How's My Driving?

Questions/comments/concerns about how I'm playing this character?  Anon is allowed, but I'll take you a lot more seriously if I know who you are.  I also encourage you to contact me through PMs, email (tmartian42@yahoo.com), and AIM (tmartian42).

Alester is an original character, so I'm particularly concerned about the consistency ( Read more... )

[Audio/Action for library]

I am filled with ennui.

[Alester just stops, right in the middle of the library, right in the middle of his shift, and collapses onto the floor in what he calculates to be the most dramatic and attractive manner in which it is possible to collapse.]

[ooc: Backdated to afternoon.  It's actually more his occasional flair for ( Read more... )

I'm currently in need of a roommate. I'm relatively quiet, don't own any pets but wouldn't mind having them around, and would prefer someone proficient with "modern" technology rather than magic. I'd be willing to either stay in my current apartment or somewhere new--however, I am not interested in living with a group.

Anyway, that's enough business ( Read more... )

I'm oddly bothered by the fact that the New Year here falls so close to the solstice without falling on it.  It just seems out of place. It's strange to see so many people celebrate holidays I don't understand, but I enjoy the general festive spirit, as well as peppermint candies ( Read more... )

Note to citizens: reading words out loud that one finds writ large across the sky may not be such a good idea ( Read more... )

1. 'Walk,' says the voice, so Alester walks.  He walks into the river and the water comes up further and further until he's chest deep.  The ink on his skin--in his skin?--is bleeding into meaninglessness and the current is strong, so he turns around as if to ask whether this is really what the hooded figure wants him to do, but it's as if he's ( Read more... )

[Action//Open]

[It is mid-afternoon.  Alester is about seven years old today, but he's off exploring on his own, just like he'd be doing at home.  He keeps looking at things very intently even if they don't seem particularly interesting or even if they don't actually seem to be there at all.  Despite the fact that he is constantly getting distracted ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about a story lately.

It's a story about promises and honor and I suppose it's also a story about generosity.  It was hard for me to connect with it at first because the rigid adherence to sworn oaths and sheer amount of lovesickness it contains seem rather ridiculous.  But perhaps if I'd been less careless with promises and ( Read more... )

The first time I ate a fortune cookie--not today--I didn't know what it was, so I found the tiny piece of paper very surprising.  As in its presence, not its content.  Anyway, I know I probably shouldn't just eat things the fall from nowhere onto my head, but something possessed me to do so anyway.

Today's fortune cookie said:  You are still hungry ( Read more... )

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