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In retrospect, I'd take living peeps over a giant dragon any day.

My dreams are enough to drive me to drink.

I woke up this morning and the last patches of my skin tone were gone, I am completely a shade of blue, and it is sometimes... a struggle to feel most things strongly.

The only thing I feel in my dreams is the pleasure of the kill.


Ange

Do you remember Captain Amari? I think... Widowmaker killed her.

My dream self seems to be navigating into somewhat... slippery slope territory. She joins an organization to help people, despite its methods; This is not how I would see her save lives. Yet she also has all of the funding she needs to further her research. Nanobiology, a new way to speed healing and recovery times.

I can already see that Overwatch is pushing the limits of how I would allow them to use my science. Only time will tell, but I suspect that I will end up leaving them over our differences.

Here in the real world, I am given the chance to make this technology here. All of my notes on my research showed up in my office today. But I wonder if this is a good idea, this 'nanobiology'. What would become of it in this world, where war is even more common? even if it would save my life--

There are definitely times when I am relieved I'm not on social media like Twitter all that much and that I'm not a well known theatre name outside of Orange County. Because the entitlement you see in people is absurd. Yes, I understand the planning it can take to get to New York to see a show on Broadway. Yes, I understand wanting to see a performer you really like or that 'big name' and finding out they aren't performing that day can be disappointing. But that gives you no right to then harass them on Twitter for daring not to be at the performance. Actors are people, and this is live theatre, which means that life happens and you are not entitled to an explanation of illness or family emergency. Get a refund if you're that annoyed (even if that's ridiculous as well because of the very nature of theatre and it's not just one person and you never know who you might discover in an understudy) but don't attack people on Twitter or social media and expect not to get called out.

Dieu.

Getting real tired of nightmares and people betraying us. You'd think we'd learn to not let others get that far. How the hell did this happen twice? Why does this keep being a thing. A friend, someone I cared about wants to destroy us. Again.

I used to think my favorite ice cream was bubble gum... but I'm thinking about changing it to mint chip.

So, I have to poll my Valarnet people on this. What do you guys think? Favorite ice cream flavor?

Well, it appears that even when I am not in Orange County, if I am supposed to go see a show I've already performed in, I somehow get pulled into actually performing instead.

Why yes, Armand, Percy and I did go to New York this past weekend for the one night only concert-staged reading of The Scarlet Pimpernel. And yes, I did end up having to fill in for the role of myself. Which was certainly something given the minor differences and then new songs involved. Thank goodness the nature of the production allowed me a script if necessary. Though I do feel I was more off book than both Tony Yazbeck and Norm Lewis at the end of the day, even with the minor changes.

Still, now I get to focus on this weekend's performances for Leading Ladies of Orange County, as well as rehearsals for Jesus Christ Superstar which are underway for previews the last weekend of March and running through April.

A more fitting word then dreams is nightmare.

They even tattooed cauchemar on my arm. And a spider on my back araignée du matin, chagrin, araignée du soir, espoir I laugh and I feel nothing.

Talon making me into this, this...killer, this monster. Chemicals and nanobots rewriting my body while my mind shatters like a broken mirror and all I see are distorted reflections and a hell I cannot escape because I cannot feel and then they let me loose and I kill and I kill and each target is too easy and the only time I feel is when my bullet splatters their heads behind them Amelie is dead she's dead I strangled her in the night there is only the

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Well, I am sure I have no idea what all of THIS is, but Mercy Medical Clinic is prepared to help treat anyone with injuries.

We were going to open next week, but this current crisis requires an early start. We have a full medical staff available to treat injuries here, and I have trained them all not to ask any questions. Dreamers are especially safe!

We also should be getting a delivery of water bottles, blankets, and basic provisions for any who want to seek shelter.

I dreamed I was performing Swan Lake again. It was... saddening, to wake up after that. Too many memories, though all of them are good.

There was a particularly talented young test pilot in the audience that my husband introduced me to. I think Ms. Oxton will go far in Overwatch.

Orange County, I am in you. Feeling pretty holly and jolly here in California what with all that snow and everything. Nice of you to blizzard by the way, weather. I almost didn't make it in. It was a close one, not gonna lie.

Every year like clock work, too. Hey, it's December and suddenly it's cold and snowy here in the land of sunshine. Christmas decorations trying to kill us, mistletoe that makes young men kiss mall santas. It's like I never even left New York. Also it looks like I missed the snowmen this year. Can we put in a request for more snowmen?

Anyway, I have cronuts and most of you probably don't, so I'm currently winning the internet. Also, hey, Stark Employees, Merry Christmas to you - Happy Holidays, shrug emoji, whatever thing you celebrate. If you will. And I will. Am. Already started, no one's surprised.

Look in your accounts, 'cause like hey - you can't take it with you, so why was it sitting around in my bank account? You get a bonus and you get a bonus and YOU get a bonus.

I have had the most interesting dreams. Fifty years in the future.

It felt as though I were actually there. Good friends with a certain Dr. Ziegler, and my husband some sort of official in an organization called Overwatch.

They seem to have enemies, as people keep trying to kill him.

I honestly can't tell what's more annoying. The PIs hired by Scientology to make my life hell, Danny Rand and all the drama and craziness that have entered my life since meeting him in the dreams, or these snowmen. It's a toss up. It really is.

I really need some work to distract me. The downside of being muscle for hire. None of you happen to need someone punched or shaken down, do you?

Fuck Boko Haram

Ah, isn't this the perfect season to be here in your United States! Even though this warm area of California has nothing to do with warm apple cider or pumpkins... nor is it really spooky enough looking for witches and spiders and scary things. Still! Your Starbucks has all of the pumpkin spice coffee and for the first time I actually get to enjoy it instead of reading about it on the social media sites.

It is delicious, I may have spent half a monthly salary on stocking up. Who decided this was not an appropriate flavor for coffee? Verdammt, have you ever had the pleasure of drinking the coffee at an aid station? Along the front lines? Or honestly even just the so-called coffee they often cook up in hospital break rooms? You should be so lucky that there is flavor at all in any of those - or that you can drink them instead of chewing on them.

I think I will take all of this pumpkin spice that you may not want, Orange County. Send them to my flat, care of Dr. Ziegler. I am kidding, of course, I know better than to put my address here on the internet. At least not until I set up a real place of business.

Um...is it normal for someone to try and get your attention to take off your headphones to ask if it hurt when you fell from heaven?

I have a list of different places and recommendations that I look for every place I go. This thing just makes getting those requests a little bit easier truth be told.

So, tell me, Orange County, where's the best coffee place? Where's the best bar and what do people do to relax around here?

And if anyone knows a place that's hiring, maybe shoot me a line?

Salut. I am Amélie Lacroix, and I am new to California.

I am starting a Ballet Company, if any were interested in trying out, or just to view performances when we begin them.

I could also, perhaps, stand to have someone show me around.