More like "mildly irritated," but my friend Thyme can't talk about anything but D&D. At all. I am not exaggerating. Every subject I bring up turns into D&D almost immediately (i.e. within 4-5 IM replies, most of the time). This includes computer games, recreational mathematics (which is theoretically another one of her interests), pure mathematics (sadly only my interest, mostly discussed in terms of "why your textbook sucks and you shouldn't worry about failing your analysis course"), books, music, and whatever else I care to mention. Oh, and her crush. When she mentions her crush, the conversation turns into D&D again within a couple of lines.
You know the worst part of all this? She's going to be doing this for three more years or more, because that's how long it'll take her to leave the university with the nifty D&D group (and she wants to keep living in the area later so she can continue to play). But if she stops playing, she'll get really depressed again...
Dammit, Thyme. You used to be so cool and interested in... you know... books, games, stories. Now I've got only three people to talk to, and one of them is you. My old best friend. The person I've known for perhaps 10 years now, who is now a stranger because she can talk about absolutely nothing but her D&D group. Not the novel she's been working on for 8 years. Not the webcomic she drew until a little bit ago. Not mutual experience with being two profoundly lonely young women. Not shared long-distant memories.
No, just fucking mindflayers and how everyone around her is a genius, smarter than the people she knows back home, etc. Is that ALL you can talk about? D&D and your massive superiority complex? For chrissakes. I don't know about the goddamned wedge product, no, but that is not because I don't go to her university, and it's not because I'm not a savant. She has some sort of illusion where everything from her school is covered in gold, where almost every student is a genius without compare, where every department is polished in the extreme. Good god, woman. Do you even know what a math department looks like? Generally, it has less applied and more actual studying, i.e., one is typically required to take a course in complex analysis and so on, and there is at least a foray into Foundations, logic, and so on. Bleh.
It's this kind of bullshit that makes me want to go back and talk to Rosewood, but that's just because I'm feeling kinda lonely at the moment and I really want a buddy to hang out with =/ I'm not going to. Don't worry. I am sticking to those guns. I'll get more social contact soon, and if worst comes to worst I can just go read French plays by myself or classify finite groups. Hwah.
And yeah... I know I complain too much. But I'm honestly scared of asking her to discuss something else, since changing the subject doesn't work and I can't afford to just go lose a friend right now. I'll have to think about this a little.
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