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Damn Meowth keeps evading me. There's one spot near the club where we practice where Meowth keeps showing up in the nearby locator, but he never pops up no matter how often I walk around that area. I have absolutely no idea where this damn thing is. It's getting frustrating.

Day of remembrance today.

A little surprising (and almost fitting?) that I procured a job interview. I was at a cafe grabbing breakfast when I struck up a conversation with the police officer ahead of me in line. Seemed right to pay my respects on a day like today. Turns out he was a Superintendent and in charge of hiring civilian officers for this precinct. They're looking for a tech guy, and after hearing about my qualifications, he wanted to hire me on the spot. But protocol, so I'm headed in tomorrow for a formal interview. Pretty spiffy, I think.

Boy oh boy am I in the mood for Dick's!

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Who can believe it's almost October already! Almost starting to feel like fall, at just a smidge below eighty degrees out.

I myself am ex treme ly excited for Fall, and for Halloween. The second the clock ticked over to September I got all my decorations out and slapped a huge Halloween display right in the front of the store.

Oh right right right right I should say how I am. That's what one does in these things, isn't it?

Jack Napier, owner of the Hahacienda Toy Emporium. Glad to be here. Glad to meet all you beautiful folks.

I moved something without touching it this morning.

I was thinking that I needed a pen, and suddenly it was across the room, in my hand.

I haven't tried again. Maybe if I don't use it, it will go away.

So we're on our way to Portland to look for a blind guy (very helpful wording, Frank). Apparently his name is Phineas and he's a seer and he might be able to help us locate Thanatos. Anyway, while Frank was fighting Basilisks, Percy and I we were talking to Reyna. Percy She had to know that there was a giant (and I really mean giant, there were giants) army coming to Camp Jupiter. She knew about it and if we can't free Thanatos and bring back the eagle...I don't even want to think about what that means.

Percy We got a killer whale to take us the rest of the way while the person navigating got a nap. So we got up to the Columbia River and then the killer whale passed us on to some sturgeons. Then when we got to the Willamette River, the boat just sort of moved itself somehow. Anyway, we got to Portland and Percy our friend finally woke up to tell us about his dream. The giant I died to stop from rising is on a glacier in Alaska. Which is so helpful considering how many glaciers Alaska has.

Of course we had to look for Phineas in Portland in the rain. We found him wearing a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers and using a weed whacker to fend off harpies. I'm pretty sure we all felt bad for the harpies and not bad for Phineas. Also he said he can "smell demigods" which is the creepiest thing anyone's ever said to me. But then when our friend was talking to him, he started listing off all this stuff that he knew. I'm pretty sure I was seconds from beating an old man with my sword and when he started accusing me of being with Gaea, I definitely thought about stabbing him. I really don't like him. And he keeps saying things that make me look bad. About what happened with Alcyoneus. "We'll see if you're still sweet on your girlfriend then" WE AREN'T DATING AND YOU ARE A WRETCHED OLD MAN!

So in order to get the information we need from him, we are supposed to capture and tie up this harpy for his sick pleasure which is never going to happen. And of course I believe that I'm as bad as him. I'm not. I was a scared kid who was forced to do something she didn't want to do by a goddess who thought she was better than the rest of the gods and goddesses already ruining everyone's lives. She's just the same as the rest of them.

The harpy's name is Ella and apparently she likes cinnamon burritos. Only the other harpies stole her food from her and she can quote facts about pretty much everything because she likes to read and remembers everything she reads. It's freakishly amazing. I wish I could remember that much. But now we have a plan to beat Phineas and I really hope we can manage it because that old man needs to go down. Even if I shouldn't say that. He does.

This is a rather good example for 'recent' history being as important in archaeology as ancient history. It's all important.

Will I ever understand the appeal of American football? There's attractive men, yes, but other than that, I don't know why people enjoy it?

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated our one year anniversary.

I'm still completely mind blown.

God damn you Pumpkin Spice.

Our theme song is stuck in my head again. Every time I think I'm free, I'm not.

This new girl joined us at school and she doesn't want to play any games and she insulted the class hamster. She's totally spoiled and we had to save the hamster. Because she upset him so much that he knocked his cage over.

Also she is trying to be a Powerpuff Girl. When we told her she couldn't be one, she said that she could pay her way into being a Powerpuff Girl. We were going to give her a chance, but then she decided that she was going to be the 'best Powerpuff Girl ever'. And she messed up our crime fighting and the robbers got away with the money. Long sigh. Then we had to save her from getting blown up. Longer sigh.

Then she came back to the school and has a new suit and attacked us. It took a little bit of work, but we finally defeated her. At least Blossom did it (with a very tiny amount of help from Buttercup and me). She's so awesome. Also don't make her angry, because she will end you. Like scarier than an angry Buttercup, which is saying something. She got arrested, which seems kind of strange when she's also a five year old.

Then the dream shifted and the Gangrene Gang came to our school. We told our teacher that they were bad guys and they made her believe that they were okay. Only they kept spitting on the cookies. WHO DOES THAT? It's terrible. We couldn't even fight them because we can't fight in the classroom. School rules. They're completely weird.

We keep getting in trouble for not being trusting enough, but they were throwing glue at everyone. And everyone is disappointed in us. We got put in time out for behaving poorly when they hadn't done anything bad. Except for everything they were doing. She wouldn't even listen to us about them hurting everyone with dodge balls until one came through the window. Then she let us go outside and play dodge ball...so we could fight them. It was about time.