talk to me, tell me your name...

[Jayne Cobb]

In the past I've had threads where the players in the community could have discourse on the happenings of their lives. The threads have always been a place of fun and support for anyone who wanted to join in.

In general we just be honest and tell each other about what is going on in our lives, like a shared blog.

I'll open the dialogue then.



I am not sure how many of you know, but I am going to be getting married this summer. I've been engaged for about a year or so now, and with school ending in June, well, it just made sense to wait to get married until school was out.

After the wedding, I will only have to do my wonderful job of moderating forums, which means that I will have a lot of time while I am online to make new skins for the site, post, and try and advertise a little. But as excited as I am for that, I still have to go through another 15 weeks of school, and get married, and go on a honeymoon.

Soyeah, wanted to share.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

First off, let me make sure this is okay for me to be replying and all. If not, let me know and I'll delete asap.

Secondly, CONGRATS on getting married!! I am very excited for you! I wish you best wishes and I'll say an extra prayer for you during your gearing up for beginning a new chapter in life. Exciting tiiiimes.

I really think it'd be awesome if this site got a kick-start again. It's really a great place, and I would love to be a part of it all still as it hopefully grows more popular once life settles down for us all. Anything I can do to help, you let me know, Jayne! I've created skins for about three sites now, and have admined or co-admined all three as well, so let me know!

So I guess I should continue said dialogue with a quick random session of describing my life atm. Umm.. I am seriously considering pursuing of a career in Law Enforcement. I will be studying for that next Fall, and hopefully be on the job of helping save the world soon. There's a lot of decision-factoring in choosing your path in life, and it makes it difficult to settle on one certain thing, but I think I've pretty much figured out that my calling is in this direction. So...wish me luck on that one! That's pretty much all I have that's interesting going on. Besides that I can't wait for the Summer to come. I mean I love some cold weather but after a while I just look toward the Sunny days.

Anyhoo, another detail about me: I ramble! Sooo, that's it. I'm done...for now.

[Jayne Cobb]

Nah, it's totally fine! That is what this thread is about; talking to each other in a little more detail than the cbox allows.

The wedding is proving to need a lot more attention than I thought it would. I am currently treating it like a big research assignment that has different components due on different days. My most recent update is that I finally went and bought my dress and everything. It's a little expensive, but I love the dress and think that this is one thing that is worth the splurge. The next hurdle is the invitations, and then after that, the honey moon. It's tricky to do this and also go to school full time, because I will get distracted by both when I need to be focusing on the other.

As for a kickstart to the site, I think it might be a good idea. However, my issue is that I have school also going at the same time. So that is me working 60 hours a week, taking full-time credits at school, and planning the wedding. There's not enough me to go around as is, so trying to kick-bump the site right now is not that feasible. However, I do want to see this place get up and go. I just can't do it right now. Maybe in the summer, when I am just working and planning the wedding. And of course, after that it will just be work, which means I will have a lot of time to dedicate to role playing and managing my forums.



As for your law enforcement schooling, I think that sounds like a pretty neat job. I don't think I could do law enforcement at all; it isn't that it's too hard, I just don't think I am law enforcement oriented.

What else have you been doing with yourself? I don't mean to pry, but I am curious. Are you going to a different school right now, and are considering law enforcement school, or are you out of school and just thinking about going back? Are you working at all? I feel like a bad admin because though we have chatted in the past, it's never been in-depth. We've always seemed to skim the surface, so let's dig just a bit deeper.

[Inara Serra]

Well first things first, Congratulations on your wedding plans and on the near end of school! I had a friend who was doing pretty much the same thing last year and I can tell you now that I would never be able to handle it. You are truly a brave person. You'll deserve an extra awesome honeymoon.

Mal, what branch of law enforcement do you want to study? I started school with the intention of eventually becoming a forensic anthropologist, but ended up quitting to try my hand at acting. I either need to get theater out of my blood before the fall or decide if I want to start a theater major instead. Right now I'm really torn since anthropology will inevitably be a much more stable choice. Who knows Mal, maybe one day we will be a kick ass crime fighting duo.

Mostly I just spend my time working and wandering around the city. Granted it's absolutely freezing here and I don't drive so I've been spending much more time than I would like sitting around my apartment, but on the bright side that means I spend more time online with you lovely people! So it's not too bad at all, I'm just starting to get a case of cabin fever.

As for the site, now that I'm back in the swing of rping, I would love to help get us active again. There's a few sites I wouldn't mind putting ads on. I can definitely see some of the members making their way over here. When it comes to things like skins and graphics I have never been the best, but if there's anything else I can help with I would be thrilled to do it. I've admined (yep, I'm making it a word ) for a few sites, so I might not be completely useless.

[Lawman]

Thanks Inara, I appreciate it. It's pretty tough when trying to actually juggle it all. I've gotten more calls in the last few days about wedding stuff than calls from people I know! It's crazy busy, that's for sure.

I am sorry to hear you quit the forensic anthropology path, but acting is a fine route as well. Stability is definitely a big part of the choices we make for ourselves, but I think overall we choose what makes us happy.

Speaking of which, did you know that there are many theatre companies out there that use community talent to do the acting? There are at least a dozen within 25 miles of my house that I know of, and there are probably more. I think if you like acting, but want stability, you should pursue the forensic anthropology and do plays in the evenings.

I wish I had more time to RP. I love doing it, and I feel like school and the wedding have made me all but abandon everything online except work. I don't write much besides weekly reports and homework assignments, when all I want to do is RP, and write fiction.

Hopefully once school is done I will be able to have the time to drag out and dust off my writing skills. I miss it, and the people I share it with, a lot.

As for the admin stuff, there's not much to really be done except the skin. I will have to find the time to do it amid all the other stuff I have to get done, but hopefully it will be before school is out. You guys deserve something new and shiny, with morebetter images on my part.

Oh, and fyi: Morebetter is part of the better system. You probably know most of the levels of better. The higher they are, the morebetter than the last they become, with the optimum goal of bettering being perfection.

Worst -> Miserable -> Bad -> Fair -> Good -> Great -> Perfect
Betterness levels ---------------------------------------------------->
---------->morebetter---------->morebetter---------->morebetter

xD