Advanced Takeout, Monday, May 22, 2017

[imafuturist]

Class today was just the one teacher, but to make up for it, Tony looked pretty darn tired. What? That's not how that works?

Seems fake.

Either way, there was the one teacher and a few boxes of pizza.

"Hi," Tony greeted the class once they'd filed in. "Captain Rogers has other things to attend to today, so it'll just be me for this lesson. On the plus side, you get pizza."

Because that was easier for a crowd.

"Today will be about the short interaction you'll have with the delivery person," he said. "Who should be tipped unless there has genuinely bad service from them. Remember to always include a tip in your food budget, okay?"

He had strong feelings about fair pay.

Tony clapped his hands together. "Okay, we will run through one on one scenarios for you to figure out how to get through these interactions. And then pizza."

Which made up for the forced socialization.

Getting to Know Your Own Backyard | Monday, Period 2

[futurespacemom]

"Okay, everybody," Hera said, "today we hit the dividing line - Earth is the next planet from your sun, and we pretty much know what it is," at least on an astronomical level, "so now we head outward. The next one is called Mars."

"Speaking in comparison to Earth, it and Mars presumably have a few similarities," Kanan mused. He'd picked up a book this week, because he was fancy. It was something to fill in time with while they traveled to Mars, because it was the farthest trip yet, thanks to the respective orbits of the planets they were visiting. "Earth and Mars both have polar ice caps, observable weather patterns, and seasonal changes."

He lowered his book and smirked a little at the class.

"So, another weird planet."

Hera rolled her eyes. Okay, Earth was strange, but weather was not weird. "Terrestrial, thin atmosphere, low gravity, according to Earth probes. Two moons." She glanced at Kanan. "We might be able to land on this one."

"Depending on where we land," Kanan agreed. "Though we'll be pulling out the envirosuits again, because we enjoy breathing. That'll make up for the low temperatures even if we don't manage to park ourselves in the middle of a summer day."

Hera nodded. "So, same as on Mercury - everybody be safe, no bouncing off, and be careful about your suit."

"And hey," Kanan said, "maybe the scenery will be different here."

That was about as good as they could hope for on any non-Earth planet in this system that was safe to land on, wasn't it?

Library, Monday

[intotheout]

Tip's mom had sent her another care package full of books, almost entirely human-Boov YA romances. Apparently this was now a Thing in Tip's universe. Tip's mom thought it was hilarious. Tip just found it bizarre.

Apparently J.Lo had gotten in on the joke too, since the package also contained a little comic drawn on it, all about J.Lo and Tip being the new American "it" couple. They got invited to the Latin Grammies for real, even though neither of them were actually Latinx, and J.Lo won "who wore it best" against Selena Gomez and then J.Lo and Tip broke up because Tip was jealous of J.Lo's status as a fashion icon.

Eventually, Bill tapped her on the head to remind her she had actual Library work to do. Then she had to spend ten minutes apologizing to him after she swatted him away.

It wasn't her most productive Library shift ever.

[Open!]

Sciencing Things All Sciencily, Monday

[whatisclocks]

"You're going to be here every week, aren't you?" Philomena said, considering the class with a sigh. "So I hear people sometimes just put the telly on in classes and let you all watch, so I wanted to do that today 'cos it's easier than filling your brains with knowledge, like."

She pushed the television to the center of the classroom.

"I did this documentary about Shakespeare once," she confided. "Turns out he's not just a funny man in tights that likes to wear feathers in his cap. Anyway, I'm not gonna show you the documentary 'cos I look fantastic in it but theatre's not great if you want to follow the story and text all the time, Shakespeare really ought've thought about that."

A pause. A tilt of the head.

"... And this is supposed to be a science class," she said. "So I found this movie that's supposed to be about these two Shakespeare men but they're walkin' about talking about sciencing, I like the one who looks like a weasel, I think he killed someone this one time. Anyway, he gets like, distracted by bathtubs and flowers and crap, it sort of reminds me of me, and I need you lot to write an essay about like, all the science parts, so I can tell if you've been sciencing right."

She had, at this point, already put on the movie, and was talking through it, and didn't particularly seem to care. "I never did get this bit," she said. "Or that bit. Is that a chocolate coin? It looks like a ye olde chocolate coin of some sort, he better not eat it, it looks like it's been there for months. Oh, but you can tell this is like, proper Shakespeare, 'cos of all the mud. They had that back then in Shakespeare times, loads of mud, it was basically all they ate. Kind of sad, isn't it? They slept on mud, and played with mud, and probably had loads of sex with mud... that's why Shakespearian stuff is so longwinded and boring most of the time, all the bloody mud, I bet people were dying to hear anything about anything that wasn't mud--"

She spent the rest of the movie talking at length. It was nearly impossible to hear most of the dialogue. "...I don't get the boat," she said. "Why are they not not on a boat? Feels like they'd be less dead if they'd just taken an airplane or somethin', tickets aren't that expensive and airplanes only leak if they're about to catch fire..."