LLF is okay, LLF is okay!
May. 5th, 2003 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonSo, last night I almost finished my story (killing off a character in a stroke of insight, which actually gave me another idea for a story, well, okay, a vignette. If I wrote all the time would I just keep giving myself more ideas? That'd be so cool.) Then I headed over to LLF's house and rang the bell at exactly 7:00, and sat there. Remember in my note I had promised to wait for an hour... so at 7:15 I leaned on the bell for a while and started reading Bodymakers again, and at 7:30 I played the Jingle Bells rhythm, and at 7:45 I did an SOS in Morse code. At 7:52 LLF came walking by me... he'd been walking home from the library (in Boston) and had hurt his feet and/or didn't know what time it was and/or had forgotten when I was coming. Nonetheless, he was happy to see me and insisted on buying me dinner and talking a lot. (Mostly I let him talk. I'd taken off my engagement ring so that I could tell him rather than just having him see, and I didn't even get around to showing him that until after dinner!) Basically, he's up to classic LLF-type behavior, which is to say, very noble and very crazy. When I asked what he was up to and he said long story, I said "are you reinventing Western philosophy from scratch?" and he said "uh, actually that's remarkably close." Me: I knew it! Because that actually was my first guess. I've known the boy for a while, you see. Then it came out that as part of having figured out a new philosophy, he wants to revolutionize how the software industry works, and I was like, yeah yeah, HLM is doing that too. Most of the rest of the talking was about that, and how he has to come out of what he's doing every few months to make money consulting, etc. His software idea is actually a pretty good one, but he doesn't have a prototype yet.
Note the things that are not the case: no symptoms of PTSD or the like, no troubles with going outside or talking to people (he's choosing not to, it's true, but he was conversing just fine)... none of the really bad possibilities. And now that I found him, he wants to stay in some kind of touch, at least. He is eating a rather nutty diet, and I mention this only because it drives me crazy. First, be aware that he always has preferred subsisting almost entirely on pasta... that's normal for him... if you ever heard that urban legend about an MIT kid getting scurvy from eating nothing but pasta with no sauce, well, that wasn't a goddamn urban legend! That was LLF as a junior and he's my friend and he's an idiot! Anyway, he's now progressed to making his own pasta out of flour and potatoes, which is kind of cool, and sometimes he eats sauce but not usually, and once a month he eats a lime to keep from getting scurvy. Yes. He eats a lime. Once a month. A lime. Lots of vitamin C. And he thinks this is all you need. However, I have to admit this is better than, say, the pre-lime days when he thought vitamins were mythical creatures. So... he's mostly okay, at least.
Note the things that are not the case: no symptoms of PTSD or the like, no troubles with going outside or talking to people (he's choosing not to, it's true, but he was conversing just fine)... none of the really bad possibilities. And now that I found him, he wants to stay in some kind of touch, at least. He is eating a rather nutty diet, and I mention this only because it drives me crazy. First, be aware that he always has preferred subsisting almost entirely on pasta... that's normal for him... if you ever heard that urban legend about an MIT kid getting scurvy from eating nothing but pasta with no sauce, well, that wasn't a goddamn urban legend! That was LLF as a junior and he's my friend and he's an idiot! Anyway, he's now progressed to making his own pasta out of flour and potatoes, which is kind of cool, and sometimes he eats sauce but not usually, and once a month he eats a lime to keep from getting scurvy. Yes. He eats a lime. Once a month. A lime. Lots of vitamin C. And he thinks this is all you need. However, I have to admit this is better than, say, the pre-lime days when he thought vitamins were mythical creatures. So... he's mostly okay, at least.
