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Got a short shift at Pandemonium, tonight.

Who wants to come keep me company? The other bartenders are so boring. :P

Possible TMI, not that I care really. If there’s one thing I love about having a private roof top terrace, it’s that I can sunbathe nude without worrying anyone seeing me. Well, aside from Alexander that is. ;)

These dreams can seriously go fuck themselves. What the hell is the purpose of all these killings happening in threes? Animals, kids, and killings. These dreams are getting more and more intense by the minute. Right now I and my pack along with Scott are trying to figure out just what the hell is going on, and who the hell these new wolves are.

I'm really looking forward to going to Pride in San Francisco this weekend. I've wanted to go to Pride there for awhile, but I've never had the chance until now. It's bound to be a really fun weekend and the fact that we don't actually have to pay for travel is a plus. I'm also glad that the Full Moon was last week.

No contact means no contact. It doesn’t mean no contact except for when you want money. Or when you hear I got taken to the hospital. It means no contact at all. And if you think I didn’t call and report it the second I saw my parent’s number on my call log, then you don’t know me at all. I really hope she has to spend at least one night in jail for it. Knowing her loss of her own comfort is the only thing that will get it through to her I’m not their personal cash machine anymore. And that I don’t want them in my life.

After a very awkward day-date, I'm so glad to be able to use work as an excuse to leave.

Working until bar-close at Pandemonium. Come on down!

[Filtered away from the Sons of Ipswich]

So, I need some advice from the hivemind. My friends are now on the network and obviously that means they're going to start Dreaming. Should I warn them in advance or just wait for them to start Dreaming? I'm not sure if one is better than the other and I'm not sure if they would believe me if I try to tell them what we Dream about.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I just read about how Disneyland Paris made history by having their own Gay Pride Parade! Had I known about this ahead of time, I would have portalled myself, Alexander and anyone else who wanted to go. I wonder if the Disney parks in the states will ever follow suit.

Speaking of PRIDE though, if anyone is interested in attending PRIDE in San Francisco at the end of the month, I'd be happy to open a portal there.

Also, the week of OC Pride, we'll be having events at Pandemonium, but I'm not going to announce what they are just yet. Just expect that Alexander or I will make a post about it before the 15th.

I always wanted to call bullshit on that scene in Jurassic Park where the dinosaur turns the handle for that door because no way could they figure that out. Old Lace has proven me wrong on that. She's started opening the door to my bedroom when I'm not moving fast enough to get her breakfast in the morning and sticking her head in to just...I guess see what's taking me so long?

I'm torn between being proud of her for figuring it out and showing how smart she really is and being annoyed over it because not exactly the wake up I want sometimes. And makes it a little awkward when I've got friends over.

Okay, so maybe using the past three nights to celebrate the end of a semester wasn’t the best idea.

Why is everything so loud and bright?

It figures that Aiden and I are on the evil side in my dreams. And now I have a better idea of what exactly is going on, but it still sucks that we're on the opposing team. Then again, there's also something bigger going on than what we're a part of. At least we don't have anything to do with all those murders, except Boyd's.

Oh my god! This has got to be the funniest thing I've seen all day! I can only imagine this guy's reaction to this cake. (edit: I clearly got too distracted by the cake itself to read the whole article to see that he loved it.)

I recently had a painting commissioned of Alexander and I to put in our office at Pandemonium. I know it sounds a little extra; having a painting done when we simply could have put up a regular picture or something, but I've always been a little extra so we did a painting.

( For Your Viewing Pleasure )

Guess who got a new job?

Training starts today, and I could definitely use people to make drinks for. You'll have to bear with me while I am still learning where everything is and the alcohol to mixer ratios.

Oh yeah, I'm working over at Pandemonium. Kinda excited about this...after my training, I'll be working the slower evenings (Monday & Tuesday), just to make some extra cash.

Also, it goes without saying, this message is for those who are of legal drinking age.

Some time ago, I was gifted by my dreams a beautiful porcelain vase which I had purchased in China for my father, who collected such things. As he has the same inclinations here, I thought that I would send it to him as a surprise gift. It's not every day when one receives such an exquisitely made piece of Chinese porcelain.

Today I received his thank you note in the mail. I suppose a phone call, or even a proper letter, was too much to hope for. It seems as though he was rather pleased with it, which I am glad for. My mother let me know that he has it displayed among the rest of his collection; I hope that I will be able to see for myself sometime soon.

