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[guitar_hero]

[he is in another office. A much smaller one, with a much lower quality desk. In fact everything seems to speak out of it being: 'the new guy's' space, from the ancient carpet to the wood grain paneling that resembles more plastic than wood. At least he's got a spinny chair which he is sitting on, legs crossed at the ankle, propped up on the flimsy desk and slowly rotating back and forth as he plays with a pen]

You know I've never much been one for the rhythms of every day life. Get up, get dressed, go to school, go home, get your splines reticulated, go to bed. Much prefer to be out there [points at the ceiling with the pen] Doing... something. Doing whatever.

Odd what you can get used to. Even tedium.

That being said, hey! [he grins and claps his hands, rubbing them together.] Almost time for school again! That's one thing to look forward to, isn't it? Acquisition of knowledge. Doodling in notebooks. Skiving off to go snog behind the phys ed building. Used to do that all the time when I was in school. Couldn't keep me pinned down. Even if there wasn't any one to snog. Sometimes I made it up.

But, with any luck I'll be on the other side of the desk, stuffing willing and not so willing brains full of facts until they fill numb with it. For instance, everyone knows that a pulsar is a collapsed neutron star that underwent a supernova,and it emits bursts of radiation. But every now and again, in a quintillion to one chance... that's a 1 and eighteen zeros, that a quantum pulsar will be formed from the heart of that star-- and what you will get as it pulses and dies, slowly crushed by the weight of its own gravity, are flashes of time. The past. The future. The present. All rippling outward, unseen and unheard and unknown except by the lucky few who happen to be there at the right place.

Mind you they can't be there for very long...not if they want to live.

But just knowing something like that is out there, knowing that something like that can even exist-- makes the universe stunning, doesn't it? So much to see and do and explore...

[he trails off, looking at his pen which he's holding between two fingers, as if it's absorbed his attention, murmuring to himself]

But here we are, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, smaller than most, wrapped up in petty concerns, money, work, romance, where we're going to live the next however long we're here because time is running out when no-- time doesn't work like that. It just... exists... and we move through it. And if we're very clever we can find a way to use it well.

Which you can. [he sits upright again] With any luck. Attleton University. My class. Three days a week and twice on Thursdays. Auditing is available. See you there.

[swings away, swings back]

Oh and I'm coming back in about three hours. But not for long.

And if you don't get it, don't worry. That part of the message is not for you.

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[im_with_stupid]

"A one in a quintilian pulsar?" [she asked, grinning, eyes dancing behind the dark shades she's taken to wearing all the time.] "Alright, when do we leave?" [She pulled the shades down so he could see her wink.]

"Well, Doctor, guess I'll be going back to school. Three days a week, and twice on Thursdays."

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[guitar_hero]

How does tomorrow sound. [he grins, but really there's not much behind it because they can't yet and even if they could, all that would happen was things going back to normal. He's done this often enough to know that you can't hold onto what you've lost. Not really]

Oh you don't want to come here me ramble. There's much more exciting things to do. [the last thing he wants is to be reminded of all the places he can't take her] But that reminds me, I have something for you.

Want to come get it?

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[im_with_stupid]

"Tomorrow sounds good. Today sounds better." [she grinned.] "Where are you and I will? Also, Doctor, when has it ever made the slightest difference to you if I wanted to hear you ramble?" [He was almost as much fun to tease as Rory.]

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[guitar_hero]

Well no, not generally. But I'm trying to do you a solid, Amelia Pond. You should take it before I change my mind. Texting you the directions now...

[and he does so with his pen]

Got it?

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[theamazonqueen]

Como hablas.

You will have a class? And talk about all you just did. [honestly, she's lucky she can read and write.]

[voice]

[guitar_hero]

That is what I said, yes. Did you need me to go a little slower?

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[theamazonqueen]

Even if you said it in Spanish I wouldn't understand what you were talking about with the - nova or que cosa.

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[guitar_hero]

A nova is essentially a giant explosion inside of a dying star as it sheds part of its mass. A neutron star is densely packed, crunched together by its own gravity but not enough to become a black hole. You can almost think of it as the ghost of a star, still trying to die.

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[stairsbro]

I didn't really see much from inside a supernova. Just, like, fire. Explosions. Boom your dead. Or whatever. Though the whole time shit makes sense, I guess. Since it kind of... exists in it's own whatever the hell. [ He makes some vague gestures with his hand, not finding the correct words for this then gives up. A careless shrug follows. ]

You didn't say what you're teaching. Is it science? I bet it's science. You've got that crazy science-guy hair going on for you on top of talking about space. You ever see Ancient Aliens? That guy's hair but it looks less batshit insane on you so you're probably an actual scientist instead of some dude pretending Marvin the Martian built the pyramids. Like he would build anything functional. Dude thought he could blow up Earth with a stick of dynamite. What a moron. That dynamite couldn't even properly harm a duck. It just rotated Daffy's face around.

