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REMI, BEAU, & VI

I have an interview with the paper next week and I swear I haven't felt this anxious ever. I've been interning there, obviously, and they know that the anonymous editorials were me, so it's not like they don't know me already but, I don't know, I'm still nervous? And maybe it's because everything is generally good right now? Mal and I are in such a good place, and school is almost out, and nothing really out of the ordinary aside from dream-related things is going on. So that's good, obviously, but also I semi-feel like it's too good to be true? Like something is going to happen that I haven't prepared for? Is it just me? Am I being ridiculous??

MAL

We should go away somewhere for a week. Or a weekend. We don't even have to pay for flights! But wouldn't it be super nice to just get out of Dunhaven for a little while? I could do with a vacation away from Dunhaven. What do you think?

Less than a week until final semester starts, and it still doesn't feel real.

I'm taking just a few days off during the term break to recharge. I'm pretty sure all that's going to look like is reading books and drinking coffee, and I'm pretty OK with that.

[ZORA]

I know it's sort of a busy time right now with all the birthdays and Halloween, then holidays, but do you think we can figure out some free time for a trip into...at least DC? Maybe beyond if we're willing to put some Super Effort into it? I need your help with something.

[JOSIE]

Babe, serious inquiry time.

I've reached the point in my future planning where I need to make some sort of decision regarding housing post-college. So I want to get your thoughts on all of that since it's a decision that will ultimately impact both of us.

Just a reminder that today is National Coffee Day, and Java Chip is running specials all day long in celebration. Buy a specialty coffee, and you pick your freebie from either a second coffee or a selection of our baked goods.

Just saying that I've already had an Iced Americano Butterscotch this morning with one of our giant blueberry muffins, and it was 1000000% worth it.

If that wasn't tempting enough, we're testing out Crazed and Salty (Salted Caramel Coconut Latte,) Witches Brew (Chocolate cherry, espresso, white chocolate,) and Pumpkin Gone Wild (If pumpkin spice and butter pecan had a love child...)

If you're not on a caffeine high today, are you really living your best life?

JORDAN

I know I've probably been a pain to be around, so thank you for putting up with me. I love you.

ZORA

Hi. [...] I'm sorry.

Hi, everyone! Another post so soon? Thanks to Naomi's brilliant idea, I'm going to put together a resource accessible to anyone dealing with the Dreams that essentially just lists who is being dreamed of and any other pertinent details you might think need to be included for others to identify that they're at least sharing dreams about the world even if they don't know the name. For example, it might look like:

Leia Organa-Solo - From Alderaan, daughter of Breha and Bail Organa
Han Solo - Made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, from Corellia

Just leave a note here, anonymously or not, letting me know the name of who you are dreaming about and anything else you want to mention. If you want YOUR name attached to it, as well, for shared dreamers to more easily get in touch with you, let me know. Otherwise, I'll attach your Anon ID so that others can filter you anonymously!

This is totally optional, but I hope you'll consider doing it, at least anonymously!

I know I might be in the minority, but I'm not upset that summer break is over. At the risk of sounding like a total nerd, I can put all that summer reading to use in classes.

I'm not sad that we're not back in the dorms this semester, though. Apartment living is really the way to go.

[WAVERLY]

I think I need to just pose a sort of existential question to someone who doesn't have a connection to my dreams, but it's going to sound self-deprecating. That's your warning.

PUBLIC, ANONYMOUS POST

This is a discussion posed to those of you who have also received [...] powers and/or abilities you didn't possess before. I know it's been brought up before but I was thinking since some more time has passed and people might be more comfortable talking about it, or maybe new people have joined the unofficial 'club', it might be worth bringing up again. Would anyone want to maybe meet up? Start a support system for learning how to deal with these powers in our world?

Also just wondering... Do you use them? Maybe not even in the same way you used them in your other world, but just in general?

[ZORA]

I think...I know everything now.

[WAVERLY]

I'm pretty sure I need chocolate chip pancakes.

I'm not really sure how it's almost August already. With the last weeks of summer closing in before another semester, I'm taking suggestions on activities that are a Must Do for this summer that don't include working at Java Chip or reading more articles about general relativity and black holes. Because honestly that's what I've done for most of my summer so far.

For everyone who's received more than they bargained for with these dreams, have you only gotten bits and pieces of these "extra" things, or all of it? Sorry [...] I know this is vague.

