The Night I Was Oceanic Flight 815...

Occasionally, especially when I fall asleep with a headache, I wake up in a peculiar way... my mind thinks it's a whole group of people, instead of just one. I have trouble thinking my own thoughts because I have trouble picking out 'me' from the crowd of voices. It's very disorienting and disturbing. The voices aren't just in a vaccuum, they're usually in some situation, perhaps something I dreamed about just before I woke up. One memorable time they were in a war.

Last night, probably because the LOST premiere rerun last night shortly before I went to bed, I was Oceanic Flight 815 just after a crash. I remember thoughts about both being dragged as a wounded person, and about being worried about the person we were dragging. I remember thoughts of Jack, Locke, and Sawyer in particular. It took about 5-10 minutes before I was even able to regain my composure enough to get up out of bed, although once I did it helped matters - the voices quieted and I was able to make it to the kitchen for an ice cube to put on my head. Still, even as I went back to bed and tried to soothe my head, the voices would keep coming up, I'd keep having collections of worries that didn't really apply. I could sense 'me' more clearly, but I had to try to focus to think my own thoughts, and the sense of being more than one person was there for some time. Luckily I managed to fall asleep again.

What I'd Do With #11: Firefly/Serenity Spinoff!

Over on Serenity: The Official Movie Website they have a 'point' system - you earn points through various tasks, which you can eventually use to get free merchandise and stuff. One of the most recent 'challenges' was to write the synopsis for the pilot to a spinoff TV series from Firefly, using one character from the series.

So, I did so. It's a bit different than most WIDWs, because I only had a couple weeks to do it (and even that only in my spare time between XET work and other stuff and had a limit of 10000 characters (which I hit and had to reduce), rather than taking all the time and space I need to think, so pretty much I just went with my first idea and ran with it.

The 'one character from the series' I chose was Saffron/Yolanda/Bridgett from "Our Mrs. Reynolds" and "Trash". So, here we go... after the cut is my synopsis for a pilot:
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