Fur, Feathers, and Scales: The Biology of Domestication, Thursday, Period 2

[puppy_fair]

Today for class, Zack had his dog with him. No, she wasn't actually part of the lesson, but she seemed kind of plastered to the side of his leg as he set down a box full of kittens on the floor in the playpen all the same.

His head hadn't really been in the process of finding something new and cool, but if he was being perfectly honest, he'd sort of been holding kittens in reserve for today anyway.

"Hey, guys. Not much of a lecture today. You probably all know cats. They're small, they meow, apparently they domesticated themselves? I don't know, I think I heard that somewhere." He gave the class a smile that was lacking most of the wattage of his usual. "They're also soft and extra playful as kittens, so..."

He waved a hand at the box of kittens. A sort of quiet, 'have at it,' before he stepped back to let the students play and took a seat with his dog instead.

Popular Science | Thursday, 3rd period

[what_the_shock]

Okay, so Miguel had spent yesterday at the onsen, reviewed the "class materials" he had, and been inspired.

"There are a lot of films about time machines," he started. "And we're not even counting whatever it is Portalocity does, just normal, travels-through-time-in-the-same-timeline stuff. There's also a lot of different ways to make one. So, here. I'll show you two different movie clips, and you can decide which one you want to go for. Use Victorian electronics, or a hot tub. Then we can discuss which one is more unlikely."

Team! Synergy! [Thursday, 1st Period)

[wrongkindofsith]

Today there were several easels with what looked like charts and graphs of various types on them. Some might have been pie charts, some were bar graphs... but none of them actually seemed to hold much meaning if you looked at them too closely.

"Hi! Welcome back, Cara isn't a chipmunk anymore!" Yes, they could all see that, Magnus.

"I'm sure they noticed," Cara said dryly. If they hadn't, there was no helping them.

"I'm just happy you can talk again without needing to find a Druid or Merle," he replied with a sniff. "But it's good you're here because today we're..."

Magnus squinted at something written on his hand for a moment. "Workshopping dynamic paradigm shifts?"

Yeah, they had no idea what that meant either. So they'd gotten creative. Cara gestured at the graphs. "Which means you'll be dealing with all these shifting paradigms."

By punching them. Because that was how they got creative.

"We have to get ahead of the trend," Magnus added, leaning into the indecipherable corporate jargon now. "With an uppercut!"

"Or a round kick." No need to restrict violence to their fists, after all.

Magnus offered her a high-five for that. Because of course he did.

Cara returned the high-five, because at some point she'd become the kind of person who did that.