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Anakin was a cat again, which was a little concerning so soon after the last time? But it changed Rey's day up enough that instead of working in the warehouse, she'd taken inspiration from radio and headed to the park for some drills. The weather wasn't awful- though she appreciated the weather everyone else hated even though it did interesting things to her hair- and sometimes it was just nice to do this outside. Maybe she needed to start getting back to the beach, too.

So if you needed Rey, she'd be out here, swinging a lightsaber around and enjoying not dealing with woodland creatures that seemed to think they owned the place.

(The squirrels were fine.)

[Open!]

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There was a dressing room set up in the park today. No, neither Cara nor Jane had actually set it up, it'd just appeared through the force of ~the vision~, which was handy, because Cara had not been able to locate a seamstress the previous day.

"Is that a giant head?" Jane whispered, looking over at the costumes on hangers, just waiting for the class to check out. "Never mind. Hi! Well, it's costuming time. Because apparently costumes are the best way to get into character. Even if the costumes are... I think... stolen from the Wednesday event?"

Yes. The answer was yes "I wouldn't know, I try to avoid the park on Wednesdays." Was there an implied judgement about people who didn't follow her example? Also yes.

"It's not that bad," Jane said, possibly incorrectly.

"There's a hippo costume," Cara pointed out.

"There is a hippo costume," Jane admitted with a sigh. "Maybe don't pick that one."

"There's probably something suitable," Cara said. Suitable for what, Cara? Suitable for what?

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Yes, yes, I know it's not my normal day. Steve's busy in New York today. Don't worry, I'm not replacing him.

*sad porg noises*

I'm not even going to address that. Let's just get started so I can get to joining him. At the school, the The Wonderful World of Pizza covered the California style of pizza. Which... exists. I'll grant them that. Better than Chicago at least. Finding More New Hobbies watched TV in a very relaxed class. shift while Eleanor stopped in to catch up about classes and how the summer was going.

Over in town we had Steven working on fliers at the museum. Pam was at the Perk and very particular about her coffee before telling Remy to be nice to Harley since she'd just had a rough break up. Adrian also suggested chicory coffee even though it's without caffeine and therefore useless to anyone ever. Atton worked out with his light sword at the park. Liz finished up spreadsheets at the Photo Hut. The worst part of running a business here.

Supper Club went for Chilly Boulder to deal with the summer heat. Rey and Lydia talked about manners or the lack thereof. Flint received the assistance of Rey in picking the right ice cream flavor before discussing how rare the treat was back home with Lydia. Thor went with frozen drinks as the theme over at the Devil's Nest. Remy brought some beignets to Harley to cheer her up after the breakup news from Pam mentioned before. Very sweet of him, honestly. Luma had snacks and magazines to occupy her time at Pixie Dust. And last, Steven put up the fliers he'd been making for a party next week.

But that's all there is! Definitely more than on Sundays. Steve will just owe me one. Ciao, Fandom!

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The windows of Needful Things were plastered with handmade signs saying things like "BIG SALE" and "EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!!" Which was not at all influenced by recent events, except for entirely.

Harley had spent a good chunk of the previous day trying to overhaul her entire apartment upstairs. Now her place was even more of a chaotic mess than it already had been, but at least nothing that wasn't bolted down was where it had started out. A lot of it now also wasn't anywhere it made any sense, and her bed was currently kind of wedged in a doorway but whatever, she'd deal with it later. Because that day, it was the store's turn.

Hence the attractive signage on the windows. Trying to reorganize the entire store seemed like a lot of work, so Harley's thinking was she could just try and and sell off as much as she humanly could, and then just restock the entire place until it no longer reminded her of coming home from things that hadn't been dates, or that one time just barely away from the view of the windows she'd --

Anyway!

Change was good, right? So good.

You could tell just how good by how a record player was blaring, and Harley was belting "Iiiiiiii AIN'T got noBOOOODY --!" right along with it.

(open!)

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"Let's talk about what to do if somebody's bleeding," Don told his students. "It's probably the first thing you think of when it comes to first aid, right? What is it moms tell their kids? 'Don't bother me unless somebody's bleeding.'" Did moms tell their kids that? It seemed like they did, but Don had never been a kid. (It was fine. He was fine about it.)

( Medical talk and talk of blood under here. )

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Watts was spending today cleaning out his email inbox.

Which mostly meant forwarding requests to the mayor's office, because the Trooper Station, despite the best efforts of certain people, was not responsible for any amendments to the island's recycling programme and the like. Nor was it the appropriate venue for complaints regarding loose cobblestones.

And yet. There were so, so many emails along those lines. So many.

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"My apologies about last week," Lana began. "I had a sudden call from home. Hopefully I can make up for it this week with our trip to Jemaa el-Fnaa in Morocco. It's been named an international heritage site, and has been in use for centuries by both locals and tourists. It's got merchants, entertainers, and more, all in one area. We'll be getting there slightly before sundown, and we'll have two and a half hours, so we should get to see the best of both worlds. Enjoy!"

