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Me and my bestie are moving in tomorrow. Any volunteers to help? I'll provide pizza, and beer.

Isn't this dreaming thing freaking fantastic? I mean really. What did I do in this other life or whatever to deserve this? Oh wait, I was forced to fight to the death with other children. That must be it. Everyone else gets to dream about being superheros and doing awesome things and I have to dream about a world were children are forced to murder each other.

How many times in life can a person draw the short straw? Yes, that's supposed to be a rhetorical question.

Fuck it, I'm going out tonight. Deformography is playing at Sharkey's and they're really good. At least their drummer is, sometimes they mess up their speakers and I can barely hear the guiars.

Whatever.

Anyone else want to go? Split gas and stuff.

Edit: Nevermind, they just cancelled. fuck everything. I'm going to get drunk now and sketch and maybe play COD.

Gotta love Valentine's Day. Domestics go up by double, and I get to take in quadruple the recommended dose of caffeine. Yay! And now I get to file paperwork until I can't see straight.

Anyone want to go get breakfast in oh, four hours?

Kid on my route gave me this.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Oh my lord. It's like the whole universe is trying to remind me that it's almost Valentine's Day.

Had a few more 1930s inspired dreams that seem to be geared toward the romantic. Well. Romantic is a loose term. First one I was having an affair with a definitely older woman, who was, for the record, married, and very beautiful. Got the distinct impression she was using me. Her name was Jocasta Crommel-something or other. Can't think for the life of me how to spell it. Then I had the most amazing dream.

Picture it: the beautiful Mediterranean at night. Stars everywhere, lights on the water. Couldn't see the person I was with (yet again), but this kiss we shared was, without a doubt, the best kiss I have ever had ever. Even better than real kisses I've had. Swooning just thinking about it.

The attic is still creepy as all hell. Seriously - there is something or someone lurking there watching me and I'm pretty sure they've followed me into my basement suite. No luck finding the second half of my book but I found a stack of letters addressed to a Robert Frobisher. Don't know of another Robert in the family besides me, but the letters are lovely. Some of them are very sweet and intimate, and some are just run of the mill this-and-that. They're signed by an R.S. and were sent from Cambridge to Edinburgh, and are definitely old. The use of language, the writing style, the paper. Anyway. It's terribly romantic. Just finished re-reading them a third time.

PS I actually have real Valentine's Days plans and I'm nervous and I don't know what to do.

It has come to my attention that I am far too insular. Ever since I got back to the OC I've done very little aside from pull a few shifts a week at the zoo and kick my brother in the ass whenever possible. So I am going to step outside my comfort zone: would anyone here like to join me for a hike? Perhaps sometime this next week?

No pressure! I'll drag Julian along if everyone here thinks walking is for primitives.

Still bummed about the Superbowl.

Geez - I never know what to say on these things. Um. My mom told me about this place and thought I'd try it out. I'm Roger. I just moved back here from Seattle after getting laid off while I figure out what to do with my life.

Hi, I'm Roger, and I used to live here.

Hey all. I heard about this place through the grapevine and figured I'd come see what it was like. It might help time pass a little more, at least, right?

Anyway, I'm Roger, and I just moved back home after living in Seattle for a bit. It's good to be back. I sort of missed this place.

The worst thing about people being sick is that they're sick, of course. But the second thing is that work can be so incredibly boring. No one's getting their cars done right now, but I guess this gives me the chance to catch up on some writing. I guess.

Still, it's like a ghost town around here. Hopefully it's not like that down town tonight.