According to all the NDAs I signed I'm not supposed to talk about it, but something about all this Fedge "science" doesn't add up. I've been tagging and cataloging all of these interplanetary genetic samples, supposedly in preparation for comparison and synthesis into the mancattle, and it all "seems" like science, with computers and beakers and the curly glass tubes in the air, and all the machines that seem so "advanced," but I know enough about exobiology to know none of it amounts to anything. And none of it is headed to the "big room" at all.

So just what IS going on in that room? Were they ever going to give me clearance?

The Fedge have some incredibly advanced technology. They've got genetic samples from half the galaxy, which have all been sent in voluntarily. There's a contest where you send in some tentacle fur or an extra eye or whatever you have and they pick one every month and send them a side of mancattle. Mancattle is very popular. Everybody loves the mancattle.

So then they map the genetic sequences and synthesize the tastiest tendencies and use them to help make the mancattle even tastier. I've been working on the intake line, breaking down the sequences and tagging them. Pretty soon they say I'll get to go to the "big room" where the real magic happens. Can't wait!

It was hard to get accepted into the Alien Animal Husbandry program on Orion Ranch. The Fedge have real old fashioned ideas about letting girls "see how it's done" but my grades in AP exobiology must have convinced them.

I'm not squeamish about the mancattle's tackle (if you know what I mean). I'm a big girl and all. But really they rarely ever let them do it the old fashioned way. The mancattle are too special, and the last thing you want is to have one get injured.

So yeah there's a whole lot more to it than that. Very excited to learn!

I'm new to this school are you supposed to bring a date to the Ostara Dance or is it not weird to go alone? Or with a group of people?

Asking for a friend.