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miss_thomasina

Thomasina and the Computer

Oct 13, 2005 12:22

The room with the computers in it - computer lab, Thomasina thinks she's heard it called - is empty this particular Thursday afternoon. The Professor who taught classes there hasn't been seen for weeks and his students, who kept showing up for their lessons just in case have stopped making even that much effort some time since. People still stop by ( Read more... )

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addams_daughter October 13 2005, 22:54:15 UTC

Wednesday is lost. She knows this, because she has no idea where she is. She has some vague idea that she was late for something, but cannot find her pocketwatch and her nose won't wriggle, so she's discarded that idea for the moment.

But she's definitely lost.

The door to the computer lab being wide open, she wanders in. "Excuse me?" she asked, clinging to a moment of lucidity. "Where am I?"

miss_thomasina October 13 2005, 23:04:26 UTC

Thomasina doesn't turn away from her conversation with the computer for a rather long moment, instead continuing to talk it through the latest set of mathematical manipulations she wants it to perform. Eventually, though, she realises that someone has said something to her and she turns to find out what. The girl standing in the doorway hardly rates as unusual on the scale of unusual things she's encountered recently, though she has the palest skin and straightest, blackest hair of anyone Thomasina can ever recall meeting before.

Excuse me. Sorry. Yes? Did you ask me something?

addams_daughter October 13 2005, 23:06:17 UTC

"Yes," Wednesday confirms, "I did." She seems to lose interest in the conversation after that, wandering over to look at the screen of Tomasina's computer. "What are you doing?"

miss_thomasina October 13 2005, 23:11:07 UTC

Oh. Thomasina considers for a moment, then decides that if the girl really wanted to know the answer to whatever question she had asked, she would ask again and moves on to answering the new one.

Well, I'm figuring out how much algebra it knows. It's done very well so far. See? She gestures to the set of graphs the computer is currently displaying. It's ever so much better than having to do it all with a pen and paper.

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