I'm still fully invested in enjoying every possible moment of my summer even with baseball training post-season, and picking up time working.

That being said, even though the fall semester is a few weeks away, if anyone wants to get on the roster for fall tutoring or do some summer prep, just let me know.

P.S. Anyone have suggestions on ultra high calorie foods that aren't direly unhealthy? I seem to be burning more energy than I can keep up with this summer and I can't believe I'm even saying this but I'm getting burnt out on pizza.

Hi, friends.

It's been a long while since we've done one of these and, though I no longer need the data for my sociology class, I do think they've been very productive in terms of discussion. So here's another anonymous post for you! Again, you can turn on the anon filter and no one will know who you are, or you can just respond as yourself, whether because you're not ready to reveal who you're dreaming about, or whatever the case may be.

Tonight's question is: If you could say something to someone you knew/know in your dream world that you can't say here for whatever reason, what would it be?

I have an idea. And maybe the first part of the idea is to admit to you that I'm sharing memories with someone I thought was fictional. Lily Evans Potter lives in my head. I think by now it's probably a reality that most of us on the network (and maybe in the town?) have these memories. It isn't up to me to understand why. That's not my thing.

What I'd like to do is give you a spot to tell your story. I'm a writer -- honestly, I'm just a really bad unpublished poet -- but I spend my day taking care of my parents. We've got a really big living room. There's space out back. What I'm proposing is something akin to a writer's salon. You could come over, no questions asked. We'd have set times where we could gather.

You can talk to people? But most of all, you can write down your experiences. We can collect them physically or on GoogleDocs. I'm a democratic soul and am happy to take a straight up vote. But what I really want to get down to is by telling our stories, we might help other people. We might make it easier for them to live with these memories and emotions inside them. What I'm thinking (and hoping) is that this is meant to connect us. So, instead of living with trauma and I don't know ... shame? We can work it out together.

Would anyone be interested? Or should I shut up forever?

EDITED TO ADD:
Anonymous thoughts and commenters welcome!

TEXTS TO MAL & REMI, separately

-- Hey, so I was thinking of grabbing pizza and potstickers on the way home if we want to have a movie night or something?
-- On the way home from Hilton Head, I mean.
-- Where I flew this afternoon.
-- Since apparently I woke up Kryptonian a few weeks ago.
-- And can now fly.
-- Do you have any preference on toppings or should I just stick with my usual order?

[TEXTS TO JOSIE AND ZORA; SEPARATELY]

-- Don't freak out.
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BEAU

I broke a knife today.

( Instagram Post )

WHO: Beau Alderman & Zora Steele
WHEN: Tuesday, March 19, 2019; Afternoon
WHERE: A pizza buffet near Dunhaven
SUMMARY: Beau and Zora eat way too much pizza and find they may actually need to worry about superpowers. And choose to ignore it for now.
WARNINGS: None!

( But, basically, you’re telling me you got your memories all in a flash. Eh? Eh? )

SORCHA

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SPRING BREAK TRAVEL CREW

I needed a break from so much homework, so I went ahead and did a little more digging for Spring Break, because it seems like the most acceptable distraction from school. Given the timing, I thought that it might be good to get things sorted out sooner rather than later when it comes to booking so. I found this house that I think would suit our needs nicely, both in size and location. For the dates I mentioned before (March 24-March 28), it would be a total of $60 for each person. I'm happy to throw more money in, if someone needs it, since this was my scheme in the first place.

Outside of that, we'd need two people to drive so we can get there in the first place. I would volunteer, but I barely trust my car to get me from one side of Dunhaven to the other, so we might want to skip that. Given the full kitchen and all that, we can probably try to not burn the place down a few times, but we can probably do a grocery run there. I'm taking my waffle maker, though. Seems kind of illegal for them to not have one, but I'll let it slide. Also, you can fight among yourselves which two of you is stuck on the sofa bed.

If that works for you guys, just let me know and I'll get everything booked for us. I'm pretty excited and am glad you guys were as into this as I was.

UNSENT TEXTS TO CASH
» Look.
» I know you're mad at me but something happened and I'm freaking out and I don't know what to do, I just need you and I

TEXT TO VIOLA
» I think everything just hit me and I've lost my mind, yeah? I know we haven't been as close lately and everything but [...] I just need some help.

TEXT TO ZORA
» Sorry I keep texting you with all this drama but I might have just gone into full breakdown mode? Help?