Burning Down the House

ROSE: 10 years since we started our session.
ROSE: Of course, this all spans far greater periods of time than just your birthday in specific, but it is a quite auspicious date.
ROSE: There's very few holidays this time of the year, or at least there were.
ROSE: Perhaps 4/13 could be an impromptu holiday of our own.
JOHN: heheh, what would we even call it?
ROSE: Your birthday.
JOHN: i don't want to celebrate "john egbert day"...
ROSE: It's too late, we are now.
JOHN: that's different, doof. we're all friends here.
JOHN: it's jane's birthday too! people always forget her birthday.
JOHN: and for this we're having a normal birthday party at the park!
JOHN: adults were always having these.
ROSE: I don't have it on me at the moment, but pretend I'm scribbling this in my notebook: "Subject does not recognize self as an adult, despite being 23."
JOHN: is this under my page or yours? hehehe. 
JOHN: ... hopefully we'll clean up after ourselves better, since we can just throw it all in The Pool.
JOHN: i don't want a random carapacian to find a used condom melting onto the steel slides that always absorb way too much heat, or something.
ROSE: Is this an issue we are going to have?
JOHN: huh?
ROSE: With regards to used condoms melting in public parks.
JOHN: ew, no!
JOHN: it's just a thing that the adults who would be drinking in the parks would leave around.
JOHN: and hey, i don't want to talk about this!!
JOHN: how about we call it "beta release day"?
JOHN: sburb day.
ROSE: That works for me.
ROSE: I'm sure as the years accrue, it will accrue new names in tandem. I'm excited to see what it will be called in the year 4000.
JOHN: heh.
ROSE: It feels like a lifetime ago, now. Partially because it surely is.
ROSE: I am not the same person I was then, nor are any of us.
JOHN: what do you mean? i was worked up about con air *yesterday!*
ROSE: That's an unfair comparison, we can't all have your aplomb when it comes to enjoying the same 10-15 B movies ad infinitum.
JOHN: of course, i mean... i'm used to being alone in enjoying my interests, heh.
JOHN: not that i'm complaining! i like being alone...
ROSE: Weren't you going to stash these photos?
ROSE: Photos of you being surrounded by friends and family, if I may?
JOHN: very funny, rose.
JOHN: they're just photo graphs.
ROSE: Excuse me for telling you how you should speak, but the space between photo and graph like that has knocked the wind from me.
JOHN: what, isn't it a compound word? photo and graph, right?
ROSE: In a sense. It's from the Greek root "phos", which has the genitive case "photos", which means "light".
ROSE: "Graph", then, means "drawing".
ROSE: So you are drawing with light.
ROSE: Photo-graph. It's a suffix, not its own word.
JOHN: ok, now what is a genitive case.
ROSE: A genitive case marks that a word is modifying another word -
JOHN: ... hehehehe.
ROSE: ... I see.
JOHN: it sounds like genitals.
ROSE: Heh, so it does.
> Examine scrapbook.
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CHAPTER 3. Third Planet
