Apology Tour 2012: Audio
Oct. 15th, 2012 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesliemonster[ooc: post is backdated to three days after the Boardwalk Empire-esque flood.]
[Leslie Knope has spent the past three days in a self inflicted cocoon of SHAME. But even though she is now a law-breaking, Jesse-beating-up, moonshine-hustling criminal, and officially one of the worst people on the barge, she still has a job to do, darn it.
She has already apologized to Jesse, but that is not enough. Not nearly.
So she sits up, brushes herself off, and starts to speak:]
I would like to personally apologize to anyone that I may have offended, insulted, shamed, threatened, assaulted, murdered, waterboarded, knuckle punched, chainsawed, belittled, and/or put in a compromising position over the course of the last few days.
[Private to Toshiko]
I am sorry that I took your beautiful, intelligent brain and used it for evil.
[Private to Lua]
I am sorry that I took it upon myself to be your gang's token insane member.
[Private to Omar]
I am sorry that I put myself in the position where I was robbed by you. How are you?
[Leslie Knope has spent the past three days in a self inflicted cocoon of SHAME. But even though she is now a law-breaking, Jesse-beating-up, moonshine-hustling criminal, and officially one of the worst people on the barge, she still has a job to do, darn it.
She has already apologized to Jesse, but that is not enough. Not nearly.
So she sits up, brushes herself off, and starts to speak:]
I would like to personally apologize to anyone that I may have offended, insulted, shamed, threatened, assaulted, murdered, waterboarded, knuckle punched, chainsawed, belittled, and/or put in a compromising position over the course of the last few days.
[Private to Toshiko]
I am sorry that I took your beautiful, intelligent brain and used it for evil.
[Private to Lua]
I am sorry that I took it upon myself to be your gang's token insane member.
[Private to Omar]
I am sorry that I put myself in the position where I was robbed by you. How are you?
Private
Date: 2012-10-17 05:47 pm (UTC)Private
Date: 2012-10-17 06:15 pm (UTC)[dsgfgbukfvgsdggjk]
We aren't talking about me.
Private
Date: 2012-10-17 08:28 pm (UTC)[And hey, talking about Tosh is actually distracting Leslie from her other psychotic self. So there's that.]
Do you want to get a beer?
Private
Date: 2012-10-17 08:34 pm (UTC)Yes, alright. I can meet you at the pub.
Private
Date: 2012-10-18 05:31 am (UTC)[She needs to wipe out the smells of four days of pajamas. It clings to the senses.]
Private >> Spam
Date: 2012-10-18 08:56 am (UTC)[She's there twenty minutes later and has two beers poured and a table picked out, and spends the next eight minutes on fidgeting and preemptive social awkwardness because below the fading memories of her other self's friendship/partnership with the other Leslie, she just doesn't know her very well. Over time, arm's length seems to have become the best distance for other people.]
Spam
Date: 2012-10-19 12:58 am (UTC)She sees Tosh, and gives a little wave. Then thinks that that was a weird opening move, shakes her head, and puts her hand back in her pocket.]
Hi! Um. Greetings. Sorry -- this is weird and I'm not sure how to introduce myself to someone who was my business partner in really illegal activities but not really?
Hi.
Spam
Date: 2012-10-19 01:01 am (UTC)I think we can play it by ear. Hi. Nice to meet you properly.
no subject
Date: 2012-10-19 01:31 am (UTC)You too. [She takes a seat.] Thanks for the beer!
no subject
Date: 2012-10-19 01:42 am (UTC)[Sorry, did you invite her here to talk about her? Yeah that's being put off as long as possible.]
no subject
Date: 2012-10-19 02:19 am (UTC)How about you?
no subject
Date: 2012-10-19 09:57 am (UTC)Two years and four months. I first came on board over three years ago by the Barge's calendar but I've disappeared or been home in the intervening time.
no subject
Date: 2012-10-19 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-19 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-20 02:35 am (UTC)[Leslie takes a loooong sip of her beer. Those numbers are intimidating -- Tosh is smart and savvy and beautiful and personable. If she can't graduate all her inmates, Leslie's prospects aren't too great.]
How is that going? If you don't mind me asking. He seems kind of...into not liking humans?
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Date: 2012-10-20 10:16 am (UTC)We've...reached an impasse. He's like a lot of Inmates in that he thinks graduating will need him to abandon his personal ideals. I'm human, so he won't listen to a word I say, so I can't convince him otherwise. All I can do now is sit on my hands and wait for him to realise that he's wrong.
[A little frustration bleeds into her voice at the end there, but not nearly as much as what she's actually feeling.]
no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 05:33 am (UTC)[Leslie could guess the depth of the frustration -- it's something she feels with Omar, a section of the time.]
That's a method I've been applying. It sucks. [She smiles, and takes a sip.] What about Charles Xavier?
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Date: 2012-11-06 11:45 am (UTC)At the mention of Xavier she frowns and takes a gulp of her beer. There's a lot she'd like to say about him, but Leslie does seem to have 'semi-benign meddler' written all over her and she doesn't want to give too much away.]
We don't talk. I made a pretty bad first impression. Though I don't mind saying he's probably the only thing stopping Erik going completely off the rails.