Happy upcoming Birthday to @Kyle!

Sheesh! What is it about birthdays and this generation? What happened to "ask forgiveness, not permission?" Feels like it was just @Scaramouche's birthday. Can't anybody keep a secret anymore?

So, the deal with birthdays. The same rules apply for anybody having a get together:

1. Clean up your own mess.
2. This includes carpet stains; broken light fixtures; holes in the drywall; fire repair; and damage from acid, ooze, and poison from creatures terrestrial and otherwise.
3. Keep the noise down. While I may be at the Antarctic research station this month, I have ears EVERYWHERE.
4. No lycanthropy shots.
5. Seal any dimensional rifts thoroughly.

Best advice: Don't get caught! It will save everyone a lot of trouble.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Happy Winter Term students!

Hasn't all this snow and ice been romantic? Trapped indoors, short on supplies, endless night, and only a dangerous network of tunnels to escape the endless monotony of madness and potential cannibalism? Yes, who am I fooling? It only reminds me of the time I'll never get back pining over my over-educated and thoroughly untrustworthy paramour @Seketus Reed.

Which is why I've arranged for a special winter Psychic Study Abroad program for all eligible students to a place where it's summer and the sun never sets! That's right, pack your bags for Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station! It's the land of sunshine 24/7, and high temperatures reaching -14°F (that's -25°C for our metric friends).

There's a new portal in the ice tunnel network, just off the junction between the admin building and the gym. And just between you and me and Quinn the clairvoyant clerk in the Hall of Records, there's a lot of Love Signs perking up above the horizon down there, which means in ALL DIRECTIONS! Every which way is UP when you're down there I hear.

Plenty of bunks in the newly reconstructed "Dome Dorm," offered especially to us for its inaugural sleepover by the Extreme Environmental Psychic Study (EEPS) thinktank.
So a big thank-you to EEPS.

See you down under!

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Happy Birthday to @Scaramouche! It sounds like it was a perfectly splendid time!

A quick reminder to students: Our Excused Time Off policy does not cover attending classmates' birthday parties. Students engaging in this "skip day" will need to resubmit their Destiny Cards with the additional quiz completed in order determine if their time qualifies for Imaginary Status or will be revoked. This can be done online or in person at the Hall of Records, which has been a personal haunt of mine lately but I'm not telling why just yet.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Happy new psychic school year!

Fall is such a special time at Psyhigh. The crispness in the air, the warm autumn light, that sense of POTENTIAL--that anything could happen and it could be right now.

It could be finding out that special someone is in one of your classes, or that the creep who bullied you last year met that ignominious fate you imagined and hasn't returned. Or it could be that overwhelming sense that the Overseers of this dimension have seen enough and are ready to pull the plug on our universe and reboot it any minute. Well, that's the buzz in the teacher's lounge at least. Some have already negotiated spaces on psychic lifeboats.

Speaking of special someones, my former paramour and psychic speleologist @Seketus Reed ran into a bit of a misadventure on our trip to the Caves of the Unknown this summer. He and his psychic graduate assistant Penelope (who he forgot to mention would be joining us) took an exceptionally deep route into the unknown and I mistakenly rolled up the ball of string they were planning on using to find their way back. Oh well! I'm sure they're both very well accustomed to each other's company and with all their expertise should have no trouble navigating their way back through Troglodyte country.

Anyway, with so many new faces, we have a tradition of all students, both new and returning, introducing themselves here in our special Back to School electronic podium! So please take a moment to say Hi and tell us a bit about yourself. We're not all telepaths, you know. ;)

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Welcome to Summer Session, students!

While many of your friends may be enjoying exotic vacations or lounging around in their rooms at their parents' or parent's or grandparent's or court appointed guardian robot's house, or toiling away at low wage jobs preparing you for a life of crushed dreams and disappointment. you have a very special summer ahead of you--attending Psychic High School!

Really, in my opinion, you've got the better end of the deal. I myself attended summer sessions for every single one of my school summers, going all the way back to first grade at Blavatsky Elementary. It may have had a lot to do with my choice of profession, and my extreme fear of living outside of the Psychic School system.

It can be rather limiting in terms of the circles you run in, and through time certainly reduces the pool of potential "life partners" to choose from. Which is why I have--grudgingly--agreed to a short summer vacation with psychic underground adventurer and terminal PsyPhD student @Seketus Reed exploring the Caves of the Unknown in South Dakota, USA. "Give it one more chance" he says. But when it's the only offer you have to get out of town, you take what you can get.

In any case, whether you're here because of the terms of your psychic juvenile probation agreement, inability to pass Psychic PE, or your parents have just entirely forgotten about you, get ready to enjoy having the campus relatively to yourselves, and equally unenthusiastic faculty and staff to spend your time with.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Happy Spring, students!