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[guitar_hero]

I prefer the term wibbly wobbly. It's quite a good one.

I have, that man has been through a lot. I wouldn't be too hard on him.

[he's not going to comment since after all he's not entirely sure he is sane by the human definition and certainly not by Time Lord definition. They don't call him the sane man in a blue box after all and he likes to keep people on their toes]

I'll teach physics on paper, in reality, whatever I want. There's routine and then there's routine.

[he fidgets with the pen absently]

How did you manage to get inside a super nova?

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[stairsbro]

Wibbly wobbly time shenanigan.

Oh shit, has he? He always seemed so damn thrilled about things. All- [ holds his hands apart ] "I'm not saying it's aliens but it was totally aliens." I guess he probably got abducted or something, huh? Sounds about right.

[ he's pretty sure nobody he knows is totally sane by the human definition. or the troll definition. everyone he knows is nuts. life is nuts. ]

So, it's a whatever the mood strikes sort of class?

[ dave tips his head to the side, shrugging again. ]

Drifted into it riding a moon-bomb. You know, to blow up the sun but got tricked into making it in the first place.

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[tevinteraltus]

[The eyes glittering with interest are olive in hue, and he's smiling with excitement at the topic, really.]

It's my experience mucking about with time is dangerous, no matter how clever one may be.

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[guitar_hero]

[that's the kind of enthusiasm he likes to see! He's also quite appreciative of the facial hair. It's hard to get a mustache that perfectly curled at the ends]

Of course it's dangerous, anything worthwhile is. But all of time and space laid at your feet, ready to be discovered? There's no greater thrill.

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[tevinteraltus]

[Yes it is, rather difficult in fact, but if Dorian is anything, it's dedicated to perfection.]

Oh, certainly. It's only that I've seen how detrimental it can be. I helped make the theory a reality, after all...

...of time travel, that is.

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[hotheadwarmheart]

Actually, I didn't know what pulsars were, but my world seems to work a bit differently than most, so...

[He shrugs.]

Personally I'm still trying to master this whole 'being an actual responsible adult' thing; it seems to be just about as complicated as dealing with quantum pulsars, reticulated splines or no.

...Also I'll have to remember too look up what 'reticulated' means later; I'm kinda curious if it's as painful as it sounds.

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[guitar_hero]

Of course it's not painful. Not unless you're a spline, I suppose. It's not necessary to be a 'responsible' adult you know. There's all sorts of levels of adulting. I like to be as irresponsible as I can possibly get away with. ... Which is not as easy as it looks, believe me.

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[hotheadwarmheart]

Nothing about being an adult is as easy as it looks, from what I've been finding out.

Though personally, I'd be with you on the irresponsibility thing... if I didn't have someone here to be responsible for. That tends to make things more complicated.

[polyandrist]

I wonder how far away your office is from mine, actually.

[someone's amused.]

[guitar_hero]

[instead of answering he gets up, pokes his head out of the door and looks back and forth, then proceeds to look for her office wondering if he can surprise her. Of course that's assuming she's in there but hey, sonic sunglasses work rather well for that endeavor. If she's not she can hardly know he was looking, can she?]

[polyandrist]

[ river's office is a few down the hall from his own, and somehow's she's managed to charm them into giving her a desk that looks to be of a higher quality than his own is. Of course there's a spinny chair included in the package, and at the moment River is balancing one foot on the top of it as she adjusts an antique looking map that she's gotten from somewhere. She's also humming softly, an old Lionel Richie song.]

[Video]

[tiniestnihilist]

See you in class, teach. [Says the child with a Grinch-like smile on his face.]

[Video]

[guitar_hero]

[he sees that grin] If you're thinking what I think you're thinking and that's not just a severely irritating facial tic, you can think again. You disrupt my class and you're out of it. You annoy me and you're out of it. I'm not here to provide entertainment. Do you get me?

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[tiniestnihilist]

And what annoys you, professor? Can I get a list of banned activities?

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[bigbadrose]

[They have a stupid game going.]

[They should really stop it.]

[But she doesn't.]

[There is, however, a mysterious Elvis record in vinyl on his desk.]

[Wonder how that got there.]

[NOT HERE]

[guitar_hero]

[curiouser and curioser. He acquires a record player from the music department and smiles at the song.]