| Please help - telepathic artist needed |
[October 29th, 2010 | 19.27] |
[Cross-posted to various Ann Arbor/Scarlet Oak and Michigan related forums, including Craigslist]
I am looking for a telepath with skill as a sketch-artist - specifically, human faces. I need a certain face sketched, and I will pay well for your time.
Please message for more information.
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| time to take action ((text to Gabe)) |
[September 28th, 2010 | 16.10] |
11:34am
Are you busy today?
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| this can't be ((early morning text to Gabe)) |
[June 24th, 2010 | 21.30] |
7:08 am
Where are you? Are you okay? What happened?
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| heart don't fail me now - text to Ransom |
[March 21st, 2010 | 14.16] |
( Sent late-night. )
I need to talk to you as soon as the sun comes up. I love you. -Charlie
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| ready for tomorrow! [online public LJ entry] |
[July 14th, 2009 | 21.42] |
Just wanted to let everyone know that we're still on and ready for tomorrow. If everyone meets here at 9 AM, we can load everyone's gear in the bed of the truck and set out relatively early. We'll get to the lake around lunchtime and fun!
See you guys tomorrow. :)
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| a camping we will go! pt2 [online public LJ entry] |
[June 30th, 2009 | 23.46] |
Posting this here so I (and the tons of replies) don't spam everyone inboxes like the last giant email. Also, just in case anyone else wants in.
We're good to go! The trip is set. We're leaving Tuesday morning, and coming back on Thursday. Here's all the details, and please let me know if you have questions or there's things I didn't cover.
We're going to Higgins Lake, which is about 190 miles up north. It'll be about a three hour drive. The site we're going to is a large chunk of wilderness my mom owns in the woods, pretty close to the shore. Everything is clean and safe, my mom and I have been going there for years.
At this point we have 6 vehicles and drivers (me driving an SUV, Gabe driving a truck, Myra driving an SUV, Lily driving a jeep, Madock driving his car, and Tilly's boyfriend driving a van), so there is plenty of room for everybody. Some people are bringing their own tents, but I'll be packing quite a few extra, so don't worry about that.
I'm also gonna handle packing a lot of the food and various camping supplies, but with 15 (give or take) teenagers... you can never have enough food. Or coolers.
I'm thinking if we all meet at my house at 9 AM on Tuesday, we can pack up and leave by 9:30. It'd be nice to get there early enough to get camp set up and then be able to have fun and relax the rest of the day. :)
I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff. I've never organized something like this. So feel free to ask questions and point out where I fail.
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| late morning text to Ransom - boyfriend needed |
[June 20th, 2009 | 21.09] |
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I know you're working today but can we get together when you're off? <3 Charlie
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| a slightly religious experience [private, handwritten entry] |
[June 20th, 2009 | 00.32] |
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June 5, 2009
Today is graduation day for the seniors (most importantly, to me, including Ransom and Gabe). But there was another milestone in my life today, besides the boyfriend graduating. Today I went to the clinic and got birth control.
It was certainly an experience. And kind of terrifying. I kept expecting to run into someone I know, and for them to point at me and make accusations. Mid accusations maybe my mother would show up crying and asking God where she went wrong. Thankfully, neither of these things happened. I signed in and took a seat in the mostly empty waiting room. There was only one other person in there, a girl around my age I'd never seen before. She asked me if I was there for an abortion, too.
To my credit, I didn't get up and haul it on out the door as fast as I could, like I wanted to. Boy, did I want to. It was physically hard not to. That or cry. I talked to her a little bit. She lives in another township and her boyfriend took her here so no one would recognize her. I found it kind of crummy that the jerk wouldn't at least wait with her. What a pig. I felt very relieved in knowing that my boyfriend was nothing like that.
That aside, it went fine. I was in and out in a half hour, and none of the horrifying things I'd imagined actually happened. People didn't glare at me or seem to judge me, my mom has no idea, my Sunday school teacher didn't show up (what she'd be doing in Scarlet Oak, I have no idea, but I had that nightmare last night). . . and I am now on birth control.
Every once in a while I still can't believe that this is happening, and that I feel ready. I feel weird for not. . . feeling weirder. I have been a 'good kid' all my life. I went to church twice a week until I was a teenager, and then at least on Sundays until we moved here and I got a social life. I even felt bad when I stopped going to church. And then, at the same time, I felt bad that I didn't feel bad enough.
I believe in God. But I've always felt like my God was different from the Bible God. When I was five and one of the kittens in a litter we had died, I was crushed, and I asked the pastor if he thought my grandpa would take care of her in Heaven. He told me animals have no souls and don't go to Heaven. Hearing that was more crushing than the death of the kitten itself. How could someone so in touch with God believe such a thing? Clearly, he had never been comforted by a cocker spaniel when you felt like everyone your age hated you or thought you were a freak, or had a cat rub against you and purr when you were feeling down.
That was the start of knowing that my God was different. My God doesn't look at any creature as an inferior species. My God doesn't discriminate against someone for race, ethnicity, sexuality, or social standing. My God is good, forgiving, and absolutely loving. And I don't think my God will care for me any less if I have sex with Ransom. He gave us these instincts. And I'm not being stupid or irresponsible about it. Plus, I know Ransom and I are going to be together forever. I know every teenager in love thinks that, but you have to admit, when it's with a werewolf, the odds are in your favor.
Moral of the story: even if I'm a bad Christian, I'm not a dumb one. My Sunday school teacher might think I'll burn in hell, but at least I had enough of a brain not to end up another statistic.
Time to get ready for graduation. I'm so happy for them.
Charlie
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| a camping we will go! [online public LJ entry] |
[June 17th, 2009 | 00.39] |
I'm planning a camping trip for next week! My mom owns a few acres of wilderness on Higgins Lake, and I go every year. This year I'm only taking with friends. :) So far I know Ransom, Jessalyn, and Gabe are going, and Gabe was going to ask Claire and Madock. Does anyone else want to go? I have most of the supplies needed, including extra tents and sleeping bags. I just need an idea of how many people I'm going to have so I can coordinate schedules and set dates. Let me know if you want in!
I might need more people to drive, too. I'm gonna switch cars with my mom for the trip, so I can fit six people or so, but maybe not comfortably with all the supplies.
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| Mercy [private, handwritten entry] |
[May 27th, 2009 | 23.46] |
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June 3, 2009
I am still in awe over the twenty-four hours I’ve had. Yesterday I went to pet a fox and it ended up being Mercy Benoit. She’s in much better condition than I ever thought she would be. She stayed the night here, the police didn’t want to announce right away that she’d been found.
The house is a madhouse right now. TONS of police and social workers. I wanted to stay home, in case Mercy wanted someone her age around, but it’s Ransom and Gabe’s last day . . . I ended up going to school, but I feel bad for it. I keep texting Mom to see how she’s doing.
I wonder what will happen to her? Will she stay here in Michigan? She’s such a sweet girl. She doesn’t deserve what happened to her. Her poor family. She seems really nervous. She has every right to be.
This is going to be SUCH A LONG DAY.
Charlie
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| we'll miss you!! [online LJ entry, viewable to friends and SOARU members] |
[May 27th, 2009 | 23.36] |
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I can't believe it's the last day for seniors already! We're going to miss you guys. :)
Since tomorrow's just a half-day for the rest of us, I was thinking about having a pool party at my house. We opened it up over the weekend. So if anyone is interested, come on over at around 3. We'll swim and bbq and have fun.
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