Living on Your Own, Friday

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Tyler waited just a second for any stragglers before launching into his lecture. "So you guys came back," he said, dryly. "Which is good, 'cause this week we start with the first thing you need to do when you end up on your own: Find a place to live."

"Assuming you don't have any money, which you probably won't, you have a couple options. You can be homeless and crash in shelters or sleep on the street. That's really only a choice if you wanna get robbed, beaten, all of that. You can stay with friends until they get sick of you. I'd recommend that, myself, but it depends on you having patient friends with a couch."

"If you want a place that's yours, squatting is a popular choice. Just pick a building nobody's living in or too interested in, maybe a big house on the edge of town, and move your stuff in. Might not be the most comfortable place you ever stayed, lot of times the power's off, but it's yours and probably more space than you could afford. Disadvantage is, it's not exactly legal."

"As far as affordable but legal options go? You probably aren't gonna move right into your own penthouse. Easiest thing is to find a roommate. You can do that through your local alternative paper, on a web site like craigslist, or if you wanna throw around a bunch of money, through a service. Don't rush into it, however you do it -- you have to live with this person until you find a new place. Here is a handout about what to ask a roommate, and there's actually some good advice in it. Ideally you want a friend, not just some person you grunt at in the mornings."

He glanced down at his notes. "That's about it. Today in class, you're going to role-play some roommate scenarios. Let me or Meg know if it doesn't make sense, otherwise, I'll be around."

Lunch, Friday Noon

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Eating in a mess remained a comfortable habit. It was with no particular surprise that Ender found himself drifting there during the lunch hours, considering the day's options with a mildly curious expression.

Ham and cheese sandwiches, salad, and a kind of pudding that looked dangerous both in color and in shape, but he'd eaten worse things. He settled at a table that was neither in the corner nor particularly in the middle, and ate quietly.

If anything, it was a good place to watch.

[ lunch is always open. at lunch ]

Mad Thientithtth And How To Thurvive Them [week 02 - period 03]

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Class was in the Danger Shop, and it was set up to look like a fairly typical mad scientist's laboratory. "Good morning, thudentth. Todayth lethon is on how to thurvive your mad thientitht himthelf, as oppothed to the whole mad thientitht lifethytle. Thothe who are differently morally adjuthted can have quick temperth and fly into a rage very eathily. If you're going to make it ath an Igor, you need to be able to move them patht it."

Igor stepped out through the door, but paused before clothing it. "When the Mathter thartth blaming you or throwing thingth, it ith not the time to plead your innocenth. Appeath, compliment and abathement are good trickth for thurvival," he told them. "Leth thee how well you do."

[ooc: please wait for OCD, yeth Got it! And as always if you just get thick of writing lithping, handwave it.]

Roving the Galaxy [period 04 - week 02]

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"Good afternoon. The Doctor isn't able to be here today." There was a definite note of disapproval in her voice. "So I've stepped in to take your class. It appears as if you were going to be speaking with friendly aliens this week, and we'll continue with that. He didn't specify which aliens, so I've chosen ones that you will hopefully enjoy."

Harriet leaned against a convenient table. "The question of whether an alien is a friendly one or not can be difficult. Often those who seem to have the best interests of the planet at heart turn out, in fact, to value nothing but their own arrogance." She shook her head. "You don't have to worry about the ones you're going to meet today, though your conversations will be on their terms."

She waved them through a door and into a lush green forest. "Off you go, enjoy yourselves. I'll be here if you need me."

[plz wait for And we have OCD]

Summer Fitness [Period 2, Friday]

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The class had been handwavily informed to meet at the pool this class, where they would have found Bond doing laps as he waited for the class to arrive.

"Good morning class," he started, emerging from the water to address them. "I trust you all remembered to bring your bathers like my email said? Good, now as you've probably all guessed, today's class will involve swimming, so first things first, I would like everyone who feels confident in their swimming abilities to go to my left and those who don't to go to my right."

After the groups had sorted themselves, Bond started by addressing the group on his right. "You, I would like to go get changed, and then to come back here to observe your classmates while they finish the first exercise," he said before turning to face the others. "You, I would like to make your way to the deep end of the pool, get in, and swim to the shallow end." He paused to make sure the part where they would be fully clothed while doing this had sunk in. "Then you can go get changed into your bathers. Those of you with powers are not to use them, and I will be watching in case any of you get into trouble.

"After you've finished that, we can get properly started."

[Please wait for OCD up]

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Library [18.07]

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It was raining while Karal made his way to the library, something he didn't mind and Altra hated.

Neither had any idea it was purple.