008 - Pecan
Apr. 30th, 2013 08:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deadly_nedSo.
As a first time Warden more or less mentoring a first time Inmate, there's this very important question that's been hovering menacingly near my head for the last few days like a demonic little helicopter and I would be remiss if I didn't at least ask it, even if I'm sure it's obvious to the more seasoned Wardens, Inmates, what have you.
...Is an Inmate's happiness more important than their graduation?
If you had to choose one, I mean.
And I think I should also ask to Inmates because I don't...like the unspoken divide and communication is usually an effective bridge over most divides..
What do you need from your warden to be happier?
[Private to Claire Bennet, Jesse Pinkman, the Marquis de Sade, and Megamind as a group]
Someone happened to tell me you're a dog person.
I'm trying to..rehome my dog, Digby. My Inmate is scared of them and it's probably best if Digby and I separated until my Inmate graduates. And I'd like to find someone to...borrow him, or take him, but if I don't find someone he'll have to go home and we've never been separated and I'm feeling a little...clingy.
As a first time Warden more or less mentoring a first time Inmate, there's this very important question that's been hovering menacingly near my head for the last few days like a demonic little helicopter and I would be remiss if I didn't at least ask it, even if I'm sure it's obvious to the more seasoned Wardens, Inmates, what have you.
...Is an Inmate's happiness more important than their graduation?
If you had to choose one, I mean.
And I think I should also ask to Inmates because I don't...like the unspoken divide and communication is usually an effective bridge over most divides..
What do you need from your warden to be happier?
[Private to Claire Bennet, Jesse Pinkman, the Marquis de Sade, and Megamind as a group]
Someone happened to tell me you're a dog person.
I'm trying to..rehome my dog, Digby. My Inmate is scared of them and it's probably best if Digby and I separated until my Inmate graduates. And I'd like to find someone to...borrow him, or take him, but if I don't find someone he'll have to go home and we've never been separated and I'm feeling a little...clingy.
ps. video!
Date: 2013-05-01 12:50 am (UTC)Nice to meet you too.
[It's all right, Prefect. The Piemaker's twin half brothers insist on calling him Frere Piemaker. Comrade is relatively tame by comparison]
That seems...less neat and habitual and more outright invasive.
His thoughts? Really?
ps. video!
Date: 2013-05-01 12:55 am (UTC)[Wait.]
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He has memory problems. I make him charts to keep track.
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Date: 2013-05-01 12:56 am (UTC)Alzheimer's?
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:03 am (UTC)It's not really a secret, I just don't like talking about it publicly.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:04 am (UTC)No, I.
I understand why you wouldn't.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:14 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2013-05-01 01:15 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2013-05-01 01:19 am (UTC)Or, well, some of the things he did later might be partially his fault. It's complicated. I blame society.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:21 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2013-05-01 01:22 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2013-05-01 01:24 am (UTC)I.
That wasn't what I meant.
Haaa....
No.
I'm sorry. Your inmate is not a weed. I do...like weeds, though. Dandelions. I just.
I'm sure he's very nice.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:26 am (UTC)[Private]
Date: 2013-05-01 01:29 am (UTC)I'm sorry!
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:32 am (UTC)Actually, Comrade, now that you mention it, he is a bit like a dandelion, metaphorically.
When you started backtracking I overreacted slightly.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:33 am (UTC)Were you upset because I called him a dandelion or were you upset because I tried to corral those words back into my mouth after I'd said them?
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:38 am (UTC)But now that I think about it dandelions are basically just extremely unpopular flowers, which is a pretty good way of looking at people like Barron.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:41 am (UTC)And I do like dandelions, I meant that. I didn't mean to preemptively pass judgement on someone I've never met.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:50 am (UTC)I don't really like dandelions.
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Date: 2013-05-01 01:52 am (UTC)Can we agree to disagree and not talk about either?
Or is that only pushing the problem under the rug to be discovered in a haze of horror later on?
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Date: 2013-05-01 02:13 am (UTC)[He kind of wants to pick at their respective concerns until they both bleed, but no. Ned had a point.]
I don't think magic even existed where I'm from, so it should be very easy for me not to talk about it.
What do you like?
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Date: 2013-05-01 02:16 am (UTC)I'm, uh.
I like my dog, and my restaurant. I like baking pies. I like my girlfriend, Chuck.
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Date: 2013-05-01 02:24 am (UTC)[Pause]
This is rare for the Barge. I am very proud of us.
[But unfortunately, dogs are a part of nature and cooking your own food is unhygenic, so Prefect has mixed feelings about the things you like.]
Those things all sound nice. [no] Is your girlfriend on the Barge?
[Private]
Date: 2013-05-01 02:28 am (UTC)...Thank you, Prefect.
No. She's, um. She's back at my restaurant.
[Being dead]
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Date: 2013-05-01 02:39 am (UTC)[Having a dead person in your restaurant is even more unhygienic! But not knowing that she is dead, Prefect smiles.]
That's good. Having someone to go back to when you're finished here. Does she make pies as well?
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Date: 2013-05-01 02:42 am (UTC)She tries. She does, I mean, she makes them with me.
But she keeps trying to change things. Last week - I mean, the week before I came here - she gave me cupcake pans and introduced the cup pie..
I'm still getting used to that one.
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