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I just watched the beginning of a documentary that is still making me want to throw up. It's called Playground. It's right up there with Blackfish and Earthlings on the list of documentaries that have made me cry.

I have visited the beach at night. The results are thus: people are extremely receptive to strangers if they are accompanied by a handful of mates. I earned several dollars offering to create miniature sand castles for them in the dark, money of which I have since donated. Now, a collective mass has contributed to the less fortunate. I am not certain if this qualifies as 'doing something crazy,' but I thought my task accomplished as one couple threw sand at me, somewhat cruelly, and I recall the adjective used in lieu of other much more unnecessary expletives.

Are we truly living in a world where we must be leery of every suit-wearing lunatic on the beach?

I'm not looking forward to the Fourth. I never am.

Zee
How are things? I have the herb garden going pretty well, should be able to give the group useful potions!

In the Dreams last night, Setsuna came back from Heaven all depressed. He wouldn't talk about it, but I figure his little girlfriend dumped him or something when he went up to rescue her. Leave it to Setsu to get all bent out of shape the over some flatchested little girlie. Oh, and I guess he got a bunch of people killed, but whatever. Either way, kid needs to learn how to let shit go. Being the good friends we are, Kira and I busted down his door and in order to cheer him up, threw him in a fountain.

And then the fucking turdmonkey pulled me in after him. He didn't pull in Kira, the fucking bastard.

Anywhatzit, I woke up fucking drenched this morning. These dreams can be a real pain in the ass sometimes.

Next up on The Mighty Katou's Epic Afterlife Adventure: Me, Kira and Setsuna are going up to Heaven to rescue some peeps and fuck up some Heavenly Army Ass. Whoda thought someone like me would go to Heaven someday. .... Then again, given some of the angels I've met, you ain't gotta be no fucking saint to be there.

I think the constant revision might actually be killing me at this point, and why did I major in English again? I could have majored in Library Sciences and be doing much the same thing I'm doing now for more pay, and I wouldn't be rewriting the same chapter three times over. I'm not exactly how much more life I can give this scene, not without the technology to turn books into 3D holograms. I wonder how much longer until that's... actually a normal and expected part of books.

I've been taking advantage of the time I have free now that the school year's ended to start going through some things that have been just sitting in storage since the accident since I left on my trip. A lot of good memories in those boxes. I even found my parents wedding picture and hung it on the wall, a little bit crooked, but it's still hanging and that's what matters.

[Lance]

I saw where you posted about your last dream Was it somehow my fault that you I was wondering if you had any plans for July 4th?

[Merlin]

Do you think I should tell Lance about my relationship with Arthur here? How was your first Father's Day?

Now, it is my turned to have experienced a Dream. How curious it is to wake up and feel less like a man and more like a computer program.

A friend of mine convinced me to join this silly little thing. Apparently it'll be fun, something he feels I need in my life. It'll be a way to pass the time at least.

My name is Hisoka. I lived in Nagasaki until I was ten and then moved here. I currently attend Newport High.

That seems to be efficient enough information for a silly introduction post.

Now that it's been performed and graded, I wanted to share my choreography final.

It's dark. Sad. About missing children. I redid it completely, based it around those dreams.

Those are the girls I'll teach this summer. They did beautifully.

For no particular reason other than it's the weekend. Hope it's a good one!

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It seems like the dreams intend to make up for lost time now that I've started having them and I might have spoken too soon about them being pleasant. While they're not as awful as some of the ones I've heard about they're definitely not the best dreams I've ever had.

[Merlin]

Some warning about how...exciting the dreams can be at times would have been nice Merlin.

And about the fact that I kissed you in them. A part of me feels I owe Audrey an apology.

[Lance]

I dreamt of you last night. Of meeting you there in Camelot.

I'm starting to notice some things about my dreams. Number one, I'm a twelve year old boy. Two, I have an older brother that's a yellow talking dog. Three, there's a princess that keeps popping up. I shit you not, her name is Princess Bubblegum. Four, apparently I'm a hero there, because I was sent to get some weird book for heroes.

Crazy stuff, next thing you know I'll probably be dreaming about dancing spaghetti.

I've heard the most interesting stories about this network.

I suppose we're meant to introduce ourselves.

Adam Pierson. Scholar, collector, professor of religious studies. Now, what about all of you?

I met a very handsy guy at the gym today. No, it wasn't the good kind of handsy. I'm not even sure there is a good kind of handsy. The bottom line is that I go to the gym to work and work out, not to be man-handled.

It seems that it's my turn to start Dreaming. I guess I should count myself lucky that I did have a little warning about what to expect in them. Morgana was certainly not joking when she told me that things were different in them.

[Merlin]

Of course he'd be the Prince So in the Dreams I'm her handmaiden.

And you were brave standing up to him that way.

What do you do when coffee's just not enough of a kick anymore?

alright, so i looked pretty fucking cool in my dream last night. like, pure, unfiltered badass, which was awesome.

but, you know, if i could maybe stop getting possessed and killed in my dreams, that would be pretty cool too.

