"I Don't Know Why They Say that I'm too Easy..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

...My water is pink. H'm.

Item one: Cicero is infuriating. Oh, come on. Is there anyone here who likes Cicero? Raise your hand. I will then recite his self-important self-absorbed 'omg look at me and my winning' speeches for you for approximately an hour. The man is unbearable. He does one clever thing in figuring out the Cataline conspiracy, and he thinks he's the best thing since SPAM. I'd have poked a hole in his tongue, too. :P

Item two: Maggie has a bunch of new nicknames, including Magarita, Bij, Bijou, Bibi, B, Magdalena, and Maggot. The last one is Waen's favourite, and she uses it all the time. "Heyyy, Maggot. I love youuu. Come here, Maggot! Who's a good girl?" ...It's really cute, actually. So much SQUISH.

Item three: I had forgotten how entirely awesome Spanish Jekyll and Hyde is. All the fun music without the stupid lyrics! I am so there.

Item four, and the final item: There is no item four.

Comments

[imperfect_tense]

Oh, /thank/ you! I detest Cicero and want to throw chickpeas at his head.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

ALL RIGHT. We'll band together.

[imperfect_tense]

Woohoo! *waves the Liberation from Cicero's Nonsense' flag*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

*cheers!*

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

...Does that icon say 'if you can read this, you're overeducated'?

[imperfect_tense]

I don't know, actually. *dies of embarrassment* A friend made it for me. I went 'ooh, pretty!'

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD I think it does, but I'm not sure.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

That would be a waste of perfectly good legumes.

I don't know anything about Cicero, mind you. I just like chickpeas.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, see, if you knew Cicero, you wouldn't care what you were throwing.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

But-- chickpeas. ;_____; If I could have chickpeas, I might actually have my appetite back.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

...Do I have to send you chickpeas? When you come here again, should I make Daddy make the chickpea thingy again? The one with chicken and chickpeas that you had your first night here?

[imperfect_tense]

... we could throw the chickpeas that went bad at him?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

That's an idea!

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

... Yes. ^________^ To the second question.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Okay! ^_______^

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Yay! ...So why is your water pink?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

^___^ You should come some time in January, like last year. We've made a tradition of always coming at the same times. ...Because I put a cherry lollipop in it.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

I probably can. :D I can be all "HI MOM BUY ME A BUS TICKET FOR CHRISTMAS." She already told me she'd pay for me to go to New York and D.C. on the bus if I find plays I want to see; she's a bit confused by my interest in theater, I think. ...well, that makes an amazing amount of sense. Is it cherry flavoured now?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

OMG ALL RIGHT. ^_________________^ That will be wonderful. And maybe I can find a play around here that you'd want to see, too. I'd be allowed to drive us by then, unless I fail the test. ...Nope, because I drank it.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Yay, play! :D And I'll get to see Maggie thing. ...well, that's disappointing.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

You wiiiiiiill. She will be pleased. We're discovering that she loves people a lot. She goes to town with Mum and Waen on Saturdays, and loves all the attention she gets. ^___^ ...But it was cherry-flavoured.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

I'm not completely sure where that "thing" came from. XD Um. But eeeee, I will snuggle her. And Sandy too. ...it better have been.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

It's really not in the least an incorrect thing. XD! And she will love that, and so will Sandy. And when you pet Sandy, even if someone else is petting Maggie, she gets rilly jealous and starts butting you with her head and trying to get your attention. It's hilarious. ...Cross my heart and hope to die.

[silverdragon262.livejournal.com]

Caeden does that, too. Whenever anyone tries to pet the cats--or do anything that does not involve petting Caeden. She was very unhappy when I started petting Exeter, so when I next sat down, she sat on me. She does that often, too. ..good.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwwwwww. That is adorable, if--satuponable. ...^_^

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

*cough* I love Cicero.

>_>

<_< I think his random arrogance is adorable and silly. Also he's very cute when he writes about Tiro and his daughter.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Then you had best watch out, or I shall quote The Nervousness of Even a Great Orator...! Also, we've never read about Tiro and his daughter. Tell me? ^_^;;;

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Cicero's arrogance hides supreme insecurity at his tenuous position in the Roman aristocracy.

Cicero absolutely adored his daughter, and the way he talks about her in his letters is really cute. I had to write a paper on Tullia for my Roman Family class, so I had to read all of this. It's really hard to hate someone when you've just spent an hour and a half listening to them waffle on about how their little girl is the bestest, smartest, most special little girl in the whole wide world. He was absolutely devastated when she died, and it's very depressing. He keeps mentioning, almost casually, in his letters that he really has no reason to live now that Tullia is gone.

Tiro was Cicero's slave and secretary, whom he eventually freed. There's a series of letters where Tiro is apparently sick and Cicero writes him a bunch of worried get-well-soon letters. They are all rather sweet, and written in that overblown style that Romans do when writing about their friends ("To my best and most beloved Tiro..."). Also, we learn from Pliny that Cicero wrote bad Greek love poems to him, which may just be one of the best things I've ever learned about any Roman ever.

Thirdly, Cicero is pretty much personally responsible for my being a classicist because my first Latin class in college was Cicero, and we read the Pro M. Caelio, and it amused me so much that I dropped theater in order to do more Latin.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh. ;__________; You're not allowed to make me like him--

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

:D:D:D:D

Silly Greek love poetry about how Tiro promised kisses and never delivered~~~

His overblown arrogance is a defense mechanism, I think -- he wasn't from a patrician family, and his position in Roman society was dependent entirely upon his own rhetorical skill and charisma. It was either be arrogant or be cut down, I'm afraid.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.---!

Really? He wasn't patrician? Whoa.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

A novus homo, my dear, the very model of the breed. None of his ancestors had ever held office. He staked his fortune on taking down a corrupt governor, did so, and ended up the most feared public speaker in Rome.

Until he found he couldn't play both sides against the middle anymore, of course.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

... *wibbles and fluffs him*

[tomecatti.livejournal.com]

You shall have three items. Two items is not the number of items you shall have. Neither shall you have four items. Five items is right out.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

As ye say, sir. *nodnod*

[mizuki-cass.livejournal.com]

.....would you happen to be Nikki?

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Nope! Am a Soujin. ^_^

[mizuki-cass.livejournal.com]

Okay, thank you! I heard the voice post on Maya's friendpage and realized "Not Nikki!" oh well, you sound like an interesting person anyway.
Not to be creepy or anything, but your comment about the "Whack-a-Mole"-ing of your buttons was hilarious.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

XD Thank you. She doesn't always do it, but she she does, she does. >_>