Ugh.

I think I have officially had my first set of "Dreams". It was basically like my regular life except apparently being one of the five founding members of the Ipswich colony is way more important. Our five families have something called "The Power" and they've been keeping it a secret for about 300 years, but passing it and this Book of Damnation down the line of the families. One family disappeared, but the other 4 have always been tight and the ones I know are the same friends I have back home. But apparently we're all warlocks.

I don't feel any different, but I'm kind of nervous about what this means in the future if there's more of these Dreams.

There are so many videos games that came out and I don't have much time to dedicate to playing them. I could always stay up late and sacrifice sleep but is that a fair trade off? There needs to be more hours in the days...or another day added to weekends. Just a suggestion.

Pretty sure my dreams have come to an end. At least it feels that way right now.... But on that note, is there any sort of procedure or something in case disarmed bombs that really would have been useful a few weeks ago show up for safety measures or whatever?

Found one of my employees at the bar skimmin' out of the cash register.

Turns out he's been havin' problems at home. Suspended him for the week and told him next time to come an' talk to me.

I swear, they're both idiots. But they're my idiots.

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I get it. I do. I’m not the smartest out of the group in my Dreams. But I am smart enough to realize that when your parents are criminal masterminds and murder kids in rituals - it’s not safe to stay out in the open. Right? Right. If only I could convince my friends there of that instead of almost coming to blows with Alex over it.

Now that the snow is finally gone, I can get back to work at the site I was working at before December. After all, trying to build a condo in the snow just isn't feasible. I ended up taking a temporary job in San Bernardino so that I'd be able to pay my bills last month, but I'm happy to get back to the site I've become familiar with.

So the neighbor across the hall is starting to piss me off. Believe me, I’m aware that Old Lace can get a little loud with her whining in the middle of the night. I try to get her to quiet as soon as I can. I do not need some old jackass texting me about it disturbing his sleep. That is not why I wrote my number down for your caretaker - it was in case of a goddamn emergency. Believe me though - if she’s waking you up across the hall - what do you think she’s doing to me in the same apartment? And no - I’m not going to get rid of her. While I know that most of my neighbors think that I just have my large dog on some really weird walk schedule, she’s really a raptor and I just don’t think that any of the animal shelters around here are equipped to deal with any breed of dinosaur.

Is it weird if I find all this craziness to be somewhat normal?

Well new one for me - I got told not to dictate by one of my students today after class. They offered to stay after to help clean up - which I don’t need since after my last class I do my personal training and then clean up - but they insisted and I...just wanted to get them out so decided to just let them help to get them out of there. When I asked them to take out one of the bags when they finished what they were doing they got pissed and told me not to dictate to them.

So is this some California thing that I’m not getting because I grew up in New York?

[Note to family - yes this includes you Simon]
Knowing I’ll probably be risking Aunt Maryse’s anger again, I’m missing Christmas with the family here. I’m going to see my parents in New York, introduce them to my boyfriend. Anybody want me to bring them anything? And you’re all getting your Christmas presents late so I can see you open them.

You know, I'm starting to wonder how many times dream!me has to lose an arm. Honestly, I lost my left arm once, then had a metal one. Said metal one then got ripped off in a fight in a recent dream I had. I'm actually a bit relieved that thing is gone since it represented some...very bad things I'd been through. But it's not exactly easy adjusting to having only one arm.

Hey, so my name is Ethan. Not really sure what I'm supposed to do here, but I felt compelled to join when I found it. So what kind of message board is this exactly? Doesn't really have too much information about it, does it? This won't turn out to be some shady black market thing, will it? Would anyone even tell me if it was? Guess I'll just have to wait and find out if this was a huge mistake or not.

The good thing about being from a time zone that is two hours behind local time is that I can use those “extra hours” to completely finish unpacking and decorating my apartment.

The bad thing is that I lose some sleep cause I’m trying to wake up at a normal time here.

Any tips for going to sleep earlier? I’ve tried but I just end up staring at the ceiling.

Still feeling a bit jet lagged...

But I will admit that the view from my new apartment is pretty nice: Photo

Hopefully, I can get into a regular sleep schedule, soon enough.

Had another dream. I can handle the high school stuff and the lacrosse game stuff, but digging up half of a body of a dead girl is a bit much. I really hope I don't have nightmares about it.

