Letting this cocky bastard I just met join me in my quarters seemed an odder and odder choice as we went from exchanging conversation about rarity of my natural hair color, why he knows the bastard, and why the bastard is a bastard. I pulled out cheap but drinkable liquor, and he seemed to not care whatever it was I handed him, he just drank from ( Read more... )

They told us about the leave so last minute, we didn't really have much time to plan. I apparently got the early warning, as Commander Sevel mentioned it in passing when asking me to get myself up to date on my fighter craft certifications, two days before leave, and two days before she wanted the certifications up to date. That was one hell of a ( Read more... )

After my unplanned research project of last night, I was woken up entirely too early for my tastes. Probably only four hours into my sleep, I am being awoken from a peaceful slumber to be surprised by a person in my quarters. I only saw a slight movement as my eyes started to crack, then I rolled across the bed, grabbed my d'k tahg and readied it ( Read more... )

While digging through my belongings after returning from the party, I found the silliest damn toy I have ever owned. I came across it when doing a research project on toys during my second semester of 20th century studies in the Academy. It's called an Astrojax, and it is the love child of juggling and yo-yos. While both concepts had been around ( Read more... )

Upon returning to my quarters on the Shingen, my amazingly cunning feline owner made a break for the door. Even despite the fact that I foiled her escape attempt, she purred for me even as she attempted to trip me again. Dancing around her ankle wrapping movement, I got my bag onto the bed and had managed to shed most of my uniform as I was ( Read more... )

When I returned to the party with the blood wine, I found Toby up on the stage making an ass of himself. He didn't see it as making an ass, he saw it as fun, but he was singing Elvis songs to a room full of people who shouldn't have been aware he was on ship. It took some doing to get him past the security checkpoints and get a visitor's pass so ( Read more... )

Well, I just confronted that blue skinned sack of shit in the Mess. Certainly didn't go like expected. He insisted he was helping me out by keeping out of further trouble, and didn't understand that shooting anyone in back, especially a comrade, is just about as low on the dishonor scale as one can go. He seemed to be more irritated by the fact ( Read more... )

After Spiegel left, Delilah started yowling and hovering around her food bowls demanding to be fed. I had just opened the door to leave, only to find Spiegel reaching up to ring for entrance. He automatically scooped up Delilah as he stepped in, taking me aback by his forwardness.

He told me about his encounter with Therav in the corridor, and ( Read more... )

I was just starting to adjust to the feel of my new bladed toys as Spiegel arrived, and when I instructed him to come in, he froze in the doorway as I turned towards him naked blade in hand. I hadn't even changed out of the dress I'd worn to see Mouse when he gave me the swords, so I must have been quite a sight, sky blue halter dress with a ( Read more... )

Well, dinner with Mouse went okay enough. He's hurt that I'm going away, but he seems more annoyed that I'm still playing with the various hacks and programs McKay littered the station with as he settled in and took advantage of being chief engineer. Mouse doesn't seem to understand that one has to take advantage of assets as they come, regardless ( Read more... )