Applied Science, 12/14, Period 1

[tyler_gone]

There was a platter of Christmas cookies with coffee, hot chocolate, and milk on the side on a table at the back of the lab. The lab tables were covered with less savory supplies.

"Welcome to your final," Tyler said. "I am sure those of you who have taken a class with me before will be astounded to hear that our last lab is making soap. Technically" -- he grinned -- "we are creating the alkali salt of a fatty acid." He went through a thumbnail lecture on the science of that. "If you've done it before, try to do it better, or add scents or herbs this time."

"Before you start on the soap process, please write 150 words or so on what you learned from this class. Thanks. You guys were a good group."

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Make Soap [12/14]

[tyler_gone]

Like I'd go a semester without this class.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

This was pretty fun. Dinah was considering how much lavender to add to the soil to make it smell nice, once she got a good goop going.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

Priestly leaned over to watch Dinah work, while he waited for his mixture to cool.

"I keep thinking I should add, like, chives or something."

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Chive soap? Chive soup?" Dinah grinned up at him and leaned over to sniff his concoction. "You're just too used to the cooking thing. Although I guess science is way similar." She tilted her head and asked, "Did you oversleep? You're all undone."

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

"This is totally exactly like cooking. Right down to the lard." Priestly shrugged, resisting the urge to run a gloved hand over his hair. "I just didn't feel like doing it all up, today."

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah frowned, a little surprised and unsettled, checking on Priestly out of the corner of her eye. "Yeah? You're feeling okay? Not getting sick or randomly crazy?" Hey, it was a valid concern!

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

Continuing to very quietly freak out about last weekend, now that people weren't, like, professing their undying love for each other, totally wasn't random.

"Yeah. I'm fine. No gremlins, potions, or islandy meanness, as far as I know."

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Reassured, Dinah said, "Okay, as long as you're you. I have to check." She sniffed her soap, and then dropped the lavender oil in. "How was your weekend? Did you get a chance to relax much?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

"Yeah, it was quiet since my mun was running around like a madwoman. I noticed you and Jak disappeared. Things all good on that front?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"We went bungee-jumping!" That was a big yes. "Once I explained about all the different kinds of crazy here, and he got over being weirded out about it, we were good. It really has been a quiet semester, hasn't it? Aside from last weekend, I mean. And the vegetable attack."

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

"Dinah!" Priestly hissed. "You're just asking for an attack of evil Santas or something!"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah's eyes got wide, and she bit her lip, looking woeful. "I didn't mean it!" she hissed to the Island at large. "Really! It's been crazy enough especially since you made up for it last week! You're plenty crazy!" She waited hopefully, then checked with Priestly. "Think it's good now?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

"As good as it could be?" He shrugged. "Hey, do your sisters have to go crime fighting on Christmas Eve, or do the bad guys usually take the night off?" Slightly random, yes, but he'd been thinking about it.

Mostly about Helena in her lovely tight black clothing and a Santa hat leaping from building to building. Priestly's imagination could be a slightly terrifying place.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Well, there was one year there was a ring of Santa-burglars robbing stores, and that went up to Christmas Eve," Dinah said thoughtfully, stirring her goop. "Helena ended up catching up to them and hanging them from fire escapes. Ho ho ho." She grinned. "So yeah, sometimes. If it snows though, forget it. Minus twenty windchill in Gotham, and the crooks stay indoors." She gave him a curious look, knowing his take on Helena a little too well. "Whyyyy?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

Priestly shuddered a little at the "minus twenty windchill" and wondered for the billionth time why someone would want to live somewhere where such a thing might be a regular occurrence. He shrugged. "I dunno, just, you know, wondering. It can't be very Christmas-cheery if you're chasing down bad guys."

Oo, maybe in reindeer antlers. That'd be cute.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Uh-hunh." Not totally buying it, she said, "Alfred usually makes really good cocoa and dim sum for afterward, if there's a case over the holidays. And there's a New Year's ball for the police that we went to last year, that was fun. Uncle Jim got another award." Said with total pride. "One year there was a breakout at Arkham, but I think that was after Christmas itself. And not hard to track down, when someone was encasing all the ice rinks in glaciers." The Penguin was so weird.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

Priestly blinked at that. The only Christmas excitement they got in Santa Cruz was the year one of the art students decided to do sand paintings on the beach with food coloring. "Your world is kind of weird."

Priestly's mental!Helena was now on skis.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Well, yeah," Dinah admitted. "At least New Gotham. The rest of the country is-- mostly normal?" Okay, exaggeration. "Metropolis and Star City and a few others have their own weird sometimes too, but Gotham has a rep for the crazy super people." She spread her arms in pride. "Go hometown, woooooo."

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

"I guess without crazy super villains, you wouldn't need any crazy super heroes. And then how would you and your sisters get your adrenalin fixes?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"More BASE jumping? Car racing?... nahhh, cliches." Dinah grinned wickedly. "We'd have to invent something even more crazy to make up for it." She might be working for the day ther was no crime in New Gotham, but wow, would she be bored if it ever happened. "How about you? Heading home to the land of no-snow and no-crazy?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

"That's the plan. Mom even admitted that I probably wouldn't come to horrible harm if I helped out Trucker at the sub shop while I was home." Man, his life sounded so dull in comparison. "So, uh. Are the super powers, like, required for fighting evil where you're from? I mean, if the bad guys can set up glaciers, you've gotta have a little mojo yourself, right?"

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[lovemykilt]

Priestly actually hadn't done his hair, that morning, so it was a rather washed out green, today, pulled back into a little mohawk ponytail thing. His goatee was looking a little scruffy, too. Let's just assume that this is because he was up all weekend reviewing all his prior classes.

Either way, this lab was enough like cooking that Priestly wasn't having too much trouble with it. He was making faces at the lye, though.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[momslilassassin]

Ben was happily making soap, wondering if he could send it to his father as a gift for a holiday that they didn't celebrate at home.

Ben enjoyed confusing Luke.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[intraspective]

Citrus, citrus, citrus!

Ino was totally an old-hand at this by now, oh yes.

Re: Make Soap [12/14]

[heromaniac]

Momoko set about gathering and mixing. She realized after a few minutes that she should have included in her essay that she'd learned to take her time and get the recipe right. Sure it took longer, but things didn't explode on you when they weren't supposed to... or didn't when they were.