Office Hours - Abnormal Psychology

[romanywitch]

Jenny is sitting in a bare office, and is typing happily away on her laptop, updating herself on all the new computer technology she's been missing out on.

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Deciding to check it out for himself, Cameron drops by Ms Calender's office and knocks on the door.

[romanywitch]

"Door's open," says Jenny, closing her laptop and looking up.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron opens the door and enters the office. He relaxes a bit when he realises there's real light in the room and not a tentacle in sight.

"Good day, Ms Calender. I hope I'm not interupting. I'm Cameron Mitchell."

[romanywitch]

Jenny grins at him. "Hey, Cameron! Nice to meet you." She gestures at one of the two chairs in front of her desk. "I was just seeing what was out there in the wide, wonderful world of computers. Grab a seat, tell me what's going on."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige slowly walks intot the room, at least it wasn't the scary squid lady she was going to see, but a new teacher this far in was a little worrying never the less.

"Miss Calender? I'm Paige Matthews, I'm here about the essay."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron sits down, grinning. "Would that be for the psych classes or the entire island, ma'am?"

[romanywitch]

"Paige, hi!" exclaims Jenny. "Nice to meet you. So, yeah, the essay." She leans back in her chair and takes a drink from her coffee mug. "What's going on with that?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I'm Paige's partner. Jack Harkness."

[romanywitch]

"Ma'am?" Jenny shakes her head, amused. "Let's stick with 'Ms. Calendar.' I hear 'ma'am,' I'm not going to know who you're talking to. You're way more formal than the last bunch of kids I taught."

She leans back, props her feet up on her desk, and grins at Cameron. "How about we start with the psych class? Then maybe we'll move on to the island."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige smiles at Jack then turns to Jenny, "well basically crazy squid lady Professor Drusilla wanted us to write an essay about whatwe'd seen in one her classes, when erm.." she pauses and looks at Jack again, "a few of the students were a little...wonky. Basically I think the professor did something bad to them and I'd rather not write about it"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron raises an eyebrow at the feet on the desk, but smiles amused. He shakes his head and tries to find the best words to describe Drusilla's classes.

"They've been... interesting. I only started attending them since I took on the TA job," there's a slight grimace as he considers those circumstances. "Crazy Squid Lady Professor Drusilla wasn't too adverse to trying experiments out on her students. So some students had problems turning up for the classes, or at least weren't looking forward to it. Uh, you know about the experiment she wanted the class to run."

[romanywitch]

Jenny listens for a minute. "Okay, this is Drusilla we're talking about. Of course she did something bad to the students." She spreads her hands. "And yet, there's an essay that needs to be done. Why don't you tell me what you think happened?"

[romanywitch]

"Jack!" says Jenny. "Nice to meet you. Have a seat, and you guys can talk to me about your project just as soon as Paige explains the essay problem."

OOC: I think I accidentally deleted this. Shoot.

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"Oh I'm more than happy to do the essay, I'm not sure what happened, I guess maybe she hypnotised some of them to think they had various mental disorders. She wanted us to write about what happened but like I said I was umcomfortable with doing that. Prehaps I could write an essay about a particular mental disorder or something?" she suggests

[romanywitch]

Jenny just grins back at the eyebrow. Her desk, her office, her boots.

"Interesting in the sense of 'may you lead an interesting life?'" asks Jenny. "It wouldn't surprise me. What's up with the squid lady nickname? So what'd she try out on the students? And I know she wanted everyone to come up with experimental designs, but I don't know much more than that."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Something like that," Cameron says carefully. He decides to start with the easiest part of the question. "Well, she's got a squid and she's crazy... She actually wanted us to come up with an experiment to find out what would make people kill. I'm not so sure I was too thrilled about the part where we'd have to try it out on our partner."

He takes a deep breath before continuing. "She somehow managed to give some of the students one of the mental disorders they had discussed in class for one day."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Jonathan walks by Ms. Calendar's office hours and doesn't walk in. No way he's talking to her

[romanywitch]

"Drusilla can hypnotize people?" asks Jenny. "Of course she can."

"So, what mental disorder were you thinking?" asks Jenny. "And give me a reason on why you picked that one in particular."

[romanywitch]

{{*laughs*}}

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

((OOC but IC: *hates*))

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"I was thinking maybe bipolar disorder, I fine it quite interesting since it has seems to have two totally different symptoms, the mania and the depression. Does that sound okay?"

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

((*offers Evil!Paige to make you feel better, she's even kinkier than Paige and won't mind how evil you are*))

[romanywitch]

Jenny taps her finger on the side of her coffee mug as she listens to Cameron. "Let's just lay all our cards out on the table here," she says. "Talk as frankly to me--in private--about Drusilla as you'd like. Just between you and me? She's one kooky, crazy woman. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to hire a vampire as a teacher, anyway?"

Jenny tries to give Cameron a reassuring look. "We're not going to be doing any more of that, trust me. Psychology has some helpful applications. I want us to look at those instead."

[romanywitch]

{{There will be no Evil!Paige in this office, missy. We've got standards in this class! Now that Drusilla's not teaching it, anyway.}}

[romanywitch]

Jenny considers this for a minute and nods. "Sounds like a plan. Turn in a 100 word essay to me by the end of the week, okay? You've got my email address, so you can either send it to me, or bring it to class on Thursday."