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Jul. 7th, 2010 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperance...Aaaand then of course there's the total unexpected sabotage of the practical end of one's practical day: as for example when a teenager knocks all unexpectedly on one's door, and comes in to commit social life.
As it happens, I have known this particular teenager since he was a bump, and I was absurdly pleased when he invited me to his 18th; and now he's rehearsing (Uncle Max in The Sound of Music, as it happens) in the area and dropped by on the off-chance, so of course I fetched him in and introduced him to the evils of gin and tonic (as opposed to gin-and-lemonade, which the foolish boy was drinking at his party).
*is a corrupter of youth* (except that actually of course we corrupted each other, because he dragged me away from virtuous research; and we got to talk about history and fiction and literature and such, and it was all good actually, despite being utterly corruptive)
As it happens, I have known this particular teenager since he was a bump, and I was absurdly pleased when he invited me to his 18th; and now he's rehearsing (Uncle Max in The Sound of Music, as it happens) in the area and dropped by on the off-chance, so of course I fetched him in and introduced him to the evils of gin and tonic (as opposed to gin-and-lemonade, which the foolish boy was drinking at his party).
*is a corrupter of youth* (except that actually of course we corrupted each other, because he dragged me away from virtuous research; and we got to talk about history and fiction and literature and such, and it was all good actually, despite being utterly corruptive)