Daily Modern Life, Monday

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

Jon was...out of sorts today. The weekend had been interesting, to say the least.

But he was here, he was determined to get through this, and he was at his stiff and Oxford professorial best as a consequence.

"Welcome to Daily Modern Life," he began once everyone was presumably here. "This is a course designed to acquaint those of you from different times and places with how to do some useful things in this one. The first class is traditionally for introductions, but as we have quite a bit to get through, we'll also be engaging in our first lesson. So if you would all please introduce yourselves with your name and where and when you are from, as well as anything in particular you are interested in learning, we'll get started.

"To begin, I am Jonathan Sims. You may call me Mr. Sims or Jon. I am from Bournemouth, England, by way of London, in more or less the present time."

He nodded to the first person.

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Re: Introductions!

[what_big_teeth]

With so much on her mind right now, especially after the weekend (or rather just specifically Graham's birthday party, but anyway), Eleanor was eager to get to her class today and distract herself with something entirely different from any off all that.

"My name is Eleanor Zarrin," she said with a nod, "I'm originally from a small seaside town called Winterport in Maine, but I spent a good deal of time away at a boarding school right here in Maryland, actually. But it's 1967 where I'm from right now. So not as far back as some people," a nod and a small smile toward Lydia at least, "but still enough that there's a lot of things that I feel just a little...behind on...you know? Especially with technology, like phones and...I didn't even really grow up with a television set, either, so even in my time, I was a little behind the times. So that's generally it. If anything, I think it would be really interesting to see how many things I take for granted from being from only the last century, and not a few more past that."

Re: Introductions!

[intheeyeofthebeholding]

"Hello, Eleanor." Jon nodded to her. "Some of what we may go over should be routine for you, then, but some of it will be new, too. We'll definitely cover phones and computers, which have come a long way in the last few decades."