Home Ec is Outrageous!; Monday, Period Five [ 05/10 ].

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

This was it! The very first day of his new class, the very first chapter in the book entitled Aquaman's Adventures in High School Education! And he was prepared! As the students came into the home ec classroom, they would find on their tables a box of various supplies, some crayons and markers and paints, scissors and hot glue guns. And glitter, of course! One didn't have to be a long-standing resident of the island to know that glitter could be a crucial element in a project such as todays! And preparation was at least fifty five percent of victory, if not sixty.



The large man in the tight superhero outfit positively beamed from the head of the classroom as the students got settled, waiting for the precise minute for class to begin. Once it came, he started, bursting with professorial pride. "Hello, intrepid young knowledge seekers! I trust your first day of world-expanding workshops have been going swimmingly, and allow me to welcome you to the home ec classroom. Here, we will join forces together to explore the outrageous wonders of the home economics world! My name is Aquaman, and you may be wondering what a well-known superhero and king of the undersea realm might be doing here teaching home economics in a summer workshop! Well, let me tell you!"

He took a moment to turn around, picking up a marker for the dry erase board, and he wrote out across it a phrase. The marker squeaked, quite a lot, with each careful stroke. Aquaman, however, didn't seem to notice. He finished with a very deliberate and dramatic dot on the bottom of his exclamation point and backed away.

"A man (or woman)'s home is his castle, and if he (or she) cannot maintain his (or her) own castle, how can he (or she) be expected to maintain his kingdom?" he read off importantly.

He stood there admiring it for a moment before turning back around to the class. "See, just like crime fighting, I believe that maintaing home and hearth to be a hands-on job! It builds character! If that means I'm to mend my own socks, well, then, mend them I shall!"

Like Mera would ever mend them for him. And, besides, Aquaman didn't really ever wear socks, anyway.

"So, my intrepid individuals, these next few weeks, we shall embark on the great journey of learning how to better take care of the ecomonics of home! Because home is where the heart is! On your desks, you will find a syllabus, so you know precisely what to look forward to, and please let me know if you have any questions at all. Today's adventure?"

Again, he turned to the board. Again, the marker squeaked with every careful move.

"Introductions & Color Scheme!"

"Introductions!" he said. "And color scheme! It is important for superheroes and homes alike to have a certain color scheme to ground them and make them noteable! As you can see, I am quite fond of orange and green, myself. They are bold and outrageous, just like me! Green is also the color of life and vitality, and of nature, which gives us life...and vitality. And orange, well, orange is for vitality, too, and it helps inspire creativity and it's really, really noticeable. Plus? I like them a lot!"

"So I'd like you all to take a few minutes and think about what colors you would like to choose to represent you! Think well, but think quick! Then, we will take turns going around the room; introduce yourself, telling us who you are, a little about where you are from, why you've decided to take Home Ec, and then tell us what your colors are and why! Then, we will spend the rest of the class using those colors to design a room! It can be any kind of room! Bedroom, living room, bath room...it doesn't matter, as long as you use your colors as the central theme for them. You can use whatever you like to design them; everything you need should be there at your desks. If you're feeling particularly bold and brave, there are shoeboxes provided so you can put your design into a really cool diorama!"



"So, if there aren't any questions, five minutes! And then we'll talk color!"

[[ please wait for the slowly approaching OCD has arrived! ]]

[[ Class Syllabus and Roster! ]]

Comments

Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

And now it's time to go around the room and introduce yourselves and explain your color scheme!

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[life_inshadow]

"I'm T-Tara Maclay," Tara informed her shoes, then managed to take the vast and frightening step of looking at the rest of the class for most of her introduction.

She was never going to like public speaking. But knowing she was going to have to do this three times a semester made it ever so slightly easier.

"Um ... I'm 16. A j-junior now. From, um ... this really tiny town in California. I'm in this class because ... I like cooking and stuff to make people happy? And I figure I'll have a house someday. So this seemed practical. My colors are purple and blue."

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Tara!" said Aquaman with an encouraging smile to the sweet, shy girl. "Welcome to the class! Those are excellent colors, very cool, and they can be either very bold or very soft! Which were you thinking?"

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[life_inshadow]

"I like bold purple and soft blues," Tara answered, still a bit softly. "Maybe -- Maybe a little bit of pale aqua in there?"

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[not_tylerdurden]

"Calvin, I'm from the mid-west, I'm in this class because my friend Hobbes thought it's be fun," Calvin said. "My colours are red and orange, and black but that's technically a tone. I picked them because they're bright and they remind me of Hobbes."

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to the class, Calvin!" said Aquaman, in his most welcoming fashion. "That's an excellent way to pick your colors! I'm sure your friend Hobbes will feel very honored; do the two of you pair up for adventures and things like that? Is he much of a fan of the old English philosopher whose 1651 publication of the philosophical monograph Leviathan, which veritably established for all of Western civilization the foundation of social contact theory?"

Aquaman was kind of a nerd.

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[not_tylerdurden]

"We spend most of my non-class time together, there are adventures," Calvin replied, smiling. "He's read it, but he's not sure how exactly you'd apply social contract theories to a tiger."

It'd been third grade before he's mastered basic math, but Calvin was totally caught up on his philosophers, especially the ones named after tigers.

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[therewaslife]

"I'm Nobody Owens but I go by Bod," he said, well used to introductions on the first day of classes by now. "It is my real name and my parents didn't hate me when they gave it to me. I decided to take this class because I've just recently left home so I figured that learning how to live would be beneficial."

It wasn't like living in a graveyard with a group of ghosts had prepared him for this sort of thing. There wasn't much need for colour schemes.

"I believe my colour scheme would be black and dark blue," he said, looking down at his clothes of the same color. "Perhaps some dark green. I tend to like darker colors."

