LACRECIA: A long, long time ago, I realized something about myself. I always have to have some kind of goal to work toward. It doesn't matter how stupid or trivial it is, there just has to be a well-defined objective with a clear delineation between success and failure.
LACRECIA: It's a fucked-up thing about me. I wish I wasn't this way, to be honest with you. It'd make living forever a lot easier.
BURGER SPECIALIST: Yeah! Yeah, objective syndrome, I think is what it's called, right?
LACRECIA: Mhmm. I try to manage it as well as I can. I try to talk to my sister a lot. We're total opposites. You know what she does every day? She wakes up, walks around the block, gets breakfast, takes care of her garden, works out, volunteers at the law firm for a few hours. Then she'll spend hours cooking dinner. Like she'll make consommé or something, something that just takes forever. Then she watches a couple episodes of Law & Order, drinks a glass of wine, goes to bed.
LACRECIA: Every day. Every day's the exact same. She's done the same thing for 5,000 years straight.
BURGER SPECIALIST: Wow. Law & Order's good for that, though, at least.
LACRECIA: I know! I know. There's like 400 episodes of it.
BURGER SPECIALIST: Yeah, I read something about that. How there's so much of it that as long as you don't really try to memorize the episodes, it takes so long to watch each one that by the time you start over, you're not gonna remember how each one went.
LACRECIA: Right, yeah, the trick is to watch them out of order, so you can't really place yourself in the show's timeline.
BURGER SPECIALIST: Law & Out of Order!
LACRECIA: Law & Out of Order! Shit ... yeah, but so anyways, my sister just does the same thing every single day. It's some kind of zen shit she's figured out or something. She's like, "it keeps me level, it's all I need."
LACRECIA: But I just can't do it, though. If I wake up without some big dragon to go and kill, I get like ... I get scared. Like I'm getting buried alive or something.
BURGER SPECIALIST: Man.
LACRECIA: And the thing is, I do that while completely knowing that this game is dumb. I could wake up tomorrow and catch a ball worth 500 points. So okay, and? And then what? Maybe I get in the Hall of Fame and I get on TV. And then what after that?
LACRECIA: But it's like, on some level, I still have to grab on to that. I still have to have a mission, any mission. The harder, the better. And that's why I count myself lucky that it's turning out to be so hard.
