{"id":116,"date":"2004-06-06T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T04:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-06-06T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T04:13:31","slug":"night-and-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/night-and-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"night and morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get much sleep last night. At 11:30 or so Ryan comes over. We&#8217;ve been plowing through the third season of <strong>Angel <\/strong>together and we&#8217;re down to the last episode. I&#8217;ve seen it all before. It&#8217;s the first time for him. Simultaneously, We&#8217;ve been savoring the first (and only) season of <strong>Firefly<\/strong>. We&#8217;re down to the last episode of that one, too. It&#8217;s Saturday, and I&#8217;ve allowed myself to have some of a bottle of pure agave Tequila that&#8217;s been gathering dust in my pantry. Ryan&#8217;s only too happy to help out.<\/p>\n<p>We make our way through that final episode of <strong>Firefly <\/strong>first. It&#8217;s a bittersweet experience. The character of Early the Bounty Hunter is perfect. That it&#8217;s the last episode is maddening. Then we switch to <strong>Angel<\/strong>: Cordy loves Angel, Connor tricks Dad, Lorne heads for Vegas, Lilah falls into bed with Wesley&#8230; Great stuff, though hard to compare to the &#8220;Numfar! Do the dance of shame!&#8221; of last season.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Angel <\/strong>wraps up, we realize that Bertila next door is having a hell of a time with her friends Rachel and Bob. Ryan goes over to say hello and introduce himself, while I, succumbing to what must be a depression-induced craving, whip up a batch of flour tortillas. Ryan proves to be a hit. Bertila and friends are stoned and drunk, so everything Ryan says is pure comedy gold. Ryan tell me later that he&#8217;s never been that funny to other people before. I join them long enough to say hello and rassle with Bertila&#8217;s cat, Pearl.<\/p>\n<p>Then, at two-thirty on Sunday morning, Ryan and I munch on fresh tortillas and watch <strong>X-Files <\/strong>with bleary eyes. He&#8217;s lamenting the approach of the end of the Buffyverse. He&#8217;s not seen Season Seven yet. What&#8217;s he gonna do without that to look forward to?? <strong>X-Files<\/strong>, he says, just won&#8217;t cut it. I try to point out the merits of <strong>X-Files <\/strong>but he just won&#8217;t listen.<\/p>\n<p>We finish the tortillas, at which point Ryan remembers with horror that he&#8217;d promised the neighbors to bring them some. So he goes next door to to tell them I screwed up the batch and that they turned out all wrong. That&#8217;s my idea, so it&#8217;s okay. We wrap things up for the evening. I set my alarm for nine and pass out.<\/p>\n<p>I walk to work via Starbuck&#8217;s the next morning (today) and Ryan calls shortly after ten and sleepily tells me that he&#8217;s gonna be a little late. He shows up for work at 10:45 with two giant coffees. He&#8217;s thrilled to be working with me because I won&#8217;t object to Buff-ing out all day, so he goes and gets the entire <strong>Buffy <\/strong>collection and sits down to sort them all out. I manage to take one picture of him before he realizes that I have the camera out and threatens to beat me up.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0604\/ryan.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ryan sorts <strong>Buffy<\/strong> and <strong>Angel<\/strong> according to season and disc. Note the Emerald Video t-shirt he&#8217;s wearing. The front reads, &#8220;Man it&#8217;s a shame when folks be throwing a way a perfectly good white boy like that.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get much sleep last night. At 11:30 or so Ryan comes over. We&#8217;ve been plowing through the third season of Angel together and we&#8217;re down to the last episode. I&#8217;ve seen it all before. It&#8217;s the first time for him. Simultaneously, We&#8217;ve been savoring the first (and only) season of Firefly. 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