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, dark colors!" said Aquaman, who, although he was not among the dark color cadre, nodded approvingly. "Do you feel you're a brooding type, then? A stalk around the dead of night sort?"

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[therewaslife]

"I don't think I brood that often," said Bod. He knew everyone brooded at some point but he preferred to think of himself as more of a thinker than a brooder. "I don't really know if I have a reason why I like dark colors. I wore gray for most of my life before leaving home. I've progressed a bit, I think."

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[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I'm Rilla Blythe," she began carefully, trying not to lisp as she had in her previous class. "I will be 14 in July," which sounded so much older than saying she was 13 now, "and I'm from Prince Edward Island, in Canada. In 1913." That seemed to be important to note here. "And I like green as well?"

Because it set off her coloring nicely. Rilla was an occasionally vain girl.

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"1913!" cried Aquaman with delight. "You've come quite a way, then, haven't you, Rilla? How nice that you could join us!"

"And green really is a good color, isn't it?" he added, with a cheerful wink as he gave his big green glove a tug.

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[kissytheface.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" Dandelion said as she shot out of her seat to wave at everyone in the classroom "I'm Dandelion! I'm in a band and sing and shit. And I love chartreuse and Marigold! No! I mean magenta and metallic root beer! Wait... Anti-establishment mint green and burnt orange! No! Wait a second..."

She paused for a moment trying to clear her head.

"What was the question?"

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[mississippiqueen]

"...Do you need a Gay Best Friend?" Because really. Magenta and metallic root beer. Emmett wasn't sure he could've put that together.

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Despite himself, Aquaman chuckled a little. "Colors, Dandelion; we're trying to decide on what our color schemes are! But it's okay, take your time. Sometime you don't know the right colors until the moment when it counts!"

"However," his expression went a little stern, holding up a chastising finger, "I am not sure that shit is a very appropriate word for a class room setting, lass."

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[isntabitpretty.livejournal.com]

If there was a touch of a flair for the dramatic in the way Sara stood to introduce herself, she couldn't help it; that was just the way she was.

"My name is Sara Stanley," she said gracefully, and glanced briefly Rilla's way with a look of relief. "I'm just recently sixteen, and I've spent most of my life living with my mother's family in Carlisle, on Prince Edward Island, only it was 1910 when I left." She trailed off for a moment, distracted by the idea of how many more stories must have cropped up in the last hundred years that she could learn and tell.

"I like bold colors," she finally went on, the way she said it indicating exactly what she meant by 'bold.' "I'm rather fond of deep reds and blues."

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

And Aquaman liked to see a little natural flair.

"Welcome to the twenty-first century, then, Sara, and to my class! It will be great to have you, and maybe shed some light on how much things have changed since then! And deep red and blue! Very good colors! One of the best superheroes I know is very fond of red and blues; they're a super combination!"

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[mississippiqueen]

"Emmett Honeycutt, from a town that's smaller then your elbow in Mississippi." He really didn't have a problem with public speaking, no. "I'm sixteen, gonna be a junior, and sadly unavailable to the ladies of our fair school unless you need a Gay Best Friend who can provide fashion tips, excellent gossip and absolutely zero comments on how much ice cream you're eating when you're depressed."

PSA over, he finished with, "I'm here because I love clothes, parties and food so where else would I be, and it's really hard to pick just two colors, but... let's go with silver and dusty rose. Or maybe electric blue?"

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

For the record, Aquaman definitely did glance toward his elbow for comparison. And Aquaman's elbow was fairly formidable, especially when it be being smashed into a villain's face, so that town must have been truly tiny!

But then he was deeply involved with wanting to help young Emmett with his color conundrum, stroking his beard thoughtfully. "Electric blue," he concluded, nodding at the suggestion. "It's so much more...electric."

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[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Sookie Stackhouse," she said with a little wave. "I'm sixteen, and I'll be a senior this year -- I have a late birthday." No one cares, Sookie. "Anyway, I'm from this itty bitty town in Louisiana, if the, um, accent didn't give me away. And my color scheme is yellow and purple." She had reasons.

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[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

But Aquaman cared.

"Happy late birthday early, then, Sookie!" said Aquaman, chuckling at what he thought was a very good joke. "Welcome to the class! And yellow and purple are very nice colors; no one'll miss you in those ones!"

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[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi, I'm Kitty Pryde, yes like a cat," she added quickly, having gotten that more than once this weekend. "I'm from Illinois but just came here from New York, and I'm in this class because I need to practice."

Oh dear god, did she ever need to practice. The problem was no one ever deserved to be practiced upon, so, sorry class!

"I'm going to go with blue and yellow for my colors." Match her uniform.

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Hey, his name was Aquaman. He couldn't say a word about names. Except maybe that he thought it was a great one. Kitty Pryde sounded very superheroish.

"Welcome to the class, Kitty! Glad to have you and practice does make perfect. Or close enough to perfect to count. Yellow and blue are excellent colors, well picked!"

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[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

"Guten Tag! Mein Name ist Kurt Wagner, und I am from Bayville, New York!"

Yes, Kurt thought he was funny.

"My favorite color is definitely blue, but I also like... oh, red and black. And yellow is nice for accents." He grinned. "And I decided to take this class because I heard a rumor it was outrageous."

Re: Introductions! -- Home Ec, 05/10.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

To that, Aquaman couldn't help laughing, a deep, whole-hearted chuckle that might have echoed if this room didn't have such great acoustics. "I typically don't condone listening to gossip, as it often leads to zany misconceptions and whacky hijinks of misunderstanding, but, in the case of that rumor, you're absolutely right! I'll be sure not to disappoint your expectations of outrageousness, Kurt! Welcome to the class!"