Alma/Contacts

Abraham: He tried to convince me not to help, but how can I sit back and let people be targets? I can't do anything really big, but I can do something, right? ...I didn't ask why he was a fuck-up. I don't know how many chances he's had, but people should have second chances. ...What has he lost?

Anonymous: potential research partner

Arthur: I looked up his CV. He's brilliant, but he might be sabotaging his work by how he treats his interns. He needs a mentor like Bob Paine. "Paine set a high intellectual bar, and was gruff and challenging. “He's very brusque and abrupt, and he kind of scowls a lot,” says Lubchenco. But he also encouraged irreverence and mischief — he once signed the name of his friend, Peter Kareiva, on Christmas cards full of lascivious limericks and posted them to the world's top ecologists. Paine treated his students as peers, supporting their endeavours without directing them."

Ahana: She's more hardass than I am about cutting people slack.

Ezekiel: Why would I want to learn things the easy way? You did not.

Graham: I should not protect him from his grief.

Kai: graftings. I think it's how we can be in the world when we can't fit. it's not a perfect metaphor, but she introduced me to them. I want to trace her fingers and wrists and the flow of water inside. ...Should I ask her about edges too? Is she an edge witch?

Jamila: Patient and informative.

Jim, homid intern: very earnest. Manages the life of a student despite working a truly dangerous second shift; Jim, corax form: you goof. <laughs>

Maria: I'm so afraid everything will fall apart and they'll take her away from me.

Maya: I don't think I freaked out her out. She helped me when I was freaking out. <hug>

None: My mentor. I needed to call them by a name. I once wanted to study humans with the Choice Blindness Group, until I met None there. My mentor let me call them by None's name. (but this makes it exceedingly hard to say, "Maybe you know my mentor? Whose name I don't know because I didn't want to intrude?")

Note: My friend who is a crow. What do you mean blood gull?

Victoria: !!!?!?!JHK#LKJ!#!! (at least she laughed)

Wednesday: pockets full of seeds and copper

Zach: It is really annoying when someone yells at you telling you things you already believe. [1]ogg. I'm always arguing with him. Even when he's not there. It's like he has free rent in my head. Is he always like that, so on edge?

Tori Sully, intern: 18, Wayne State University '21 (Undecided, maybe journalism?) - Born Denver, CO