Home Ec is Outrageous!; Monday, Period Five [ 06/21 ].

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Good afternoon, my avid academics!" Aquaman greeted the class with the usual brightness and proud smiles, though it seemed twinged with a bit of bittersweet remorse. "Can you believe that it is already our very last day of this class? I know I can't! You've all worked so hard and well, even against the adversity of certain tasks that may have presented themselves to be a difficult challenge! But what is life without challenges? What is success without a high mountain to climb or a tall hurdle to leap? I hope you are all as proud of yourselves as I am of you! I shall miss having you aboard for the subsequent semester, unless you decide to take the course again."

There was a slight pause that may have indicated that, if you did, even Aquaman, subconsciously, thought you would be a little crazyflakes if you did. It was gone before it ever really landed, however.

"So, for our very last day, I would like you to bring your fish back to me and tell the class a little about any adventures you and your gilled friend may have had, and then we'll spend the rest of the hour revisiting our favorite projects! Everything we've worked on, you can work on again. I've got things for cooking, sewing, cleaning, basket weaving, anything you'd like, to really show off what brought you joy and happiness in this particular subject!"

"I shall miss you all! But I can tell there's a bright future in home maintenience ahead of all of you!"

...Sure there was, Aquaman. Sure there was.


[[ slowly approaching OCD is on the way here and raring to go! ]]

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Comments

Sign In! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Like it's the last time!

Re: Sign In! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[therewaslife]

Nobody Owens

Re: Sign In! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[life_inshadow]

Tara Maclay

During the Lecture! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Not that there really is one, but who doesn't enjoy posting their reactions to things?

Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Turn your fish back in (assuming it survived) and share any stories you may have had on your week as a fish mother or father!

And Aquaman will know if you're lying, unless you've bribed your fish to take your side.

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[therewaslife]

Bod turned his fish back in and gave it a little wave as he did. "My fish had a bit of an exciting time. He was accidentally dislodged from his bowl early on last week by a friend of mine and luckily returned to a safe place after some quick thinking. I don't know if my fish just wanted freedom or was just a little bored with the water he'd been swimming in."

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Ahhh, yes," said Aquaman, arching a thoughtful eyebrow. "Your fish was the one brought to my attention for being...of questionable moral integrity."

Which meant Aquaman, who had been terribly curious about that whole thing, regarding the fish for a moment.

"It's good to know everyone still came out of the matter all safe and sound."

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[life_inshadow]

"Flory was okay," Tara said, with a sheepish glance to her bowl. The truth was, she'd remembered to feed her fish but that was about it. She was clearly not cut out for a pet that just sat in a bowl. "My cat tried to commit fish-icide a few times, but I managed to keep them apart."

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

And that was, in a way, the beauty about the fish project, because, for a week, that was about all they needed.

"Preventing fish-icide," said Aquaman with a proud lilt in his voice, "is quite an accomplishment, especially with a curious, peckish cat in the household! So well done, Tara!"

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Ishmael wasn't entirely sympathetic to my plight this weekend," Rilla said accusingly, "and he's not the cuddliest thing when your heart has been completely shattered, but for a fish, I suppose he was all right."

She plunked the fish bowl down. "And he gained weight and didn't die," she added proudly.

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Two good signs of a healthy, growing child!" said Aquaman with proud approval. "Though I am sorry to hear about your recent heartache. At least Ishmael didn't cause it directly; I've heard suggestion that some of them have tried to do that with unsuspecting young lasses."

He then glanced toward the fish to check and see that he hadn't actually caused any himself. He hoped not; he hadn't intended for these fish to be so unruly, but sometimes, you could never tell.

"Perhaps," he offered, with probably far too much enthusiasm, "some nice, cathartic housework will help!"

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[not_tylerdurden]

Calvin's fish was still alive and in relatively good health, so that counted as a win, really.

"Hobbes considered eating him," Calvin explained. "But I pointed out I'd fail if he did, so he stuck to canned tuna instead."

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Aquaman looked like his face was about to turn as green as his tights at the mention of tuna. He coughed, clearing his throat a little.

"Excellent work, then, Calvin! Protecting our children from the dangers of the world with logic and reasoning! A good step toward excellent parenting in the future!"

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[mississippiqueen]

"Audrey was a perfect lady," Emmett said, bowl set down on the desk but fingers not really unprying from it, "all week." Unlike some people. Friday never happened Friday never happened Friday never happened... "Possibly because I exposed her to the entire collected works of the divine Miss Hepburn."

He gave the teacher his best puppy eyes, which were pretty damn puppyish if he said so himself. "Do we really have to give them back?"

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"Miss Hepburn!" said Aquaman, quite clearly impressed and pleased with this news. "By Neptune's beard, she's one of my absolute favorites!"

He glanced toward Audrey as he considered Emmett's question with an amused smile on his face.

"And I suppose if you really wanted to keep her, that'd be fine by me....If you're sure you can take good care of her!"

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I missed the fishie project," Sookie said, sadly. She liked fish. "But, um, I'm sure that if I'd done it, I would have had a really good time with my fish baby! I'm generally really good at taking care of things!"

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

"There are plenty for fish babies left if you'd like one still, Sookie!"

Miraculously, they all seemed to come back alive!

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt curled an arm protectively around Der Nachtfische's bowl. "Do we have to give them back? We had fun times together! We traveled around town!"

The fish, on the other hand, was practically trying to swim through the bowl to get to the safety of Aquaman. It had been well-fed and cared for, and talked to, and generally loved, but it had also been traumatized by the handwavey, since I forgot to post it experience of being teleported from rooftop to rooftop in the dark of night.

Re: Fish Tales! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

And, see, this is where Aquaman met quite a predicament. On the one hand, he'd been letting other students keep their fish and Kurt really seemed to have taken a liking to the fellow. On the other hand, the other students didn't have fish that were failing at repressing certain memories.

But he felt he had come to a workable solution. After fixing a glance on the fish that was meant to embolden it to go forward toward his brave fish duty, he turned to Kurt with a nod and said, "Just remember, though, that fish in small bowls prefer to stay relatively put. An occassional venture can be nice, but they're mostly home types of fish..."

Free Time! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

What was your favorite project this semester? Which would you like to spend a little more time doing? Everything from anything in the class, from cooking to cleaning to underwater basket weaving (thanks to some rather large tanks of water) are available for you to just have fun and enjoy the last workshop.

Re: Free Time! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[life_inshadow]

Inspired by the selection of produce, Tara decided to spend some time cooking. She put together a neat fruit salad with honey-lime dressing.

Re: Free Time! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

If anyone asked, Rilla was doing dishes. She was actually engaging in a therapeutic session of pot and pan banging.

Talk to Aquaman! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Always available for the talking!

OOC! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[byneptunesbeard.livejournal.com]

Thank you guys so, so much for cracking me up all semester. I know there wasn't a lot of interaction, but your tags were always appreciated because omg. UH-MAY-ZING CLASS.

Re: OOC! -- Home Ec!, 06/21.

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to inform you that I watched, like, 18 episodes of Batman: The Brave and the Bold this weekend. And it is all. Your. Fault.