Statistically speaking, Yahtzee was a pretty ridiculous game. The did not mean that it wasn't one of the better board games to play on a day when it was kind of sunny, kind of not and the boredom levels were creeping up the dial ( Read more... )

Welcome to birthday numero quatro here on mystery island. Sure, there are days I'd like to be back in California, going to Stanford and getting a pony for my birthday, but evidence suggests that wasn't going to happen anyway. I'll trade the uncertainty of what's behind door number one for what I've got right here. At least on Tabula Rasa, we keep ( Read more... )

It was not a particularly unusual thing for Thomasina to be sitting in the rec room, surrounded by books and papers, on a sunny afternoon. From a distance, the only thing that would have appeared out of the ordinary about the scene surrounding her at the moment was perhaps the sheer amount of paper; there were stacks of it, a couple of reams easily ( Read more... )

Dated June 25, 2009:
In which Meg and Veronica find and watch a particular bad made-for-tv movie...only this time things are a bit different.

[ HERE | In Progress | PG]

Dated lateish June, 2009:
On a slow afternoon, Lucy heads out to the beach and is joined by Meg. The two hang out for a while, mostly talking about how crazy the island is.

[ HERE | In progress | PG]

Dated May 10, 2009 (Mother's Day):

Realizing that it's Mother's Day, and that her mother is actually on the Island to appreciate it (and probably missing her mother something fierce), Polly bakes something from an old family recipe, and goes over to see Meg in her hut. The conversation is awkward but sweet, getting more awkward when the subject of ( Read more... )

The weeks fly by with unexpected speed.

One minute I'm the new kid, fresh out of an alien invasion, the next I find myself starting to relax and settle in. I can't really pretend the peace isn't a novelty, and an enjoyable one at that. I mean, once you get past the giant squids, the community bathrooms, the fact that next to nothing I pull out of ( Read more... )

Dated April 30, 2009:

In this handwavy edition, after encountering the Doctor's dark side, a terrified Polly tries to get help. After telling what little she knows to Sam Vimes, she then goes to her mother lab where she breaks down crying. After staying overnight with her parents, she thinks she's figured out how the Doctor intends to take over the ( Read more... )

I have been here long enough to know that the island is prone to doing things that defy the rules. Math need not apply, physics should take a holiday and logic, do not even get me started. It’s not like I haven’t tried - I have, I really have and I’ve broken enough pencils and run through enough pieces of chalk to know that attempting this ( Read more... )

For a lot of people, keeping up with eight classes in a place where the atmosphere seemed to only encourage relaxation would probably have been a chore, or started to seem like a mistake this far into the school term. For Lucy, though, the work was welcome. Sure, it meant she was busy more often than not, and that two days out of the week she was ( Read more... )