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I can't believe there's a social media platform I'm only now learning about. Most of them involve following or friending or whatever, which cool. And probably why? This seems more... well I don't know what it seems like yet.

Anyway, hi internet people. I'm Hanna. Not quite sure what to make of this yet but I'm willing to learn. I start at UC Irvine on Thursday if there's anyone who goes there? Maybe?

If any new students would like a tour of the UC: Irvine campus before term starts, my colleague Prof John Crichton and I will be available all day on Wednesday if anyone's interested. We'll buy you lunch and/or tea/coffee too so don't worry.

Did you know there are only 114 days or 16 weeks until Christmas? That's just 16 more Saturdays to do your shopping.

You're welcome! ;)

Edited to add: And 94 days til Hanukkah!

Woke up this morning tasting dust in my mouth but this odd sense of... joy.

Took a shower and discovered the mark on my neck. A bitter reminder that sometimes you don't belong to yourself.

It is well overdue I introduce myself here. Hello, I cannot say I am very new now, but the case somewhat applies. My name is Ororo Munroe. I have not decided the ideal things to post on here, but I have enjoyed glancing at some entries. I have not paid careful attention, however, which I intend to remedy in the future. As I understand it, many UC Irvine students fraternize on here. Is this the case?

So, hey there.

Name's Clarke. I moved to Irvine a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to make sure I know how to get around.

Figured it was time I actually introduced myself and met some people. I'll be studying nursing at UC Irvine this fall.

So, it's late, and I was reading, cause that's what I do when I can't sleep.

I love quotes.

What are your favorite quotes from books or movies?

Right now, I am loving John Green. "As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly, and then all at once."

Tell me yours. Keep me up all night.

Thomas Hardy was born 175 years ago today I feel I should read something of his to commemorate this.

The question is what? Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure? Any votes?

All of this demon fighting has taken a lot out of me. I feel like I could sleep for a week. I'm just worried this might be making my illness worse.

Just as I start to get over the horror that was my sister's chocolate Easter duck I find THIS greeting me in our bathroom.

I don't know who did it but there will be payback. Tessa. Jem. This is your warning.

Happy May Day! Or Beltane if you prefer.

Never thought I'd say this but I rather miss the celebrations and morris dancers that used to be out and about in the town I come from.

Does anyone else's cat appear to believe that they're going to starve simply because they don't have wet food? Church always has a bowl of dry food down and I give him half a can of wet food every morning. This morning, he cried outside mine and Will's door until I finally got up, only to find out that he still had almost a completely full bowl of dry food.

Things like this simply prove that cats are smart creatures, because if they weren't then they wouldn't be able to get used to a routine like this.

Sometimes I really dislike my family. Or rather my sister in particular. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to sleep for a while. Who would send someone something like this!?

Click to see at your own peril.

So, I'm 95% sure I'm going to start looking for a new job. I actually have the next week off from flying so I thought it would be a great opportunity. And I'm willing to look at anything, so I'm sure I'll find something that will work. At least until I know what I wanna do. Years of experience in any sort of shoppe kind of helps, right?

Anyone out there looking for some extra help?

On the dream side, I feel like they've picked up. It was a bittersweet dream while I was in San Francisco. I dreamt of my dad. It was so good to see him again. And then everything went downhill from there.

( Private to Jack )

( Private to Daniel )

Note to self: the correct dosage of cannabis for werewolves is crazy hard to pinpoint. Last night was definitely a first.

Now this is something.

Of course, now I want to go visit Lanhydrock once it goes on display. But to have an actual book that was in his library? This is exciting.

Happy St Davids Day!



It's strange not having a concert or anything to go to but I'm going to make some welsh dishes later and ring my parents too.

I think I need a red panda. No, scratch that, I know I need a red panda! It's adorable! James? William? Pretty please?

I managed to find a bunch of pictures while looking through books. I had forgotten about some of these. Guess I wasn't as done with unpacking as I thought. Now if I could just get used to American spelling for when grading, that would be brilliant. Oh well, you can't win them all.

[Troy]
I'm pretty sure I had a couple of the 'Orange County' dreams. Nothing as fantastical as yours. Not sure what to make of them though.

[Dad]
I'm still mad at

Staying out of trouble?

