1 pump syrup

[floret]

Jamie Doh 2 hrs · Recollé

I'm supposed to take the MCAT this Saturday, but of course back when I registered, the city wasn't enclosed in a dome (or a bubble?) and completely isolated from any outside world that might happen to exist. So . . . I hope the exam proctors still show up . . . and that the AAMC server or whatever works? And if not, I really hope this won't count against my maximum allowed attempts. (Can anyone who's already in med school or actually already a doctor please let me know how long it normally takes to die / how long it took you personally to die after the first time you took it?) Also, I just want to verify. There's no historical or, like . . . cultural version of Santa that looks like this, right?

Comments

[lastcomfort]

!!!

I haven't seen that Santa but I've seen those clothes!!

[floret]

!!!!!!!!

Whose clothes did Santa take??

[lastcomfort]

A clown! Or a man who looked like a clown but he wasn't vert nice.

[floret]

So . . . Santa and a bad clown wore the same outfit.

What could that mean?
It's possible they just bought it at the same store.

[lastcomfort]

I don't think so. A friend and I were wearing the asme thing too, except without the coat.

[floret]

. . . I actually used to wear that too. Without the coat. It was a uniform.
I might have been one of Santa's enslaved elves.

[lastcomfort]

Enslaved elves?? Is he really mean?

[floret]

Um
I don't know. I haven't remembered anything about interacting with him personally, or like . . . what he was all about? Like what his goals or ethos or scruples or whatever were. I have an impression of him as probably more or less pitiless and also definitely terrifyingly powerful. And my roommate asked whether I was an enslaved elf, and I don't know if that was it exactly, but it doesn't feel completely wrong?

[lastcomfort]

I wonder if that's why we were trying to rescue someone...

[floret]

From the clown?

[lastcomfort]

Maybe. Or maybe from Santa?

[floret]

I wonder.
If you and your friend had the same uniform I did, then we would've all been elves, right? Did it seem like the clown was your boss?

[lastcomfort]

No, I don't think so. The clown man wasn't very nice and my friend really wanted to fight him.

[floret]

Hmm
Maybe
He was from a rival organization?
Or he was pretending to be Santa, but you unmasked him.
Or he was the head of HR, and he had slashed your benefits.

[lastcomfort]

Maybe rival! But I think he wanted to do more than hurt people's benefits. He really wanted to FIGHT. My friend wouldn't let me, he was going to fight the clwon by himself.

[floret]

Oh, so both he and the clown wanted to fight.
It's complicated. I feel like there's some kind of simple scenario that explains what everyone was wearing and why they hated or didn't hate each other, but I can't quite think of it...

[lastcomfort]

...What if they were actually working together?

[floret]

Like, you mean
If you wear the black and white outfit without the coat, you're on one side... and if you wear it with the coat, you're on the other?
Like shirts and skins, but it's haoris and kimonos?

[lastcomfort]

Maybe! I'm not sure. I just get the feeling something was very wrong.

[floret]

Well
If you remember anything else that seems related to that, please let me know. And I'll do the same.

Um at this point I should probably disclose that I was definitely a traitor? At some point. I'm assuming to Santa's organization or nation but I'm not really sure about that yet. So it's possible I was kind of a bad guy, so maybe keep that in mind.

[lastcomfort]

A traitor?? To Santa?

Well, if Santa is a bad guy then I think that makes you a good guy!

[floret]

Does it, though??
I mean, we don't know for sure that he was a bad guy. And you can't just go around betraying people,
can you??

[lastcomfort]

I guess I just thought if he's working with the clown man and the clown man doesn't seem like a good guy...

[floret]

Maybe...
But it still feels a little problematic...
There's a whole circle of hell for it, even.

[lastcomfort]

You seem like a nice person, though...you must have had your reasons.