I tried to read up on Surge Concerto's Emotional Song Pact language and I think I just died a little inside

I don't know if it's the fault of the geniuses/lunatics who came up with this stuff or the fault of the wiki article writers but the EXA_PICO wiki is REALLY hard to parse at times

Also, a story in the "Sami' dad continues to be insane" series: it turns out he's in from Abu Dhabi. I call Grandpa's house, and he spends 2/3rds of the conversation shouting at the phone from a distance. O_o

LIKE IS IT THAT HARD TO GET UP AND GRAB THE PHONE GEEZ

And then a story in the "Sami's mom continues to be insane" series. I called mom and apparently got confused by the schedule because she didn't want me to tell dad about dinner or something...?

I'm still not terribly clear on WTF she meant by that and what I was/wasn't supposed to tell Dad.

She was getting so worked up and pinning everything on me that I finally snapped and called her a bitch and told her I was going to move out of the house if she kept it up.

I hope I did the "clarifications" right, because hell if I know what's actually happening anymore.

She's like "IF YOU EVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN I WILL KNOCK YOUR TEETH DOWN YOUR THROAT" and it's like yeah okay gimpy woman you just try

It's totally not fair that I can't throw the same invective at her that she does at me. I'm an adult now. I can (almost) do what I want.

Great, now my concentration is completely shot.