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Dingoes didn't have a gig that night. We didn't even have a practice. Still, I didn't feel like sitting around at home. I'd spent the last three nights on the run and wearing a rather snug fur coat. I wanted to be around people again. I wanted to feel human again... it almost felt necessary, like I had to prove to myself that being fanged ( Read more... )

[ for sunny_dale ]

"Mind if I take a rain check, even though it isn't raining?"

I knew Willow would make good on the promise she'd made the night before. She had something to do, something that I'm sure involved that Fred girl we ran into, and I wasn't about to try and stop her. She had her Resolve Face on. Anyone who knew Willow at all knew what that ( Read more... )

[ for dropping_anvils ]

"Bracing" was the only word I could think of to describe this past weekend.

No, that wasn't quite true. There were lots of words to describe it. Bracing. Unsettling. Surprising. Nauseating. Bizarre. Wrong. They all had some truth to them... but nothing really fit was I was feeling about all that had happened during the past three nights ( Read more... )

[ for sunny_daleGoing to college in Sunnydale has proven itself to be pretty weird. I didn't really expect it to go differently. It was like going to high school in Sunnydale -- with more breaks in between classes, and a bigger campus. Still, it wasn't turning out to be the big life-threatening ordeal I thought it would be. Cool. I'm down with that. I do ( Read more... )

[ for other_pathsSo... weird things happen in Sunnydale. Okay, I'm down with that. It's a commonly known fact, even. Weird things happen, and then people ignore them and go on their merry way. People don't really want to acknowledge that there's more to life than what's solid, what you already know: your family, your friends, your school, the gruelling nine- ( Read more... )