So with all the traveling I've been doing for work, I need some new music suggestions! I've only filled up about half of my space with music so I'm taking suggestions to download! I like all sorts of music, open to anything really! Music helps those long waits at the terminals between flights!

( Private to Will )

( Private to D'Art )

The cleaning bug bit while I was trying to relax from running. I think I've reorganized every room in the house, and I won't lie, there's a lot of rooms.

Alucard, darling, sorry if I rearranged the dressers and you can't find your socks. I promise they're still here and I haven't thrown them away.

I even made space for all the things the Dreams have given us. It's rather nice to have them organized and displayed properly.

It really is the most wonderful time of the year! I am happy to report that I am no longer with Starbucks! I'm training and working towards becoming a flight attendant with BAER Airline! I'm so excited because it's something completely different than anything I've ever done! It's social, I get to travel...it's the best! Training has been hard, but better than serving coffee to shopping crazed people!

Plus, I just celebrated my 21st birthday! My wonderful friend took me to Disneyland for the first time and I LOVED IT! I can understand why so many people get annual passes. I won't lie, I was tempted!

But now that I'm legal drinking age in the US, I'm ready to go out and celebrate! Anyone interested? If not but you're out anyway and see a blonde celebrating, make sure to get me a drink! ;)

Jesus Fuck it's cold The heat in my apartment isn't working. I'm stuck without heat. It's like a freaking walk-in freezer in my bedroom.

I was Skyping with my mother earlier today and she noticed the violin case on my bed and asked what it was, considering that until now, I've never actually been able to play an instrument. I told her that it was mine and she asked to hear it. Suffice to say, she was incredibly shocked at how well I played it and was even moved to tears. She wanted to know how I'd gotten so good in so little time. I obviously couldn't tell her that it was because of a dream, so I told her that I'd simply finally found an instrument that I was good at.

It still is a little bizarre, but I've come to enjoy playing the violin and I'm even thinking of auditioning for the holiday show at school.

Right. Hello there. I heard this is the best place to get to know people, meet some new mates maybe even a roommate? No, no too soon for that, leave that for the next post? So, hello! Right, already said that. I'm Rose Tyler! Nice to meet all of you...so to speak. What happens around here? Rather new to the area, to this country actually. Anyone know of a good spot to get a cup of tea? And not this American stuff...proper British tea. I think I've had my fill of coffee at the moment! Rather nasty actually...no offense intended for those that enjoy it! Just...different from home, ya know? Plus it's never fun to drink when you have to make it 8 hours every day. But someone has to! My civic duty now! You know, I've actually seen someone break down when we ran out of the new Holiday Blend. You yanks really love your coffee.

Living here is making me forget about the holidays I used to celebrate at home. It took me until right this moment to realize tomorrow is the Fifth of November! I know Americans don't celebrate Guy Fawkes Night, but I really want to set off some fireworks and just bask in the glow of being British.

Anyone else want to join me?

[Private to Steve Rogers]
You are so joining me for fireworks. I'll even pack food and a blanket for us. Fireworks probably won't be as epic as your birthday, but we can make do.

You know if I never see another farm or smell another horse it'll be too soon. I'm not sure city smell much of an improvement though..

Apparently I'm headed to New Port Harbor high, anyone else going there?

I need to do something exciting.

I'm thinking of writing a book about the odd happenings of Orange County. Given the frequency and variety of strange experiences this place seems to be quite singular in the world and I feel it would be an amazing tale to document for others to read!

If anyone would like to share their stories with me then I can be found at Gray's Bookstore just around the corner from Baxter's Bakery nearly every day.

Seems like the current strangeness missed me. I'm not entirely sure whether to be happy about that or not. This one sounds like fun. Interesting way to make a new friend at least.

I'm in need of advice...

So, not that long ago, I came out to my parents. My mother was okay with it but my father has just kinda shut me out since then. My sister says that it's his issue to deal with and that I shouldn't worry about his opinion...but he's my dad. Am I stupid for wanting his approval?

Two days without taking the Yin Fen has left me feeling awful. I stayed in bed all day yesterday after Tessa left and was only able to get up for a little while today. I knew missing my medication could be tough, but I wasn't quite prepared for this.

Someone send help!

I've been caught up in a "Teen Titans Go!" marathon. Why can't I stop watching?

This is how I will die.

