I'm a reincarnative student, and have had a hard time getting my transcripts from 1934. You either have to show both birth certificates, or the prior birth certificate and a current transmigrationalist photo ID, or your most recent birth certificate and the prior parent or guardian bearing the requisite ritual tattoos, but all I've got is the prior birth certificate. Can you help me, @Melon Seawater? I hear you're down in the stacks. I'll make it worth your while I promise!

Even though it’s just a part-time work-study job, I take my Vow of Privacy very seriously, @Red Brown, and would never share information I have access to inappropriately with anyone. For instance, identity theft can be that much more damaging when it concerns multiple lifetimes.

That said, I’ll bet there are some other ways you could prove your identity that would be satisfactory, even if it’s not one of the three official methods?

bingo, bros. gav has been spotted.

i went around asking food chains if they could check their security cameras to see if we could find a "dark haired person of interest with dorky glasses". i guess they assumed i was a cop or something.

so i went to the coffee shop nearby this place.... and viola. caught the bastard with some middle-aged guy on 2/26. it was probably that "abe" character who wanted to meet up. they went off over an hour of talking, i assume back to abe's place. the waitress who showed me the cam told me she thought she saw them go to the apartment complex west from there.

so basically, your girl got a lead! and a date with the cute waitress B)

and it just hit me gav's been gone for almost 3 months. i really hope he's okay. probably still thinks i hate him. i never apologized for snubbing him

OH WELL i'll have all the time in the world to feel bad later. we have a gavvers to find.

- ann-marie

The administration has access to the security cameras on all the food chains, Ann-Marie. For instance, right now I'm watching a movie of an acorn that falls from a tree, which is then eaten by a chipmunk, which then gets eaten by an owl, which is then eaten by a gigantic bear demon that lives in a cave. There are trunks and trunks full of video cassettes with stuff like that on them. I also ran into a bunch of tapes from their surveillance cameras in fairy land, which are pretty dated but still entertaining. One of my jobs is to go through and convert them all to digital.

@Melon Seawater wait, really?? by administration i'm assuming you mean the psychics chumps who work for this school. like a principal or something... (does this school even have principals...?)

but i guess why would school staff have access to security cameras. who exactly is this "administration" youre talking about. good job being just vague enough to be creep me out, mel

would those guys be the type to tamper with those security cameras, 'cause the one i looked at is basically my only lead to find my missing friend. that'd seriously mess me up. seemed legit, and.......

oh wait i only just realized you were talking about ANIMAL FOOD CHAINS. yeah, no, not quite what i was talking about. psychics, i swear... you guys are really something!

have fun converting them to digital i guess! thanks for.. talking to me about animals? not sure if you read the craziness of gavcrowleys' profile/journal/whatever but we do have sort of a bird theme going on that "ellipsis" made up. i'm mourning dove. gav's a crow. or he used to be, or something, i didn't really listen to him lmao i'm just a normal human who hopes i wont get lynched for being on this weird website. i'm rambling a lot about stuff not even relating to "file cabinets of mystery" so i'm gonna go. thanks anyways though <3!

- ann-marie

The best way to enter the File Cabinets of Mystery is by walking backwards while listening to enchanted zydeco. That’s how we do it in the swamps back home. Old blind François squeezes out the shuffling tune on his accordion, and we walk in reverse spirals underneath the moonlight. L'épine Dorsale du Temps (The Backbone of Time) is one of my favorites, and it’s the one I hummed as I entered the archives under the school.

My interest is in old recipes. It is my belief that our connection to the “pouvoir psychique” has become diluted through time, and that by recreating the old recipes, like the Acadian Smoothie or the Duke of Orleans Croquette, we can get closer to it. I am also interested in @Estreya Harlow’s cooking techniques. I’m writing a cookbook.