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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

Aug 29, 2015 02:53

Everyone might have been getting ready for the fall semester, but it was definitely still summertime in Fandom. The temperature was high, the wind was low, and it was only going to get hotter once everyone arrived.

There were chairs and tables set out around the lawn, some in shady spots and some out in the sun, and there was a long table of ( Read more... )

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 29 2015, 15:56:18 UTC

It was good to be back in Fandom, but now that Tahiri was actually here it felt strange to be here in this capacity. She was looking around at the students with a wry smile, wondering if they'd gotten smaller or if she was just older than she realized.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 29 2015, 17:23:21 UTC

Ah, a familiar face that Jonothon had been told to keep an eye out for. Which was a nice change of pace. If nothing else, it meant he didn't need to make introductions.

... Unless she wasn't that Tahiri, in which case...

Eh.

//Tahiri?// At least he was going to be pleasant as he made his way over to greet her. //Ah, I know that look.//

The look where she was trying to figure out when high schools started accepting toddlers as students.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 29 2015, 17:55:39 UTC

The same person, a different version, honestly, who knew around here any more?

But no, it was that Tahiri, as evidenced by the way her worried expression eased into a grin when she saw him. "Jono! I guess you would." Because yes, it had been that look. "You're probably more used to this by now than I am. Obviously."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 29 2015, 18:48:34 UTC

//Not by much,// Jono decided, his tone wry. //But yes, I've been around the block a few times already. Always sort of astounds me when one of these students looks at me as though I actually know something.//

Because, you know, he actually did.

//You're stepping into a very elite club now,// he added, amused, //the club of people who are rather convinced that we're not actually teacher material, but who seem to do quite well by the students every semester all the same.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 29 2015, 19:11:49 UTC

"We'll see about that," Tahiri laughed. "I'm sure you've done a great job, but . . . well, it's strange to be back. It's the same place, but it feels different. It's hardly the same group of people I knew when I was still here. And hopefully it'll be less of a pain than sorting out petty squabbles between colonists."

She paused.

"It will be, right? Just tell me it will be."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 29 2015, 19:17:16 UTC

//Most of Fandom's squabbles are anything but petty,// Jono said. He was at least aiming for 'reassuring,' here. That was something, right? //Though you're right. The lot from our own school days is for the most part long gone, though every now and again you'll see a familiar face. And the weirdness is the same.//

Of course it was. Fandom.

//I'll be happy to play 'familiar face' any time you need one, though. And we can stand around and moan about how when we were students, things were just better, regardless of whether they actually were or not.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 30 2015, 03:19:54 UTC

"And suddenly I understand stuff about Master Skywalker that I didn't before," Tahiri said wryly. "So, people are still turning into animals as usual? That's comforting."

No, really. It actually was.

[OOC: Aaaaaaaaaaack I never hit post I'M SORRY.]

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 30 2015, 03:38:17 UTC

//Isn't it, though? I apparently turn into the world's tiniest, most venomous bright-orange noodle, when the island has a mind to spring that sort of nonsense on me.//

Snake. He was a snake.

//Hell, the phones even mess up like clockwork almost every new semester.//

[OOC: No worries! WE CAN SP LIKE THE WIND IF IT COMES TO IT.]

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 30 2015, 03:52:01 UTC

Tahiri took a moment to put together that mental image, then shook her head and laughed. "Somehow that's not a look I pictured working for you, but it makes sense in a weird kind of way."

It also struck her as adorable, but she'd let him keep his dignity, thanks.

"But the phones, those are all but school tradition at this point, I think. A lot of it seems like that to me now, though." Because we're ooooold.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 30 2015, 04:00:13 UTC

Whatever dignity Jono had left, anyway?

//It really is, isn't it? A student even put together a phone that I can use, for me. Now I can join the ranks of those people who have been around the island long enough to know exactly what's going on, but who keep trying to return the calls regardless, mostly out of perverse amusement.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 30 2015, 04:16:06 UTC

"You don't actually do that, do you?" See, and now Tahiri was actually contemplating how amusing that would be. You terrible influence, Jono.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 30 2015, 04:22:35 UTC

//I spent years getting bloody insane voicemail messages and being unable to retaliate,// Jono replied, not bothering to hide a little smirk that was lingering around the corners of his eyes. //I actually do it, and it's some of the best fun I get out of these random island whims.//

He was shameless. Utterly shameless. And if being a terrible influence helped her settle back in easily, he'd absolutely keep that up.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 30 2015, 04:29:57 UTC

"Okay, that's a good point. You've got years of that to catch up on," Tahiri decided. "I have to wonder if any of the big siblings somehow 'forget' to mention that detail to the new kids just to add to the fun."

Not that she would suggest this to their faces.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 30 2015, 04:32:46 UTC

//I'd say if they actually are warning them about a day of broken phone connections, it's a missed opportunity,// Jono mused. //Of course, when I was a student, I found that the talk of the weirdness usually tapered off around 'gremlins' and 'changing gender,' because how do you compete with the news that you might randomly wake up in a completely different body from time to time?//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] weetuskenraider August 30 2015, 04:39:26 UTC

"That's true. Adding any more on top of that seems like it might just be the -- what's that Earth expression, the last straw?"

Tahiri, for what it was worth, had a bizarre mental picture in her head of a bantha toppling over because of a bendy drinking straw.

"It's kind of nice to know there isn't a version of that for teachers, at least. I halfway thought there would be."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015] furnaceface August 30 2015, 04:49:58 UTC

//The blunt conversation that might as well be hazing?// Jono shrugged his shoulders a little. //It's not terribly productive either way, especially when we're all nervous enough about the upcoming semester. I think teaching buddies are more... meant to make certain you're settling in. Anyway, you already know about all the weirdness. Makes more sense to talk about grown-up things like whether you've got a place to stay, or need help moving anything in, or offering you a hand if the students ever throw you for a loop, because they are Fandom students, after all.//

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