Fandom Library, Wednesday, September 24th

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Yeah, Arden had come in and immediately had to break up a fight between gremlins, which was a truly harrowing experience. Aggressive gremlins were bitey gremlins, and Arden was not interested in wandering around thinking she was a Southern belle again. Or whatever weird hallucination her brain and gremlin venom might cook up together.

After a couple of very close calls between her flesh and gremlin teeth, she'd finally discovered the reason behind the fight: they'd been fighting over whose music was going to be played while they were in the library today. Arden was pretty sure the answer was supposed to be be 'nobody's music, it's the LIBRARY' but there was still the fear of biting.

So instead, she'd come up with a different option and that was why the library was hosting its first ever (probably?) Silent Rave. She'd managed to scrounge up enough phones, mp3 players, walkmans, discmans, and even cassette players (okay, people REALLY needed to go through the lost and found more often) and had handed them out to all the assembled gremlins, so everybody could listen to their own music without bothering anybody else.

And hey! She got to listen to music while tidying up the library, so...bonus!

Health Education, Wednesday, Second Period

[ifwebeworthy]

"Now that you've been introduced to germs, we're going to talk about what you can do to avoid them--besides vaccines, which hopefully you've already started your series on. Yes?" Don checked with his students.

Then he set a bar of soap down on the desk in front of him. "Behold: our best defense against infection. You see, in the nineteenth century, a Hungarian doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that women in the obstetrical clinic's midwives' ward died of horrible infections at a dramatically lower rate than women in the doctor's wards. So he started trying to figure out why this might be--especially since, if you asked a nineteenth century doctor, obviously doctors were the superior option, what with their formal education and being male and all--please note sarcasm--and he noticed that one major difference was that the midwives washed their hands between patients, while the doctors...uh, didn't do that." Eugh. "Of course, the medical establishment at the time was a bunch of men who thought they could do no wrong, so things did not go well for Semmelweis, but while his handwashing protocols were in place maternal mortality at the clinic dropped from almost 20% to 2%, and after his death other scientists such as Louis Pasteur figured out that hot damn, he was right all along, which is why I wash my hands for about five minutes and then put sterile gloves on them before performing surgery.

"You, of course, don't have to go quite that hardcore, but handwashing is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of germs. Think about all the stuff you touch with your hands, and all the people who touched it before you. It's especially important to wash your hands after, say, handling raw meat, using the bathroom, or sneezing on them. There is a correct way to wash your hands, and today we're going to watch an instructional video." At the end of said video, Don asked his students, "Are there any questions?"

Space Pirates! (Pirates in Space!) [Wednesday, 1st Period]

[good_for_six]

"Good news, everyone," Isabela announced, which was often a debatable fact where Isabela's announcements were concerned. "Today we'll be taking flight on the ship, so get to the rigging so we can set sail and catch the winds."

Yes, the winds of space. Famously a thing. Well, they were in the simulation at least, since once the sails were set, something filled them.

Once the ship had been sailing along those highly unscientific nebulae for long enough for the class to get a feel for it, Aphra gasped dramatically. "Asteroid field, dead ahead, Captain!"

"All hands on deck," Isabela called out, even though, lets face it, everyone was probably already right there. "We're going to need some fancy sailing!"