major_west: (glancing away)
major_west ([personal profile] major_west) wrote2009-09-07 12:56 pm

SHINY 100th POST [VOICE]

It occurs to me now that my birthday is probably coming up, seeing as it has already passed here once before. I was probably dead at the time-- Barge dead, that is, since I am already as deceased as can be-- or in a port, or lost in a flood. I don't know how old I would be... Thirty-two forever, or would I be approaching thirty-four now? I don't feel any older, physically; no wear and tear outside of injuries. Mentally, I suppose it's a different matter entirely.

It's odd to think that I've let my last birthday slip without any thought. But then, I hardly keep up with time at all any more. It's difficult to think of it continuing for me when I'm no longer part of any world. The only way I really ever track it, these days, is through this...

[There's a long pause as he looks over things in his journal and begins to do the math]

Oh, you have got to be joking. I could not have possibly--

[HAVE SOME OUTRAGE]

ONE HUNDRED ENTRIES?! I have been here for over a year; have I really done nothing more with my time than dawdle about with a journal like a teenage girl? This is what my afterlife is?













I could use something to drink. Right now.

[OOC: I've decided that West's a Scorpio, since it seems to fit his moody craziness, so YAY I GUESS THIS MEANS HIS BIRTHDAY'S COMING UP IN A COUPLE MONTHS LOL. But only Billy and probably Morgan would know that]
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[personal profile] gimmethemap 2009-09-07 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Want into the pub?
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[personal profile] gimmethemap 2009-09-07 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Tonight after dinner. Can you wait that long?

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[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
West?




Do you hate me too?

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[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but I did see your conversation with Ethan.

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[identity profile] roseoftime.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
My...

Oh.

You think I meant that wardens are always and in all instances morally superior to inmates?

I didn't mean that, I'm sorry it came out that way, and believe me, I put a number of inmates, including you, well above a number of wardens.

I was just saying that wardens should hold each other accountable... and since Ethan is not a warden, he's not a paart of that conversation. That's all.

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[identity profile] gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You're using your journal to...complain about using your journal?

[Some chuckling. She's amused by the post, not laughing at your pain, West. PROMISE.]

Could be worse, sport. If anything? I was expecting pitchforks and sulphur.

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[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[HEADDESK] Yes, I realised the absurdity of it shortly after it went live.

Sometimes it's as bad as all that, but for the most part, I'll have to agree with you.

[identity profile] accountsettled.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing wrong in writing about your...life. Afterlife, whatever you'd like to call it. Plenty of men keep journals.

That does seem like a long time, though. My sympathies, I think.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I was never one of them.

Thank you. It's been nearly a year and a half, I think.

[identity profile] accountsettled.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither was I. I never had the time. But think of it as writing your own history. It's certainly an improvement of some cack-handed supposedly 'learned' fellow writing it three hundred years later and getting it all wrong.

And I thought I'd had a long month or so.

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[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
32? Jeez, way to make me feel old, West! I'd be 38 as of a few days ago, if I weren't dead.

When's your birthday, exactly? I want to have a gift ready.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmhm, now you know where the bouts of immaturity come from.

October 30th-- yes, right before Halloween. Don't worry about a gift; I don't really want to have a to-do for my birthday.

Why didn't you say anything about your birthday?

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no; if I don't get you something, I'll feel like a jackass. Don't worry, I won't go throwing you a surprise party or anything.

Honestly, I forgot I had a birthday to observe. I think I've just drilled the fact that I'm dead into my own head so much, it stopped being important.

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[identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Be glad it's only 32. The older you get, the more life sucks.

Need a drinking buddy?

And oh yeah, happy birthday.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I would have liked to have experienced that, to be perfectly honest. But I suppose this way, I'll never get too old.

Thanks-- I think. It hasn't rolled around yet, this year. As for the drinking, absolutely. Will you be allowed in the pub tonight? It's Morgan and myself, so far.

[identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Getting old's not that great. Trust me. The best times in your life are when you're young, when you've still full of idealism and think that nothing can go wrong.

I think I should be. After all, Peter's not here to stop me from going.

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[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
You're 32?

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...yes? Or 33, if my first post-mortem birthday 'counts.'

[identity profile] i-hate-posses.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't figure you for bein' so old, that's all.

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[identity profile] warmscalpelhigh.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Amber sings Happy Birthday, and is actually good at it.]

Happy Birthday, hottie.

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[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sounds a little flustered]

Thank you, it's appreciated, but... it isn't my birthday yet.

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[Her smile can be heard.]

That's okay, hottie; I needed to practice anyway.

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[personal profile] grayatonement 2009-09-08 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
..Happy birthday, West.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2009-09-08 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, but it isn't my birthday for nearly two months. I was just thinking about the last one, and how long I have been here.

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