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

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If anyone had hoped for good weather for the picnic, their wish had been granted as the day turned out to be sunny and warm. Everything had been cleaned up, spiffed up and bedazzled dazzled made as perfect as possible for the new arrivals. They deserved at least a few moments of pleasantness before the weirdness started to sink in.

May whatever deity they believed in help them now.

As usual, there were long tables set up with food and drinks, a table of nametags, and two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and one listing rooms and roommates for the new students. With everything in place, the picnic was ready to begin.

[OCD is up!! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible.]

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Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[tyler_gone]

"Yeah, we went to the moon about 40 years ago," Tyler supplied, in the tone of one who didn't find this so very marvelous at all.

But, then, Tyler didn't find much marvelous.

"And now it's mostly experimenting to see how long we can last up there. There's a space shuttle where astronauts hang out for months. We haven't left the galaxy yet, though. The technology's not quite there."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[shiroi_tiger]

Nathan's gaze drifted upward for a moment as he contemplated the implications of such a move.

"For the most part, I imagine that it would just be... empty, up there."

Hence the name. Space.

"You're telling me that man really has nothing better to do with their time than spend months on end just sitting around in one place, in the middle of nothing."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[tyler_gone]

"They're ... I don't know, growing plants in zero gravity. Watching goldfish float. Government keeps telling us it's a really important way to spend our money."

He shrugged a little. "There are worse ways people spend time, I guess."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[shiroi_tiger]

"The government has its way of telling people exactly what is and isn't worth the money it's spending," Algren scoffed. "It would seem, for all things have changed, they really have remained the same."

Floating goldfish. Honestly.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[tyler_gone]

"Pretty much," Tyler agreed. "Big shiny things, always worth the money. Things that might make a difference in people's lives, not so much. So it goes."

He was starting to get curious about this Algren. "What did you do for a living in 1876?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[shiroi_tiger]

"I was a Captain, for a while. Serving in the 7th Cavalry Regiment." Nathan frowned briefly, and then managed to pull his expression into a somewhat more neutral one. "I left for a time. To pursue..."

How had Zeb put it?

"... A short-lived career in the theater. Sales. Take your pick. I was on my way to another job as Captain when I found myself here."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[tyler_gone]

Tyler noticed the frown, but didn't comment on it. The story behind it might explain why his new co-teacher seemed more cynical about the government than he'd expect from a military man, anyhow.

But that was something for another day.

For today, he just nodded, and said, "I've done time in sales myself. Done a lot of things, really, but I went to high school here. It's almost as much home as anyplace is."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[shiroi_tiger]

"Well, then. With any luck, I'll manage to get over the culture shock quickly. I'll have to, if I'm going to be teaching about my yesterday to a group of children who may very well be from tomorrow."

...

That almost made sense, Nathan decided, if you picked at it for a while.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[tyler_gone]

It completely made sense to Tyler. "Tomorrow, if not another galaxy entirely," he said. "I usually have office hours Monday -- want to stop by then and try to write a syllabus?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[shiroi_tiger]

"I'll make a point of it," Algren agreed with a nod. "We can compare notes. Pick out what made America tick before my time, and where it went from there before yours."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Spring 2009)

[tyler_gone]

"I'll think about it over the weekend," Tyler promised. "And my office is number eighteen."