SHINYBRIT

I figured I'd let you all see what I look like... if I can figure out how to post pictures on this thing. So if this doesn't work the first time... then I'm probably just stupid. lol. Also, if it doesn't work the first time, I'm going to try and do it again... so have no fear!! lol. Okay anyway... Here they are (if they show up):

CORI

I forgot to mention that I went to a Serenity convention in October. It was so much fun, plus I got a picture of me with Nathan Fillion. The best day ever. I would defiantly go to another convention.

JANE0904

I had been trying to get my current tale ORDINARY DAY to finish today – March 27th – in time for our dear Captain’s birthday. However, time constraints, RealLife and the story itself has decided otherwise - it's got longer and more convoluted than I could have imagined at the beginning! But I’d still like to take this opportunity to wish Nathan Fillion the very best of wishes for the day and the coming year, and I can’t wait to see what he turns up in next! :kiss: Jane

INVICTUS12

Just wanted to see if there are any Indy Browncoats. Please tell me.

ASIANSOLO

Today my wife and I brought a small Koi to go in our outdoor pool. The pool looks like a small mountain with several water falls. My wife is from the Philippines and is into Feng Shui. After we put the Koi into the pool, it jumped out, several times before I put on old nylon tarp over the opening. The tarp has small holes in it to let the water flow in, sun light can enter but is somewhatly blocked, this way when the Koi jumps again it only hits the tarp and goes back in the water.

TANKOBITE

Well, I'm still reading [i]On Combat[/i] and I don't want to really say much about it until I'm done, so I'm borrowing a term my sister's anime TV shows use. In honor of the "Rapists View of the Universe" I give you an old favorite: The Creative Writing Assignment Gone Awry (Note-I actually got my creative writing teacher in High School to read it out loud to the class...good times) [quote]THIS IS AN ACTUAL COLLEGE THEME PAPER - "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to reread what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached." The following was actually turned in by two of my English students: Rebecca -last name deleted, and Jim - last name deleted. ------------------------------------------------------------ STORY: (First paragraph by Rebecca) At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question. ----------------------------------------------------- (Second paragraph by Jim) Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17, he said into his trans- galactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit. ---------------------------------------------------------- (Rebecca) He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed hurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" She pondered wistfully. -------------------------------------------------------- (Jim) Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret Mobile submarine headquarters