( I don’t like that game. The What If game. There are too many of them. I mean, where do you even start? )

[Previously OTC 23.1: What scares you? Also for muse_shuffle June, Disk 1, Track 1: White Chalk, by PJ Harvey. Set significantly into the future. Characters used with love, if not permission.]

Dorset's cliffs meet at the sea
Where I walked
(Our unborn child in me)
White chalk
(Poor scattered land)It's early June and Gotham is muggy. Hot and muggy, and ( Read more... )

on_thecouch 45.5: The Lost Boys (originally 14.4); muse_shuffle March 2009, disk 2, song 17:

Music changes but the dance steps don't
When the good die young
[‘Good Die Young' - Divinyls]Everyone has nightmares. Bad dreams. Things that wake them up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and shaking. Cissie's no exception ( Read more... )

[Private: Hackable (because she's distracted)]

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ~Nancy Lopez

...That sounds like my mother. "You don't quit, Cissie." "Don't just give ( Read more... )

Rest? Of course I rest. I sleep at night. Most of the time. And I take naps. When I'm tired enough. Yeah, okay, maybe my sleep pattern is kind of messed up, but I don't miss classes. Much. Anymore. And I don't fall asleep in class--well, except for calculus, but can you blame me? People who get ten hours sleep through that class ( Read more... )

MissCiss28: Hey handsome
W1ndrboy003: Hey yourself, beautiful.
MissCiss28: how're you, my love?
W1ndrboy003: Not bad. You?
MissCiss28: I'm okay
W1ndrboy003: Just okay?
MissCiss28: You know, most people take "okay" at face value

( Most people are not your boyfriend. )

[Intended to be private, but totally isn't--she's distracted]

( I'm getting anxious. )

[OOC: Co-written with mrsarcastic003! Tim and Cissie have been short on date-time lately, and decided to watch television "together" over instant messenger. Except that Tim doesn't watch much television and the only show they could agree on--and that worked time-wise--is Survivor, which Tim doesn't watch. Because he thinks it's stupid. But Cissie likes it ( Read more... )

Also for justprompts, based on this image (test tubes).

~*~

Curiosity killed that cat-isn't that what they say?

( I was never curious, though. I mean-it didn't occur to me that I *should* be. Not about my *dad*. )

on_thecouch 9.1: Control.

I haven’t had much control over my life-not until the last few years, anyway. And even then… It’s only just lately that I’ve really started to feel in control. Of myself, anyway ( Read more... )