It's the point in the semester when nerves start to fray and tempers snap, as classes wind down and exams start up ( Read more... )

It's 5:04 am when Meg is awakened from a less-than-sound sleep by someone knocking on the apartment door ( Read more... )

"Meg?" Carrie asks, opening the door to her room a couple of careful inches. "Are you okay? It's 8:30, you're going to miss your class ( Read more... )

"Alain asked me to tell you that you might want to dress up," Carrie says, coming into Meg's room while Meg is looking through her closet, trying to decide what to wear for whatever it is that Alain has planned for her birthday. "So, not that sweater ( Read more... )

Meg's twentieth birthday party is the day before her actual birthday, because Sunday afternoon is an easier time for university students to gather than Monday evening. It is, at Meg's request, small and very casual -- a dozen people, some bowls of popcorn and chips, a cake, drinks, games. There are two rules -- presents can't cost more than $5, ( Read more... )

Her trip home from campus Tuesday night is almost surprisingly uneventful ( Read more... )

Meg can't quite remember how she got talked into letting Olivia and Carrie throw a Halloween party in their tiny apartment ( Read more... )

Alain is running late ( Read more... )

[OOC note: All dialogue in this OOM is in French, but the mun wasn't feeling up to writing it that way.]This was Carrie's idea ( Read more... )

Meg is more or less encamped at a table in the library on Monday evening. Carrie helped her carry her things over in the late afternoon, fetched most of the books she needed, and will be back around 8pm to help her put everything back, and then they can grab a late dinner somewhere ( Read more... )