*and now, quite solemnly, we'll address the community at large* So. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? African or European.

Typist: ...this is what happens when I tell my head that people should be active. I don't get her.

*slips in quietly -- at first, she'll be hardly noticeable, and then the slight shift in her attitude will make her presence suddenly but undeniably apparent to anyone who happens to be around*

*the first thing anyone will notice is that she is, for lack of a better word, sexy, with waves of dark hair cascading down to her shoulder blades and a ( Read more... )

*Phoebe sits surrounded by a pile of books, textbooks both ancient and modern on philosophy, science, religion, and anthropology, papers scattered around her-- it looks as though she's been at this for quite some time. Don't be fooled, though; they're nothing more than props.*

Who are we?

This time it is mice, ladies and gentleferrets. Mice. Baby. Mice. So- about 3 - 4 weeks old. They all came from different places. They're all abandoned or orphaned... and I can't count them as they keep squirming. There are likely between 20 and 30 there. And be careful- some of them are popcorn mice. You have to keep hold of their tails when you ( Read more... )

A young man, about nineteen or twenty, wanders in, carrying a backpack. He's dressed modestly -- black tshirt and jeans, olive green hightops, and a wicker cowboy hat pulled low over his eyes. He sits crosslegged on a chair, unzipping the backpack and withdrawing a baseball, which he begins tossing back and forth, from hand to hand.My name is ( Read more... )

*she's just your utterly perfectly average teenage girl. The most distinctive and unusual thing about her is probably her absolutely enormous floppy brown boots (Charles and Stephen, thanks.) She has a backpack slung over one shoulder, and a white teddy bear can probably be seen poking his head out. There are a few other things in it, but they're ( Read more... )