Not a big fan of this holiday. I'll be out dancing. From the looks of the network, I won't be the only one drowning out Mother's Day tonight.

I'm glad that my dreams took a break for awhile cause the last thing I would have wanted two months ago would have been to dream about my perfect, nothing like Brian boyfriend, cheating on me. Asshole cheated on my with a fan when he was picked up my an agent to tour. They wanted him to pretend he was straight and he wasn't gonna do it, but it was a big chance. So he went and I went to surprise him only to find out that he cheated and then when he was trying to apologize, he brought up the fact that I always took Brian back, except that Brian had never promised me anything. Ethan had. Cut up my hands really good from ripping up the roses I'd brought him and of course I woke up with all these cuts all over my palms.

So now I'm not only single in real life, but in the dreams too.

California is certainly quite warm in the summer, isn't it? I guess I'll be updating my wardrobe.

I absolutely have the best daughter and brother in the world.

Not only did I get eggs, bacon, pancakes and fruit this morning but I got the cutest mothers day card too.

Apparently Kira asked Fe if they could do American Mothers Day for me since we live in America now. I'm feeling pretty loved right now.

So, today's been fun. I took tomorrow morning off so I can go somewhere tonight sans Dawnie. Gonna go [ To this bar ] and have some drinkies, 'cause wow kid sister was in rare form today. Let me tell you. Except not tell you, not really looking to open that can of worms.

Anyway. Hope everyone else has a fab day. Hug your moms if you can and stuff.


(*Close friends of Buffy know her mom passed away a couple of years ago. Triggers possibly in comments about parent-death.)

Happy Mother's Day. Go out and make sure to thank your moms today.

I dreamed that I dreamed of my mother last night. I know it was just some dream, but it was... nice to talk to her again.

And I think I must have snagged my arm on a nail or something in my sleep. Woke up and then had to go get stitches. Tried looking for the nail, but it must have fallen somewhere. If this happens again though I'm going to be pissed.

Filter: Lina Inverse

You really weren't kidding about these dreams. Now I've even had one! Feel like it's because I ate something weird?

I am never doubting a thing people tell me about what I'll read on here again!

I never thought I'd be quite this level of happy at having a night of uninterrupted sleep.

But I am ridiculously happy. And grateful to Ben for not waking up and crying. Though I think Audrey still got up to check on him just in case.

I know it's not very ideal beach weather, but... would anyone like to go with me to it tomorrow? I have a whole free day on...  you know, and it would be nice to go somewhere.

Oh!! And some of you asked me when I would be singing next... I'll start again Monday night at [ Place ] from 7:30 until 10:30pm! Please come!

Ugh, Impa--

I've actually never had a social media profile in my entire life. So, do we post pictures with inspirational words, have a political debate, or discuss cats? I hear those are common internet things?

Or should I delete this and run the other way? Because my nanny friend thought it'd be funny to make one of these for me and put 'creampuff casserole' where you put 'location, name, age, education' things.

So, hello. My name is Creampuff Casserole. And my friend is a jerk.

Being back in my own body means I'm dreaming again and I'm feeling a lot of phantom pains in my leg, which really sucks. I thought that was done, but the Dreams are bringing it back again. I wish I could say at least my Dreams are distracting, but they're absolutely horrible. The Victory Tour sucks, President Snow sucks, and District 12 sucks. I am so sorry Gale. I don't want you to dream this stuff

Oh and I'm fake engaged in the Dreams now. Lovely. Also, the Capitol has this liquid so they can throw up and continue to drink/eat at parties. So they can absolutely gorge themselves while everyone else starves in the other Districts. But there's seeds of rebellion growing in all the Districts and I know that means these Dreams are just going to get worse. Going through the motions of the Quarter Quell made me sick and now I'm heading back to the Capitol to risk my life again.

Ugh.

[Private to Rose]
Hey, are you doing well having your body back?

Now that spring is here I've noticed that my students favorite part of the school day has changed. Where it used to be art or story time that they seemed to look forward to the most, it's now recess and I can't pretend that I'm not enjoying getting to take them outside every day. And it does make it easier to keep them focused after they've gotten to go and play. Now if I could only get the boys and girls to realize they won't catch cooties from one another if they play with the same toys.

[Merlin]

I have no idea what I'm going to do for a summer job. And that is a sentence I never thought I'd be using again.

So, in my dreams I'm from District 7 where the main resource is lumber and because of that, during the Hunger Games our stylists always seem to want to dress us like trees. This morning, I woke up to find my outfit from the Quarter Quell hanging on the back of my closet.

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Well, that was a week last week at work. But I'm definitely thinking Friday night I need to actually get around to publicly celebrating my birthday in a belated fashion. Totally meant to do it closer to when my birthday actually was but hey, life happened.

So! Who wants to go to a club with me on Friday evening to celebrate?

