… Kacey Brynn is not the best pilot in the galaxy. She’s also not the prettiest girl, or the smartest girl, or even the girl with the most perfect life. Although her call sign is “Starshine”, and you’d think it meant she’s a bright and lovely person, you’d be wrong. No, Kacey is probably the gloomiest person I’ve ever met and… and ( Read more... )

Sight.

Living on a battleship with rations for food, you can pretty much live without your sense of taste. Sound…? Well, I would miss listening to Anne’s laugh or Ms. Holtz’s songs, but I suppose I could still live. Smell is yet another one that I could live without, especially once I graduate ROTC and become a pilot. I have a feeling from all ( Read more... )

It was so funny to Mom and Dad, when they told a story to the Adamas one night when we all had dinner together, but it was completely embarrassing to me ( Read more... )

What doesn't make it complicated is probably a better question for me. I'm twenty, and my parents treat me like I'm thirteen. I'm trying to juggle everything I'm learning at school, at ROTC, and when Dad has time to teach me more from the Sacred Scrolls. And to top it all off, I'm half-human, half-Cylon. How can it get easy for me at all?

( Emotions screw things up )

You're joking, right? I mean, not to sound disrespectful, but everything important I've learned has been outside of school, which is saying a lot considering that I have two schools onboard Galactica -- my normal one, teaching arithmetic and language, and then the ROTC where I'm a Cadet Lieutenant. If you want to get technical, I have three, since ( Read more... )

I wish I was more like Anne.

You don't really understand what I'm talking about unless you've met Anne Adama, though. She's like some force of nature all on her own. I've never really been able to be like her, but she has managed to bring me out of my "shell" pretty much anytime she's around me. Or I'm around her ( Read more... )