Aviation & Aeronautics, Thursday October 2, Period 2

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Murdock had yet another dog with him in class today, deciding that making two trips this morning would be a bit more than his twisted knee was up for. Houston lay on the floor next to the desk, tail thumping and watching the students with interest as the class filed in.

"Don't mind him," Murdock smirked. "He's just a guest for the day. Houston's friendly though, if any of y'all want to meet him. Ain't ya boy?" Houston just wagged his tail further.

He got up and limped toward the chalkboard. "So let's get started. There's quite a bit of notes, since we'll be covering World War I."

(ocd up shortly)

Comments

Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Make notes, nap, play with the doggie, etc...

Re: Class antics.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

She only spent a minute or two, screwing up bits of paper to toss for Houston. Really.

And they were the pieces she wasn't writing notes on.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Hey! There were ball papers!

Houston snatched the first one, but got quickly distracted by the second. He tackled one, making a fun pile of confetti in the process (totally unbeknowst to his owner) then proudly trotted another back over to Mac, tail wagging.

Re: Class antics.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac pulled a face, and glanced toward Murdock, hoping he was too into his teaching to notice or care about that little bit of mess.

She did smirk when the dog happily came back over, and leaned out to pet him. "Good boy," she murmured.

Okay, so destroying paper balls isn't usually classed as 'good boy' behavior, but she wasn't sure what else you said to dogs, really.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Murdock was talking about military history and aircraft. Of course he was far too distracted to notice much of anything else.

The petting got more tail wagging in response. He dumped the (slightly slobbery) paper ball next to Mac's feet and looked up expentantly.

Re: Class antics.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Okay, that was a little bit icky.

Instead of picking up the paper ball to throw it for him this time, she just nudged it with her foot to send it rolling away across the floor.

Same effect, less slimy.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Ooh, there it goes!

Houston went bounding after the ball and proudly brought it back. This time it was a lot more damp and the paper was starting to get all wilty.

Re: Class antics.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Squidgy paper. Lovely.

"I'm not picking that up now," she told the dog under her breath. She'd read far too much over the years about the sheer number of germs that took up residence in mouths, particularly animal mouths.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

He looked at her like he was disappointed. Surely she had more then, right?

Houston sat down and cocked his head at her slightly. Waiting patiently.

Re: Class antics.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac just arched an eyebrow at him. She lived with Peter, and thus had a lot of practise becoming immune to hopeful puppy-dog expressions.

With that, she actually went back to taking notes and paying attention to Murdock's lecture.

He'd be waiting a long time.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

He waited just a bit longer before giving a doggie sigh and trotting back over to flop next to Murdock's desk.

Occasionally, he'd look over at Mac like he'd just lost a friend or something.

He didn't know she had experience with the puppy-eyes. All he knew was that it worked well on that human he lived with. Yah, Murdock was semi-whipped by his dog.

Re: Class antics.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was there with a free hand positioned for any skritches. If, y'know, a dog happened by.

Re: Ze Lecture, ze end.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Hey, look! A hand! Houston trotted over to see if he could get anything from that hand.

Murdock was far too engrossed into his lecture and note scribbling (it was a wonder his students could dechiper any of it, really) to notice what Houston may or may not have been doing.

Re: Ze Lecture, ze end.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

The hand? Was a skritching hand, with a side of petting. Jack grinned. He could use a dog. Or even a cat, if his frog-shaped roommate would allow it.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Houston liked scritches and pettings and leaned into the hand happily. His tail, however was a force to be reckoned with. Thumping as it was against the leg of the desk nearby.

Houston? Not always the stealthiest of dogs.

Re: Class antics.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack's notes drawings became more elaborate as the flying dog-thing was taking on more and more biplanes...and now there were sound effects written on the notes that sounded an awful lot like a dog tail thwapping a desk. Bap bap bap bap bap....

Jack's other hand was still skritching Houston, paying attention to the ears.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Houston did love scritches and his tail kept thumping, totally unaware of anything else Jack might be doing.

There were scritches. That was the most important thing here.

Re: Class antics.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was making sure that poor Houston did not go without the recommended FDA amount of daily skritches. Jack leaned over to shush the dog so the professor wouldn't see the flying doghouse attacking tanks now.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Houston sat down so at least the tail o'doom wasn't whacking any more furniture. Murdock probably wouldn't notice much given the discussion.

He's talking aircraft here. Little could distract him right now. Okay, so not entirely true, but a quiet classroom sure wasn't going to do it.

Besides, he'd probably find Jack's art highly amusing and give pointers of how the doghouse should be approaching those tanks.

Re: Class antics.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack could do skritches for hours. Or at least an hour, maybe.

He was diligently paying attention to Murdock, from all appearances. And not drawing squadrons of tanks going "kerblam!" or humming anything from that classical Valkyries song. Nuh uh.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Houston can live with that. As long as there's scritching, Houston will stay right where he is.

Jack better watch that humming, though. If it gets too loud, the prof will probably end up humming it too.

It's a thing with him.

Re: Class antics.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack may have made a friend for life. Or for at least however long he can hold up the skritches. He can do this for a while. Makes his arms buff.

"Dah da da da daaah daaaah, da da da da daaaa daaaa..."

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Houston agrees on the friend part. He's quite happy and even goes to rest his head on Jack's leg.

Meanwhile...

Murdock pauses and blinks, wondering why he's suddenly got classical music running through his head. He shrugs and focuses back on his lesson.

But that song is stuck in his head now.

Re: Class antics.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Awww! Jack is having the Best. Day. Evaaar at the moment.

Oop. Jack quiets down when Murdock pauses and looks at the paper, like he's a real studious student.

Re: Class antics.

[crazypilotman.livejournal.com]

Houston's happy too. He's got himself a new buddy!

Yes, the tail is still going. Amazing it hasn't fallen off yet.

And Murdock is also still going. Wonder his arm hasn't fallen off.