Sanitary Living [period 5, Tuesday]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

Oh, please, like Hannelore would even consider holding her class outside. There was dirt there.

"Hey," she said, as her students filed into the Danger Shop -- which was made up to look like a perfectly white, sterile classroom, and which she had carefully scrubbed and disinfected as best she could before they arrived. "Um. My name's Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham. You can call me Hannelore. Or, uh, some of my friends call me Hanners. You can call me that. 'Hey you,' works too. Um, this is Winslow."

What looked like an oversized, somewhat humanoid iPod waved. "Salutations!"

"He's an AnthroMac, and he helps me out. Um, so welcome to...class. I've never taught anything before. So, um, why don't we start by going around and saying hi, and stuff, okay? Say, uh, your name, how old you are, what you want to get out of the workshop, and...um, your favorite cleaning product, okay?"

She rocked on her heels. "Um, I can start? I'm Hannelore, like I said. I'm twenty-five, I love my Roomba more than most people love their parents, and I hope to get, um, a bunch of people who understand what 'clean' means, like I do." She paused, and added. "By the way, I have severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In case you can't tell."

After everyone had introduced themselves, Hannelore smiled. Kinda. Smiled twitchily, anyway. "Okay, so here's what we're doing today." She pulled out a bag, and from it pulled eight bags of plain M&M's, which she handed (okay, tossed, because soooo not risking touching these people) out, along with napkins. "I want you to sort these in whatever way makes the most sense to you. Color, numbers, shapes -- they're not all the same size circle, believe me, I checked -- whether the M is printed correctly, whatever. I wanna see what you think is logical, 'cause it'll help me later, okay? Don't eat them until I've checked, please? And I have wet naps and gloves so your hands don't get chocolatey, because ewww."

[syllabus|roster]

[waaaaaaaait for the OCD, which I really should make more ridiculous than it will be. It's up! Play at will!]

Comments

Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

You have to be able to explain to her why it makes sense to you, but anything flies.

Re: Introduce yourself! [07/10/07]

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara studied the candy on the table for a minute, and began sorting them by color first.

Re: Introduce yourself! [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"Okay, why by color?" Hannelore asked, watching.

Re: Introduce yourself! [07/10/07]

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Because it's the most readily obvious, I suppose," she said, starting a brown M&M pyramid.

Re: Introduce yourself! [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"Why the stacking thing?" Hannelore asked curiously.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[likethegun]

Sam sat down and immediately began sorting the M&M's into color piles.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"You too, with the color?" Hannelore asked, eyeing him. "How come?"

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[likethegun]

"Well, it's the easiest way to sort them to eat them," Sam explained. "I'm firmly convinced that each color tastes just a little different based on what they put into the coloring mix."

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," she said. "You're going to eat them after moving them all around like that and exposing them to the air in here?"

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack opened his bag of candy, then started dividing by colour.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"What's with the color thing? Seriously, everyone's doing that and there are sub-groups to divide into," Hannelore said. "So why do you divide by color, then?"

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Because if I know how many there are of each colour, I know what other ways I can divide them," Zack said, laying his M&Ms out in a pattern.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

Hannelore was pleased by that. "You shouldn't eat them. They've been exposed to the air and everything too long."

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[lovesrenoir.livejournal.com]

Animal sorted his M&M's into a big smiley face.

He may have totally misunderstood the instructions.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"That's...uh, interesting," Hannelore said. "Why'd you sort it like that?"

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[lovesrenoir.livejournal.com]

"PRET-TY SMILE! PRET-TY SMILE!"

Yep. Totally misunderstood the instructions.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric spread the M&M's out and looked at them. And then he sorted them alphabetically by color.

Brown, green, orange, red, tan, yellow.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

Hannelore eyed him. "...you're doing it alphabetically?" she asked after a second.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he said, looking up at her. "It seemed easiest to remember in terms of organization."

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[smartestone]

Hermione doesn't get this. But still, she's going to do it right. She immediately begins sorting them by color quickly and correctly.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"Color?" Hannelore asked in disappointment. "You're going to sub-group out of that, right?"

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[smartestone]

"Of course," she says. "I was considering also arranging them by color and subgrouping them into abnormalities. I figure there should be enough for that."

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[fat-halpert.livejournal.com]

Jim poured his M&Ms on the table. "Done."

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[scrabblecyborg.livejournal.com]

"Explain," Hannelore demanded from a safe distance.

Re: Sort your M&Ms [07/10/07]

[fat-halpert.livejournal.com]

"I'm a fan of chaos theory," Jim said. "The very lack of organization is a kind of universal organization, really."