An unexpected story

Last night, I was bored and restless. And my friend Eric, who happened to be online and chatting with me on MSN, was also bored and restless. We started reminiscing about some old roleplaying forums we used to be on, 'way back in '98-'99. These forums were, essentially, round robin storytelling venues, and we both enjoyed them a lot.

I put forward the idea, "why not try something like that now?" At least as far back as high school, I have always admired Eric's writing, and he says he admires mine, so we knew we were in good company. We started writing, each one adding a new paragraph as we went. We didn't know where the story was going. More than once, we each had to think, "what the heck do I write now?" But somehow, our muses carried us through. Two and a half hours later, we had a 4000 word story.

I really enjoyed the experience, and I think this is something we're going to do again. If anyone wants to join us, you're welcome to do so.

The story itself (all 4000 words of it) is behind the cut. I've colour-coded the text, one colour for my sections and one for Eric's. You are welcome to try to guess who is who.

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Pictures!

As many of you know by now, since Marc left for Nevada, I've been taking pictures with Marcee, his teddy-bear proxy for the summer. I've been sending some of them to Marc, but I haven't had the money or inclination to send them all, so I've decided to post them online.

I've opted to post them onto my LJ gallery, mostly because it's public and has an easy uploading interface. Facebook isn't accessible to non-Facebook users, and I can only have 3 galleries on Flickr, so LJ it is.

Anyway, you can click on the link to see pictures of Marcee.

So far, these only go up to May 5th, because I'm only going to post pictures after Marc has received them, and there's a time delay for obvious reasons. I'll keep you updated as to when I post more.