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[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Kara & u
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Marsiva
When: Tonight

[ A blonde woman with glasses and her hair up in a ponytail appears on the screen. She squints momentarily and then brightens and waves genially ]

Hi, my name is Kara, and this is pretty exciting, huh? Being in space and stuff… It's really not an opportunity that people from Earth, of which I am one, get too often. I wonder, what's everyone's favorite part about being in space? I think mine is looking out into the expanse and wondering what else is out there and, like, what everyone calls the toast with the egg in the middle? Toad in a hole? Egg's nest? What if it's some really weird name like "cyclops wheat square"?

[ she laughs, snorting slightly ]

How strange would that be?

Anyway, let me know! I can't wait to hear!

[ she waves enthusiastically and turns off the video ]

Comments

[droprate]

Except life didn't give you lemons

It gave you space goop.

[takingkarabusiness]

i haven't seen the goop yet

so far so good?

[droprate]

You will.

[ That probably seems a little foreboding, but whatever. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

um. OK!

but you didn't answer my question

[droprate]

Which one?

[takingkarabusiness]

do you like anything about being here?

[droprate]

No.

[ Okay, that's a lie, but. Whatever. Whatever! ]

[takingkarabusiness]

ur really cheery huh

[droprate]

Blame whoever put me here. I was fine just minding my own business and being dead.

[takingkarabusiness]

Dead?

[droprate]

Dead and buried.

[takingkarabusiness]

How did you end up here?

[droprate]

Beats me. I sure didn't volunteer for it.

[takingkarabusiness]

I get the idea that no one did.

[droprate]

You got the right idea.

[takingkarabusiness]

well, may as well try to make the best of it

[droprate]

I don't know, how's that treating you so far?

[takingkarabusiness]

i haven't had a panic attack yet?

[droprate]

It's a start.