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Home Ec, Tuesday, Period 1

"Right," Eliot said at the top of the class. There was a retractable projection screen over the front board, and little tins of stovetop popcorn on each desk. "So I was supposed to show you this thing at the beginning of the semester, but I been arugin' with the school board about whether or not you even need to see it. And . . . I lost." He was regretting his 'don't hit the school board' policy right now. "So today we're watchin' a video. A sixty-two year old video. About studying home ec." He gestured to the popcorn. "But since it's only ten minutes long -- and next to useless -- you're going to pop some popcorn first. It's cooking. Sort of. Basically, put that thing on an open flame until it gets all big and puffy and then you have a tasty treat. Or burned bits. Eat it, throw it at the screen when the video says something dumb . . . popcorn's useful for lots of things."

Eliot may or may not have lived in a house with a redneck fire alarm in his time.

"So, yeah, you might notice that we ain't covered a large chunk of this stuff in this class, either." Like the history of costuming. "If you're mad, take it to the school board. Fair warning, they're about as weird as you'd expect for the board of a school like this. Possibly weirder."