Re:New email, huh?

Blakey (BlakeBelladonna92)

to me | 3:18 AM (2 hours ago)

No, I don't work for a publishing company.

I work at Atlas Technical Solutions as an assistant to an assistant software engineer. It's a nine to five white walls and glass cubicles, Standing desks are all the rage and I can feel pressure building in my knuckles by the time we get off. I never thought I'd be using java passed updating Menagerie's website, and yet there I am reading fan fiction while I'm suppose to be growing a MongoDB database.

If you're worried, Menagerie's still running. Velv's living the dream on the back of unpaid interns. It was time to grow up, face the real world. Volunteering at a literary press just didn't match up, and even if writing accounting software feels like peeling off my nails, it's the best opportunity I'm going to get with my degree. About time to get crushed beneath the hammer of capitalism. Lol

Sorry It's my turn to have a few drinks, we're celebrating one of Ruby's tests with her classmate Weiss. I'm the shitty plus one on her phone the entire night. Despite just being one year, the sea of difference between us, a graduate and a student feels insurmountable right now. I've never felt so old, listening to them moan about midterms. When did I become an old lady, grey and destitute? Lol What am I talking about.

I told her btw. We both were looking for cheaper places, my works near campus, right on the riverbank. Found a great two bedroom right over the highway, near the imperial arms apartments and goose hollow. She's easy to live with, despite the energy rush. She keeps things clean, aside from the hurricane rampage that is her room. We all have fears, being dependent on someone else is finally one I'm getting over. Maybe.

I'm glad you're being quite realistic about this. You've always been a bit of a quagmire of maturity and immaturity and I mean that as well as it can be. Be careful on the roads, are you use to snow driving? I remember taking the wheel for most of our trips to Mt. Hood. I don't think I'm going this winter. Just don't have the time.

And all we ever hear about the southeast is it being a bunch of red necks. Not that I believed it. Just another blind spot in the corner of my mind.

Don't worry about what your dad says. It's nothing bad, just a few lines when he comes over. He misses you, misses you dearly I think, but at the same time, I think he gets you leaving better than anyone. He's more realistic than you for sure, but if it wasn't for the beautiful baby in his arms, he would have hunted her down with the same gusto. He's like a rock now because he had you to watch out for. No one lives life in a bubble, and maybe it's for the better. We all got Summer out of it, although not as long as we should've. Knowing that, call him. I think he's seen enough doors shut on his face for a lifetime.

Maybe punt Raven in the cunt for him too.

I've been avoiding this, but do you really think we should be talking about traveling together? I mean I can't even get time off. I've got no seniority so it's dangerous to even touch my vacation days.

I guess if you can dodge when you're coming back, I can skip this for now.

Blake Belladonna

(458) 555-7929

Sent From: Portland Oregon