Living on Your Own, Friday, Period 1

[tyler_gone]

The group met in a classroom equipped with cooking equipment, and the teacher was wearing an incongruous frilly pink apron that his face dared the class to say something about.

He was teaching home ec. May as well look the part.

After the students were assembled, Tyler began to talk.

"So this is Living on Your Own, or, as I seem to keep calling it when I'm trying to explain what it is, guerilla home ec. We'll talk about some kind of practical stuff -- finding a place, getting a job -- and also about stuff like cooking and enough housekeeping to keep your house from getting declared a fire hazard."

"My name is Tyler Durden. Call me Tyler, call me Mr. Durden, whatever works. As for how I am qualified to teach this, I've been basically on my own since I was 14 and I'm in one piece." He was ignoring the time he'd spent in state custody, yes. "If you need me outside class hours, my office hours are Mondays. Your TA is Meg Manning."

"This week, we're going to make soap. It's a little harder than most of what we'll do, but I figure you may as well dive right in. Plus I like making soap. Really it's a basic project -- rendered fat, lye, cold water and that's it. You can add scents or color if you want to. Supplies and directions are at the workstations. Lye's nothing to screw around with, so please, wear rubber gloves and work together if you don't know what you're doing."

"But before we start on the soap, I'd like to do that introductions thing. Name, age, experience living on your own, and" -- he smiled for the first time -- "who you would fight out of anyone, living or dead. Fictional figures included."

Comments

Sign in [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

Cleanly!

Re: Sign in [7/11]

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael Guerin

Re: Sign in [7/11]

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal Stephanides

General Class Stuff [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

Listen to Mr. Durden, pass notes, chat, etc.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Michael was listening, though it wasn't anything that seemed to require intent attention.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber was listening and paying attention to Mr. Durden.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

Gavin didn't mind the pink apron but, he hoped, whenever he had to do this stuff on his own, he could get it in blue.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[intraspective]

Ino? Was totally giggling about the apron.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal scratched his chin a little as he listened. Soap? They were making soap? First, he wondered, with a slight glance toward two certain blondes in the class (how could they not have been behind this?), if soap was going to follow him where ever he went now. And, second, he was thinking that if you had the resources to get all the crap to make soap, wouldn't it be easier and possibly cheaper to just buy it?

Of course, he had no idea what the running rates for lye was, so...

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

Anemone slouched down in her seat and scowled. Between this and her relationships class, someone was going to die. Probably messily.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

Okay, so this class -- workshop, whatever -- could probably prove to be useful in future, certainly much more so at first glance than her other one; that was Katchoo's first impression. She allowed herself a brief smirk, hidden behind her hand, at Tyler's frilly apron; while it was far from the most outlandish thing she'd ever seen a man wear (just one of Darcy's parties took care of that really fast) it still amused her.

And then there was the soapmaking. That was a little bit of a surprise, although it did sound like an interesting project . . .

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo may not have been listening too closely at the lecture. He blamed the apron. It was distracting and why would any guy show up wearing that in public.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice was taking notes. Somewhat fascinated by their teacher. He seemed ... darkly unusual. She knew the feeling.

Re: General Class Stuff [7/11]

[heromaniac]

Momoko tried to pay attention to the teacher, but she kept getting distracted by the apron. He'd look so much better in a blue one. Maybe one that said "kiss the cook"?

Introductions [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

Who are you and why are you here?

Re: Introductions [7/11]

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Michael Guerin, I don't want to depend on anyone. Never lived on my own... technically."

Re: Introductions [7/11]

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Amber Atkins and I'm here because this course will be particularly valuable to me. I... don't really have a home. To go home to. When I leave here." Um. "Oh, and I'd totally fight Becky Leeman. She's dead. But I'd fight her if I could."

Re: Introductions [7/11]

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gavin Darklighter," he said, nodding, "and I'm here because I'm in my home's military and I'd like to know how to take care of myself after I get out or get hurt and can't fly anymore."

He paused.

"Fly ships. I can't fly with wings or anything."

Re: Introductions [7/11]

[intraspective]

"I'm Ino," she said cheerfully. "Though you totally already knew that Tyler-sensei. I'm fifteen, though technically only fourteen 'til September. I've never really lived on my own 'less you're counting here in the dorms though."

A beat.

"And I'd totally love to fight Cable-san, but he'd kill me without even trying, so that's kinda... depressing, geez."

Re: Introductions [7/11]

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Cal Stephanides," he said with a lift of his chin as a general, overall greeting. "I've lived on my own before, failed miserably. Since I plan on living on my own again, I figured I could use couple hints or two to do better next time around."

And, consider who was in the class and the name that first popped into his head with the fighting question, Cal shrugged. He couldn't very well say Rex Reese when he was going to use it in his story, so he just shrugged. "I can't really think of anyone I'd want to fight..."

Re: Introductions [7/11]

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

"Katina Choovanski," she said shortly in that usual offputting rasp. "Guess I'm here because someone signed me up for it. Pretty much on my own now so it'll be useful."

She paused, her expression dispassionate, but a careful observer might see various emotions flickering through her eyes -- resentment, wistfulness, maybe a touch of fear before resolving into cold anger and then fading away behind a facade of apathy again -- as she pondered the question. "'f I could fight anyone it'd be my stepfather."

Make Soap [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

Yes, he'll probably do this first session every class.

Re: Make Soap [7/11]

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

Well, this was kind of interesting. Michael set to with a will.

Talk to the TA [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

After she tags in.

Re: Talk to the TA [7/11]

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg was there. She never made soap before but she was interested to learn.

Talk to Tyler [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

He's around after class.

OOC [7/11]

[tyler_gone]

Yay, first class!

Re: OOC [7/11]

[thatsamilkshake]

I apologize in advance for the crazy toon people who haven't seen each other in six months two years oh, WTF, it's not like our creator can decide either a long time.