Starbuck

So... I'm leaving Halcyon tomorrow. It's a lot sooner than I'd expected, but it can't be avoided. Lani's best friend, who is like family to her, really needs some help. Her father suffered a heart attack, and Lani is leaving for Japan today to help run the family business. I'm going with her. I gotta be wherever my daughter is.

I'm not sure when I'll return to Halcyon, if ever. I'd like to come back, seeing as I have a lot left to learn, but family comes first. So, I'm packing up my stuff tonight and catching a flight tomorrow. I'd like to see some of you before I leave, but I don't know if time will allow to say proper goodbyes to everyone. Most of you have my number and email. Don't be strangers.

( Private: Kat )

Life is so fucking complicated sometimes. Get a great day off school to enjoy yourself, and shit lands in your lap. Lame.

( Private: Cissy )

( Love is far too fleeting )

( Box left outside Kat's room )

( Private: Kim )

( Private: Kat )

( Delivered to Wes's room )

( Delivered to Cassandra's room )

I'll be leaving school for the weekend to make a trip to NYC. Any requests from those of you from that area?

( Private: Cissy )

( Private: Lani )

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( Private: Lani )

"The secret pit of the ocean holds a universe of tangled infinities." - Joseph MacInnis

Tangled is right. And they'll trip you up if you're not careful. Sometimes... it's like I've engaged the Infinite Improbability Drive. Because life's twists and turns are so unexpected, it doesn't seem possible that anything is planned. Though, it's a good thing. Definitely. Surprises are the marrow of life... and while I don't eat meat, or chew on bones as a dog would, I've always thought Thoreau really was onto something with that whole 'sucking' philosophy.

What are my fellow Americans doing to celebrate the Fourth? I'm obviously not a fan of fire, but fireworks are always fun. Might have to buy a few wimpy little snaps.

( Hey there daddy )

[sent in the morning]

( Private: Lani )

( Private: Ada )

( Private: Kalli )

( Email: Taylor )

[sent in the evening]

( Email: Kat )

( Email: Selene )

( Email to Starbuck )

( Private: Ada )

First day of classes DONE! And, you know, they went alright. I dropped Magic Use: Water and Science: All Forms. Water, well, I'm never gonna be that great with controlling it, and I think it's better if I focus my energy on healing. And science, while I love it, isn't something I need to learn here.

Anyway, I'm sticking with Magic Use: Energy/Light/Life, and I picked up Energies/Emotions: How to Control as well as Basic Physical Combat. Glad that combat is my last class of the day, because I think it'll be a great stress release to help me decompress and then do my homework. After dinner of course. Fuck, I was so hungry today after that class!

So how did everyone else do their first day back?

( Private: Selene )

Been back for more than 24 hours now, and I'm still not feeling in sync with things. My sense of time is out of whack, and it's almost as though I'm a new kid all over again. How the hell did two weeks at home do that to me? Maybe this place just has never and will never feel like a home away from home. I like it at Halcyon and all, but it always feels like something's missing.

That said... it's weird to come here and essentially vanish as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Being at Halcyon makes me feel like J.D. Salinger, if that makes any sense. Though I have infinitely less privacy at school... which makes it impossible to become a recluse. You think if I put a 'do not disturb' sign around my neck every so often, when I need some space, people will actually mind it?

Anyway, missed a lot of you. Some, not so much (you know who you are, and I doubt you missed me either). Anything major change while I was away?

Oh, and I did manage to pick up a little color, but I'm not about to brag about being tan or insist upon running around shirtless like everyone else seems so keen to do.

( Private: Wes )

( Text to Kat )

( Email to Ada )

( Email to Kat )

( Email to Kalli )