Finally, Cool Air

*Docs park themselves in front of my fan*
What, hanging out in TeenDoc's new fleet of Jacoolzis isn't enough?
-M: Hoooooot.-
. . . . I can't actually argue with that, you know. It was absolutely BOILING earlier. Got up to 100 degrees inland, and everywhere felt 10 degrees hotter than it was. Work was horrible.
-D: Isn't your boss ever going to use the air conditioning?-
Imagine my horror when I find out he has been.
-VuM: . . . . Do you work in the 9th circle of Hell or what?!-
I know! And I got to spend most of the day cooking alone -- my other coworkers got to go home early! I was pissed enough to actually skip out about five minutes early.
-VD2: Five minutes. Such a rebel.-
Not even that, I come to work five minutes early every day. I think I keep overestimating the time it takes me to walk to work. Still, five extra minutes to grab a milkshake.
-VD: Hence why no ice cream again tonight. What kind was it?-
Peanut butter cup with a shot of chocolate sauce this time. Good, even if peanut butter cup bits kept getting stuck in the straw. Very cooling and yummy.
-TD: We'd ask how fan fic went except that we know it was far too hot to effectively concentrate.-
LoL, thanks. I did get some writing done on "Boy Genius" -- coming up to the big climax in the actual journal, hooray. I also finished that picture I wanted to get done.
-OD: Oh? That WAS fast.-
Well, the characters aren't really into colorful clothes:

-OD: Oh, a birthday picture! Based off fan fic characters?-
-H: Must be, that's me on the right! Who's the other girl?-
bttfbabe's character Candice, from "Haven't We Met Before?" Candice was a pretty big inspiration for Holly, so I thought it would be cute to draw the two together.
-E: They look like twins, almost.-
LoL, well, there are some differences. I hope you like, Tracey, and happy birthday!
As for Sims update, we have a very short revison_doc post about Kat, Mark, and the neighborhood. Funny -- looking over my earlier entries, I used to take only a few pictures each playing session. Now a short update to me is under 30 pics. I gotta start cutting down a bit.
-DW: Yes, considering how swelled your Storytelling folder for that neighborhood is getting.-
Tell me about it. I also updated thesims2 with my Mad Scientist Legacy. It came together pretty well in the end, and I think I've covered just about everything.
-VM: Except Pets.-
Yes, but that's not even out yet. I do know that all classes will be allowed to own pets, but I might specify certain breeds for certain classes. Like, Villagers can only have big dogs.
-DW: I wonder what the FurKin will think of Pets.-
LoL, I've got an interesting idea for what happens the first time Everett meets a stray dog. Or better yet, if Jenny meets the Skunk.
-MF: *chuckle* I vote for Jenny meeting the skunk.-
Hehehe, we'll just have to wait and see. Truthfully, I'm way more excited about this expansion pack then I thought I would be. I gotta admit, I'm mostly looking foward to Einstein and Sigmund. Though Krosp will be neat as well -- and Ariana with her test cat will be cool.
-D: I've noticed a lot of emphasis on cats -- you a cat person?-
More due to my sedentary nature than anything else. I like dogs too, as long as they're reasonably trained. Big, unruly dogs scare the bejeebers out of me.
-M2: Yeah, I know -- I'm glad Einstein isn't like that.-
-VD: He was a fairly even-tempered dog to begin with -- he just likes barking at squirrels.-
:) I look forward to creating him in Create-A-Pet -- once I create him in one neighborhood, I'll save him as a breed for the other two, and use it as a template for Edison in Strangetown.
-VD2: Nice.-
Yeah. Anyway, back to thinking up fan fic ideas. I've got an idea for the backtothefanfic challenge fic -- I was gonna do it as a drabbles88 too, but the two challenges have incompatible word counts. I'll think up something else angsty for "Paralysis."
-M: Uh-oh. What's the idea?-
I have a picture of Doc showing him when "you" got shot by Buford Tannen.
-D: Say no more.-
I actually had the idea to do this as a double fic at once point -- I'll hunt up a picture of Marty getting shot for the other chapter.
-M: *sarcastically* Joy.-