Dice, Ice, Lice, and Malice

Continuing from a while ago, Dan, Zoë, Emlyn and I we eventually got to the restaurant, a sushi place called 'Asian Bistro'. We decided to order a lot of sushi to share; Dan whipped out his notebook and we compiled an impressive list of sushi. After we ordered, we started conversing. About dice. I have no recollection of how we got onto the subject, but we were debating whether one could make a dice out of jello. I pointed out that it would probably be a pretty predictable dice, and wouldn't roll very well. Then we starting rhyming things, dice, ice, lice, malice...wait malice doesn't rhyme. Is there anything that is spelled differently that does rhyme? We couldn't think of anything, but maybe you can. My memory is failing me but I'll try and recount more.

While we were talking about dice, I mentioned something about dodecahedron dice, and then promptly said, "I built a giant dodecahedron once." Everyone turned to look at me. "What?" I asked, not fully aware of how strange my mind was that I had suddenly taken a conversational u-turn, from dice to polyhedron constructions. "Of course you did," Dan said. I turned to Zoë. "She crochets math stuff, I'm clearly not the only weird one." I comment. Zoë blamed that on Dan for giving her the crochet book. "Actually, I got it at the conference I'm going to tomorrow. Well, I got it last time I went because I can't go into the future, I don't just have a hole somewhere. Like a wormhole. Except those are very small." Emlyn comments, "You could widen it with a shovel."

Food arrived, we continued talking, ate, and then were left with a few pieces of sushi on the plate. "At the end of the battle there were four left," Dan narrates. "This one's an outcast because he's on a different plate!" He points to one on the other plate, then picks up one from the bigger plate. "I turn my back to you!" He voices for the sushi piece then turns it ninety degrees. "That's his back," Dan informs Zoë, pointing to one side of the sushi piece. Emlyn and I are cracking up and Zoë just looks at us all and says, "I can't take you guys out in public anymore."

Dan continues narrating the food battle. He places the piece of plastic green leaf over one piece, saying, "This one learned shade." Zoë reached down with her chopstick, "Too bad, you called attention to yourself" and then ate it. As Dan continues to tell the story Zoë takes his pen and draws an 'X' on his arm. "I take back my earlier statement. It's just you I can't take in public." Dan looks down at the X on his arm. Zoë informs him, "I'm going to train Archimedes to attack X's," she says, referring to Dan's cat. We're soon discussing murder plans involving drawing X's on Dan's throat.

"Professor L. hasn't shown up to teach any of his classes. Maybe we should check his room. Oh, nothing in there but a cat and a fake skeleton. Waaaiiit...." Dan details the hypothetical situation.

After we finish dinner, we head back on the (ever confusing) metro. Emlyn and I are chatting, and I was saying, "It's like that time with the jackhammer..." Zoë looks over at me. "You should not be having any 'times with a jackhammer!'" I tell her, "It involved Josh..." I cite a notoriously silly friend of ours. "That's WORSE!" She exclaims.

We eventually parted ways, without telling her the whole story. :)


Sachi