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Joyce Jackson is turning tricks for world peace (rejoyce) wrote,
@ 2010-09-24 13:34:00

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008// a quiet beer followed by seven rowdy ones
Devin Finnigan, I hate you, gaelic football, Mary Malone, Ireland, Christmas carols, fucking BELLS, and my entire family.

OK, that's unfair, you didn't force me to drink... whatever that was at wandpoint. And Mary Malone was hilarious. And so was the football even if you had no right to carry me away before I'd convinced those two guys that they were wrong. Which they were. Totally. Anyway, I don't hate you. I just hope your knuckles are really sore.

This headache, however, is BALLS, and I'm going to kill my brother as soon as I can move.

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	cuffing 2010-09-24 03:50 am UTC (link)
	Hahahahahahaha. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-24 03:53 am UTC (link)
	...and you. You are next. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cuffing 2010-09-24 03:55 am UTC (link)
	Hahahahaha. You want a hangover potion? It was lovingly made by poor enslaved and overworked orphans. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-24 04:13 am UTC (link)
	~~You know how I feel about irresponsible modification of body chemistry~~ Just a little one. To take the edge off. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cuffing 2010-09-24 04:27 am UTC (link)
	Ha. Owl's on the way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-25 12:58 am UTC (link)
	I had to go sixteen rounds with Sam before he'd hand it over, but now the world is a brighter place. Thanks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cuffing 2010-09-25 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Nice. That's love, right there. Welcome. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	finnevin 2010-09-24 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	I cannot believe you started a fight. I cannot believe you -- actually, I can believe it from you. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-25 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Me? That wasn't even a fight, it was... a frank exchange of views. OK, maybe an altercation. And I was entirely in the right. What's your excuse? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	finnevin 2010-09-25 08:39 pm UTC (link)
	My... excuse was that some moron got handsy with you and reasoning with the drunk is a lot less effective than overturning a table and threatening to beat him with it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-25 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Which was totally ~~awes~~ uncalled for since I am a big girl and able to look after myself. And OK, even if it was kinda cool, you denied me the chance to punch the lech in the nose myself! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	finnevin 2010-09-26 12:14 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I didn't mean to use my violence to imply that you were incapable of taking care of yourself. I was going more for, "I will not allow this independent and empowered woman who could kick my arse up and down this bar to be disrespected in my presence and any one who dares try will get punched in the face by me or her, whichever one is closer"? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-26 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Wow, this journal was so very nearly sprayed with pumpkin juice there. Close call. Maybe for next time you should get a t-shirt made up saying that, just so there's no confusion? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	finnevin 2010-09-26 12:32 am UTC (link)
	Nollaig shona duit. "I'M WITH AN EMPOWERED WOMAN" with an arrow pointing to the left? You have to constantly walk on my left-hand side, but I think it would get the point across. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-26 12:44 am UTC (link)
	Or you could leave off the arrow and the directional expectation and just empower every woman in your immediate vicinity. OK, I give up, I have no idea what you said there and while I am pretty sure it's not anything inappropriate, I'm still not asking Mum and Dad's fallen asleep with his party hat on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	finnevin 2010-09-26 12:52 am UTC (link)
	But I don't know every woman in my immediate vicinity and I'm not really eager to give any of them reason to approach me. Especially not in mistletoe season. Haha, I said "Merry Christmas to you". I left this out of the fine print, but a key part of being my friend is that slowly but surely I make you Irish. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rejoyce
2010-09-26 01:02 am UTC (link)

It could be a good way to meet every woman in your immediate vicinity. After all, they could be nice. One of them could be that quidditch woman of yours. But I hear you on the timing. Definitely leave it until after the danger of ancient fertility rites is past.

Well, I suppose there are worse things to become. I'm not going to have to sing, am I? Because no one wants that.

And Merry Christmas to you as well.

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	finnevin 2010-09-26 01:31 am UTC (link)
	I get to meet her!~~!!!~~ Abigail Kirke got me passes to meet her after one of her games once the Quidditch season starts. So I'm pretty much covered for that. You made me sing Mary Malone. I think it's only fair that you a) show me around your neighborhood and b) sing something really awful. Ah, ah, ah. Nollaig shona duit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rejoyce
2010-09-26 01:44 am UTC (link)

Lucky you! Hope you're doing something extremely nice for Abigail. What are you going to say to Aileen?

