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Tyler Durden ([personal profile] tyler_gone) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2009-09-28 08:25 am
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Applied Science | Monday | 9.28

As the students entered the classroom, Tyler tossed a weird-shaped plush .... thing at each one. He hadn't planned on covering bio this semester, but he found himself with a few stray weeks and everyone was obsessed with H1N1 anyhow.

"Hi. Congratulations. Now you have swine flu, syphilis, mad cow disease, and a couple other diseases," he said, an odd gleeful note to his tone. "Hope you don't mind. Take them home, introduce them to your other roommates, give them cute names. You're getting them today because they fit in with what we're going to talk about, which is bacteria and viruses -- germs."

He went on to lecture about the differences between bacteria and viruses, how they were spread, and the diseases they could cause, then gestured to two glittery markers set on a table in the front of the class.

(Glitter and stuffed animals. Apparently Tyler was going through his own little gender swap today.)

"I want you to pass the marker around and take turns writing something on the posterboard. Touch the marker and the paper as you usually would. Watch where the glitter gets on your body and now it gets there, and think about how germs might be similar. Once you've seen it, you'll never want to touch anything again without rubber gloves and anti-bacterial soap."

"That's actually a bad thing. Antibacterials kill the normal germs, but it means the strong ones live. Natural selection is leading to giant superstrong bacterium that will probably take over the world and cause a plague and kill everyone. Avoid plague. Use regular soap. And if anybody wants to start making out, don't blame the glitter"

He held out the marker to the first student, holding it by the less glittery end. "Go to it."
intraspective: (charming)

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[personal profile] intraspective 2009-09-28 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yamanaka Ino
momslilassassin: ([pos] hello down there)

Re: Sign In [9.28]

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-09-28 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben Skywalker
momslilassassin: ([neg] omgwtfbbq)

Re: General Class Stuff [9.28]

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-09-28 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben took notes between glances at his stuffed swine flu virus.

Weird, weird planet.
not_tylerdurden: (Calvin: yeeeah...about that)

Re: Sign In [9.28]

[personal profile] not_tylerdurden 2009-09-28 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Calvin
not_tylerdurden: (Calvin: floppy-haired hoodie)

Re: Talk to the TAs [9.28]

[personal profile] not_tylerdurden 2009-09-28 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Calvin was there, and seeing if any of the plushies were cooties. He had plans if they were, oh yes.
momslilassassin: ([neg] *emos*)

Re: Science! [9.28]

[personal profile] momslilassassin 2009-09-28 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Ben scrawled, "I am going to wear gloves forever," then frowned at his glitter-covered hands.

Re: Sign In [9.28]

[identity profile] blondecanary.livejournal.com 2009-09-28 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Dinah Lance

Re: Science! [9.28]

[identity profile] blondecanary.livejournal.com 2009-09-28 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Dinah was making her Mad Cow disease moo. After she got glittered by the pen. Maybe the mad cow could be a vector for more diseases?

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[identity profile] not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com 2009-09-28 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Jennifer Walters
lovemykilt: (Default)

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[personal profile] lovemykilt 2009-09-28 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Priestly

Re: General Class Stuff [9.28]

[identity profile] not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com 2009-09-28 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The instant Mr. Durden mentioned the 'don't blame the glitter thing', Jennifer just looked down at her desk and tried not to die, mainly.

Poor girl was still conflicted. She really needed to talk to Ellie.

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[identity profile] lordofthecats.livejournal.com 2009-09-28 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Lion-o
furnaceface: (Serious)

Re: Sign In [9.28]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2009-09-28 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Jonothon Starsmore
furnaceface: (In his room)

Re: Talk to the TAs [9.28]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2009-09-28 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Jono was there, with his Gangrene tucked safely under one armpit.

He wasn't going to admit that it was cute, no. Shut up.
furnaceface: (Grumpyface)

Re: Science! [9.28]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2009-09-28 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Sigh.

//Not a bloody week is going to go by without me wearin' this naffin' stuff,// Jono grumbled, and then wrote the same thing on the board.

Yep. There he was. Wearing the glitter.
heromaniac: (uhm what)

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[personal profile] heromaniac 2009-09-28 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Momoko Akatsutsumi
heromaniac: (mew)

Re: General Class Stuff [9.28]

[personal profile] heromaniac 2009-09-28 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Plushies and glitter markers? Momoko was in seventh heaven. Plus, her plushie was pink and she could take it home and name it and so what it was a virus, it was cute! And if she occasionally made little squeaky noises and skritched the plushie during the lecture, it was totally all in the name of science.

The ribbon she was tying around it's neck, though was purely for the pretty.
heromaniac: (big wave)

Re: Science! [9.28]

[personal profile] heromaniac 2009-09-28 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Momoko took the marker eagerly, but wasn't sure what to write, so there was a moment of chin tapping (leaving glitter with each tap) before she finally settled on, 'Hi! My name is Momoko and this is Henry!'

She turned and waved her H1N1 plushie, now covered in glitter as well, at the rest of the class.
heromaniac: (V for victory)

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[personal profile] heromaniac 2009-09-28 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oink!" Momoko quite possibly may have been the one leaning across the aisle with a pink jelly bean-like glittery and be-ribboned H1N1. "Oink, oink."

'Henry' apparently wanted to make a friend!
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[personal profile] eyebrowgoesup 2009-09-28 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Spock

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[identity profile] new-to-liirness.livejournal.com 2009-09-29 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Liir Thropp

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[identity profile] likethestore.livejournal.com 2009-09-30 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
K-Mart