Teddy Altman

So, the Fourth was pretty cool. I headed down to Coney Island and just walked around for awhile. It was packed with people for the hot dog eating competition, but if you go down far enough, you can escape some of that.

I ate Italian Ice until I felt sick and burned through a pack of sparklers. Purple ones. There was a girl there who could make her fingertips fizzle and burn like sparklers, but she was nowhere near as cool as Jubilee.

I bought a t-shirt and rode a roller coaster and joined a band and sold myself into sex slavery. All-in-all, a pretty good way to celebrate the birth of our nation.

PS: One of those statements is a lie.

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Does anyone, I mean. I was just thinking, if someone is free or something-- If it isn't a bother or anything, that is, I was just wondering if someone would like to hang out or talk or not talk or just. Something.

Whatever. It's just. It's quiet here.

Hey from Brooklyn. It's pretty much same-old, same-old here. Lemme tell you, going to school has made me soft. If I have to live another week with an AC, I may melt away into nothing.

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I guess it's pretty lame that the last thing I want to do is leave school for the summer. Brooklyn can be surprisingly quiet, for all that it's part of the city that never sleeps. Though I guess Mom and I will keep it lively with our fights.

She doesn't want me to come back. I guess the whole accident and attention spooked her. But I'm coming back, no matter what. I haven't, I dunno, changed my stripes or anything, but I feel like there are people here who are my friends, or could be my friends if I stopped sitting off by myself like a loser.

What I'm trying to say is that I'll miss you guys. I'll miss having friends. So I'm coming back, hell or high water.

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I'm going to be a movie star. Clearly I have found my calling. Though I'm beginning to suspect I was typecast. A geek in a cool guy's body?

Well. If the shoe fits, I guess.

But seriously, it sounds like a lot of fun. Jubilee, do you have any movie minions yet? It seems like you should have big, scary movie minions to carry you around and do your will.

( OOC: Cut to save loading time )

I'm pretty sure that's the only way JJ Abrams gets any respect.

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So, hey. If anyone wants to be drawn as a superhero, I'm a roving artist taking requests.

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Back at school. Really embarrassed. If I pretended none of that happened, would you guys be willing to play along?

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You know what I hate? I hate being home. I hate this city. It's just, it sucks and I left it for a reason and I should have never come back and if I could just fucking fly away right now, I would. There are just, just people, everywhere, and you know what else really sucks? Being able to be anyone, anyone you can imagine, and still being unable to be anyone but yourself.

That's like being punched in the face by irony. And who even calls someone a faggot anymore? Who does that? And why do I have to be the one idiot who falls for it every time, like I set myself up to be knocked down, like I like being kicked in the face or something.

Whatever. I should have known better. Next time I'll stay at school. When people get tired of you there, they just leave.

I'm going to regret drinking tomorrow. Whatever. Fuck it. Fuck everything right now, you know?

I don't want to be here.

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I dunno, I always liked sheep.

( Does this classify as an ice-breaker? )

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Copying Mark's song thing, but this came on and it's like an ear worm.

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
--GLaDOS

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So, hey, I'm pulling together a group of people interested in forming an intramurals sports league, but first I wanted to nail down exactly which sports we'd be interested in playing. Ideas?

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I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
-Mitch Hedberg

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Smith is not a man. He is an intelligent creature with the genes and ancestry of a man, but he is not a man. He's more a Martian than a man. Until we came along he had never laid eyes on a human being. He thinks like a Martian, he feels like a Martian. He's been brought up by a race which has nothing in common with us. Why, they don't even have sex. Smith has never laid eyes on a woman — still hasn't if my orders have been carried out. He's a man by ancestry, a Martian by environment.

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