@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Thank you to Yalena for getting us sorted. [Sort of sorted. Sort of.] Now that we've arrived in New Tokyo and we're stuck inside for a little while, I think we should talk about some new changes that we're facing. I can't be the only one.

But first: a good number of us are here unwillingly, but we have to wait until we're fully prepped before we can go anywhere. Heading outside in these temperatures while unprepared could cost you your life. We all hate being trapped somewhere. I think that's pretty well-established. We also hate having to do anything or be anywhere when we didn't ask for that to happen. At least it doesn't seem like we were drugged, though it wouldn't hurt for Katelin and I to take some blood samples to confirm that. We'll have to store them until we get back.

As for the changes in your lives: have you noticed any? For instance, apparently I'm a lab tech at Giles Bell. I tried to set myself up for a new internship there that I could get easily, but I got ... elevated. Or hired beyond that? I'm not sure what the right terminology is here. Has anyone else noticed this? Or had it happen to them? I got permissions to take leaves from both of my jobs. And no, I'm really not prepared to work as a lab tech. I don't even know the first thing about setting up gels.

As a bit of a personal request ... does anyone think we can make pancakes in the small kitchen here? I have a craving for them. I've not really had cakes of the "pancake" variety before, but I want them now. And if you think we can, can you make them?

[This last bit is Loki's fault.]

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[daemonized]

A bore. Maybe the problem lies with you and your perception of it. Why not think a little more creatively?

It's true, it sounds like mountains of dreary virtual paperwork, doesn't it? Meetings upon meetings. How mundane! But think of all the things I could upend with a small change here, or a tiny approval there. I could carve out a path just as easily as I could cause a landslide. And all with just the right application of influence, and a small amount of (figurative!) paper-pushing.

It might not be immediate, it might not be grand. But a tiny ripple becomes a wave, becomes a storm on the sea. How is that a bore?

[selfimage]

From experience, the nuances in mortal bureaucracy makes it difficult to make those ripples anything into a semblance of waves. Though more power to you for giving it the fighting try, of course. We are far from the point where lessening the impact on this world is an option.

At least you seem enthusiastic.
Just what waves were you interested in creating?

[daemonized]

Even if that's true in this case, are ripples not an improvement over what we have now? Nothing but still and stagnant water?

[Sorry not sorry to the displaced currently working at City Hall or otherwise trying to immerse themselves in NA politics.]

Oh, I don't know yet. I've not even begun my first day, I think I may need to see just how far my legal arm extends when it comes to matters of public finance. Push and prod government spending here or there, see what comes of it.

Honestly, though, I think I might be more interested in seeing what kind of new company I can keep.

[selfimage]

Well, it seems to me that the water isn't stagnant, rather that your ripples will run into many others.
It's a little harsh to say that it's all quiet waters.

So, rather, let's see how these ripples intersect, hm?
There are high expectations all around.