Sasha: I don't know if this is such a good idea.
Ariel: What do you mean? I thought you said we should get back on our blogging bike.
Sasha: Yes, definitely! It's been way too long since we blogged a good Experience.
Ariel: Waaaay too long. We've been so bad! Except now we're going to make up for it, so what's wrong?
Sasha: Just those last couple of words from what I said a second ago: "a good Experience."
Ariel: That's three words.
Sasha: I wasn't trying to be exact! I just mean, it's been way too long since we blogged a good Experience --
Ariel: What!? That's even farther from being a couple of words than just "a good Experience" was!
Sasha: No, stop. Can we just move on from the whole "couple" thing?
Ariel: You don't want us to be a couple anymore?
Sasha: Agh! Of course I do!
Ariel: I mean, I know technically we're not just a couple because we've got five other yams in our polyam-fam, but ...
Sasha: We're still a couple! Okay? Just you and me together, that's a couple. Two. A pair. Right?
Ariel: Well, I mean, you've got a pair and I've got a pair, so that's actually two pairs.
Sasha: ...
Ariel: A couple of pairs. And I mean, not to be modest, but they're pretty good pairs, in my experience. So pretty much just by being here we've already got a good experience going.
Sasha: Are you trying to convince me this is a good idea or not? Because you're kind of reminding me of all the crazy pointless arguments we get into when we're blogging like this.
Ariel: But that's the most fun part sometimes! Also, I was setting up an awesome joke, and now it's all off track.
Sasha: *sigh* Fine. Why don't you just say the joke, then?
Ariel: It has to be set up, though, or it won't be funny.
Sasha: Seriously? Are you really going to make me argue with you for twenty minutes setting up a joke?
Ariel: It wasn't going to be twenty minutes! Maybe sixteen or seventeen.
Sasha: Just ... just tell me and everybody what the setup was going to be so you can tell the joke so we can get on with talking about Star Trek: TBG Season 3.
Ariel: Okay, but don't blame me if it's not as funny with me explaining it.
Sasha: Whatever, let's just hear it.
Ariel: So step one was to get you to say "pair" so then I could keep saying "pair" a lot.
Sasha: Uh-huh.
Ariel: And then step two was going to be starting to talk about season three.
Sasha: Thank god talking about the show was somewhere in your plan.
Ariel: Of course it was! Anyhow, then step three was to keep talking and making sure I said "pair" and "season three" a lot, especially the "pair" and "three" parts.
Sasha: Oh no. Please tell me this isn't going where I think it's going.
Ariel: It isn't going where you think it's going.
Sasha: Okay because if it was going there, I was going to scream.
Ariel: Um ... you know I don't know where you think it's going, right? I just said it isn't going there because you asked me to please tell you that.
Sasha: So it is going there. Great. Whatever. Finish it up so we can start talking about the show.
Ariel: Err ... are you sure you ... hey, stop looking at me all mean like that!
Sasha: Finish the joke!
Ariel: I mean I guess, but it's totally ruined now. Step four was going to be talking about how aliens in Star Trek always have some kinda ridges on their foreheads.
Sasha: I can't. I just can't. Somehow you're going to put this together into "a part ridge in a pair three," right?
Ariel: I told you it was ruined. You don't have to keep facepalming like that.
Sasha: Deep breaths, Sasha. Deep breaths.
Ariel: Can I tell everybody to put their spoiler blankets on so we can talk about the show without spoiling it for people now?
Sasha: Yes. Please do that.
Ariel: Put your spoiler blankets on, everybody! We're about to totally ruin Star Trek: TBG Season Three if you don't!
Sasha: Well, not totally, since we've only seen the first two episodes.
Ariel: See, that was how I was going to create an excuse to say "pair" again. The first pair of episodes.
Sasha: Can this joke just be over yet?
Ariel: I'm just making sure everyone knows how awesomely it was going to be set up!
Sasha: Yes. Great. It was going to be awesome. Can we please talk about the show now?
Ariel: Sure. What was your favorite part?
Sasha: I'm not sure I have a favorite part. The thing is --
Ariel: See how I just got us to say "part" a couple of times there?
Sasha: Do you see how I'm getting rigid with frustration?
Ariel: What?
Sasha: I'm so frustrated I'm going to have to stop and go get a snack ... from the fridge!
Ariel: Oh, as long as you're going, can you --
Sasha: But first we might want to print something, so I need to change the printer cartridge!
Ariel: Is the ink out?
Sasha: Yes! At least one color, maybe more! I'll have to change a cartridge, or a pair, or three!
Ariel: I don't understand why you're so worked up about the printer all of a sudden.
Sasha: Never mind. Talk about the show. Star Trek. That Bald Guy. Season Three.
Ariel: I think you were about to tell me your favorite part.
Sasha: No. I was not. I was going to say I don't even have a favorite ... thing ... about the show, because it kept being really annoying. Like someone I know.
Ariel: Oh! I just realized what you were doing with that cartridge or pair or three thing! That was really funny!
Sasha: NO IT WASN'T!
Ariel: Geez, you don't have to get all shouty. Just tell us what you thought was so annoying about the show.
Sasha: I -- you know, it suddenly seems like a bunch of very minor stuff, when I put it in perspective.
Ariel: You seem like you need a hug.
Sasha: ...
Ariel: I'm sorry I can be such an annoying girlfriend. Let me give you a hug and help you feel better.
Sasha: Is there some kind of hug pun coming if I do?
Ariel: No, I promise!
Sasha: ... okay. I do kind of need a hug.
Ariel: Here.
Sasha: ...
Ariel: Better?
Sasha: A little.
Ariel: So do you want to talk about the show, or should we come back later?
Sasha: How about later, when we can make a fresh start.
Ariel: Okay ... dang, though.
Sasha: What?
Ariel: All our poor readers have been sweating under their spoiler blankets and now it turns out they didn't need to!
Sasha: I'm sure they'll get over it.
Ariel and Sasha: See you later, readers!