John had way too much time on his hands. Excessive amounts of time even after studying for his classes and writing papers and doing problem sets and leaving an insane number of voicemails for Jaina. It was sort of amazing how productive he could be while trapped in a city where he knew all of two people: one of whom he was avoiding, the other ( Read more... )

No one had died.That fact alone made the week with his family more than a success in John's mind ( Read more... )

After two years and change, John was getting out of Fandom. His room was bare of belongings, minus the few things he needed for the next morning and a bag of stuff he was leaving with Jaina ( Read more... )

John was ready for a movie night. He had popcorn and drinks and a new DVD of a terrible movie about an AI stealth bomber (with no sappy romance in the case--he'd checked twice).

So yes, John was ready.

Up until the part where it was no longer John waiting for his date to arrive, but a fuzzy bunny ( Read more... )

Over the last couple years, John had turned his room into the sort of place people could stay in forever so long as food was brought in regularly. Or, you know, people weren't thinking about food ( Read more... )

Alcohol was evil. John knew this from a variety of experiences. He also knew that at present, he was not in a bed and that was never a good sign when his head throbbed in that familiar way, reminding him of alcohol and potential memory loss ( Read more... )

The glitter storm moving in had brought with it strange dreams of tangled limbs and spooning with pilots that John would rather not have rattling around in his mind ( Read more... )

Packing for the cabin switch in the morning was a complicated task this year. Again John had a fish. Okay, so it wasn't the same one as last year. Or even the one after that one. He had bad luck with pets so he was mostly glad it was the same one as last week ( Read more... )

"Come on, buddy. You can't live under that rock forever ( Read more... )

John didn't thought there could be much worse than waking up in the middle of the night to the sound of his girlfriend the kitten having a hairball. He'd thought she was choking to death and then...ew ( Read more... )