The Summer is done and gone, and blowing away on September breezes.
Aren't we all returned to this place--
Eyes lit with concentration and dark with passing--
To re-light the hearthfires banked, dusty in the Autumn?
Welcome home we ragged travellers, a place new-made
Here again, and again in the recurrence of its people;
The spring re-fed from lost and ( Read more... )

[OOC- This is of course backdated to the day after all the whatnot in the tunnels]

Almost all the involved parties having departed, I have nothing to say to anyone.

I intend to sleep until I don't have to anymore.

(In Ava's journal, scrawled in pen fading in and out--as if doubting every word.)

This campus is wound up tight like a watchspring--especially in the dorms, and this whole deal with Florence going back and forth has been making my house so...shaking in the eaves, even. Everyone is pissed and irritable even in Getty I can't even think about the dorms ( Read more... )

Left on Woody's answering machine:

Thursday after break:
"Hey lover, just Ava here, wondering if we're meeting up tonight...Haven't heard back from you since break darling, and let me tell you, I have discovered the most incredible recipe, and it will knock your socks off. To say nothing of other things! Shall we to your place? This requires a... ( Read more... )

There is so much going on! On so many levels, despite the wind and the weather, the snow and sky above...

Busy trying to get this BRO initiative invested with the business locals. That's at least going pretty well (Ailey, have you stopped by and tried our 'Screw Walmart, Save Bartleby' dark roast blend this week? Nina and I decided we'd switch 'em ( Read more... )

Unimaginably bothered by the prospect of the presence of a Wal-Mart in my community. Consider the places that make a place unique, the shape and frame and bones of a small town's life. (Genius locus, genie loco.)  I count it a minor miracle that Belly Beans has thus far prevailed against the encroachment of Starbucks. And let me tell you, it was a ( Read more... )

Name:  Ava Vishnupriya Butler

Gender: Female
Previous Incarnation: William Butler Yeats

Journal Name: centre_hold
Character Age and Birth Date: August 10, 1990

Played By:  Norah Jones

Year in School: Sophomore

Major/Minor Course of Study:

Major- Comparative Literature

Minor- Comparative Religion

Classes: ENG 304 Myth and Myth ( Read more... )

We are waifs and we are strays…

Closing three shifts this week at Beans, 1 down, two to go. One for sorrow, two for joy-not that counting cups is joyful. Meditative, maybe. Perhaps more narrative, actually. The theories left on tabletops-like double-shot-soy-latte-extra-milk guy, who always makes starbursts out of spilled drops of brew (like he's ( Read more... )