New Beginnings

Well, hello there!

I don’t know why my mother insisted on calling me Josella, it’s such an odd name. Typical of mothers though, I suppose, and I prefer my name over hers. My maternal grandparents were Michael and Elizabeth Payne, and what do you think they named their only child? Deliverance. They named my mother Deliverance Payne. I bet she got teased about that while she was at school. My grandfolks must have thought it was a great joke, and you can understand why my Ma insists that people call her Del. Anyway, enough about my Ma.

I wasn’t intending on going to college, but my Ma scrimped and saved after Bucky Playton, my dad, got her pregnant then tookoff, you know, she worked so damn hard to get me here in the first place. I feel a little bad about it, because Ma wants me to a doctor, so I’m studying Biology, but I don’t want to be a doctor, I want to be an athlete. I know I’m going to have to tell her eventually, but I know it’ll upset her a great deal. Ma also wants me to come home after I graduate, but I don’t want that, either. I want a big house with statues and fountains, paintings and expensive furniture. Maybe I want to be rich because we were quite poor when I was a child.

I’ve met a few nice people since I’ve been here, people who don’t refer to me as ‘Raggedy Ann’, which has been a blessing. It wasn’t my fault, or my Ma’s, that we were poor, but the other kids in our town just don’t understand that. Or maybe they did understand, and they just enjoyed teasing me. But I’ll show them! They won’t think its so funny when I start making more money than they do!

Heck! I better run, or I’ll be late for my Freshman midterms!

Catch Ya!

(Well, there’s our Fortune sim underway. I want her to be rather materialistic, but not too greedy. Our Popularity sim will be underway in a few days, too. Also, is everbody happy with the little side-stories? They’re a doing great job of keeping the boredom at bay. Shall we start another round of voting when this lot’s finished?)