Home Ec, Tuesday, Period 1

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"Right." Eliot clapped his hands. Too much had happened in too short an amount of time -- again -- and he was full of tightly controlled manic energy. "Today's project takes for freaking ever, so we're going to jump right in." He dropped a box onto the teacher's desk and pulled out a sack of flour, a canister of salt, a packet of yeast, a bowl, and a mug. "We're makin' bread."

He looked over the ingredients and rolled his eyes, then picked up the mug, spun it once around on his finger, and tore open the flour. "Nevermind that this process is so goddamn time consuming that almost no one in the modern era bothers doin' it themselves unless they got a machine or they get paid for it." He scooped out two and a half mugs full of flour and tossed them into the bowl. "At least the recipe we're workin' with is dead simple. It's also real specific that this ain't the kind of bread you punch and slam around when you're kneadin' it, but if that's what you're feelin' today -- I ain't gonna blame you a bit." He added the salt, yeast, and water and stuck his hands in. "You can use a spoon for the mixing if you like, but honestly, this stuff is gonna get all over your hands later anyway. Might as well dive right in the deep end right away." He looked up from the dough and around at the students. "The ingredients are on your tables, guys, get to it. Sooner you get it mixed, sooner you can goof off half the class while we let it rise. Then maybe I'll show y'all how to whip up a nice bruschetta to put on this stuff once it's all done."

Event Planning, Tuesday Third Period

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"You've already decided what kind of event you're holding and when you want to hold it," Vanessa said. "Now, you need to decide how many people are coming! You can't do anything else until you do, because what if you want to have two hundred people at your birthday party? Most people can't fit that many people in their house, and you're going to need a really big cake. Or if you want to have your wedding at this one place, but they'll only accommodate groups of fifty or more, and you want a small wedding with like twenty guests. It's important to know! So, make up a rough guest list, and count. For the record, in real life this process takes way longer than an hour of class time, but I think once you start thinking about it you'll get an idea of how tricky it can be."