I don't know that any force on earth could have stopped you singing Mary Malone, but I suppose fair is fair. Though you do realise you are basically asking me to take you to the Jane Austen museum, right?

Frohliche Weihnachten, Joyeux Noël and Nollaig shona duit TO YOU AS WELL THEN.

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finnevin
2010-09-26 01:48 am UTC (link)

I'm trying my best. I'll be trying to top that gift for the rest of my life. I was thinking I'd open with "Hi" and then move to "Want to get married?" Too forward?

Isn't Jane Austen that woman who was locked in her attic and then she asked her family to burn her writing after she died and they published it all instead? ...no, wait, that was Dickinson or some shit.

Cheeky.

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rejoyce
2010-09-26 02:02 am UTC (link)

Maybe. Maybe put something else in between those two. Like "How are you?" Then, depending on what she says, you could segue seamlessly to the proposal. If she's doing great, you could suggest that getting married would just make things better. If her cat just died, maybe matrimony will cheer her up.

See, we'll do the museum and then you'll know allllll about Ms Austen. And what I think of her. And then you'll be sorry.

It's my middle name.

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	finnevin 2010-09-26 02:06 am UTC (link)
	...huh. You're not going to tell me that maybe I shouldn't accost the poor woman with a marriage proposal just because someone made the mistake of giving me passes to see her? Alright, when? My middle name's Paden. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-26 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Carpe diem, Devin. And honesty is always the best policy. If you want to marry the woman, let her know. She deserves to have that information. It's supposed to snow on the 30th, let's do it then. The parks look gorgeous in the snow. So bring your coat and gloves, because I will drag you about in it. Pfft, that's boring. Your middle name should be Surprise. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	finnevin 2010-09-26 02:30 am UTC (link)
	Well, alright then. Oh, I can't on the 30th. That's when we're having the céilí. Well, we're not having the céilí, the town as a whole is having it but -- yeah. What about New Year's eve? Devin Surprise Finnigan? I don't really think it fits. I never do anything surprising. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rejoyce
2010-09-26 05:05 am UTC (link)

You're constant pleasant unexpectedness to me.

Might work. New Year's Eve the Falcons have their annual dinner. Since I'm the one who talked Dad into making it a charity thing, I should probably actually go this year. So I'd have to leave around sixish.

Unless you wanted to come along? But, I mean, well. Even if it only goes to about ten, I'm sure you have better things to be doing on NYE than hanging with the extended Falmouth family.

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	finnevin 2010-09-26 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	Thank... you? That's a compliment, right? Would I have to wear a suit and tie or would my Kestrals scarf be appropriate? I usually spend New Year's out drinking, and I can do that any time. The really big holiday for us is St. Paddy's, anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rejoyce 2010-09-26 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, that is a compliment. Suit, tie and scarf? It's a little fancy, but not a lot, and I wore my Falcons one to the footie, after all. And it's not like you support anyone truly offensive like Puddlemere or anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

finnevin
2010-09-26 10:52 pm UTC (link)

Thank you?. You're who I'd want to have my back in a fight and/or altercation. That's your compliment.

I'll just throw on the same thing I wore to the Yule Ball and wrap my scarf around my neck. I think they call that business casual or what the fuck ever. Would I be overdressed for the museum thing or is the charity event taking the place of you dragging me to a museum in what I'm sure is probably an act of cruel and unusual punishment?

Puddlemere? Puddlemere? Why not really insult me and call me a Cannons fan too?

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rejoyce
2010-09-26 11:41 pm UTC (link)

And a fine compliment it is, too. Thank you very much!

I call it a magnificent subversion of a stuffy tradition, and I think it's probably obvious how I feel about that. And I am so totally still dragging you to the museum. Let's go in our gladrags. It'll make everything just that bit more random, plus I'm sure a dapper young gent will give all the old ducks a thrill.

Oh, I could never be that cruel.

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finnevin
2010-09-26 11:57 pm UTC (link)

You're welcome.

