Just another day in Paradise...

Last night was, well...wow. I don't think I could ever describe it well enough, but I *have* to talk about it. So, I finagled my way into an invite for one of Count Orzaiz's sexy parties. Not exactly my scene, but I was hoping my friend might be hanging around, fly on the wall style. And he was, but that was almost boring compared to everything else that went on. First, who shows up to grace us with his presence but the almighty Mal himself! Tres exciting. Even better, Mal had this awesome robot with him. (Shout out to my new friend, X-189!) This guy was like, totally real AI, not some nova in a machine, or a bad program like I might write. He floated over to talk to Metal, so I butted in to get some face time. (Is it really face time if he didn't really have a face? Anyway...) So we're talking, along with this vet guy from Canada, and he's (X) like, "You haven't met Mal, let me introduce you." And he takes us over to meet Mal. (He is soooo much better looking in person than on TV. Too bad about the "life partner.") Introduces us to him, and Scripture, and Narcosis and Ana DeVries (being *very* pregnant). We chat some, although nobody really seemed to know what to say, and Mal started being all philosophical. Asked me point blank what I thought being a nova was all about. I gave him some answer about not knowing yet (42?), and he seemed ok with that. Then, he gets pulled away, and turns out there's some guy outside wanting to call out Ana DeVries. Mal decides to let him in, and he comes in dragging some woman's almost dead body, and not giving it up until Ana agrees to a fight. (At this point, I send a message to my people saying I *might* need some help getting out if the shit hits the fan. Remember this folks, it's important later.) So, the crowd all goes outside to watch them throw down when POW! (and I mean POW!), good ole Pax shows up and fucking levels the place. Would have kicked my ass if some good looking man in red hadn't been watching out for me. (We won't go into what possible motivation he may have had for doing so.) X starts calling Pax out about tearing down the building, and waving his dick around and such, which, of course, only make Pax want to wave it around more. Pax even threatened to destroy X. I tried to shut X down so he would shut up, and even tried to pull some rank (such as it is), but, of course, Pax would have nothing to do with it, and he "arrested" X and flew him off into space.

Now, I was totally worried that Pax was gonna crush X, and right after we'd become such good friends. So I left, and called everyone I could to bitch about it. Utopia, of course, came back with some BS answer about how *I* was the one who called them in. Um, hello - those field ops need to learn how to read their e-mail. Total overkill. Just when I thought I wasn't gonna get anywhere, I saw on the cameras that X came back! I totally ran back over there, and we had our teary reunion. :)

So, yeah...what a night.

Oh, and this is gonna sound totally cryptic and shit, but oh well. There was this totally awesome miraculous thing that happened (Ben got to be there for it), and it was just, well, awesome and miraculous. I hope everyone involved is doing well. They were nice, even if I didn't really know them that well.

And...I just have to say that someone told me something that made me think I got some thinking to do.