Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

[gs_silva]

Cathy is walking down the stairs of her fourth-story apartment when Owen and Seth come out of their apartment and see her in the stairwell. Owen greets her: "Hey, friend! Mon amie! I was just telling Seth we should see what our neighbors are up to. Hang out sometime. Uh... have some café! If you have some time, we have coffee on right now!"

Cathy looks concerned. She holds up her left hand to show Owen her wedding ring and says, "But, I'm married! Look!"

Seth puts an arm around Owen. "It's okay!" he tells Cathy. "We're only les amis!"

"Ah, good!" replies Cathy.

***

I guess they only know two words in French: friends and coffee. They probably took Spanish in school. If so, they'll be able to learn a few more words.

I'm having a little crisis about Owen and Seth right now. They're old, old characters, dating back to probably 1988, but I don't remember any of their character development. I should give them new character development! They appear in the book only for one scene, so I didn't do much about it then. But now they're back, so I should round them out and turn them into real people again.

***

I have a lot to say about the goings-on in the USA right now, but I don't even know where to start. One thing I can do to help myself through it is to admit that it's affecting me. I don't just have anxiety and dread over nothing. Last time I had a doctor's appointment, the nurse asked me if I had any anxiety or depression. It was just an item on her checklist, but we ended up talking for a while about the state of the world. Well, the effects of the state of the world on regular people. I might read more global news than she does, but I didn't need to get into the conflict between Cambodia and Thailand to be understood, even though that's weighing on me. I love both Cambodia and Thailand. To me, that would be like Boston and New York getting into a military conflict. To them, it's a flare-up of centuries-old tensions that will surely flare up again and again. To me, it's two locations in the same region, both beautiful in their own ways.

But now I'm watching the federal government vs. Minneapolis, so I guess my analogy doesn't sound quite as ridiculous as it should. Who's next? I'm sure we won't have to wait long to see the next WTF.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I guess they only know two words in French: friends and coffee. They probably took Spanish in school. If so, they'll be able to learn a few more words.<<

LOL yes.

>>But now they're back, so I should round them out and turn them into real people again.<<

That's a good idea.

>>I have a lot to say about the goings-on in the USA right now, but I don't even know where to start. <<

I'm often reduced to "Fuck," "FUCK," and "What the actual fuck?!"

>>I love both Cambodia and Thailand.<<

That time Russia messed with Georgia, I spent 10 days with two languages screaming at each other in the back of my head. :/

>>But now I'm watching the federal government vs. Minneapolis, so I guess my analogy doesn't sound quite as ridiculous as it should.<<

When the internal invasions started, I warned people that the government wouldn't hesitate to murder US citizens. Most didn't believe me. And now here we are. >_

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[gs_silva]

>>I'm often reduced to "Fuck," "FUCK," and "What the actual fuck?!"<<

Likewise. I used to have actual complete sentences, and even some points to speculate on, but what's even the point now?

>>That time Russia messed with Georgia, I spent 10 days with two languages screaming at each other in the back of my head.<<

Hugs.

I think a case could be made for separating the Russian people from Putin, and a bit of a case for separating Cambodians from their still fairly new current regime as well, but the Thai royal family IS Thailand. That's kind of neat, I guess, but disheartening at the moment. I want to go back, but that necessarily means I want to go back to the entity that's responsible for the border war.

[moth2fic]

The rest of the world is watching in horror, afraid to do anything because nobody knows who's next...
And I must remember to change my default icon when I get on my laptop. At this rate I'll still have a Christmas frog at Easter. Incidentally it's a real frog or toad from our garden but obviously tweaked a lot!!

[gs_silva]

NATO is making efforts to defend Greenland, I've heard. We'll see how that pans out.

I like the frog! As a creature of inertia myself, I wouldn't breathe one word of complaint about it being off-season.

[moth2fic]

Perhaps, but it should take its hat off!