Gwen: I don't.
Mull: I don't either.
Gwen: It's difficult.
Mull: Especially difficult.
Gwen: Especially when it's someone else somewhere else.
Mull: Who were we speaking of again?
Gwen: Yeah, who were we speaking of again?
Mull: (pausing) That no this is getting to me.
Gwen: What about who?
Mull: Maybe it is that after all.
Gwen: Who?
Mull: No that mess of sticky notes over there.
Gwen: Sticky notes?
Mull: Yes, the sticky notes over there the big yellow mess of yellow feathers over there pasted against that monitor all that's left of a strange bird caught several messages ago.
Gwen: Do you think it's been long enough?
Mull: Maybe, but let's give it a little while longer.
Gwen: And what's a little while longer?
Mull: I say something and then you say something and then you say something and then that will be a little while longer.
Gwen: Why don't you have us alternating?
Mull: Alternating?
Gwen: You have me saying something two times in a row.
Mull: That's because I wanted to compensate you for me saying something first.
Gwen: That doesn't make sense for two reasons.
Mull: Is this going to be another one of your lists with numbered items?
Gwen: It's just barely more than 1.
Mull: What would be your minimum requirement for a list?
1. cellphone at the bottom of a pool infested with algae
2. a urine collection cup used for drinking coffee
3. brown top grey pants
4. grey top brown pants
5. desert
6. more desert
7. closed rest stop
8. more desert
9. need gas
10. got gas
11. lift left thigh
12. steer off of shoulder
13. next time
14. lift right thigh
15. end list
16. next time
17. lift left thigh
18. better sound quality
19. final notice
20. next time
21. toenail clippers
22. more desert
Mull: When you take meeting notes, do you try to make the letters fit in the squares?
Gwen: I don't use graph paper.
Mull: I thought you preferred graph paper.
Gwen: And who said I was taking meeting notes?
Mull: It was thrown into your lap, I know.
Gwen: Thrown? I'd be surprised if anyone makes that much movement. Preoccupied with forwarding shit around from one blood clot to another. It's assumed into my lap. Just like everything else it's assumed into my lap.
Mull: Franny doesn't complain about taking notes in in what department is that? They keep changing what it's called.
Gwen: That's because you haven't heard her complain like she does to me about the notes about the meetings about her boss about her job about her dick of a husband about whether or not to reject the null hypothesis about tracking space debris such as nosecone shrouds and hatch covers.
Mull: What is that? 7 items?
Gwen: 8 items if you break up space debris.
Mull: Breaking up space debris is hard to do.
Gwen: Do you think it's been long enough?
Mull: Maybe, but let's give it a little while longer.
Gwen: And what's a little while longer?
Mull: I say something and then you say something and then you say something and then that will be a little while longer.
Gwen: Why don't you have us alternating?
Mull: Alternating?
Gwen: You have me saying something two times in a row.
Mull: That's because I wanted to compensate you for me saying something first.
Gwen: That doesn't make sense for two reasons.
Mull: Is this going to be another one of your lists with numbered items?
Gwen: It's just barely more than 1.
Mull: What would be your minimum requirement for a list?
37. Separate ways
38. Visiting the same planet
39. Everyday putting shoes on
40. Preventing roots from
41. one step after another
42. stopped making faces
43. end list
44. stopped making faces
45. knock it off
46. might as well
47. they have all
48. been knocked off
Mull: Where are you going?
Gwen: I'm going to make a try of it to the next office.
Mull: So much for my measurements.
Gwen: Now's the time to go while the lens is pointed the other direction.
Mull: I'm coming. There we made it. Whose egg carton of an office is this?
Gwen: It's the same size as yours.
Mull: Seems smaller with all the crap they have in here.
Gwen: Those are procedures manuals.
Mull: Is this Blepperitsky's office?
Gwen: Blepperitsky is two more offices down make a right at the copier room and then take the elevator down 6 flights.
Mull: Couldn't we just head straight for the elevator and have done with it?
Gwen: Too risky. What is that?
Mull: They have a bird with yellow feathers also.
Gwen: No, that sound you're making.
Mull: I'm running my fingers along the sticky notes.
Gwen: You're making a sound in your mouth with your saliva.
Mull: Oh, I was trying to recreate what it was like when it used to rain. Nostalgic, eh?
Gwen: That does not sound like rain.
Mull: I was going for a steady downpour.
Gwen: It sounds more like after your cough medicine has kicked in.
Mull: This is interesting (pulling off a sticky note and reading it).
Gwen: What does it say?
Mull: It says, "Do you remember leaves?"
Gwen: That doesn't make sense for 3 reasons. There, I've added an item to the list.
Mull: Well, do you?
Gwen: Do I what?
Mull: Do you remember leaves?
Gwen: No. That's a stupid question. And don't make any repulsive attempts at weather phenomena with your body.
Mull: With nothing but needles and thorns you'd think that you'd at least be with me on this.
Gwen: He leaves she leaves she leaves is more like it. You know, metaphysics.
Mull: How is that metaphysics?
Gwen: The basic foundational structure of reality.
Mull: Don't forget to include the other vital building blocks.
Gwen: Is this is where you go on about particle physics or biological approaches to information?
Mull: I was going to say embarrassment. Can't leave out embarrassing moments strung together with all those other blocks of time waiting for others to have their embarrassing moments.
Gwen: Do you think it's been long enough?
Mull: Maybe, but let's give it a little while longer.
- Max Stoltenberg
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