Troy and Abed in the morrrrrrning.

As Ryan and I converse over Skype about job listings on Craiglist, I remind him that we still need to figure out our 'sign-off,' or how we are going to end our blog posts.

Ryan is for the 'Troy and Abed in the morrrrning' Good Morning America parody by our favorite on screen duo in one of our favorite new TV series, Community.

As funny as I think that is, I'll leave the comedic power to Troy and Abed. It might be Ryan's strength, but I am seriously lacking in matters of hilarity.

M "Lets get serious."
R "Are you talking to me? What are we doing? What is serious?
M "Our sign-off!"
R "Oh, I didn't know you were talking to me!"
M "I'm ONLY talking to you!"
R "You were just saying words and stuff, I didn't know you were talking to me!"



Through a smile, I sigh as Ryan puts a hanger in mouth and shakes it around. Everything is a little bit more difficult over Skype, but Ryan can still make me belly-laugh.

"I should apply to this place, right? That would be pretty cool to work for the company that cures cancer. It makes me feel smart. What if I ended up... curing cancer?" He laughs.

I laugh. We've sat for the past three minutes without saying anything, just hearing the hum of our computers and listening to each other's typing. Its nice to just be; to feel each others presence though we're hundreds of miles apart.

I could have stayed in that silence for hours, but Ryan broke it before I had to.

R "Okay, I sent my resume so you can look it over."
M "Okay. So whats our sign-off going to be?"
R "Mr. Yan"
M "What?"
R "m r y a n. Our names, combined. Mr. Yan. Or we can record a song and put it at the bottom."
M "No."
R "Wow. Okay good idea, Ryan, oh thanks, Ryan, good idea. Doesn't Shrek open tonight?"

These our our sticky moments, the glue factor. Our conversation is never about one thing. It starts with one thing and by the end (or pseudo end-its always still continuing) we've talked about 50 things we didn't even know we would talk about.

So we may have not figured out our sign-off tonight. So what? It'll come up in conversation in 4 days, anyways.

Until then,

Mayan and Ryan

P.S. From Community-