fruit... on little sticks

[cahn]

Went to Pasadena and saw a bunch of my friends today. One of them in particular (this is shared by several of them, but this particular one is the most pronounced) has this quality that many, if not most, of the things we say to each other are (or use) in-jokes (all we have to say to each other are the words "Infinite boxes!" to portray a whole remembered scenario regarding a problem set we once worked together), or quotes from previous conversations or experiences, or even quotes from media we've both seen. (TV shows for this particular person.) Not many of my friends are like this, but those that are I really enjoy talking to. D has this quality in spades. I love it, although I don't think it's quite normal to spend half one's conversations with one's partner exchanging quotes from various sci-fi books and random movies :) Hm. This probably explains my obsession with Dante and John M. Ford...

In other news, today bought _Diplomatic Immunity_, to round out D's Bujold collection, and the first season of Veronica Mars, to make J happy. I had previously read the library's copy of DI-- wasn't much impressed then, but like it much better this time around. I'm very impressed by the first twenty minutes of VM, and see perfectly well why J likes it, but a year of not having a working TV has rendered me incapable of having it on for more than twenty minutes at a time, apparently. Which is weird, as I don't seem to have trouble watching movies.