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The timing was - well, awkward. But Llewellyn's birthday would be soon upon them so best to get the word out. Which was why after work Steven did a walk around the island and hung up posters:

BEACH PARTY

FRIDAY, 8TH AUGUST
STARTING AT 4PM THROUGH THE EVENING

CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAY OF LLEWELLYN WATTS
AND THE MARRIAGE OF LLEWELLYN WATTS AND STEVEN GRANT

ALL ARE WELCOME

AT THE BEACH BEHIND THE MIDNIGHT MANOR BOARDING HOUSE

DRESS FOR BEACHY FUN

[Establishy but open if anyone wants to bump into Steven]

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Luma had brought some extra snacks from class with her to work that day, which meant not doing much work once she got there because she wouldn't want to get dirty snacky fingers on any of the nice clothes! So it was a good excuse to just sort of laze about behind the counter, idly flipping through fashion magazines instead.

Not that she ever needed an excuse to do that, but it was good to have it there just in case anyone got all up in a tiff about it.

Pixie Dust is open!

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“I was a koala last week, as you know,” Stark said. “I hope Summer didn’t traumatize any of you too much with her food choices. She can do that. Often. That’s just how she is. But it was good of her to take over while I was a bear that isn’t really a bear.”

Stark was very happy to be himself once more. Koalahood wasn’t terrible, at least, but he liked being Stark-shaped.

“This week we’ll do something different. Something less likely to horrify anyone.”

It was a low bar to clear, admittedly.

“Some hobbies are more passive than others. Sometimes you have things like camping, or cooking, where you have to do a lot. Sometimes you have things like reading, or like watching movies. Or television. That’s what we’re doing today.”

That’s right. It was time for movie day! Well, TV day. Close enough.

“There are so many things to watch and it’s easy to spend a lot of time doing just that. But some things are even educational, or at least they pretend to be. One of my favorite things to watch is programs about food. Cooking, or baking. And that ties in with the last two weeks as well. So, we’ll be watching episodes of Good Eats. One called ‘Art of Darkness’ about chocolate. And one called ‘Deep Space Slime’ about…well…gelatin.”

Because it was funny, ok?

“So. Let’s watch some television. There are snacks, even popcorn.”

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The library was not a mess this week, there were no stray feathers, and even the gremlins seemed calm.

Actually, the gremlins were just asleep as Belle discovered when she did a walkthrough of the stacks. Some had borrowed the blankets that were theoretically for Gray.

Today would be a quiet day, she decided. Shelving could wait. She would just sit and read and hope no gremlins were disturbed by anyone else.

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Let's get this over with, I have less than a day to find a seamstress.

In School news, Anakin took a break from his Shenangiansin favour of creating an impromptu waterpark, where he invited all the minglers to play. reports vary on how many people took him up on that.

Arden had to deal with pranks in the Library, but Gray was very glad to see she was no longer a bird.

Nothing for the Dorms, while in Town, Ignis was forcing his friends to help him burn off excess energy at the Creepy Mansion, but luckily Liliana saved them by turning back into a person and we can all guess what happened next, so, no, Leroy I did not need these drawings.

Quinn fed the chair pizza at the Infinite Consortium, a sentence I'm sure makes sense in a context I don't want to know, and at Pick You Poison, Harley was 'a mess'...

Do I even need this many quotes?

*chittering*

Journalistic integrity? Since when?

Harley was a 'a mess' at Pam who assured her it wasn't on her that Marc is "an idiot asshole who needs to deal with his toxic masculinity rather than play the martyr", also Adrian was naked and they all had icecream. I'm giving the porg your beat next week.

Finally, at Caritas, everything was coming up brandy, apparently. Raiden made his first visit in a while, also there were Rey, Atton, and Stark who was no longer a koala.

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They had reached a certain point in the summer, Thor felt. A point where being direct and to the point would be appreciated more than anything else.

Also, ice. Ice would be appreciated.

Specials
Anything Frozen

The Devil's Nest is open!

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It was, if you asked Lydia, officially Too Hot. Too Hot for hot food, in fact, which was why she had sent out missives by the means most likely to reach people that the Supper Club would be convening today at Chilly Boulder. If you wanted actual nutrition from your supper, you were thus advised to eat in advance. Otherwise, Lydia found ice cream for supper a perfectly acceptable choice at this juncture.

Now to decide what combination of flavors she wanted. Some of them had fruit in them! Fruit was healthy!

Welcome to Supper Club, everyone! It's ice cream!

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Once Raiden's students had gathered at Portalocity this week, he ushered them through said portal onto the streets of Berkeley, California. "All right," he said with an enthusiastic clap. "As pizza continued its journey across the United States, it inevitably reached the west coast, and California-style pizza was born. No one can really agree on the origins of California-style pizza, as it was more or less simultaneously invented by three different restaurants: Ed LeDou's Prego in San Francisco, Wolfgang Puck's Spago in Beverly Hills, and Alice Waters' groundbreaking farm-to-table Chez Panisse--" Raiden held out his hands in a 'ta-da' sort of gesture toward the restaurant they were standing in front of "--right here in the funky college town of Berkeley. Prego doesn't exist any more and Spago only does dinner--and doesn't currently serve pizza. Chez Panisse doesn't serve pizza in the main restaurant, either, but they do have a few on their cafe menu, so that's where we'll be dining today.

