[This is possibly the most heinous post Dust will ever make, and she is fully aware of that! This awareness is manifesting in quietness and extreme awkwardover: home edition. At least she sounds genuine?]

Santo, I... [the longest pause ever, then the biggest sigh ever:] I am so sorry for everything last week. The things I said to you were cruel ( Read more... )

[Sooraya's ridiculous chinchilla is in the picture again! This time, it's zooming the fuck around in what looks like... a stovepipe hat. There is also a beard attached. He is Chinchabraham Lincoln. Sooraya herself is smiling at the camera, looking quite genuinely happy despite showing an utter lack of festivity in any way, shape, or form. And Santo ( Read more... )

Good evening. I would like to speak to anyone who is technologically skilled, please: there is something that I need help with. I will pay you, if that makes any difference, and...

[Sooraya's voice trails off, then she talks again, clearly speaking to someone else; her voice is still being recorded, but she's not talking into the communicator.] Oh ( Read more... )

I am... back? [A pause, then a sighing sort of exhale.] I am back.

It does not appear to have been long since I left, but right now I cannot know that for sure. It was--I do not know exactly when it was that I was ported out, to be honest. I went to sleep on the 31st of July, and when I awoke I was back at the Institute. And then...

[AND THEN THE ( Read more... )

I... to be honest, I still think of Independence Day as the 19th of August--and there is nothing wrong with that. That is independence day. Most people refer to this as the "fourth of July", anyway, so it is not confusing. But it is always a little strange, despite that, to be a... well, a foreigner on another country's national holidays. I mean-- ( Read more... )

[Sooraya sounds very, very small, but composed. Her accent is stronger than it's ever been on the Network before.]

Santo Vaccaro--Rockslide was ported out a few minutes ago. There is no question about it, so please... [a pause. Her breathing is audible.] I am sorry. He has many friends here, and you deserved to know this.

[The broadcast stays ( Read more... )

[Sooraya actually does video this time! she's sitting at a desk, presumably in her room, on which her damn dirty chinchilla is chillaxing in a fishbowl full of dust. get it? Dust is giving it a dust bath? HOHOHOHOHO I am not funny.]I have a question. Is anyone on this Network going to college right now, or considering the possibility? I have been ( Read more... )

This [DERP DERP PAUSE] has not been a good week. And I am sorry, for whatever the condolences of a stranger are worth, but I... I hope that those who have lost friends and loved ones will remember not to also lose themselves. They, with all due respect, are more likely to return than anyone else in the city, and in that respect we are all luckier ( Read more... )

[YOU CAN HEAR PACING. LOTS OF PACING. And although this was clearly a deliberate post, it sounds like Sooraya's in the middle of a thought already when she starts talking. In long, run-on sentences.]

It is grim central in here, let me tell you. I figure I should, like, respect the version of me who was here before's beliefs by not video-ing it up ( Read more... )

[whoever is on the other end clears her throat! demurely ( Read more... )