Email seems like a darker alley to me. Chicken cats are not an acceptable substitute for normal cats.

You make it sound so easy. Like money will just... be money, that can be used to pay off things. I just looked at my loan summary and felt like I was falling into a bottomless pit. It does not feel easy right now.

I didn't intend for this guy to be that nonhuman! At this point, I've kind of accepted that my subconscious wants him to be an arthropod, but I don't know how to scale back on the legs situation while retaining that centipede flavor. A human silhouette is the goal.

Is darker preferred in this situation? I can't tell.

If you have any extra money, make a payment now. It will make you feel better about it. It doesn't have to be big, or cover all of the interest.

I don't really see how that's possible, but do your best. Embrace the arthropod if you feel like you have to.

Darker is definitely preferred.

I don't really want to make a payment until I have more of a money buffer built up, you know? But that might just be an excuse to keep matters the same as they are, and indulge in anxious inertia. I suppose sooner is better. Maybe after I get paid for this month.

I've settled on a design for him. Definitely more centipede than I wanted, but at least he has a human torso. He's a centaur-pede.
Pro tip: Don't google-image any combinations of the word human and centipede.

The Guy Fieri situation is becoming more complicated. I just read a first-hand account of him that said he is indeed a nice guy, but also that he is perpetually moist. Now when I watch GGG I stare at him and think about how moist he must be.

Okay, then. Use the dark alley.

What is the buffer for, exactly? The interest continues to add up.

No one else needs that pro tip. Most of the world keeps the existence of the Human Centipede in mind while googling. Although the images are pretty tame, considering.

Moist isn't a bad thing. Where you intending to hug him the moment you met him?

Happy Halloween! Hippo Hallowin! Harpo Hallowhip! Hippie Hallowow!

Oh, believe me, I am aware of the interest. Nelnet is happy to put the interest right on top of the first statement I see. I just worry that my financial stability is going to drop out from under me and I'm going to need the few thousand dollars in my bank account, you know? I don't know why.

I don't intend to hug Guy Fieri at all. You just see a person differently when you know that they're moist.

Good on you finally festivising your avatar at the last moment.

Boo on you not wearing your costume in real life.

Much wow. Very hallow.

Are you planning to get thrown out of OSU? No? Then you're fine. Make a payment.

I do not see moist people differently than non-moist people.

Yeah... at least I'm bringing candy for my labs this week.

Are you ready for November? It starts tomorrow, you know.

One never plans to be thrown out of grad school. It just happens sometimes.

Really? You don't look at a very moist person and have a visceral "Eeeeyurgh" reaction? I have a bit of an eeeeyurgh. I enjoy GGG enough that I don't want to be staring at Guy for evidence of moistness and then eeeeyurghing.

How much candy do you have left over? Will you be binging on peanut butter cups for the next month?

What's that you say? It's November? I should have been preparing for this? I now have to leap into my novel with only one of my characters named?
Whatever. It's fine. I'm fine.
Excited to write your weird crossover?

Not that often.

Not really. Your tv isn't that high resolution, right? Sit far enough away that you can't see the glistening. I'm sure he gets powdered regularly, too.

A lot. Intending to give Jolly Ranchers to my Thursday lab, too. And then I'm going to eat the rest. There were Twix, but I found I was unable to part with them and I'm eating them instead.

I can name your characters for you. I am available and I like to help.

Somewhat prepared, at least. I make two lists with plot things in it. They go together sometimes.

Don't you insult my TV resolution! It's a very good resolution. You can see moist people glistening in startling definition.

Twix hoarder. What happened to spreading the love?
I didn't buy any candy. Got some free in two of my classes, though. Score. Also have some Oreos I bought last week for no reason. Sugar is the best.

...You sure? I made up dumb conlang rules for what makes a valid name, but it's exhausting trying to fit those rules without having the end result come out unpronounceable or unfortunate. I have a short list of names prepared that I'm grabbing from as I need them, but half the time I look at my list and think, these all sound bad.

Two lists. Much wow. That's twice as many as the standard number of plot lists.
Made my writing goal for day 1! Whoo! Then did not overachieve because I am not an overachiever.

Important questions: Does my new avatar look like a magician? If so, which aspect do you think lends the magician quality?

Sorry. I'm sure it's very nice if you sit right next to it.

Jolly Ranchers are all the love they deserve. I deserve self love in the form of Twix.

Yeah. It's like a plot and a second plot. A pair of plots. There might be others.

Maybe? How hard are these rules? Too hard?

I'm nowhere near my goal, or even the normal goal. Had to go to trivia. Need to go write now. Tomorrow won't be good for writing, either...

Not really. She looks like she makes and sells hats. The thing she is holding is somehow for molding hats.