I'm not a hardship. I'm awesome.

Kate was a mess. A little bit. In a vague, numb way. Not that she would be showing that to people.

It had been a pretty long week; filled with thinking she was insane, and Christmas shopping, and talking about ballet, and theater, and people unexplainably falling madly in love, and sleeping with several blankets and wearing many many layers because her roommate was making their room cold.

Despite having made two separate trips to the mainland within a week, a part of her wanted to just follow Jack’s lead and get the hell off the island for the weekend. But it was only a week until she’d go back to Kansas for Christmas. Might as well stick it out on the island until then. There was a party on Sunday and everything.

And now she’d found a bunch of photos she’d forgotten about on her computer. They were from the spring, and featured a lot of people she hadn't seen or talked to in a while. Her girlfriends back in Kansas (and such awesome friends they were, having lost contact with her pretty much straight after she moved to Fandom), people from school, Gene, Benjamin. Seemed like half a lifetime away.

She looked at the pictures, comparing her life then to her life now. Deciding which was better wasn't an easy thing to do.


[ooc: Open door, open post!]

By now, things had pretty much gone back to normal. Bobby was back, Kate had got her sleeping pattern straightened out, she'd given away the rest of her muffins before they started being the main part of her diet, and she had a date tonight. Actually, things weren’t just normal; they were even pretty good.

Kate was listening to music as she finished putting on make-up. Extra care went into covering up the mark on her forehead. She couldn’t remember if she’d ever been as aware of her bangs as she had this week. Damn accident.

But that wasn’t going to put a damper on her mood. She had a cute outfit on, and she was going to have fun.


[ooc: Posted for the guy picking her up, but open to all before that!]