4th floor common room - Saturday morning

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep rolls over for the eightieth time and realizes he really isn't going to be getting any more sleep any time soon. His arm is sore from the abuse P.T. and even with the brace on, he's pretty sure he slept on it funny.

So as not to wake his roommate, Shep grabs his laptop and heads down to the common room to make the first entry on his log for ethics and play Sims for a while.

Still in his pajamas, with a blanket around his shoulders, he settles into a couch, flips on the tube and types with one hand:


Ethics Assignment - Entry #1 - Saturday, December 3, 2005

Okay, so at first I couldn't think of what I needed to stop doing - which sounds arrogant as hell, but since I don't routinely go around making terribly snide remarks except to McKay or blowing people off just because they bother me or cheating on homework or whatever, I wasn't sure what to do.

Anyway, Lana says I need to knock off the 'stupider-than-thou' act. I didn't really think that would bother anyone, but apparently it does. So for the next week I actually have to own up to everything I understand, instead of playing dumb to get a laugh or get out of something. God help me I hope I don't run into McKay this week.

Just typing that took far longer than he had expected and now he's sleepy again, so he puts the computer on the table, snuggles up in his blanket and flips to VH1's Top Twenty Countdown and closes his eyes and listens to the music. He suspects he ought to start running again sometime soon. He'd just have to be sure not to trip and fall and it shouldn't aggravate his wrist too badly. But not today.


[he's not asleep, just kind of drifting. Come in and chat.]


[ETA: Shep and Lana have fallen asleep curled up together on the couch. Anyone want to come in and find them that way?]

Comments

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Sounded to me like maybe where you came from you didn't have to tell anyone. Everyone already knew.

*starts wondering if Kiki could come up with a tiara and sash. And how much he'd have to tip her to get it to deliver it to Lana in one of her classes*

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Very true. I actually found it up on Chloe's 'Wall of Wierd' once. I didn't react very well, I'm afraid."

She looks at him, knowing he's up to something, and wondering what it's going to be this time. She smiles despite herself, knowing that whatever it is and however embarrassed she is by it, it's probably also going to make her laugh.

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Wall of weird"? Can you imagine what something like that would look like around here?

*thinks for a minute* It would either be completely blank, because weird is relative and around here everything is so weird it's normal, or it would be covered with every single copy of every newspaper, magazine or pamphlet ever printed in this burg.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana giggles. "No, it would be filled with the most mundane stuff you could think of, like 'The sun rose this morning' or 'Two students were seen eating breakfast' because *that's* it seems to be the everyday that's strange around here.

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Yes, but if two students eat breakfast around here, the end result is likely to be "one is now a frog and the other one can only speak by singing quotes from The Barber of Seville."

"in Klingon" he adds as an after thought.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Too true. I feel like I'm taking my life in my hands every time I eat in the cafeteria!"

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Deb's is much safer.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Definitely. And the food is a million times better."