Thursday he'd started getting a cold. Yesterday it had gotten worse. Today, Friday wanted to curl up into a ball and die. He settled for the curling up in a ball thing. Said ball was on one of the couches in the fourth floor common room, swaddled in blankets, staring blearily at the cartoon cat and mouse on the TV and feeling very sorry for himself ( Read more... )

Jan was hungry. Yes, there was grass downstairs, but what he really wanted was some more of those delicious, delicious oats ( Read more... )

Alex Drake was so not a party kind of guy, which fact Jen knew very well. Knowledge of said fact, though, didn't stop her from running a couple of streamers around the common room in a mostly restrained fashion, then putting up a hand-lettered banner that read "Happy Birthday Alex!" (as birthday banners are wont to read). The streamers and the ( Read more... )

It was meant to be Winter in Australia. Friday disagreed. This was swimming weather. This was barbeque weather. Australians supposedly had a barbeque all the time when eating. He'd watched Residents. He knew these things. Also, he was awake at a ridiculous hour (before 10am), hungry and in possession of breakfast food. This led to a grand idea ( Read more... )

If there was a terribly inconvenient place to sit, it was in a stairwell. Still, Friday was sitting roughly halfway between the third and fourth floors on the stairs. He had a couple of books on Antarctica beside him, a map spread across his legs and a pen in his hand, marking a trail on the map ( Read more... )

Jaina was having on of those rare lazy days, the kind that included heading to the common room, mentally whining about there being nothing to eat, debating cooking, deciding she didn't feel like dying today, and then calling out for pizza ( Read more... )

The genet dashed into the common room, Gladys following, and leapt onto the couch, the TV, then bounced back. "You Have Too Much Energy," she told it, holding out a hand. It leapt into it and started sharpening its claws and trilling.

That meant it was hungry (Gladys had not let it eat any of the tiny monkeys) so she started opening cupboards, ( Read more... )