i will not be the girl...

AAAAAAAFFFFFFFFFRRRRRRIIIIIICCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

We're at the end of a couple free days in Arusha, Tanzania right now, so I'm lazing around on the computer because it's not that expensive and there's not much else to do. It's been pretty great here, especially within the last week or so. Swahili class and the history/politics/etc class ended maybe two weeks ago? I think. And then we spent all last week at the coast, snorkeling for at least four hours a day. That was literally our class. It's amazing.

Thursday we head out for a three-week safari slash grasslands ecology class. I'm really excited. I want to see a cheetah!

I miss you all like whoa. It's just not the same without people who flail and use capslock and know about the Space Epic. I do at least have a couple of BSG watchers, so it hasn't been complete withdrawal. But no Friday dance party anonymemes or nothing. I did just catch up with the Space Epic (omg LEE YOU ARE ADORABLE AND ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS OLD! How many things are you going to shoot before you realize you should probably just kiss her?!) which was fun and adorable. And I can't wait to get back to the states and read everything from the next bsg_pornbattle. I'll also have so much television to catch up on: House, The Office, 30 Rock, Castle, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds. I might be missing one or two. And I'll probably start watching Dexter too.

I've been writing a ton of original fic here too. All for Kansas or whatever I'm calling it. I flip back and forth between the TV show and the actors of the show, and it's ridiculous and none of it is chronological or, in some cases, necessary to the story at all, except that I KNOW it happened to these characters, so I write it. I've become so protective of one of the characters, it's a little silly, knowing she's fictional and I'm actually the reason she's having these problems to begin with. But I love her and want to punch people who hurt her.

Anyway. I'll be gone with no internet for three weeks, but you should comment! Or facebook me! Or something! Because I miss y'all and I get lonely and I love hearing about your lives!

A/N: This is a scene (or a few scenes, I suppose) from a piece I have been working on for a while. I don't have a title for it, but I think of it as "my Kansas piece"--because a character is named Kansas, not because of the state. It's about actors on a television show called (tentatively, because it's a horrible name for a show but I needed one for this scene) After the Apocalypse.
Brief summary so this scene makes sense: A.J. plays Kansas on Apocalypse; Patrick plays Quentin. Kansas and Quentin are the main characters in an "obviously going to end up together" sort of way. A.J. is single; Patrick is married with two kids. Harry is one of their co-stars.

Piece: Original fiction; Kansas
Timeline: Near the end of season 2 of Apocalypse.
Rating: PG-13 for language
Summary: Immediately after A.J. and Patrick first sleep together. The weekend with Harry.
Concrit: Please! I would love it.

( She’s hovering on the edge, trying not to cry trying not to cry trying not to cry, and her car sputters and clunks and, )