The annual Ostara Gala Revue and Dance has been a tremendous success. The giant chickens from the Coop of Baba Yaga were exceptionally prolific this year and the eggs were of an exceptionally generous size, and provided magnificent palettes for the ritual dressings. Congratulations to @Angela Elkhorn as our Egg Painting Spring Royalty.

The giant chicks that emerged were equally impressive, and by the end of the dance none of the participants were deemed to have actual concussions. Congrats to @Hadley Marshall for their dance wrangling lasso prowess!

And of course, the "Giant Chicken Egg on Face" award goes to you-know-who. No comment.

Here's to a fertile and productive Spring for all our students.


Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Hello students!

It's time to celebrate all our new students and the beginning of Spring Term with the announcement of the annual Ostara Gala Revue and Dance, held this year on Friday, March 21st, in Mezmer Hall. Festivities begin with the traditional waffle breakfast at dawn, followed by retrieval of the giant chicken eggs from the Coop of Baba Yaga, the blessing of the Paints, and the ritual Dressing of the Eggs. When the eggs hatch, the dance contest begins! Ask an upper-level student for suggestions on costumes and protective headgear.

And you know who should bring along very protective headgear? My FORMER sweetheart and continually overrated hollow earth cartographer @Seketus Reed, who will be in town for a symposium with his harem of hot lava hussies and will no doubt attempt to make an appearance. Better bring your hardhat, Skeetus.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Just a last minute reminder about the annual Teen Ice Giants Dance tomorrow night, outdoors at the frozen reflecting pools on lower campus starting at 7pm. There will of course be no heat or fires of any kind, so dress in your comfiest winter lux attire if you're not naturally cold.

Speaking of naturally cold, my emotionally frozen (and infuriatingly dashing) boyfriend @Seketus Reed has informed me he will not be attending--some made up excuse about being trapped near the center of the earth again. How many times does he think I'll fall for that? As a result, I'll be chaperoning the event with, well, whoever I can arrange on such short notice.

Shave ice and cold cuts will be served. Music by very special guests the Northern Lights!

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

Welcome to Winter Term at Psyhigh for the 2024-25 school year. Also the 5125-26 (Kaliyuga year), 274-75 AE (Anthropocene calendar), 12024-25 HE (Holocene calendar), 7532-7533 AM (Byzantine calendar), 1446-1447 AH (Islamic Hijri calendar), 5784-95 AM (Hebrew calendar), 2567-68 BE (Buddhist Era), Renchen (Chinese calendar, Year of the Dragon), Reiwa 6 (Japanese Imperial Era), and the 13th Baktun, nearing the 14th Baktun (Mayan Long Count) school year.

You may remember that our attempt to include synchronization with extraterrestrial calendars became too complex in that students from planets with exceptionally short years demanded early graduation, and other students from long period planets were having to attend for hundreds of years, which is why the Psychic School Board now officially recognizes only terrestrial calendars. Put it in your calendar!

So, where were we? Ah, yes, the Reality Accident. Mobile classrooms and dormitories have been set up in the old bean field, potter's field, stoolball, rounders, and quoits fields to accommodate the influx of new students. Negotiation for the temporary use of the Corn Field are ongoing, and we hope to come to a peaceful resolution with the Scarecrow people very soon.

The quick fixes put in place following the last Reality Accident seem to have imploded, and the psychic weather report says it looks like the only way through this one is, well, through it. Which is why the school is committed to serving all refugees that come to our door, whether that means placing them in classes or finding them berths on the Psychic Underground Railroad.

But don't think our mobile dorms and classrooms are second-rate! We had help installing them from my on-again, off-again, often charming but sometimes detestable paramour @Seketus Reed, who knows where to get deals on yurts and arctic expedition equipment. I am in fact heading out later this evening to his own model yurt, complete with fireplace, faux-fur rug, and ambient chill-out playlist where we can "try it out." Can't wait! Ha ha jk. Yeah he wishes.

So, welcome to Winter Term! Please take a moment to introduce yourself by clicking on the "Add a journal entry to Winter Term 2024-25" link at the end of the latest entry, and you'll be making psychic friends before you know it! Or at least people will know whether or not to keep their distance.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator

A new psychic school year is upon us already!

I swear I must be caught in some kind of time loop. Just this morning as I was on my phone during the annual Mircea Eliade Re-welcome Breakfast, I ran into pictures from last year's event and I was wearing the exact same dress! I really must be in some kind of rut.

Could that be why my dashingly infuriating gentleman friend @Seketus Reed continues to avoid any serious discussion of our relationship? Am I just too predictable? Well, predictably, he's off on another of his psychic spelunking adventures with yet another group of young interns. Maybe I just can't learn new lessons.

But you can! Sooooo many new lessons to learn! And the first of those lessons is "Don't be shy" and "Be honest!" and "Tell them how you really feel, before it's too late!"

Just add a journal entry to this story to share it with the group.

Sincerely,

A. Hazeltine
Student Activities Coordinator