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The television show that i think most influenced society today is Galaxy Quest. The original show was created in the late nineteen sixties but the concepts it covered are relevant today.

Racial issues, mindless tyranny, the control of machines were all things covered by the show. This is not to say that there were not fun and games, there were plenty of throw-away episodes which mainly focused on the captain finding someone to snuggle with. But mainly the show used it’s futuristic nature to show the thought-provoking issues of the time that it needed to show. It was allowed to do so unhindered by network censorship due to that same futuristic nature.

Another way in which it was influential is the technology itself. If we look at the crude technology portrayed in Galaxy Quest, such as communicators and tricorders, and then we look at society today, we will see resemblances. The cell phones of today are direct links to the communicators from the show. Medical scanners used in the most advanced hospitals today are highly reminiscent of the tricorders used. Scientists in Germany have invented the transparent aluminum that is talked about in the fourth Galaxy Quest movie. Who knows, perhaps some day we will see transporters as well.

It was a great show, and it changed our society.

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Ami sat on her bed. Her finals were over, and the school year was done. She couldn't believe she had been here at Fandom for a year and a half already. The last conversation with her mother involved some discussion about the summer. Mother's job was keeping her in Chicago so Ami was free to stay if she wanted. Father also said she could go to Tibet with him instead. It was a tough choice. Ami figured she would seethe summer workshop schedule first, before deciding.

For now though, there was a Sailor V disk in her DVD player.


[open]

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Ami woke up and yawned. The sun was shining in the window and woke her up. Oh well. She had THINGS to do! Quickly she got dressed, and lying on her stomach started drawing a very large picture of a cat.

[open]

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Ami was working on a practice writing piece. although as an exchange student she could take a TOFEL instead of the verbal part of the SATs, she figured she should try for the harder test.

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The first sensation upon waking up was an inability to breath. She was surrounded by water! Ami panicked, and flailed. She had gotten fed earlier and then napped, swimming around.

Suddenly the world stretch and snapped back into its more usual perspective. And Ami was sitting on the floor in the middle of the room, soaking wet. //"Oh gods, that was odd!"// she said out loud, to no one in particular.

[open but Ami is leaving for work momentarily]

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Ami is a fish. She is a fish because there is a BDE this weekend, and as apparently always, i am away camping this weekend. sigh. Setsuna-mun has modding permission of ami-the-fish.

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Ami was ready to go on her camping trip. the weather was nice, she was wearing her dorky Scouting uniform, and her tent was ready. All she needed now was Setsuna, so they could go off.


Hello muddah, hello faddah
Here I am at Camp Granada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.


Ami looked up and around herself trying to figure out where the heck the singing was coming from.

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Ami sat on her bed and contemplated the tent in the corner of the room. She had to go camping. In it. This week. Right... She wondered if she could possibly convince someone to go with her. Anyone really.

[open]

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Ami came back from talking to Billy, and flopped onto the bed. Hugging her pillow, she started crying. No matter how much what he had said made logical sense, it still hurt.

[door is closed, but post is open]

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Ami sat on her bed with a textbook open on her lap. Unfortunately she was too upset to really study. The conversation with Setsuna last night, and the realization that her friendgirl crush had found herself a boyfriend was painful, and the tears still welled up in Ami's eyes when she thought about it. Which is why she had the textbook open but was not in fact reading. She just couldn't concentrate at all.

[open for plot for she who knows who she is, thanks]
[RAdio - mentioning monkeys is ok, but kidnapping NFB please?]

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Ami received a very odd call on her phone and tried to return it. She blinked a lot at the phone wondering what the heck was going on. And because she was worried, she called Billy, just to check if he was back yet.

The next call she did not even bother returning, wondering in puzzlement what that was all about.

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Ami was sitting on her bed, working on homework. She was always working on homework, she noted, not at all displeased. She had been making great progress with the Calculus and was almost certain she could take the AP examination at the end of the summer.
Everything was quiet and peaceful, but... Billy had not returned yet. They missed their date on Sunday, and he had neither called, nor said anything about not coming back as soon as he had hoped. The fact that his reason for leaving was what he referred to as a Family Emergency was doubly worrying.