I'm starting to understand that maybe raising politically correct hell is your thing. I'm not sure whether to admire you as my new friend or be deeply terrified of what I'm getting myself into, but either way we're going to need to hit a pub by midnight to ring in the new year. Don't worry, I won't make you take another drink at wandpoint.

Are you going to any of the matches when the season starts?

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rejoyce
2010-09-27 03:56 am UTC (link)

Me? Never. I don't know what could have made you think that. And fine, we can find you a pub, so you can drink. I, personally, will remain sober. Forever. And so I can protect your virtue from marauding womenfolk.

I usually try, but this year I just don't know. I feel like maybe I should concentrate a little on this whole NEWTs business, even if I think society puts way too much stock in one tiny aspect of learning and performance.

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finnevin
2010-09-27 12:51 pm UTC (link)

Must have been all the yelling and the activism and the... you doing something weird once a week that I have to ask about because it makes no sense until you explain it properly. Hahaha, my virtue?

Oh, those. I'm going to fail those anyway, so I figure I may as well enjoy the season good and proper. Then I'll be stuck back in school and get to enjoy a few more months of Quidditch before everyone but me graduates. What are you going to do after?

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rejoyce
2010-09-28 12:18 am UTC (link)

Only a once a week? Damn, I'm slowing down in my old age. It's all this quidditch training. Really cuts down on the weird-stuff time. And yes, your virtue. You're clearly a very virtuous young man, constantly preyed upon by unspeakable harlots. Bearing mistletoe. Or something.

Don't you want to get out of school? I mean, I know society in general isn't much less restrictive, but at least there's some freedom. The idea of being stuck in that castle for another year makes my skin itch.

I'm going to travel. Out of here so fast. I have the world's biggest pile of travel brochures, and I'm slowly whittling it down into some sort of order. Probably Russia first. I want to go all the way across to Kamchatka, and that's going to have to be summer.

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finnevin
2010-09-28 05:27 am UTC (link)

~~Heh.~~ Insert perquisite bragging about how Ravenclaw is going to wipe the field with Slytherin next term here. Add in something about me laughing maniacally in the face of your loss. Hahahahahaha, and you're -- what? An ingenious ingenue who needs to constantly dodge the advances of, um, males unknowingly attempting to woo you pagan fertility ritual?

I do. I'm just no good at school shit. ~~My sister and Nick have both tutored me and I'm still getting a P in everything I'm not getting a T in~~ Not for lack of trying or anything, but if I ended up failing my N.E.W.T.s, I wouldn't be too surprised. There's not much I'm good at besides Quidditch and yelling.

I have no idea where Kamchatka is, but if you're going to travel, you should check out Sri Lanka or Abu Dhabi. If for no reason other than it still surprises me that those are real countries.

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rejoyce
2010-09-29 05:11 am UTC (link)

Right back atcha with obligatory rebuttal, one-up-man-ship and something about seeing you cry like a girl, because apparently sporting taunts bring out the sexist in even me. Though if you do win, I think I'll have to defect to Ravenclaw. Not because you're better or anything, but just to escape Dimitar.

How did you end up in Ravenclaw anyway? No, wait, that's not the question; I've talked to you enough to know just how smart you are. Not much for structured learning?

Including geography, apparently. Abu Dhabi isn't, actually, a country, it's the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a country I would love to visit but suspect I could not due to the high likelihood that I would immediately do something that would lead to my imprisonment and/or deportation and/or death by stoning. Sri Lanka, though, is definitely on the list. Kamchatka, by the way, is roughly that part of Russia that's between Japan and Alaska. Both of which I also intend to go to.

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finnevin
2010-09-29 03:23 pm UTC (link)

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. You're always welcome in the house of blue and bronze, but Dachev would probably find you here, too. He and I are sort-of-friends or something so if he asks me where you are, from captain-to-captain...

I have no idea. My mam says intelligence comes in many forms and that Ravenclaw isn't solely defined by being full of smart people, but I think she just said that because she's my mother. I figure maybe the Sorting Hat saw my propensity for memorizing Quidditch stats and stuck me in Ravenclaw.

I'm trying really hard not to make a Garfield the cat reference right now. You'll owl and shit, yeah?

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