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Club full of worriers, or club full of judgers?

Must be a really acrobatic dog.

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Worried judgers, they can multitask.

You should see her on the trapeze. Why are you awake so late? Or is this early?

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No real reason. Might've gotten carried away watching some soap opera reruns and informercials.

What about you? Does your dog especially like late night parkour?

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Is it the infomercial where they fry an egg without butter, or the one where they drive a truck over a pillow? I can't get enough of the pillow truck.

I have a night job.

[protocol]

Glad to meet another connoisseur. I'm always on the edge of my seat when I see it, but I'm happy to report that the post-truck pillow is just as fortified and fluffy as ever. And retailing for the same price.

Late night high-flying dogwalker sounds like a pretty niche career.

[covert]

Back home I'd watch animal planet when I needed to turn my brain off. Here I don't trust the TV networks with anything involving animals, so its infomercials. Anything without sentient beings involved.

I didn't say that was the job, just the commute.

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I like the soap operas too, as a brainless watch. No shortage of them here. All sorts of crazy plots with the kind of shit going on in this city.

[ though it's less turning his brain off: he can't really turn that memory on and off, so watching elaborate intricately plotted trash is a good way for him to just zone out and kind of almost have fun with it. ]

So what's your night job?

[covert]

Yoga classes.

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Sounds like your day job.

Unless it's a whole zumba-by-day, yoga-by-night thing. Very dramatic.

[covert]

It's night yoga. It's like day yoga, or hot yoga, but dark.

What's your favorite color?

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Does that work in the daytime with the lights off?

Blue or grey, probably.

[covert]

it could, but I just feel like the atmosphere wouldn't be the same.

Anybody pointed out grey's the opposite of a color, yet?

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[ listen!!! ]

Yes.

Grey's nice. Simple. Clean. Not too loud. It's a nice color.

[covert]

It's an absence. You know how shadows suck the color out of everything else?

[He's teasing, although to him grey is an area, not a color. A great place to hide. But that's not why he asked the question.]

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It's a nice absence, then. And I might just like the shadows.

[ he's used to being made fun of for being boring its fine....... ]

[covert]

I'll take mildly sinister things to say for $50

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If I talk about embracing the shadows as a part of me, does that get upgraded from "mildly" or become too corny to qualify?

[covert]

I think that would depend on the reasons.

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Shadows are useful and convenient. Something you're probably familiar with your expertise in night yoga.

[covert]

Me? I am the night.

See, I thought you meant the shadows within. I was expecting a little more goth in the response.

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Very menacing.

I just don't have that in me, I guess. I'm too innocent and relentlessly positive.

[covert]

Weird. I can't think what I see in you.

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I'm a ray of sunshine.

What do you think you see in me?

[covert]

We didn't cover that over coffee?