The fact that Luca still didn't have a permanent place to live worried Desmond, and likely would until Luca did find an apartment to call home. It wasn't as if he could interject any help directly; he knew Luca wanted to search without a tag-along. Despite that, Desmond still felt the desire to do something to help the situation, even if it was ( Read more... )

Such a fucking scam. A ticket to the observatory usually costs $22. Fine, whatever. But a ticket to the observatory on the 4th of July costs nearly six times that. And the pitiful thing is that people like me buy tickets anyway, thus encouraging the price hike.

Yes, it will be worth it and no, this didn't make me broke, but... fuck. Those greedy ( Read more... )

Greg and everyone else are already planning for the 4th of July. It's the one big celebration thing that they do. Fireworks and inspirational readings and all kinds of other nonsense that night. I just don't understand the appeal. Maybe if I was in some horribly oppressive living situation I might care about freedom more, but seeing as I'm not... I ( Read more... )

Greg gets so damn freaked out when the CDC is in town. Ever since this whole pig flu thing started in NYC, he's been staying in the hotel almost all the time. It's almost like he's scared someone will find out that he's responsible or something. But that's not possible; he couldn't just infect someone with one thing. I mean, I'm sure he's got pig ( Read more... )

Most of the people who live here are young and the novelty of watching a movie about vampires hasn't worn off (after all, humans don't get all excited by the fact that they're watching a movie about humans). I wasn't being social - I decided I'd spy on everyone - so I went down the hall to see what they were doing in the meeting room because I ( Read more... )

I never thought to look up what my name means until now. And you can imagine how annoying it was to find out that it means "From an Irish surname which was derived from Gaelic Deas-Mhumhan meaning 'from south Munster (in Ireland ( Read more... )