Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

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Scott was feeling inspired today. This probably meant nothing good for anyone.

"There are some times when you're presented with a relatively simple project that's made more difficult by some kind of insane or bizarre obstacle that you need to overcome. That can mean having to deal with something in your personal life, unrealistic expectations from a superior, or, in Fandom, pretty much anything you could imagine."

"So, let's try something easy. I'm going to pair you up and ask each pair to put together a 1000 piece puzzle of Times Square. Decide how you're going to work together to do it, and have at it," Scott said. "Your goal is to finish by the end of class somehow."

He decided not to mention the fact that he had taken three pieces from each puzzle and swapped them with random pieces from other groups' puzzles. Or that the class currently had a nearly 50/50 gender split.

Insane obstacles, people.

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Re: Do the Puzzle

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Quinn smirked at him. "Lots of puzzles in that boring childhood?" she guessed. "But good. We might beat the other teams that way."

It didn't even matter that Mr.Summers hadn't said it was a competition. In Quinn's head, it definitely was.

Re: Do the Puzzle

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"We might," Warren agreed, grinning faintly. Hey, treating it like a competition seemed like a good way to keep his mind on the task at hand, instead of on the girl sitting across from him. Warren was all about competitions, in that case. "I had to pass the time somehow, right? And how about you? Did you do many puzzles growing up?"

He was already picking through and pulling out all the border pieces, for easy assembly. And for the sake of not looking up.

Re: Do the Puzzle

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"Sometimes?" Quinn shrugged. "You know, when it was rainy and there was nothing on TV. My dad liked them."

She fitted a corner piece into the two that went around it and grinned in triumph.

Re: Do the Puzzle

[wwiii]

Warren grinned a little as well. Hey, a few pieces together was a start, even if he'd never managed to solve a puzzle like this in less than an hour before.

There had to be a system for it.

He shuffled through the pieces some more, making certain that he hadn't missed any more edge pieces, before he started sorting the rest of the pieces into piles based on colors and patterns.

"Yeah? Mine never really was the puzzle sort. But they kept me occupied and actually thinking, and that was better than letting me sit in front of the TV all day, you know?"