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Oh, wonderful, another round of bizarre.

Says the wizard

I don't suppose anyone can talk to animals, can they? In this mad town?

My cat's begun to hide a bit more than normal, and I'm worried.

I think I might stay inside and avoid the ash raining from the sky.

Besides, I want to go back to sleep and have more dreams. I dreamed about the most amazing prince last night. Prince Hans of the Southern Isles. God, he was amazing. And we just... connected, you know? That's what love's supposed to be.

So even if there wasn't ash falling from the sky and gigantic fuck-off clouds of doom, Lucky Shop Pawn will be closed until further notice.

The owners are having some... let's call them technical difficulties. Yeah.


Randomly, I'm actually beginning to wonder if I should be exploring sex with women before I die. I'm apparently not too old for it, and if Orange County is about to explode, I'd like to know if boobs are nice or what.

Please use caution when traveling outside today. Volcanic ash is much more a dangerous than normal smoke. It's very tiny razor sharp shards of rock that can do a lot of damage to your lungs.

Wear something over your face, and don't travel unless you absolutely have to.

My dreams are peculiar indeed! I followed a rabbit down his hole. He had on a petticoat.

Either this is one helluva promotion for that Pompeii movie or some serious shit is going down. Last time I checked it doesn't rain ash in Cali.

Well, that's marvelously ironic. In the dreams, I gave myself up to my own daughter, and became a CIA informant. I certainly hope that the real CIA doesn't randomly put cells in the middle of a black ops base, though. A Russian spy sitting in the middle of a top secret laboratory? Unintelligent, to put it mildly.

Hey, this actually made me laugh: I opened my closet this morning and my sidekick costume showed up there. I looked like a rube.

It's getting nasty outside. The stores look like war zones. I think I've got enough stuff to last awhile. I did see an old lady getting mugged outside the store. I might have hit the guy more than once. Dick.

I feel like I'm on an episode of Doomsday Preppers. The streets are a mess too. It's the first time I've had the top up for awhile.

[Stefan, Bekah, Kol, Sage, Elena]
Stay in. I'll be at Elena's playing house.

Dun dun da da dun, da da daaaa dun da dun dun duuuuun da duuuun!

Dun da dun daaau dun dun duuun!

do de doo dun dun daa ddaaa!

Really weird dreams And wtf with the costume, and then it's Volcano Doomsday. Can we get a do-over?

Gwen

You okay over there?

Pansy

Stay safe.

Aveline

Might want to call in tonight.

I had the strangest dreams. My father and I lived in the woods. A little like here but there we were far aways and I only had books for company. I learned to hunts and to fights.

Baxter Bakery is open now, and will be open as long as possible. If you or someone you know doesn't have a safe place to stay during this craziness with the ash in the air, please come down to Baxter Bakery. There's live music and entertainment, plenty to eat and drink, and we've just had a delivery of warm blankets and pillows from one of my loyal customers. No charge for drip coffee, tea or bread and cheese. A free cookie for all children under 12.

Since there's all the craziness going on outside I've decided just to hunker down at home with the kid. I don't need her going out there and breathing in the ash and such. Besides, ice skating is on right now and I'm totally fascinated.

Is it bad that I want to be one of those parents that makes their children try a million sports and hope that they're good at at least one of them? I would love for my daughter to be a figure skater in the Olympics. These people are so amazing. God, this is just too much fun to watch!

It's not often that I wish for classes to be cancelled, but I'm wondering what my university will do in regards to the air quality for tomorrow. I can't imagine they would want people going out in that with the risk of being sued if something terrible were to happen as a result.

I think a lot of students (at least in my building) are going to just hunker down in the dorm and not leave. Why would we need to when we have internet/cable/cafeteria at our disposal? I hope this doesn't last much longer though. I've heard through the grapevine of people seeing some really creepy things outside now at night. One of them said troll, but I don't know if I believe them.

Oh look, dark nasty things are prowling around out there.

Time to rain fire down from the sky and electrocute things, I suppose. Did they say we were supposed to stay inside? Bah, who listens to orders anyway?

Well, I'm stuck at the hospital for as long as this lasts. Ironically, I'm pretty sure this is about the same time last year that I was stuck here during the blue flu. Hopefully this doesn't last as long as that did.

Maybe I've just had too many dreams, but I feel like this would usually be the part where The Doctor would try to do something, in the dreams, about the volcano and it'd wine up being caused by some alien race.

Soooo, I just let Nymeria out to use the bathroom, cause really, you try telling a wolf she can't go outside, and anyway, she ran off into the woods behind the house, as she usually does and when she came back, she had an arm in her mouth. Don't worry, it wasn't human, but I don't really know what kind it is. Looks kind of gobliny. Or what a goblin arm would look like if goblins were real.

I'm very much heeding the advice and staying indoors. While this place is generally odd at the worst of times, the inclusion of a natural disaster doesn't particular put me at ease. At the very least, I'll be able to focus on a few personal projects I've got underway.

I'm sure everyone's read this enough in the past few hours, but, please, do be safe. When people tell you to stay indoors, it's generally wise to listen. And by all means (and I say this on behalf of Tony, who I'm certain will agree), to all Stark Employees, nothing you're working on is more important than your immediate safety. Please do not try to go to work until this has cleared over.

Well I know that time's not being wasted at my house tonight. Apparently Alyssa is watching National Geographic Wild and learning about hyenas and had to call me at work to share this little tidbit. I know you'll all be as interested as I was: female hyenas have a clitoris that is 7 inches long, shaped like a penis and can become erect.

I just have one question - how the hell do they find this stuff out?

If anybody still needs a place to ride the latest wave of crazy out, ENCOM Tower is open for you all. We've got emergency supplies, a well stocked cafeteria, a lounge with tv, games and stuff. We've rooms set aside for sleeping quarters too.