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LAVENDER

Hey. I have some good news and I want to share it with you. Would you like me to wait until we can see each other in person or would you like it now?

JAHAN, LYRA, REMI

Hey, guys. I know things have been weird terrible different lately, but Avery and I just found out that she's pregnant and you were the first people I wanted to tell, outside of our relatives and all that. So [...] yeah. We're having a kid and it's kind of amazing. She's due in October.

🤷

So as it turns out, snow and cold weather is good for neither assistive devices nor poetry. Both the mobility of my parents and the mobility of what little words I possess are in the toilet.

Thanks January. You better believe I'm ready to put you in the rearview. Spring is too close for this.

[JAHAN]

I saw what you wrote on the network. And it seems so wrong for me t And I was just thinking about how it might be a good idea to talk? I can listen. We were ther

dreaming about dying is no easier when you knew it was coming.

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It is this beautiful, intelligent, and astonishingly kind woman's birthday today. If you haven't wished her a happy one yet, I can't help but feel like you should. I might be biased, though. She does let me continue to call her my wife, after all.

I don't know who's in charge of network access in Dunhaven, but I thought I'd let everyone know that you might want to work on security protocols. At the very least, access should be limited to those who can present Dunhaven address verification and proper identification. As it is, I think I sneezed and received login instructions.

This has been a public service announcement.

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lol so this happened. Merry Christmas to my eyes, no love from these demon dream memories.


Also, has anyone tried talking about this shit with their parents? Because I did and it went a whole lot of nowhere. When I tried to explain that the fact that I went from 20/20 vision to being nearsighted and farsighted overnight, my parents said, "Well, you never did eat enough vegetables." When I told them I think I'm Harry's dad from Harry Potter, they just go "Ach, you always did read those books too much!"

Like literally, they are not having it.

PHONE CALL TO LYRA

Fumbling and shuffling--Jahan is holding the phone upside down

Lyra??

I don't know if you heard, but tomorrow is my husband's birthday and while I could have waited literally just a handful of hours to log into the network to announce this and get sappy, you have to understand something, Dunhaven. In just a few short weeks, I will have been in a relationship of some form or another with Leo Moore for seven years. For six years and some change, we spent that time in a long distance relationship with miles between us that varied vastly in a way that depended completely upon my game schedule and whether or not it was a world cup or Olympics year. Because of that, this is the first year that I will be able to properly dote upon and celebrate the date of my beloved's birth in his presence and not through Facetime. And, frankly, I'm pretty sure that excuses me for being excited and jumping on birthday wishes a few hours too soon.

So, all that prattling on aside, happy birthday, Leo. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that this day and every one to follow is the best one yet. ❤️

A) Who did this?
B) How dare you?
C) Why am I is James not even an option?! Fucking rude.

I know that there is a lot going on this month with the holidays and there are so many fun events to keep track of, so I just wanted to remind everyone that I'll be joining the animal shelter with a booth at the Winter Fair on the 22nd. We'll be there with several pets that will be up for adoption or just seeking out some good old pets from anyone that passes by and will also be selling t-shirts, sweatshirts, and other merchandise for the animal shelter and will have a "barkery" of good, organic treats for your pets at home. All proceeds will be split between the animal shelter and the rescue.

LAVENDER, JAHAN, LYRA, REMI

Hi. Are you

LAVENDER, JAHAN, LYRA, REMI

I know that I have been sketchy and weird lately and I'm sorry for it. The last couple of months have been strange and I haven't really known what to do with or think about them so I was trying to keep it all close and guarded. It's left me keeping something from you guys, though, and I feel like the worst sort of person for doing it so I wanted to change that. I'm sorry again for doing this over the network, but it seemed like the easiest way to do it.

Lavender, I told you recently that I wasn't having the dreams like everyone else. That was a lie and another thing that I'm sorry for. I have been having the dreams for several months now, I just didn't recognize what they were or what they meant until recently and then I had an even harder time accepting any of it. The truth is that I've been dreaming about Peter Pettigrew. I know that's all relevant to you guys given your own dreams and I should have told you sooner, but [...] I just didn't know how to approach it. I don't even know if I'm approaching it correctly now.

Anyway. [...] I'm sorry. Again.

AVERY

I told them.

Everyone should go ahead and wish my cousin, Lavender, a happy birthday, because she surely deserves to have some love showered on her. I'll start:

Happy birthday, Lavender. I hope that this year is the best one yet.

HARRY POTTER PEOPLE*
* basically those that have mentioned their dreams in public where Abby might have seen ;)

Hello! Hi. For those of you that don't know me, I'm Abby Moore and I moonlight as Ginny Weasley. I realized that we have a bit of a group of us and I was wondering if perhaps some of you might be interested in meeting up for some dinner or drinks or something of the like? No hard feelings if you'd rather not, but I figure if we're all dreaming of interconnected lives, maybe it's a sign that we should know each other in this life, too. Obviously some of us do know each other, but I figured it was a thought.

Let me know if it's something you'd be interested in! I don't mind doing some planning and making arrangements.

[REMI, LYRA, & LIAM]

Okay, so, here are my plans Halloween 2k18: 1) Drinking 2) Scary movies/It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown 3) Staying up all night so as to avoid strikingly vivid dreams of my alternate self's untimely death.

I'm sad that I don't like this day anymore :( I wonder if I can get a bereavement day approved for 11/1 for my other self...lol.

[LAVENDER]

Just fyi, Halloween might be rough.

I bet you all were thinking, "Oh, good. Charlie is going to stop asking random questions about our dream lives because it's an uncomfortable and awkward topic most of the time." HA HA. No, not quite. I'm too curious for my own good and I think, eventually, all of this information will be of use to us. So here's the next topic for discussion for all you second-life dreamers out there!

What is the best part about your dream life? What is the worst?

You can answer anonymously, or not. Totally up to you.

So apparently this has been causing ripples in the law enforcement world, but as a detective, I just want to say that I'm STILL laughing at this. I thought I'd share the humor here, because it is truly a blessing to have a sense of humor in this world of ours.

We can get victory over even the most insurmountable task with a fresh, succinct and bulleted list. That's how I got through moving half-way across the country (Iowa is half-way, you can't tell me any differently), got through my MFA and made it back home again.

That's how things work in the Craig household. We have a step-by-step list for getting through the day.

And because I want to keep getting through the day, I need to do a list for you. I've been reading through your old entries. I know you're having dreams. I know some of you are talking about them. I know that you are pretty sure these dreams have something to do with another existence, maybe even one you thought was fiction, and it isn't just fanciful creativity.

I'm having them too and they're keeping me up, they're sapping my attention, they're eating at me from the inside and it's because I'm completely and utterly alone. So, if you could help me cross this off my list, that would be grand.

Who knows Lily Evans? Or, rather, Lily Potter. She and I are sharing some brainwaves.

Happy first day of Hogwarts, everyone. I'm making pumpkin pasties, cauldron cakes, and treacle tart to celebrate. And by me, I mean Remington because why would I eat any sweets made by anyone else?