[open]

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Ami woke up in a dorm bed. Pleasantly she remembered a total lack of nightmares. This was indeed a good thing. Sitting up she looked over to the other side of the room, where her new roommate lived. It was nice to room with Setsuna. No nightmares, and a good friend as a roommate to boot. Who could ask for more?

[open, for roomie, for anyone else]

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Ami packed all her things and took them, in several trips over to the new dorm room she and Setsuna were to share. She hadn't thought she had this much stuff, but apparently she did. the fact that she had to do it early in the morning, before her work shift at the Magic Box did not help matters and by the end she was exhausted.

[open while she is moving then she is gone to work]

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Ami sat down staring at the unlit fire. Today's fighitng class was very odd. combined with yesterday's conversation with Henry it was all around a thoughtful Ami. And she had gotten detention as she suspected she would. She did deserve it and yet it still bothered her.

[open, waiting for Setsuna, but open]

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Ami had a relatively stress-free day at work, and was now busily typing away on her laptop. She was stretched out on a comfy chair outsidethe cabin, a small campfire burning.

[open]

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Ami had broken down crying as soon as she left the bar. she cried all the way back to the cabins, and as she quietly got into her bed. She placed a pillow over her head so as to muffle the sounds and sobbed.

Well, that is what happens when you tell someone how you feel, right? They don't like you back. Or they like someoen else better. Ami realized she didn't even know who. Probably for the best that. She imagined it to be someone better then her at fighting.

[establishy. not really for interaction, as she is not gonna notice anyone for awhile. But IC noticing ok and stuff]

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Ami had no workshops today, and she had slept with minimal nightmares. They were still present oh yes, but they had lessened. She wondered what that meant. Perhaps being in just the same cabin as Setsuna-chan was not enough? Or was she just not close enough? Either way, Ami was working on color coding her workshop schedule.

[open like woah]

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i am very confused as to who has taken what alcove thingy. what is free so Ami can claim it?

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Ami packed her things, for the move to 421. She looked on the roster, and left a handwavynote to her Little Sister Abigail letting her know that she will be shuttling her stuff between 408 and 421. As she packed, she was silently hoping Setsuna would not be avoiding her this time. But she knew her hopes were most likely in vain.

[open but i am about to get on a plane back to boston for a few hours so SP]
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Ami woke up with a muffled scream. The only reason it was muffled was because of the pillow resting on her head. This dream was especially bad. She had been running to safety, running to Setsuna who of course would protect her, but she could not find her room, could not find the girl. She had searched everywhere, even on the roof, in the hopes that her friend was there, but she had found nothing. In the end, the aliens had gotten her, and she had been cut up, screaming in pain, and waking herself up in the process. This had to end.

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Ami sat on her bed, holding the kitty she had retrieved from the evil pink thing. She had no idea what that was, but it was creepy.

She had expected a call from Billy earlier, but he hadn't called and when she went to knock on hsi door he seemed not to be back yet.

Ami was worried.

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Ami woke up and rubbed her eyes. Her Mama wasn't home, but she was probably at a shift in the hospital. Ami was frightened. She had had a horrid nasty old nightmare, and Mama wasn't here. So, here was Ami, crying in her room. Loudly. With an open door.

[open. I am away for a few hours but back this evening]

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Ami woke up with a scream. Damn the nightmares, they kept getting worse and worse. This time she actually felt the blades slicing into her, cutting bits off, sewing them back on, cutting them off again.

Calming down some, Ami thought back to what Dr. Keyworth had said... She needed to find a way to sleep in the same room as Setsuna.


[establishy only]

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i have a question about the summer term. do we get to request who we are rooming with in the cabins??
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i am getting no notifications. if you are in a thread with either Ami or Agatha, ping me on IM when you reply i am not getting notified of anything.

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Ami had spent most of her free time that day baking. She was stressed, so there were cupcakes and cookies and a cake. She was absentmindedly eating a piece of pie and leafing through the catalog she had gotten that morning.

[open, but mainly for Setsuna]

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Ami had a lot of finals to study for. She was making notes and highlighting things on pages. There were notes to review and lists to memorize. She had emailed the Chess club telling them to study for finals instead of club tonight and hoped they were alright with that.

She needed to do well this semester.

[open as i finish packing and eating and freaking out about having everything for my game tomorrow omg]

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To: Chess Club
From: amizuno@fandomhigh.edu
Subject: Finals!

