Hoshi had been making steady progress in translating the Narn books that G'Kar gave her a few weeks ago. The Narn translation of Huck Finn helped serve as her own Rosetta stone, though she had it admit it lost a little here and there when translated back into English.

But her early success probably made her a little too confident. When she came cross something that didn't make sense in another book, Hoshi got out a white board and started writing out the words she had trouble with, along with some possible meanings based on context. Except the context was hard to get when you couldn't understand most of the paragraph, which meant that she had to jott down more words that she couldn't translate.

She realized that this was probably going to take a while, but that was okay. Hoshi figured she'd crack it eventually.
When she hadn't been in class or at work this week, Hoshi had been in her room studying Sanskrit. After a short breather last night, she came back to her room and worked through the night.

Finally feeling like she had mastered the art of writing in a dead language, Hoshi took a step back and admired her work. There were sheets of paper everywhere covered in Sanskrit characters. They were tacked up to the walls, the door, the mirror, the desks, and spread out all over the extra bed.

Now she needed a new challenge, preferably a spoken language this time.

The door, if you could find it among all the paper, was closed.

[Establishy as it's a linkdrop, but the post can be open because I'm bored scratch that, as the laptop has decided that it doesn't want to play nice.]
Hoshi's week was fairly busy after the wackiness of the weekend. At least people in her Monday class were dealing with the same thing. She also managed to attend a rooftop party without a panic attack, fought off a jello dragon with the sound of her voice, introduced herself to Sky who lived down the hall, gossiped about Barney with Karal at the library, and met an interesting stranger at the hotel. Ethics was still going to be a tough class, but she was up to the challenge. She was still a little upset about losing the belly button piercing that she hadn't wanted in the first place, but at least her belly didn't hurt anymore.

After leaving the common room that morning, Hoshi went back to her room and took a nap. Hey, it was Saturday, and it wasn't like she had a lot that needed to get done. Besides, the buzzing in her head that started in the common room kept getting worse.

Eventually, she woke up hungry, but the buzzing hadn't dissipated at all. She thought a cup of green tea would help, but the stupid protein re-sequencer would only give her chocolate milk. "Come on! You gave me tequila over the weekend. Why can't I get green tea now?" she yelled at the thing. It didn't respond.

[Open! Like everyone else who watched the dance, Hoshi has a very strong urge to kiss another girl, and until she does, the buzzing in her head won't go away. Please help put her out of her misery.]

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