Welcome Party for the Summer Students and Staff

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the slightly overcast sky, the weather is still good for welcoming all of the new arrivals for the Fandom High summer session. The graduation decorations (and gremlin debris) have been cleared from the front lawn, and replaced with tables of information packets, food, and drinks. A series of signs point the students to the information table first, where they can pick up their room assignments from the office drones, and then continue on to the food tables to mingle.

And no, there are no inflatable gremlins around today. It's far too early to start scaring the new folks. That's what the mingling section is for!

[OOC: All right folks, have at it!]

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Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"And here we have an example of the genus Homo Sapiens Jockius," Zack muttered to himself. "Perhaps later we can see him in his natural inebriated state."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

Greg gave a friendly wave, still sticking out his tongue for the camera.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"Note the cheerful, yet vacant, expression," Zack continued his narration. "It is merely a facade until the Jock spots a victim, usually one of superior intellect and inferior physicallity."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

Greg actually did pull a face of distaste upon picking up that last bit. "Hey. First of all, 'jock' would be kinda generous when talking about yours truly. Secondly, too used to being picked on to select a 'victim,' dude. And third, what's with the assumption of inferior intellect over here? I was making faces, not failing the SATs."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"If you are not in fact about to attempt to put my head down a toilet, I apologise for my error in judgement and mislabeling you," Zack said. "However the statisically likelihood of two people with my IQ, let alone a higher one being in the same room outside of a MENSA conference is small enough to zero to make a reasonable assumption of difference in intellect."

Despite the fact that the last was stated in a blunt matter of fact tone rather than condescendingly, it probably did little to help the situtation.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

"Big words do not a smartie make," Greg pointed out. "I just left the sophomore class of San Gabriel High in the wake of a 4.4 GPA, was president of the chess club, and yeah, I ran track. Doesn't change the fact that I'm planning on applying to Stanford next year to major in chemistry."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"No, but an IQ that makes 163 look like a dribbling idiot does," said Zack Addy, stranger to the land of tact. "I've been studying at a university level for eighteen months and if not for the machinations of a vindictive high school math teacher, right now I'd be doing a summer internship in the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal lab."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

"Oooh," Greg said, eyes going wide. "You got an internship at the Jerffersonian?" He gave a low whistle. "Impressive, dude."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"You know about the Jeffersonian?" Zack asked. "Definitely not a jock then."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

"Who doesn't?" Greg said. "And there's nothing wrong with getting a little sun and exercise. Trust me, not a fan of the big football-playing guys who like nothing more than to piss in my trainers, but not all so-called jocks are bad."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

"It's not the sun and exercise that's the problem," Zack said. "It's the dealing with underevolved, overdeveloped cretins in the locker room."

Zack? Bitter? Ya think?