272: Custody battling

There's been a running bit between El and my residents for this past week about whether they (my residents) deserve more of my time. I have been spending a lot of time with El (oopsies), but I am also still largely available to my residents if they need me. I think at this point we're 50-50 staying the night at each other's places, and when she's at mine I'm still very much available to my residents (two of those such nights I've been on call, in fact).

The bit is about them fighting over my time, effectively, but it actually got acted on today when I was leaving (to head to her place), and the hooligans in question stopped me to be funny about it (and they were, to be perfectly clear, this is all in good fun). I called El and put her on speakerphone, and we had a 10-minute-ish conversation with the 5 of us about it, which was really funny.

The conclusion was that my residents were going to write up a "contract" for it, wherein it is specified that I am required to spend some combination of most Friday and Saturday nights in my room, because then we can watch shows (this is the crew that I watched Our Beloved Summer and Arcane with), and honestly they were far more reasonable about it than I was expecting. To be clear, I was expecting them to be outrageous in their demands in a non-serious and funny way, but they seemed to actually be taking it seriously, which might be funnier.