I don't think I'm ever going to understand people. Honestly. In what world is it considered acceptable to berate the person behind the counter for not putting cream and sugar in your coffee when you ordered it black? And continue doing so while they're remaking your drink?

I was standing right behind the person in line and they never said a word about cream and sugar, even when asked, until they were given their coffee. I don't think I could have handled it as well as the employees did. I know I couldn't have kept a smile on my face as I remade their drink and thanked them for coming.

I can understand children behaving that way to a degree - they're still learning how to act in public after all but not adults.

Well that was an interesting trip to the grocery store.

I ran into the mother of one of my students and while we were talking she told me that all he wanted to eat was goldfish. I think one of the other patrons didn't realize we were talking about the crackers because she gave me the most horrified look I've ever seen when I started laughing about his mother saying all he wanted to eat was bags of goldfish.

Alright clearly I jinxed myself. Waking up injured is not fun nor is it cool, Dreams. Please stop.

On that note, anyone know any good tricks for getting blood out of fabrics?

But on the plus side, I got a totally awesome leather jacket that I wore in the dream? Perhaps that was an apology for the rude awakening.

A very important question has recently crossed my mind, and I just can't help but ask: What do people without cats do with the extra tuna juice when they eat canned tuna?

( Alistair )

I'll be glad when I can go out to eat at a pub and not have basketball blasted from every speaker.

Does that sound grumpy? Man, I'm starving.

I must be working myself too hard. I had a dream about being a prince of Asgard.

Live long and prosper, Leonard. RIP.

Has everyone seen that dress color debate? I wanted to believe it was photo-shopped until I saw the same picture in two different colors.

Up to my eyeballs in potential party food ideas. If anyone knows me you KNOW I cook a ton to test first. So if anyone wants to pop by to taste test, feel free to drop by Taste of Home! I'll be cooking like a crazy person.

ETA After Neal's done upgrading my fryers... I am so making fried green tomatoes. All are welcome. if you don't like fried green tomatoes, what is WRONG with you!?

Cindy mcAwesome
Hey. How you doing? We should chat.
Not about that. Or my head. Although my head's part of it.
But I need to be slapped, yo.

Neena
You alive over there? In need of booze filled goodies or real food? I haven't mother-henned in a few weeks.

Made way too much barbecue for one person, so I might have just let whatever kids from the neighborhood come have food. Better than having to eat the same thing three times a day for a week, right?

I really do love how honest the kids in my class are at times. Just to find out what they'd say I asked them all what they liked most about school and for the most part I got the answers I was expecting - recess, story time, art, the fun parts of the day. I wasn't expecting one of them to say nap time and I most definitely wasn't expecting the reason they gave "Because my little sister isn't here screaming and waking me up!"

Is it too early to start planning the after party? Rogue's got moonshine in the works, will most likely cook for an entire army, and we can celebrate no one we liked died. This entire thing is worthy of alcohol indulgence. Probably won't take place for a week or two, but hey! Enough time to make it awesome.

Do us a favor, OC. Try not to lose your shit so we can enjoy some downtime, got it? I will put a goddamn hole in you otherwise.

Now, I usually don't mix candy with alcohol - blech - but I'm going to get my hands on these. Booze filled chocolates. This can either be really good or really gross, but I'm all for trying things at least once.

It's rather fascinating to watch the seemingly neverending parade of girl scouts bringing boxes and boxes of cookies into the Stark building. And they aren't even the ones to be sold to the staff.

When and how is the best way to tell your boss you think he has a cookie problem?

Well. It appears I have a sword now.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go back to work next week. And I know if I'm feeling this way the kids are bound to be. I need to pick up extra finger paints just to be prepared

[Lance]

How do you feel about New Years Resolutions?

People are crazy and all I’ve been hearing about is Black Friday shopping. It's the third people. Black Friday is in a few weeks!

I also commend all the establishments that are remaining closed on Thanksgiving.

[Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, Lancelot (if you think they’re friendly enough!)

Does anyone have plans for the holiday already? Maybe we could all do something together?

I don't remember getting this many Trick-or-Treaters in the past. Not at the apartment at least. I might actually run out of candy, which could be a good thing because I don't think I need the candy sitting around my apartment. And since several of my students have come by already - I don't think they need the extra sugar going home with them on Monday. Their parents would actually probably prefer I didn't send it home with them now that I think about it.

I've been hearing about these dreams for awhile now and I've finally had one of them. It's so weird but at least certain things stayed the same. Except Arthur. I'm not sure if he's a bigger brat now or in my dreams!

And it seems my Halloween worries have been for nothing. The magical dream fairies left me some fancy new clothes that will be perfect to wear for Halloween. They are quite pretty too even if the style is a bit out of date.

Chasing a 6 year-old around Disneyland all day is a lot of fun, but it's incredibly exhausting. On the bright side, it eliminated the usual "let me stay up another hour" debate. Annie's just as wiped as I am.