Hey everyone. It is finals study time. So, no club tonight.

-Ami

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I am going to sunny (god i hope it's sunny somewhere) Germantown Maryland for the weekend, so Ami will be locked in her room, studying for finals, and Agatha will be building something. Again.

:)

I hope to have net at the hotel, but i don't know if they have wireless, and as i will be at a 3-day LARP... i may be a bit busy. Woe.

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After getting back from the movie with Billy, Ami decided to try the sleep technique Dr. Keyworth had recommended. She lit the Sakura candle and went to bed.

The dream started as usual, she was being chased down a dark alley by the Aliens. The shadows were helping and she was disappearing, as the aliens caught her, and she was suddenly at an experimentation table, being cut open. Suddenly, the aliens fell away and er bonds were cut with a sharp sword. The smell of Sakura wafted over the scene, but the dating rescuer was not apparent. Ami ran. She ran down hallways and alleys, through a rainstorm and for some odd reason a snowfall. She could smell the Sakura, and following its welcome scent, she found herself in a garden.
A dark figure was there, at a bench. //"Who are you, that you wish to be in my garden?"// the figure said, in Japanese. //"Go away. I do not wish you here. You are not her."//
Suddenly, Ami was running again, with aliens catching her, cutting her open.

With a scream, she woke up.


[[establishy only please]]

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Akira had left the previous day and he had left behind Setsuna's copy of The Art Of War, persuaded that the Setsuna from his time will give him another copy. Ami was currently reading it, making lists and notes, highlighting things in her notes and referencing to pages previously read. It was certainly an interesting book.

She sighed. Now matter how she had tried on Monday, she just couldn't explain herself to Setsuna. It is like the other girl was having the conversation with someone else. Ami wasn't sure she even should try to explain again. Instead she continued with the book, determined to finish ti that day.

[open]

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Ami woke up from a night of no nightmares. A giid thign too, as she had two peopel in the room with her she did not want to wake up. In the night she had unisnuggled from Setsuna, and Akira was snoozing on her bed. In the early hours, when the awakefuness she felt was fascilitated by the jetlag, Ami thought about the previous couple of weeks.

It all started with her getting those sleepign pills from the doctor. She had taken them and ended up sleepwalking through the hallways, ending up in bed with Setsuna. That had made things awkward to say the least. She then had to explain it all to Billy who took it remarkably well overall.

Unfortunatly that was not the end of it. Setsuna had been teaching her swordwork, and odd things were coming up over that. So theyhad meditated on it, which helped her remember some things. This was good.

And, her Father had let her stay in Fandom for the Summer, which resulted in an odd celebrationwhich led to, some odd new experiences. Unfortunatly they were followed by a special sort of conversationwith Setsuna, whichj acomplished nothing. The subsequent conversation jsut made things much much worse, and generated plenty of emo.

A bright spot had been the trip to Tokyo with Billy, where they went to the Shinto Temple nearher old house. There was an odd girl there, who, in prayer and meditation was seen to be attackigna weridly dressed Ami. A trip to the Tokyo Tower was interesting, and culminated both in a extended making out session with Billy andin a very unpleasant conversation about the drunken kiss with Setsuna.

And upon arriving back Ami was greeted with Akira.

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Ami puther stuff away and was checkingher email. she had seen large amounts of small kids around, but was not sure where all they had come from. She mostly wanted to be left alone to be emo.

[[open. Setsuna,want to bring the attached to you sprog of ami's?]]

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"Are you sure this thing is safe? It tends to be a magnet for disaster in the movies."

"Are you kidding? It is the place to go and make a wish. Wishes made here at midnight always come true..."

Tokyo Tower and beyond )

[NFD due to distance, no IC interaction possible, OOC comments welcome, please]

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The flight over Thursday night was uneventful if long.  They arrived Friday morning, and Ami directed them in their cab to the apartment she and her Mother shared.  Everything was just as she had left it, down to the note on the whiteboard, which said "Welcome Home, Ami and Mama."  "That is for when we were coming back"  Ami explained smiling.

On to the Temple )

[NFB due to distance, no interaction, comments welcome, etc]

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Ami had no nightmare. She also had not slept at all. At least the Radio did not broadcast what the conversation she and Setsuna had was about. Silver lining to every cloud.

