5th Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

John Dorian is sitting in the 5th floor common room, attempting to conceal very large quantities of paint. However, he is not doing a very good job about it, so anyone poking their head in can probably see not only that there is paint, but that there seems to be inordinate number of pastels. He is trying, obviously, to look innocent as he waits for some of his friends to, hopefully arrive.

Maybe I should have left a message or something.

((OOC: Open to all. We're gonna paint the common room, and maybe some other stuff. There's a lot of paint. However, there is an octopus on one of the walls in the common room, complete with pirate accoutrements, so don't paint over that. We're just adding some... uh... personality.))

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[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Oh right. Yeah, I'm new."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well, nice to meet you, JD," Cally said. "Are you planning on being an interior decorator or something?"

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, some of us were gonna paint the non-cephlapod walls. Wanna help?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Cally said. "We got any orange?"

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Well, I've got some basic orange," he said, holding up a can of lifevest orange, "and I've got some goldenrod. It's sort of orange."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, basic orange," Cally said. "I am so in. So, no touching the octopus, but thats the only rule?"

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Yup, just leave the octopus alone. It's Pippi's octopus."

He said Pippi's name dreamily, as he began to zone out, picturing a tall, freckled redhead, diligently painting a pirate hat on an octopus.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally tilted her head at JD. "Yeah, definitely wouldn't want to mess with anything of Pippi's. I totally already have that rule."

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Pippi."

JD smiles at nothing in particular.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Can I, uhh, have that paint, please?" Cally asked.

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

JD comes back to reality with a bit of a snap.

"Oh yes. Of course!"

He handed her the can of paint.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally takes it with a smile, and pulled her Swiss Army knife from her pocket to open it up. "You getting settled okay, JD?"

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, doing great. Classes haven't started yet, but I've got two classes tomorrow."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Ouch, double-feature, huh?" Cally finally popped open the lid of the paint can. She dabbed a finger in it, just to check how mixed it was. She then bopped herself on the nose with the paint-finger, just because. She smiled up at JD.

"We got any brushes?"

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, they're on the table."

JD pointed to indicate a slighlty smaller pile of brushes.

"Humor and Medicine and Music. They should be fun!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Hey, we'll be in the first one together, actually," Cally said, picking up a brush. "Neat."

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"Cool. Pippi will be there too."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Right," Cally said, looking at JD for a second. "I'm gonna go, uhh, paint over there." She pointed across the room. "Thanks for the supplies."

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

JD looked kind of sad to see her go.

"Oh, ok. You sure you don't want to help me with this..."

He looked at his blank patch of wall.

"...masterpeice?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally didn't want to disappoint the poor guy. "Oh, I can stay here, I guess. Are we painting anything in particular?"

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. Not daisies. I don't want to paint daisies."

I want to paint daffodils.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"How about... robots? Big orange robots?" Cally offered.

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

With daffodils. And ray guns.

"OK. Robots are cool. Can they have ray guns?"

JD put down his periwinkle and made a move for some bright yellow.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"What about Bob guns?" Cally joked. "I'm totally good with ray guns."

She started painting a vaguely Cylon centurion shape with the orange.

[girlsnamehere.livejournal.com]

JD got to work on the "ray gun" part. Unfortunately, his artistic skills still needed a bit of work. It looked a bit like a snake drawn by a demented stick figure.