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Desert Island Survival 101, Tuesday Fourth Period
Petra was counting herself lucky she'd gotten through the weekend with only an inexplicable coffee shop job, which was why she opened this week's class with, "If anyone wants to talk about how weird being suddenly famous was this weekend, I know a little bit about that and I'm available after class, or in my dorm room any time. Moving right along, this week's topic is food. Now, you can survive way longer without food than without water, it's true, but food equals fuel, and without fuel you can't really do much of anything. And it's super hard to do anything useful when you keep thinking about how hungry you are, too.
"So, ground rule: don't eat anything if you don't know it's safe to eat. It could be poisonous, and then you won't be hungry because you'll be dead. If someone with you eats something and doesn't die, it's probably safe--unless of course you have really different biology--but give it a little while to make sure before you dig in. I broke that rule once, and I got lucky and just spent several hours hallucinating about frogs." She let that sink in for a moment.
"So, what can we eat?" she asked. "The answer to that's always going to depend on location, but here, we have...fish and coconuts, obviously, plus some grubs and tubers. The tubers and grubs you'll have to dig for, but they're easily accessible--and yes, if you're hungry enough, you will eat grubs or the equivalent. They're not actually that bad. Coconuts, hope you can climb trees. That leaves fish, which has two problems: first you gotta catch 'em, and then you have to cook 'em. And yes, you should cook the fish; remember, sushi has been inspected by a health inspector. These fish haven't. I've set up two activity stations, one for step one, one for step two. Good luck."
"So, ground rule: don't eat anything if you don't know it's safe to eat. It could be poisonous, and then you won't be hungry because you'll be dead. If someone with you eats something and doesn't die, it's probably safe--unless of course you have really different biology--but give it a little while to make sure before you dig in. I broke that rule once, and I got lucky and just spent several hours hallucinating about frogs." She let that sink in for a moment.
"So, what can we eat?" she asked. "The answer to that's always going to depend on location, but here, we have...fish and coconuts, obviously, plus some grubs and tubers. The tubers and grubs you'll have to dig for, but they're easily accessible--and yes, if you're hungry enough, you will eat grubs or the equivalent. They're not actually that bad. Coconuts, hope you can climb trees. That leaves fish, which has two problems: first you gotta catch 'em, and then you have to cook 'em. And yes, you should cook the fish; remember, sushi has been inspected by a health inspector. These fish haven't. I've set up two activity stations, one for step one, one for step two. Good luck."
During the Lecture