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Since I keep getting pushed towards this, by old friends and new acquaintances, I should introduce myself. I'm Alaric Saltzman. The new history teacher at Huntington Beach High School.

I recently moved here to the OC for personal reasons, but I'm sure that I'll end up staying and enjoying the place, as well.

That weird feeling of being happy for a friend that their career is taking off and hating it at the same time because you know you're going to miss seeing them since it's taking them out of the area for a while. Chloe wasn't the easiest person to get along with sometimes but she was a good friend when I first moved here.

It's definitely easier to tell a boss you don't like that you need to cut back on hours than one you do. Especially when it's your third job.

[Jesus]

Izzy is on my case about having you over more when the world isn't coming to an end. You definitely made a good impression on the family. In case you had any doubts about that. Want to get me out of the doghouse with her and come over for dinner at the Institute again this weekend?

[Izzy and Simon]

I'm upping my training again. I registered for the upcoming competition season. Those paradooms made me realize how much I missed doing that.

For the first time ever, I just had to talk someone through setting up the operating system that comes with their laptop. Like, it is self-prompting, and tells you what to do, but for some reason they needed me to talk them through it. Took twenty minutes, felt like nine hours.

I would've done a back to back child watching marathon instead of this, I really would've.

At least this week I haven't had to say 'have you tried turning it off and back on' yet.