"Now, California-style pizza is distinguished by its thin, crispy crust and creative use of ingredients you didn't used to find on pizzas, like goat cheese and chicken. It really helped people to realize the sky is the limit, toppings-wise, and that's why we salute it. You can find California-style pizza all over the country these days, most notably at the chain California Pizza Kitchen, but for now, let's head into the Chez Panisse cafe and have some lunch--uh, don't...don't look at the prices. I'm covering this. And after that you can explore the town of Berkeley!"

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It was the end of the month so Liz’s main focus when she came downstairs that morning was working on finishing the last of the end of month reports and spreadsheets before she could start setting up the admin set up for August.

There was still a fair bit of work to finish off for the past month before she got started on next month’s work, so it was taking her most of the morning to complete what she needed to.

[The Photo Hut is open!]

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The last couple of weeks had been kind of a blur of touring, music, life beyond the island - apparently just Summer-not-being-here had been enough to sever much of Jack's mental and emotional connection to the island and everything it represented. He supposed that somewhere, that was a good thing; that he should probably stop giving in to the urge to come back here at all, to this near-masochistic urge to poke at the shadows of his old life.

Still. One of the things he'd learned in his time as a (active? He still hadn't figured out how he thought of himself in that capacity, yet) Jedi was the importance of feeling present. In your body, in the moment, in the galaxy. And he didn't want to give up his presence on the island yet.

So. Lightsaber practice in the park. Seemed like a good way to put himself back in his body and back in the environment. He picked a quiet spot with good visibility - didn't want to chop anyone's head off by accident - and lit his blades with a snap-hiss. "Let's start with some Soresu," he muttered to himself, slid into a stance, and started moving.

The strain on his muscles, the sound of the birds in the trees, the wear of the humidity on his skin - it wasn't all comfortable, no. But it was grounding.

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A call to Janet that morning hadn't brought Pam the news she'd wanted; her Harley still wasn't home. Between that and the more recent, vivid memories of a crying Harley on her doorstep, a hint of concern was starting to creep in.

"Harley can handle herself," she muttered to herself, as she shuffled up to the counter at the Perk. She didn't come here often, but right now she needed something. "I want a--"

The barista took one look at her face and said, "We'll get the special coffee from the back."

"'Special coffee'," Pam muttered, watching her flee. "It's not 'special', it's just not murder coffee." Did she need to have the biodiversity talk with the staff again? Maybe she did.

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Current Music: 'Boys Wanna Fight', Garbage

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It was a somewhat subdued Steven who arrived at work that day. Difficult not to approach his spot behind the Welcome Desk and think about the conversation he'd had there the week prior.

Still, nothing to be done about it. He could focus on his work and helping anyone who popped by and needed it. That was enough of a distraction.

Well that and working on some fliers. But those were only during his breaks, honest.

[open]

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I do not care if he is a koala I am an eagle and that does not stop me from communicating! How dare you!

Once again, I, Sam Eagle, have been forced by squirrels to read you the news of yesterday as seen through their tiny rodent eyes.

At the school, the class on Beach built sand castles. At least that is a wholesome activity. In Paintball! somehow Captain Rogers’s team lost which is an outrage! My class was canceled because I was unavoidably detained and there is no reason to look into that further!

Nothing from the dorms but the young porg is bearing up well under the circumstances.

Now, let us discuss the town. It seems the objectionable bartender at Caritas was making inappropriate suggestions to Kitty. Shameful behavior, sir!

In less shameful behavior, Remy kept his pets at home instead of bringing them to work with him. Well done, young man. He seems to have been rewarded with pizza.

Finally, Marc was at the coffee shop for, we must assume, coffee though he did peruse the available pastries as well.
He was then joined by Harley who walked into a door. That sounds painful. I recommend against it in the future, young lady! Their conversation involved bikes and then breaking up because someone thought he knew better and sir I recommend against that as well. And it all ended in tears which seems unnecessary for the squirrels to have reported on and I regret my part in reading it!

Thankfully we are finished and I will not be punished with this nonsense in future weeks.

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The Continuing Adventures of Barry Ween

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The park- Friday afternoon

Drama in the Park-a-Rama [Friday, Period One]

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Needful Things; Friday

First Aid 2: First Aider, Friday, Period 3

Trooper Station, Friday

Markets of the World(s), 2nd period

Around Town, Thursday Evening

Pixie Dust; Thursday [07/31].

Finding (More) New Hobbies, Thursday Period 2

Library, Thursday 7/31

WTFH - Fandom Radio [Thurs, July 31st]

The Devil's Nest, Thursday Evening

Chilly Boulder, Thursday Evening

The Wonderful World of Pizza, Thursday, Period 3

The Photo Hut - Thursday

The Park, Thursday Afternoon

The Perk, Thursday Morning

Fandom Island Museum, Thursday Daytime

Fandom Radio, Wednesday 7/30

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