All through the night, she had stared at the ceiling. It hadn't revealed anything good to her. She had lost her best friend, through her own stupidity. She was probably going to lose her boyfriend once he found out. There was pretty much nothing in her life that could make things any more special.

Once the first light shone through the windows, Ami got up and dressed, and went down to the gym.

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Ami woke up with a start. Well, that wasn't a nightmare at least. Or not one of the normal ones. This one involved incredibly embarrassing conversations with her best friend and her boyfriend. And the two of them getting into a stupid fight and killing each other. Alright, so maybe it was a nightmare. Dutifully she recorded it in her dream diary.

Then unfortunately she listened to the radio, which produced some crying into the pillow. Too bad she had to get out of bed to go to class. At least she could hide in her room all evening, packing. Was it even right to go on this trip now? She had to tell Billy right? With a sigh, Ami got out of bed. Maybe she would tell him in Japan...

[establishy but open]

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Consciousness returned slowly and painfully. Her foot was asleep, she desperately needed to use the bathroom, and her head was full of tiny workmen with jackhammers. There was also an unfamiliar weight clinging to her. Slowly, carefully as if such movement caused immense pain, Ami opened her eyes. Yep, the movement caused immense pain.

The first thing she noticed was that she was on the floor, slumped over rather then lying down. The second thing she noticed was Setsuna, slumped over with her. The third thing she noticed were all the empty candy boxes. Ami groaned.

Trying to be as gentle as humanly possible and as quiet as a hungover girl can be, Ami attempted to dislodge her friend so as to make it to the bathroom. Succeeding, even though Setsuna mumbled something in her sleep, Ami ducked into the bathroom.

[omg for Setsuna]

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Ami was sitting at her desk working on some homework, when her phone rang.

Read more... )

As she put the phone down Ami couldn't help but giggle with excitement. She got to stay, at least for the summer.

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so... um... i feel dumb but... what is one supposed to do at an easter egg hunt? There is one posted in town, but i the mun have no clue :(

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Ami had handwavedly gone to the store and picked up chips and fixings and soda for the party. She had also made tea and sushi. Sushi made such a grate finger-food.

She had some Molly Ringwald movies, and also that movie about the cheerleaders and their competition.

She was wearing PJs and eagerly anticipating the folks coming over.

[there shall be ocd one sec is up]

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Ami woke up with her side still stiff, but better. She carefully recorded her most recent nightmare in the dream diary, noting that she again woke up in her own bed, always a good sign.

She decided that the middle of the room was a perfectly fine place to practice the warm-ups that Setsuna had showed her, which is what she was doing before heading to work.

][open and establishy. Ami is here until 9 am, i am here until 4pm]

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LJ is throwing errors, no commenting for me. woe!
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Ami woke up with a groan. Ugh. Her side hurt, a lot. Lifting her shirt to take a look she realized she was sporting a fairly large bruise, which looked like it would just get darker and bigger before it went away. Oops.
She extinguished the candle burning near her bed. She remembered having nightmares, and having the scent be there. Remembered using it to guide her to happier dreamscapes. Guess it worked. She took out a small notebook and write down the dreams and the date.

She contemplated her day. Two classes and a club. And she should really check on John, to make sure he did not kill himself with cookies.

[open]

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Ami was making a list. On one side were all the pros of staying in Fandom on the other were all the cons. It was a difficult list to make, and Ami was tired after class, and therapy and fighting practice.

[open, expecting the fake boyfriend for prom/japan discussion though]

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Ami woke up in her own bed this time. This was an improvement. She had only woken up two times in the night, and neither time screaming. Also an improvement. However the radio again mentioned her and Setsuna. This made her want to stay in bed all day. However, she had to go to her first day of work, so that was out of the quesiton...


[establisy]
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Ami had gone to her classes and mostly kept quiet in them. She also suceeded in not crying in public. Her room was hoever not public. she had had a nice good cry and was now researching sleepwalking n the internet. And desperatly hoping that noone had heard the radio, especially not Billy.

[ooc: here for Billy]

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Ami sent an email, to a carefully selected group of individuals.

To: Annette, Tori, Setsuna, Naomi, Willow, River, Mac, Cally )

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