[Scott]
Please tell me you're not busy right now.

Didn't think I'd be back here but I'm feeling good about it...

Still got some stuff to move into my apartment but at least, my parents are here to help out with that.

So... DO the dreams just keep repeating themselves? Because one specific scene keeps repeating at night.

Okay... SO I think I know what Scott meant my vivid dreams. Those were some insane dreams I had last night.

Also, seriously who the hell names their kid Stiles???? Dreams are crazy and last night was intense but oh well, that's what dreams are suppose to be. Just nit sure what it means to dream about werewolves?

Also, that Jackson guy is an asshole

Hello? Anyone here?

My weekend of and I set the fucking alarm clock.

"Good habits" my ass.

Single life, and freedom.

How am I spending it? Drinking at my own club.

Who wants to come have a drink?

Dreamed about dying last night. I guess that's the downside to dreams repeating. I did the only thing I could think of to do - Cycled like my life depended on it. My legs feel like jello, now, but I feel a lot better. There's something to be said about physical exertion. It's too bad it can't make bad dreams go away permanently.

It's a new year and I think I need to start making changes to my life.

As much as I like working at DP, cause I have a pretty awesome boss, I think that it's time that I start looking for a job in what I have a degree in. Any help in landing a job in the "computer science" world would be greatly appreciated. It's just time that I get a full-time 'adult' job, you know.

Hope that everyone had a good New Year's Eve.

I have no Christmas plans.

I should be happy about that. It's also the first time I've been single for a long time.

Given all this cold weather, I clearly can't go surfing so I've resorted to staying in and playing videos and putting off searching for a new place

At least, these RPGs are very time consuming and there's some hot cool characters.

I know this is super last minute but does anyone know of any places with 'cheap' rent. I know, this area isn't exactly cheap but my boyfriend roommate left the area and I can't really afford a two-bedroom all by myself.

I really just want a new space and the place I was in before is full.

I'm pretty glad that Thanksgiving is this week. I could really use the time with my family since I haven't seen them in a while. Hopefully Magnus will be able to get me home...otherwise I'm stuck spending the holiday alone I do find it kinda shitty that while we celebrate the day when Native Americans and Europeans came together that all the protesting at Standing Rock is escalating. The irony isn't even funny.

[Filtered to Allison Argent]
I'm sure that you've noticed but Derek's gone.

So hey guys.

I'm Hannah's super embarrassing older brother and I told her I was gonna do this so I'm gonna do this and be the obnoxious older brother that it is in my DNA to be.

So I hear she has some guy friends. Jim and Minato? And I just wanted to say HI!

Come say hi back, introduce yourselves, let's be friends.

Also all other people who are friends with Hannah Washington LET'S ALL BE FRIENDS, I want to meet all of you!

...I don't think I've ever been this scared in my life.

I wonder how Australia is this time of year. Or any time of year.

When you don't need to book flights or need passports or any of that, planning a honeymoon is extremely easy. All we need to do is decide where we want to go and make hotel reservations. If I haven't said it before, I really love being a Warlock sometimes.

Mine and Alec's bachelor party was this weekend and I once again want to thank Dorian, Jace and Izzy for putting it all together. You all went above and beyond what I could have expected.

Well, I was gone, but I'm back again to the same house, and the same classes. And of course, the same dreams, right off the bat.

This place doesn't give you any breaks, does it?

For those I haven't met, I'm Scott McCall, vet tech and student.

I cordially invite all members of Valarnet to a Masquerade Costume Ball being thrown by myself and Vanessa Ives at our home on Halloween night. The ball begins at seven that evening and goes until two the next morning.

I may have started playing Fallout, because I guess I was missing out all this time. I honestly feel like this is our future though. Bartering with bottle caps, fighting giant moles and crabs, dealing with robots, me punching the shit out of everything...

I keep thinking that I could be doing something more productive, but at the same time, I want to keep punching mutant monsters. What is happening to my life?

Nothing like... fighting a lizard man in an arena to try to prove that we're not violent as a species. Or something. And before that I fought the child of gods, and encountered a planet that responded to your every wish and thought. Even the ones you didn't want to see come to pass.

Is it inappropriate to buy your werewolf boyfriend this shirt?

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Personally, I think it suits Derek. :P