This is it. Today is the day.

Somewhere out in that jungle are dinosaurs and I? Am about to go see them. Which means that my life is approximately five hundred percent cooler than it was yesterday and that much likelier to turn into a bad sci fi movie. Either way, it's incontrovertibly awesome.First, though, Olive has to finish her preparations in ( Read more... )

I had two Valentine's days this year, one here and one at home. Two Valentine's days and a grand total of zero Valentines. That said, this one? The extra one, the one I shouldn't have had to deal with? Totally the better one. Next step in it being awesome: me figuring out how to move again.Olive meant to go home before it got too late, she really ( Read more... )

When I hear the news about the space ship hurtling toward us, all I can really think is, 'Oh, well, fantastic. Because my life didn't already suck, now an impossible piece of machinery's getting ready to end it.' I mean, I'm seventeen. I know that's not a guarantee of anything, but I was sort of hoping for a few more years. And to have sex. Don't ( Read more... )

I know it sounds cliché and all, and I swear I don't mean it in some weird Sapphic way - I mean, I love Rhi even now and we've been close, but not, you know, that close - but I'm pretty sure that, when I look up and see her staring back at me, my heart stops. Like, actually stops, and the blood in my veins just goes cold. Not literally, I mean, ( Read more... )