Hello again. Hope you didn't miss me to badly.

Yesterday Lena filled in for me, such a sweetheart.

She really took a liking to my pen. I was almost afraid I wouldn't get it back. She released it after I promised her she could use it again some time. I did request she only use its powers for good. She just smiled at me.

Should I be worried?

Looking back at her entry into my journal she did a fantastic job. She covered the highlights of the day, and added her own observations and thoughts. 

I do protest the 'idiot shield' comment though. Cleary my ability to survive so many misadventures is the product of my wits and sheer grit...

Ok, I got lucky. A lot. But still though! 'Idiot shield' seem a little cruel don't you think?! I mean, sure, I do things that seem dumb looking back, but they have led to my greatest successes. The glowfruit, the tinglewood, the mysterious glowing fungus. I am not sure about that last one but I bet it'll be awesome!

Please let it give me super powers. That would be so cool! Though, I suppose as long as it doesn't kill me I can't complain.

Looking back even my first meetings with Julius and Lena were products of my luck/stupidity.

Mostly luck. 

Ugh, I bet there are even more examples, but I just can't make myself look back through my journal in search of my own mistakes. I feel like it would be very painful. Besides, dwelling on your mistakes seems like a large waste of time and energy for no purpose.

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Onica says that acknowledging my mistakes would make me a stronger person.

I suppose I can split the difference, and get stronger by refusing to reflect on my mistakes. Does it work that way?

I am sure it does. Probably.

Anyway, the hat finally stopped zapping me around sunset today. It exhausted itself I suppose, and now it just sits on my head. I think it is sleeping. Hopefully when it wakes up it will have calmed down a bit. I do think it looks nice on me. So hopefully we can reach some kind of accord in the morning.

I tried removing it, but no luck. Damn thing is clinging on tightly. I won't burn it either. I paid good jangles for a cool hat and I will not waste them by burning it. It just looks to cool to burn.

Oh, that might have been a pun. I'll have to try it out on Onica. If it makes her laugh its a really good pun. I think. So far none of my puns have managed to move the stern lady. That just means I need to try harder! 

For the puns!

I am quite tired today. It was hard to sleep with all the noise and flashing light from the lightning bolts that the hat sent through me all night long. Not to mention the twitching and jerking. Makes it hard to snuggle anywhere when an errant spark sends your legs kicking in opposite directions, and your head slamming into any hard objects.

My muscles are sore from all the twitching the have been doing. Turns out I can do the splits. It hurts a whole lot, but I can do it.

Julius, Lena, and Onica kept their distance all day. I guess I can't blame them, but it is kind of lonely spending all night awake with only a swearing hat and lightning bolts for company.

The hat is sadly lacking in vocabulary. It just hopped between two swear words, and as many combinations of those swears as possible. Which is only like five different insults before it starts repeating them or just rambling wildy. It is kind of boring.

Next time I pick up a cursed object and piss it off I will make absolutely certain it has a vast lexicon of insults and witty remarks. Y'know, if I ever do this again.

Hm, did I just jinx myself? Hope not. Or wait, is that even how jinxs work? What is a jinx anyway? A curse of some variety I imagine.

Ugh, I can't stop yawning, and now I am rambling. It has been an exhausting couple of days. Did you know seizures are very tiring? With any luck the cursed hat will sleep through the night, and allow me to do the same.

Wish me luck.

Goodnight.