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Living with Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]

"Good afternoon, class." Sophie smiled brightly at Max's students, two boxes of J,GoB's best pastries on the desk behind her, looking completely benign. "I understand you have a Final today. I'm afraid Professor Maximus won't be joining us until the very end, though. He's been unavoidably detained."

By a bottle of tequila, two supermodels and a stripper, and a delayed return-ticket on Portalocity. Bless them.

"So since I don't have access to his final test, I'm afraid you'll have to, mm, 'wing it'. Please write down what you've learned from this class... and then every way you plan on twisting that knowledge to your own advantage in the future."

There. That was a good test of how well they'd understood the concepts.

"After all, it's the applicability that matters, isn't it?"

[class hijacked at the instigation of

furious_maximus, who will reappear before the period is over. *bows to him*]

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Like you've just been kidnapped to Miami Beach!

Does she mean 'detained' by the authorities? Or did she hide his body somewhere?

Edited 2010-04-20 09:25 (UTC)

Feel free to editorialize. Sophie will give you higher marks if you do.

[You can handwave this, if you wish.]

Edited 2010-04-20 09:26 (UTC)

After you've turned in your paper. And collect a complimentary muffin from J,GoB while you're at it.

Edited 2010-04-20 08:58 (UTC)

When he gets back from Miami.

Because Sophie can't end the world from someone else's class!

Premise and kidnapping all begun and approved by the Professor, who was kind enough to give Sophie a free hand here.

Arthur Pendragon

Leia Organa

If it was going to be Sophie grading these, then Leia was definitely letting loose with her opinion on the class.

Hannibal King

After last week, Hannibal had been expecting something. He didn't think Professor Maximus would give them some hard as hell final but he'd been expecting something so he wasn't entirely surprised by this turn of events.

Hannibal's essay was a little more complimentary of Professor Maximus's class than others might be but he still twisted it around a little to make it seem like he appreciated difficult women rather than resenting them.

Still, it wasn't like he'd forget the class. While he didn't know that many difficult women, he was sure he'd meet some in the future and now he had the knowledge to deal.

Yamanaka Ino

Helen Haras-Uquara

Helen wrote pages and pages of response to this. She started with the 'politically correct' answers and then, just for her own venting pleasure, continued on with the answers she would have preferred to have given.

The latter wasn't intended to be turned in, but who knew what could happen here in Fandom or if Sophie might simply snag everything from her.

Boy had Max been surprised to find that A) Sophie had headed back to Fandom without him, and B) the return-portal ticket she'd given him wasn't until after his class was almost over.

He'd called Portalocity in a desperate attempt to get new ones (he had worked pretty hard on making that exam difficult, after all), but all he managed to get was hold music.

Really bad hold music.

He did finally make it back. About five minutes before the end of class. His expression suggested that he wasn't sure if he should be angry or amused. Maybe some combination of both...?

Mat Cauthon

Mat didn't like this change one bit and he frowned behind his hand.

It wasn't like Mat was really concerned about grades, so he wrote exactly what he thought about women, noblewomen, Aes Sedai, the weather, what awaited him when he returned home, and why every woman he'd ever met had proven to be difficult in one way or another.

Max would have loved this essay. Sophie, probably not.

Aravis

Sophie gave him a pleased look when he arrived. Not an innocent look. She knew she couldn't pull that one off.

"Max! You made it back in time. Splendid!"

"No thanks to you," he grumped, sighing theatrically.

"Now, now," Sophie chided. "You were having a lovely time. I didn't want to spoil that for you." Her smile widened. "And see? I've given your exam! Wasn't that thoughtful of me?"

"Uh huh. I don't suppose that maybe you were planning something along these lines the entire time?" Max asked. Not that it wasn't blatantly obvious.

"Why would I do that?" Sophie smiled like a cat. "I can't think of a reason."

"You can't, huh?" Max shook his head. "And here I've always thought of you as a woman of great imagination."

"Flattery," Sophie mused. "Do I need a reason? If I'd done this hypothetical thing deliberately, in order to delay you from attending your own Final."

Max opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. "You? Nothing beyond whimsy, I suppose..."

"Precisely." Max was smart. He could figure it out. Sophie didn't need to say any of her half-dozen reasons. "Come, I'll buy you dinner now, to reward your patience. And I promise not to leave you somewhere you're having too much fun."

"I suppose it's too much to hope that you administered the actual exam I prepared, isn't it?" Max sighed.

Francine Peters

Francine didn't have a bad opinion of the class or the professor; she'd have to be a much more difficult woman herself to complain about what others might take as sexism, and by nature, she wasn't. Her essay consisted mostly of variations on the theme of difficult people, though, and concluded in: Most of the best people to know in life are 'difficult' and the smartest thing you can do is hang on to them as hard as you can.

"Darling, that would've meant an unforgivable intrusion into your office and your computer."

Yeahhh, no.

Jack Burton

This...couldn't be good.

Jack wrote a few pages on interpersonal relationships and how to handle them effectively. Really. It started bad and just kept getting worse.

Page three had the extended metaphor using the engine of a car.

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Living with Difficult Women [Tuesday, Period 5]

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