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Call me dull, but I'm glad that the holiday season is on the way out. Do you know how quiet the Department is the week before the New Year? I felt nearly extinct. I whistled walking down the hall. No one was there to note the event. Wonderful.

I'm not given to the sentiment of a fresh start - though not opposed to it - but as I stare down the beginning of my year and a half here in Vallo, it's less about the new and more about the realization that this is, for lack of more articulate notions, my home now. I've been in low-key panic mode due to the situation in Quur, and the longer I'm here, the more distant it feels. Oh, I'm sure another pack of memories will be content to hit me like a Frye sometime in the future, but until then... here I am.

For anyone other Vallo long-timer - or indeed those who have lived in multiple dimensions at the whim of a fickle force - when do you feel as if you're home?

[ Filtered to Thieves Players ]
I suppose it wouldn't be an imposition if I were to host a Thieves game next week, I meant to have one well before the holidays but time got well away from me.
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[ Filtered to Sabrina ]
I was wondering if we might have a chat sometime this week - potentially after the Outlander coven meeting. I have an offer of potential employment, if you're interested. It would serve as an excellent educational, networking, and distraction possibility.
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Fuck you very much, Vallo.

[ FILTERED TO NANDOR ]
Flipped that vase we got for a few grand, but I'm up for continuing this for bigger scores if you are, Batman.

WHO: Rasalas Black & Eliot Waugh
WHEN: Today sometime
WHERE: Quidditch Pitch
WHAT: Showing Eliot how to fly
TRIGGERS: TBD
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TEXT MESSAGES TO CAROLINE FORBES

»Can I offer hugs, wine, distractions, bad tv, anything?

How do you put a cat and a space wolf in time out? Asking for me.

[ FILTERED TO VOLTRON ]
I got the kitchen cleaned up finally, but Al Catpone and Kosmo teamed up to get into the fridge and now we have no usable food. So if either one of you have requests, speak now while I'm at the grocery store.

[ FILTERED TO TAKASHI SHIROGANE ]
Okay, so I came into a bit of money. When you see the bump in our house fund statements, don't worry about it.

The calendar is telling me it's January 4th, but I am still sort of wrapping my head around having come from summer break to just going through the holidays without. It feels a bit like cheating and also a bummer, considering it means having skipped Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Al, we might have to have January Thanksgiving.

But it's somehow been about a month since I got here and I've stopped being surprised every time I wake up and I'm not in my bed back home, so I think we're getting somewhere. Even if that somewhere means I have to wait nearly a year before carving a pumpkin.

Quick poll. If I volunteered to organize a game of Capture the Flag this weekend, how many people would be interested in playing?

HAZEL

Just checking in. Been awhile since we talked.

I can't say I ever really expected to start a new year in a place like this, but I'm damn grateful for it.

YELENA
I just spent a ridiculous amount of money buying presents for Mango at the pet store. When is a good time to stop by and see you?