I had a lot of people ask me why I became an astronaut. If you're photogenic, if you're smart, you're the kind of person they ask to talk to the cameras, to visit schoolkids. Answer every question, from complicated stuff about salary and qualifications to some little kid that asked me what it was like to meet aliens. Almost every time, they asked ( Read more... )

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Good morning, everyone who wasn't born in a bounded world. Why don't How about that snow?

So, tomorrow is Christmas. I'm sure that, ideally, most of us would be spending it with our families. Or our friends, at the very least. But then, our lives include an ancient tree with a shitty truly awful sense of humour.

Misery loves Most of ( Read more... )

[Here, have a map of Rowan. It's general, most cities aren't labeled, but it has a bunch of amorphous blobs on it. The one in the north: DEMONS. The one in the middle: HUMANS. The one in the west: ELVES. There's even a mini one that's CENTAURS and a DWARVES one ( Read more... )

Is anyone d

Is everyone OK?

[If Sam is nearby, while this is being drawn, Guy doesn't directly show it to him. Sort of subtly hides it from his view. Nonetheless, it is in the journals, and it is very much locked to him.

It begins as a drawing of the United States. A drawing, not a map -- this has a noticeable POV, and the curve of the earth is visible. On the drawing, dots ( Read more... )

( Mun is a better artist than this, she swears. Sam is... not. )

[Thus follows a very detailed map of the oasis, drawn from memory, as well as a charting of the route they've taken so far. It's decently accurate, and to-scale, and looks like it's about to verge onto a second page.

Why is Guy keeping track? Who knows.]

It stopped raining, and nothing really terrible has happened. Yay!

Everyone is ok, right?

[Handwriting is a little squiggly and drawn out.]

Made it back, I'm going to sleep in the pool now

[A long squiggle signal's the end of the message.]

I got lost, I'll be back when I'm back.