Damn. I missed a trick. With all these weird texts going around it makes me wish I'd taken a naked pic of myself and tried to send it to someone ;)

Look Jem, Will! I was out shopping today and look what I found! ( My two favourite boys! )

So. We have a new dog. Not a dog. A puppy. The list of things he's chewed keeps growing and it is all my sister's fault. Michael probably won't be too happy. Anyone else have trouble saying no to their persistent little sisters?

What the bloody hell is Cinco De Mayo? It obviously has something to do with Mexican culture because I see a ton of somberos around town. Is this really a holiday or did the American bastardize something again?

According to my employee, I am in dire need of a social life. And apparently this would be the place to do it so here goes.

Hello, I'm Ianto. I'm the owner of a bookshop called A Page In Time. I have an embarrassingly large movie collection and own a dog named Dali. I'm not even really sure what to put in here so feel free to ask me questions. Maybe that would be slightly less awkward? Or more awkward. I think it may be a toss up.

Okay, I want it on record that I haven't actually been high on anything in like six months. So why the weird dreams?

I dreamt I was an Irish girl who lived in like, the 1880s or something like that. I started real poor and all that, and then I moved to London and I guess I became a hooker? I made friends with other hookers and yeah, that was super depressing.

I had a strange dream that I was packing my suit case to go somewhere, but i kept putting baby ducklings in it instead? Over and over with these baby ducks. I don't..maybe I've eaten too many peeps and now dream ducks want revenge?

My friend James Carstairs was taken into hospital last night. I don't know how bad it truely is and the doctors didn't seem to either, but he was feverish and hallucinating and they don't know why. At least they didn't when they eventually kicked me out this afternoon. I know he would appreciate visits and support from his friends, so please drop by and see him.

I'm going to try and sleep now then head back in the morning.

My fiance is like, 15. :(

This is awwwwwkward.

Well, I'm still welsh in my dreams. But other than that they are fairly tame. There was something about an enclave and a shadowhunter but it wasn't very clear.

I've heard people get stuff from their dreams sometimes around here, what about magic and stuff? Do they come through too? Like if you get cursed with a tail or something would that happen here as well? Bet that would be hard to explain.

I don't want the demon curse to follow me here. I can't let people get hurt because of me

My cat is extremely odd sometimes. The last two times I've done laundry, he has sat in front of the washer, simply watching the clothes spin around. He has sat there the entire time. He's never done this before, so it's rather amusing. I'm curious, what is the most amusing thing anyone else's cat or dog has done?

I also realized that in a lot of my posts, I've mentioned my cat or Caspian. I think we need to start getting out more.

I'm making cupcakes. I think I've made like, 4 dozen cupcakes so far. I can't seem to stop. Someone should really stop me.

It would appear that my cousin has decided to move to Paris for a little while. I do wish we had gotten more time to spend together, but hopefully she will find what she's looking for and comes back soon. On a lighter note, I'm officially on spring break. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do this week when I'm not working though.

I don't really like Rocky Road ice cream. I don't want nuts in my ice cream. Am I the only one who thinks about these things at random hours of the night?

That might have been a bit too wild an adventure. The whole world is made of pain. Why is the coffee so far away. How is it I'm able to type on my phone so accurately when the screen's light is trying to kill me?

Curse word, curse word. At least I had fun last night.

[Will, Raquel]
You guys alright?

I swear my parents like to call me and converse in Italian just because they get tired of always using English. Which makes me either look crazy in public or...romantic. Maybe.

Bilingual family problems.

[filtered; Becks, Damon, Elena]

Mom is saying we need to have dinner next weekend. No one can refuse. She's cooking and baking. She goes "Stefan, I never see you or your brother. You're all so busy. Does Damon have a wedding date yet? What are you doing for Natalia's birthday? I want new curtains for the living room, tell your wife I want her to look over some with me. I haven't seen Elena's ring either. Call more, Stefan. I can't stand that texting. And tell your brother."

Sorry.

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St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow! Don't forget to wear green tomorrow! There are those that like to move around and pinch people if you're not! And I'm one of those people. So if you don't know me and aren't wearing green...watch out!

But really. Be safe out there everyone! Sometimes people like to celebrate a little too much, just be responsible! And speaking of responsibility, anyone wanna go out and grab a pint tomorrow evening? I'm sure everywhere will be busy, but that will make it fun! And people are so jovial and social when they're drunk.