video;

[guitar_hero]

[he appears on screen, his right arm in a sling, hand completely bandaged, though somewhat inexpertly]

Before you ask, trouble with a robotic naked mole rat that has since gone -- well I would say to meet its maker but obviously [gesture] we've met. Not to worry, I'm undiquedexterous.

First announcement. School is starting up soon! I know you're all looking forward to it so I'll keep this brief... for anyone old and new who is taking my class starting mid-to-late August depending on the astral calendar... the book list is out on my website, also available on my office door. It's roughly sequential. Very roughly. But be sure to pick up: Our Cosmos, Ourselves and Life, the Universe and Everything. There's also an electronic version of the Cosmos one if you don't want to lug around a five thousand page textbook.

Second item, CDs and various other formats of the performances at the Music Festival are now on sale. If you've participated, you're entitled your share in order to hoard, distribute, date, make miniature models of, etc whatever you want to do. I'm whipping 'round a poster to have autographed by everyone that sang, even if you popped up for the open mic or at the last song. It would mean a lot to me if you jotted something down but no pressure.


Finally, I feel like we need a good going out of summer bonfire or something of that nature. What do you think?

[he makes a peace sign]

Professor out! [and cuts the feed. For the moment anyway]

Comments

[alwaysimpaled]

A five thousand page textbook? This reminds me why I never finished High School.

(Feel free to ignore! Just Rose being IC peanut gallery comments!)

[bigbadrose]

That's nothing. You should see his diary.

[guitar_hero]

What did you do instead?

[alwaysimpaled]

[He shrugged, leaning back in his chair.]

Make all kinds of bad decisions. I picked fights, racked up property damage, you name it. Eventually I settled down and started a business as a respectable Devil Hunter... with my brother being my first quarry.

[video]

[bigbadrose]

[Arm fold.]

Do you remember the last talk we had about making friends? And how it doesn't mean actually making robots, growing them in petri dishes, or otherwise trying to manipulate the basic molecules of life and time to fight your loneliness?

Do we need to have this talk again? Or can we skip it and eat cake?

[video]

[guitar_hero]

You're cute when you're annoyed. By the way, can you master this? [and he plays a sound clip]

[video]

[bigbadrose]

[laksdjlaskjdlaksdjssj]

[She hates how just like that she can't even stay annoyed at him. It's like he figured out her exact buttons and the right order to press or flip them in -- OH GOD SHE'S THE TARDIS. HE TREATS HER LIKE THE TARDIS -- well, actually, that's not that terrible. STILL.]

[She listens halfway, sticks out her tongue to the side, eyes narrowed hard in focus, grabs the bass booster headphones, closes her eyes and chews her bottom lip, before rolling her chair to grab her bass, replaying it with some miming a few times.]

[And then plays parts of it, getting a little tripped up as it picks up fast, narrowing her eyes, and snorts quietly.]

Yeah. It looks trickier than it actually is, yeah? The really impossible ones are like.... Up down, ten times faster, all different strings, or worse, same string, too fast to do any resonance. But.... It'll take a week maybe. 2 days if I bugger off work.

Why? Just wanting to challenge me?

[Video]

[deadlybang]

A five thousand page textbook, like, about the Cosmos? Is it, like, a briefed version?

[No, she's not joking or teasing. She knows a couple that has a collection of books of fifty thousand pages each just about her world and the "demons" on it. And they are working on a similar one for the "angels".]

Wait, like, school is starting up soon?! But, like, we're in the middle of summer! Shouldn't school, like, wait until September?

[Then again she actually hasn't even really thought about if she will go to school or focus on work here.]

[Video]

[guitar_hero]

A duuh.

Of course! But you have to start things off slow before you dive into, say, the fifteen years worth of quantum philosophy. Which is not only complex but also drier than a sandstorm on Mars.

See? It's topical.

And it should, but it rarely does. On the other hand it gets out earlier in the year.

[Video]

[deadlybang]

Shouldn't then, like, be better to start with that and, like, leave the fun thing for later? If the dry part, like, comes later it would just, like, kill the excitement.

[And what's wrong with being thrown into complex stuff right away? She was thrown into learning to be human and a demon right away and she hasn't died from it.]

School here sounds, like, a cheeky bitch then. In my world it, like, knows it's schedule and sticks with it.

You're, like, letting it be too independent before it's ready for it. Before you know it, it will be, like, staying active at crazy hours at night and having wild parties without, like, any safety control.

[peaceful_shadows]

I see the title of Professor isn't a title. Dare I ask exactly where and what you teach?

[guitar_hero]

Quantum physics, mechanics, theory, law, aesthetics. Poetry, art, song, baking on occasion. Whatever I feel like and how it relates to the overall schematic of the multiverse.

Why? Interested in attending? It's no running for your life from stampeding brachiosaurs across a steaming humid jungle full of pitfalls and looping vines and mosquitoes the size of race horses, but it's not bad.

[peaceful_shadows]

[...Most of what was listed Nikola didn't... have any idea about. Except for the last few on that list.

Beyond that? A strange look graced his features at the mention of running from some creatures through a humid jungle.]

Sounds like a typical Tuesday. However, I was curious to further my horizons beyond my world's knowledge if at all possible. But, I haven't heard of...Quantium Mechanics... However, if you are teaching law as in the legal variety, I might be interested along with Art and Music.

[Video]

[classicms_smith]

You had to be that sort of teacher, didn't you?

[She is just going to smirk at the sight of his arm though.]

[Video]

[guitar_hero]

What sort of teacher is that? [jokes on you! He has no idea what she might be smirking at]

Re: [Video]

[classicms_smith]

A five thousand page book, really? I'd lug it around just to toss it at you.

[Oh she'll point it out soon enough. He won't get away that easy.]

[Video]

[justabitunlikely]

What happened with a robotic naked mole rat exactly that caused that? No doubt getting into trouble.

And I like the idea of a bonfire, though perhaps we could make more of a party out of it? What do you think?

Video]

[guitar_hero]

I'm fine with that but I don't want to plan it. I'm still recovering from the festival. Too much organization is bad for the soul.

[also...] How are you?

Re: Video]

[justabitunlikely]

[She laughed.]

I could try to plan it, though I have no practice at things like that. Think you might be willing to help with it at least?

[She grins at his question.]

Great! Though I could certainly use an adventure. What about you, dad?

[Video]

[hot_handed]

That doesn't make sense in that context. [He looks annoyed.]

[Video]

[bigbadrose]

[She's sorry for interrupting, but she has to ask.]

What context would it make sense to you in?

[She's used to people not understanding the Doctor, but usually they just... don't understand him. Not suggest there is a way they would understand him, he's just not using it.]

Re: [Video]

[hot_handed]

Probably quantum physics or some other pretentious boring bullshit.

[Of course the whole thing was pretentious to begin with.]

[video]

[watcheddog]

Shouldn't that book only be like... [Aw crap, he's doing it. This is what he gets for spending 24/7 with Chrysalis] 42 pages long?

[Ain't no one gonna get this reference. But the Profe knew Charlie and Candy Mountain so he better know this.]

[video]

[guitar_hero]

Do you actually get pop references or are you trying in an effort to hit something?

[video]

[watcheddog]

Of course I get it!

I just didn't think anyone else would. Then I remembered you know Charlie the Unicorn, so --

Shut up.

I got it. [HUFF. GROWL.]

[Glare.]