4\/16\/25<\/span><\/p>\n Dear friend,<\/span><\/p>\n Sorry I haven\u2019t written in a while. I can\u2019t sleep, I\u2019m scared. Today started out really great, I got a bunch of cool stuff at the trade blanket, but then I went to class and the storm rolled in. The sky turned red, like when there\u2019s a lot of wildfires, but there aren\u2019t any. Then there was this terrible thunder, like the whole world was angry. I\u2019ve never been awake during an earthquake here, but I guess I have now. Elle, Faye, Colin and I all hid under the table like you\u2019re supposed to in an earthquake. I got a little scraped up on some broken glass but [redacted] patched me up with the first aid kit at home. I went with my tablemates to go get the Gobbies\u2019 cat Tarot and headed to the HCC, which was really crowded. I found my roommates and we went to sit outside and stare at the sky, like when we watched the northern lights together. When we saw the northern lights I remember saying that I understood why ancient humans invented religion, and I felt that again but deeper, in a much more dreadful part of my soul. I held [redacted]\u2019s hand. It\u2019s almost 4 a.m right now, we all dragged our mattresses out to the living room to sleep, and we finished off the bagged wine in the fridge. I already took two melatonin gummies, but it\u2019s just one of those nights where I can\u2019t sleep. I\u2019m too scared to go on a walk by myself, and I don\u2019t want to wake anyone, so I guess I\u2019ll just keep trying.<\/span><\/p>\n Yours,<\/span><\/p>\n Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n Dear friend,<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been really hectic since last I wrote. To be honest, I haven\u2019t left the apartment much. It\u2019s been all misty, which I normally like, but now it\u2019s just unsettling. I go to the Greenery for food with my people, I don\u2019t go anywhere alone anymore, but I don\u2019t have much of an appetite anymore. If all else fails, we have all of [redacted]\u2019s canned goods and the goose and turkey jerky. We all put our mattresses back in our rooms, but we fall asleep in the living room a lot more. At least we\u2019re finally playing some of the board games I brought with me, and I finished reading The Hobbit. People have been trying (and failing) to get through the mist. I have not been among them. People have also been radioing Olympia(?), but everything is all garbley and impossible to understand. I don\u2019t have much else to update you on, I guess. We were talking about having a party in the woods, but there\u2019s been a few injuries and scary stories about beasts there, which I previously would have brushed off, but now feel inclined to believe.<\/span><\/p>\n Yours,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n 05\/16\/25 (??)<\/span><\/p>\n Dear friend,<\/span><\/p>\n Sorry it\u2019s been a while, I feel like I always say that, but things just keep happening and it\u2019s overwhelming and I\u2019ve been finding it hard to find time to write. I also have brain scramblies from going into the fog- don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be going back anytime soon. Especially with the deer getting bigger and scarier, I\u2019ve seen some gnarly stuff. Freaky plants have been popping up around campus, which [redacted] is really excited about, and I guess I am too because a lot of them are edible and I was getting so sick of squirrel meat. We had a workshop making weapons, which was a lot easier than I thought it would be, and I feel a lot safer armed with my new sickle, which I made partially because that\u2019s what my DnD character has. We\u2019ve been playing DnD more often, all of us have a lot more free time on our hands without class, and we could all use escapism a lot more right now. A little part of me is very happy about that even though the apocalypse had to happen to get it. Part of me just wants to go back to normal, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll ever truly go back, and part of me just wants things to wind up okay and for me and my friends to be safe. I think everything\u2019s going to be okay. Maybe in a few years when you\u2019re cleaning your room you\u2019ll find this and remember the time almost fondly, I hope so. Maybe I don\u2019t have to worry about getting a job anymore, who knows.<\/span><\/p>\n Yours,<\/span><\/p>\n Jordan<\/span><\/p>\n Dear friend, April 16th, The Day It Happened 4\/16\/25 Dear friend, Sorry I haven\u2019t written in a while. I can\u2019t sleep, I\u2019m scared. Today started out really great, I got a bunch of cool stuff at the trade blanket, but then I went to class and the storm rolled in. 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May 16th-June 1st<\/h2>\n
June 2nd-June 9th<\/h2>\n
Things continue to be weird, before I wouldn’t have thought I could live in a situation like this but I guess you don\u2019t always know what you\u2019re capable of before you have to do it. I still haven\u2019t ventured back into the fog, and the people coming back are getting weirder and weirder. We\u2019ve been trying to figure out how to help them, but not much luck yet. I\u2019m optimistic though, I have to be otherwise I\u2019d probably go insane and rip all my hair out. In other unrelated but awesome news, a lot of the animals in the woods other than the deer are much friendlier, they come right up to you, let you pet them. Once again the apocalypse sucks, but it is pretty cool. Silver lining, I guess. I made friends with a murder of crows, they follow me around sometimes, sit outside my window and wake me up in the morning, they even bring me little trinkets. Yesterday one of them brought me a little necklace. I wonder who it belonged to before he gave it to me.
Yours,
Jordan<\/p>\n
P.S I\u2019ve been thinking about making my crows little bracelets so I can tell them apart and actually name all of them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"