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WCDT Strips 3256-3260 (4-8 July 2016)
War Sparrow:
"My friend needs a routine for her wellbeing! I will help her find one as soon as possible, by waking her up before she wants to be awake and slamming her with things immediately afterward! I am helping!"
Renee needs to calm her farm. *
*There is a Marigold pun here. I am not clever enough to construct it.
brasca:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 08 Jul 2016, 07:50 ---
--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 08 Jul 2016, 06:43 ---And if Clinton had done any of these: "Oh my god he is such a creepy weirdo!"
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The difference being that Brun and Renee have a preexisting trusted friendship.
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True and as a trusted friend Renee should be more than familiar with Brun's need for routine. It would be like Margiold cleaning up Hannelore's apartment. Sure she did something helpful, but with her OCD being what it is she has to do the cleaning her way.
swapna:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 08 Jul 2016, 08:25 ---Sometimes the best friends push you to get your shit together. The two pm wake up isn't good because a lot of this stuff needs to happen during business hours.
ETA: also to me this solidifies that Renee doesn't want Brun dependent on her; these are all necessary steps to Brun becoming INDEPENDENT once again.
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I think you're right on the money here - if Brun's waking up at two, she won't have enough time to file the paperwork before business hours end. In Bruns line of work, calling for jobs later in the day might not be that big of a problem, but I don't know if Renee's thought of that. All in all, I think she knows Bruns routine, and she knows how much strain it puts on her to live with another person (when she described her routine, she joked that Brun might follow it, but she obviously knows that won't happen).
Also, yes, she wants Brun independent, which contradicts the earlier assumption that she tries to keep her away from any potential friends like Clinton just to have her for herself. I also think Renee knows Brun very well, and she knows that adjusting to a new routine is hard for her; we've seen how difficulties she had (forgetting to shower, or forgetting to put Clintons number somewhere dry..). To help with this, Renee started making a routine for Brun, and while Brun might complain about it's a structure she can cling to until she re-establishes her own. So, it's more like Marten distracting Hanners with the Worry Hat; of course it's not the perfect solution, but it'll work until Hanners figures it out herself.
Akima:
I'm one of those people who "wants to help", and be organised, and do things for other people, so I sympathise with Renée's impulse, but I've learned that behaving like that can feel very overbearing and unempathic and "not listening" to the person on the receiving end. Especially when you've just jerked them awake out of their normal sleep-cycle. And laying a guilt-trip on people for their lack of gratitude when you do something for them is not really cool ever.
So yes, I'm in the "Don't walk away Renée, but dial it down a few notches, OK?" camp.
jheartney:
Actually I suspect Renee likes being bossy. She may come up with a number of excuses that she's doing it for Brun's own good, but in the end bossy people like being bossy. Brun's an adult, and capable of being responsible for her own life.
I could be wrong, but this looks to me as if this is the next day after Brun moved out of the hotel. If so she's working on a 36 hour sleep deficit, and could well have used those additional two hours of sleep. We'll see how long this crashing-at-Renee's thing lasts.
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