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I bought a new costume for Caroline and it came in the mail today.  She is the prettiest princess!

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You are getting ready for a night out. Where are you going? What do you wear? Who will you be with?

Oh god I have so many.  How much time do you have?  I’m the son of a librarian, practically all my dad and I talk about is books, there are so many that are special to me.  But I’ll pick one in particular.  I, Robot by Isaac Asimov.  It’s one that dad gave to me when I was a kid, and it was one of the first books that got me really into sci-fi.  I’ve reread it probably a dozen times.  It was hugely influential to me in my preteen and teenage years.

Pretend it doesn’t exist!  ....My therapist gets annoyed with me for that.  Not to mention Eric.  Anyway, there’s other ways I deal with stress, too.  Cleaning, for one, and getting ahead on my homework.  When I get stressed I get this massive urge to make sure everything is done and spotless and nothing is hanging over my head.  After that, I’d probably find Eric, see if I can kneel next to him.  That helps my brain slow down.

Probably to just stand there, honestly.  When fear kicks in like that and my fight or flight goes off, I freeze.  Always.  So I’d just stand there, staring, doing nothing... not the best tactic for dealing with things, but it’s what I’ve got, apparently.

Unusual?  Uh...  I don’t know what counts as unusual.  I’m very good at remembering facts but I feel like that isn’t unusual.  Oh, no, I know.  In middle school I went through a phase where I got really good a shooting rubber bands with my fingers, and I got scarily accurate.  I started doing trick shots and stuff.  I bet I could still do most of it.

Conservation.  The biodiversity on the planet is steadily plummeting, because as a species we’ve gotten to the point that we are capable of radically changing our environments.  Few things make me sadder than the amazing creatures no one will ever get to see, because they didn’t survive the changes that humans made to their environment.  Like the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, a Hawaiian bird that went extinct in 1987.  We have a recording of the song made by the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, a male, taken not long before he died and the species was declared extinct.  The song was of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō’s mating call, which he had continued to sing for several years in search of his mate, the last female, who had died in a tropical storm.  He just kept singing to her, hoping to find her, until the very end.  And if that doesn’t make your heart ache, you’re a sociopath and you need help.

Thanks for your help!  I have more ideas.  I am going to order more felt, it should be here by Friday.  ....Not that I am trying to take over nerd club with my new lizard costume hobby.  Sorry, that was a little presumptive.  I’m going to order the felt, but you don’t have to help me do anything with it, unless you feel like it.