Burning Down the House

CALLIOPE: perhaps yoU can pUt it in a more nonliteral way?

JANE: I can!

CALLIOPE: :U

JANE: ...

CALLIOPE: :u

JANE: I feel like when you're making an omelette and you go in for the flip.

JANE: But you mess up really badly.

JANE: And the egg rips, and as you're negotiating with yourself whether to throw it out or just switch to really fancy scrambled eggs...

JANE: Your ingredients spill out of the pan and into the fire below.

JANE: And the smoke alarm is going off and your dad runs in and sprays it with his extremely fire-proof shaving cream, and he's still proud of you for trying but it's just not enough and -

JANE: ... I am going to whip myself into the most airy anxiety meringue if I keep at this metaphor.

CALLIOPE: i've never had an omelette.

CALLIOPE: or a father.

CALLIOPE: so i appreciate the effort!

CALLIOPE: bUt i do not think i Understand...........

CALLIOPE: maybe yoU coUld pUt it another way?

JANE: I cannot.

CALLIOPE: hm.

CALLIOPE: i am not a therapist, janey! :U

CALLIOPE: i can only give you my less than professional opinion!

CALLIOPE: the opinion of a casUal, at best.

JANE: Professional or not, lay it on me, skull girl.

CALLIOPE: ...........

CALLIOPE: that is a cUter nickname than it has any right to be.

CALLIOPE: u//u

JANE: Hoo hoo. :B

CALLIOPE: my casUal opinion is that i think it is fair to be feeling pUrposeless.

CALLIOPE: i spend a great deal of time feeling this way.

CALLIOPE: even when the whole of reality was searching for me! :U

JANE: Hm...

JANE: I don't... like that, though.

CALLIOPE: as i warned, i am not mUch help.

CALLIOPE: nor do i think anyone will be!

CALLIOPE: and while i am not against getting involved in sUch problems.

CALLIOPE: this is not the kind of problem i can really sink my claws into. U_U

CALLIOPE: it feels like far too personal a problem to have it solved by "datta, dayadhvam, damyata".

JANE: Mmm. Maybe so...

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