her: never been there, but I like the
name.
[14:17] her: clients?
[14:18] me: i think it’s a legit portugese
word
[14:18] me: oh
[14:18] me: no
[14:18] me: some contingency at the bar
[14:18] her: ah
[14:19] her: and you entertained them how?
[14:19] me: with my good humor
[14:19] me: and sharp wit
[14:19] me: and deadpan delivery
[14:19] me: and sporty outfit
[14:19] me: and the removal of said
[14:20] me: on the street in front of the
establishment
[14:20] me: for public consumption
[14:20] me: no, that last part I made up
[14:20] her: good
[14:20] me: (it was for private consumption)
Session Close (her): Mon May 09 14:20:51 2005

Session Start (me:her): Mon May 09
14:23:38 2005
[14:23] her: and how’s it going with the other
consumption?
[14:23] me: fantastic!
[14:24] her: that’s great!
[14:24] her: how’s your lighter thumb?
[14:28] me: hurts
[14:28] me: looks pretty nasty, too
[14:28] her: because the callus is going away
or because it’s getting worse?
[14:29] me: worse
[14:29] her: you need to stop smoking
[14:29] me: you think so?
[14:29] me: you might be right
[14:30] her: so when you say “fabulous” are you
being sarcastic?
[14:31] her: or is it that you’ve replaced
crack with nicotine?
[14:33] me: it’s not fabulous, its fantastic.
fantastic consumption
[14:33] her: sorry.
[14:33] her: so what exactly does “fantastic”
mean, then?
[14:41] me: i pulled this off dictionary.com
for you: 5: exceedingly or unbelievably great; “the
bomb did fantastic damage”; “Samson is supposed to
have had fantastic strength”; “phenomenal feats of
memory” [syn: phenomenal]
[14:42] her: thanks.
[14:43] her: I meant, does “Fantastic” mean
that you’re laying off the pipe, or that you’re too
high to care?
[14:44] me: that’s what I was trying to
clarify
[14:44] me: but there’s some other good lit
associations that will help
[14:44] me: check this:
[14:44] me: The most typical type of
Fantastic story, one used many times, brings the Devil
to a contemporary setting.
[14:44] her: so you have Samson-like strength?
[14:45] me: yes i do
[14:45] me: and check this, too:
[14:45] me: The Fantastic is sometimes known
as the Grotesque, possibly because in the 19th century
its practitioners wrote stories set in poverty,
examined social problems, or featured strange
personalities.
[14:46] me: last one:
[14:46] me: In Elizabethan slang, a Fantastic
was a rake; an “improvident young gallant”.
[14:46] her: that’s certainly you
[14:46] me: words rule
[14:46] her: but you’re being very cagey about
actual usage.
[14:47] me: damn, I think I’m being quite
obvious and self-critical
[14:48] me: but I guess if you’re unfamiliar
with that sense of the word fantastic it would throw
you off
[14:48] her: yeah, but I’m think
[14:48] her: thick, I mean
[14:49] me: well, if you want stats: I
haven’t slept since I got out of bed Friday morning.
Since then I’ve spent $380.
[14:49] her: well, that is grotesque, I’ll give
you that.
[14:50] her: does your health care cover
counseling?
[14:50] me: i don’t know
[14:51] her: would you consider looking into
that?
[14:51] me: yes
Session Close (her): Mon May 09 14:54:21 2005

Session Start (me:her): Mon May 09
14:55:42 2005
[14:55] her: I’m sorry I’m not much help.
[14:56] me: it’s alright. I realized pretty
quickly you had more than enough going on in your own
life to deal with
[14:56] her: I didn’t expect things to escalate
on my end
[14:56] me: I know. don’t worry about it.
[14:57] her: It’s easy to say that, but I do
worry.
[14:59] me: I’m not going to die. I’m just
getting some good stories for my grandchildren.
[14:59] me: should I ever have them
[15:00] her: one way to ensure that is to get
some help now.
[15:02] me: i don’t think a counsellor—if
that is what you are implying by help—can ensure that
I have grandchildren
[15:02] her: fair enough
[15:02] me: that’s a little outside the scope
of their mission or mandate or whatever
[15:02] me: but, yeah, point taken
Session Close (her): Mon May 09 15:08:40 2005
…

[16:47] her: I just got another pile of work.
Pulling a late night again.
[16:47] her: I’m seriously about to lose it.
[16:48] me: funny, work is other slang for
crack and a pile of it would certainly cause a late
night again, and may push one to seriously lose it
[16:57] *** You have been disconnected. Mon May 09
16:57:56 2005.
[16:58] *** “her” signed on at Mon May 09
16:58:17 2005.

Posted by peligrito at May 10, 2005 6:53 AM

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