fandomhigh | Newspaper Staff Meeting; Friday, after classes. Journalism Room [ 09/11 ].

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Newspaper Staff Meeting; Friday, after classes. Journalism Room [ 09/11 ].

The first newspaper meeting for Cal Stephanides, editor, and he, of course, was as cool as a cucumber. He was in charge! He was the head honcho! He was the one at the helm that directed the others. Why would he be nervous to have such power?

...God, he was nervous. But hopefully he didn't show. Hopefully, any shaking or anticipatory bouncing that was occurring would be taken merely as an attempt to channel in the last editor for her courage and strength and....bounciness.

The jaunty little press fedora he had on his head was helping a lot, too. And the coffee. With a lot of sugar. There were also donuts, naturally, but some baklava, too (leftovers from Wednesday, but, hey, it was still good!).

"So!" Cal greeted the group. "Welcome the first meeting of the Fall edition of the Fandom High Times! I'm Cal Stephanides, I'll be the editor this semester and probably in the spring, too; I wrote for the paper last year,"--sometimes--"and am actually the only one of that staff left here; everyone else graduated or left, which is kind of sad, but I can tell we have a pretty awesome group this time. Help yourself to some food and coffee and today we're just going to chat about what we might want to do for the paper. Since there was a mass exodus of staff, we have an entirely blank sheet to work with and can take it in whatever direction we want to take it. Articles are due Thursdays, and then the paper goes out Friday mornings. And then lather, rinse, repeat."

A process he knew much about now with his long pretty hair.

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With a fancy byline.

Hoshi Sato

Yakko Warner is the Newberry Award winning author of fifteen books, all of them featuring the word "boingy" repeated for three hundred pages.

Fire Mage Eleanor Robinson, orphaned at an early age, successfully overthrew her stepmother and stepsisters because they were evil and all stories of orphan girls and evil family members always end with 'happily ever after'.

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And his wife, Mrs. Chatting.

No, that joke never gets old, even when it's shamelessly stolen. Mwa ha ha.

Hoshi was probably just as nervous as Cal, though she was also trying not to show it. She had never done anything like this before and probably needed a little encouragement.

Yakko had no nerves. He did, however, have a chair built out of empty sugar packets. The sugar from those packets was in his stomach.

This didn't seem to make any difference in how Yakko normally acted.

There was a slight pause as Cal looked at...whatever the hell that thing was.

But it wasn't so much the thing that caught him.

"Did you just make a chair out of empty sugar packets?"

That did.

"Don't be silly. There weren't enough sugar packets here to make a chair out of," Yakko said.

At least there wouldn't have been if he hadn't brought a hole bunch of sugar packets to the meeting.

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Eleanor wasn't nervous so much as confused. How did she get signed up for this? For now, she had a donut and tea. It was becoming habit to carry a few tea satchels with her everywhere she went as everyone else seemed to prefer that mud-like beverage, coffee.

Is there something in particular you'd like to do? Have an idea, but need to hash it out more? Want Cal to force you to do a piece on pink frilly dresses? Here's the place to do it.

When in doubt, Hoshi opted to go with what was easiest for her.

"I could do a column with a recipe of the week," she suggested.

"Ooooh," Cal grinned in approval at the suggestion. "I would have never even thought about that; good thinking, Hoshi! Consider it done! And make 'em good, too, because then people will make lots of it."

And his tummy would be happy.

"I'd like to make stuff up about people's futures. I mean, write horoscopes," Yakko said.

Cal was about to ask what this thing's credentials on horoscopes might be, but then he remember that the last person to write them was Toby, and he stopped himself.

"Sure. Knock yourself out."

Yakko shrugged, reached into his pocket, pulled out a mallet, and smacked himself in the head with it. As he fell backwards, he wrapped himself in a blanket he didn't have a second ago and landed with his head on a pillow that hadn't been there.

The mallet just seemed to disappear.

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Eleanor had to think on what she could contribute, but finally came up with something.

"I could do a column on learning and understanding the Tarot," she suggested.

...

Why, hello, there, pale and attractive redhead. You can do whatever you want. You could spit on a piece of paper and rub it with dirt, and Cal would be willing to editorialize on the brilliance of it.

He had to swallow before he could say anything.

"Tarot?" he asked. "Really? That could be really interesting..."

Cal just sort of looked at his roommate and his roommate's ears for a moment.

"Something would be good, Merlin, yeah."

He almost wanted to suggest diary entries...

She was around, ~~although her player is largely AFK until tonight~~.

This post is dedicated to

the_merriest, for without her, I would have probably have had to go back to

peter__parker to steal crap from. ♥

Hey, you can't steal crap from me. You can only steal AWESOME from me.

And you certainly have it in LOADS.

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