Sam: Good evening, Fandom. Tonight is a very special night.

Dean: It is. For several reasons. One my brother is no longer sporting four legs and a tail...

Sam: ...which means I can do more than bark tonight, thank goodness.

Dean: Not to mention he's stopped chasing the squirrels.

Sam: All I'm saying is they should know better than to taunt a puppy.

Grace: Puppeeee!

Dean: And that would be the other reason that it's a very special night. It's someone's second birthday today.

Sam: Someone who, if she's very good, might get to play with a big puppy before we take her home.

Dean: Say hi to everyone, Gracie.

Grace: Hi-hi!

Sam: Awww, good girl. Now, let's see if there's anything equally cute in the notes tonight.


School News

Sam: Ethics and Etiquette talked today about how to properly behave to keep your roommate happy. Everyone paired up and discussed how they'd deal with a variety of bad roommate moves, from finding your roommate in your bed without any clothes on to being subjected to them having s-e-x while you're in the room. Is this where I should gloat about essentially having a single?

Dean: You not counting Peter now as a roommate?

Sam: Well, he's a special case. I didn't get stuck with him, I choose to have him there.

Dean: Still. You don't get to gloat about having a single. I, on the other hand, do.

Sam: Fine, then you can gloat. Art Appreciation and Protection "appreciated" some French and Canadian masks, but they had a good reason for stealing the art this week - to give the masks back to the tribes that originally made them.

The anthropology class about you-know-what talked about courtship and dating by having everyone pair off and make plans to go on a date before the next class. Rose plotted with Zayne, Jack made plans with Helen, Hurley got matched with Esme, and Dean made a date with Ino. Are you going to take this seriously?

Dean: Define seriously.

Sam: Like, actually do the assignment.

Dean: Well, yeah. I mean it wouldn't be fair to Ino to blow it off.

Sam: Oh, good. Moving right along, Destiny and Free Will talked about the ever-important question of whether or not people can be held responsible for their actions if their destinies are set in stone. Unsurprisingly, the students here had a lot to say about moral responsibility, the different schools of thought about responsibility, and whether or not the insanity defense should be a legal defense. After class, Ino apologized to Lady Ghanima for some things, and Merlin was there to TA, as was Tahiri who showed up despite still being a cougar. Now, that's dedication.

Peyton was in charge of Healthy Diet and Living today, due to Ms. Day being out of town. Each of the students got a recipe for some kind of dish meant fot two, to be cooked for themselves and someone else before next week. And there was a quiz in How to be Awesome class today, so everyone could put themselves on the Hot/Crazy Scale. Somehow, I don't think being truthful on the quiz was a wise idea.

Over at the teacher offices, Loki was lying on the floor while Constable Fraser worked on some e-mail, and at the main office, everyone was a little freaked out by how quiet things are. I guess that means it's not just me...

Dean: Don't say it. You start saying stuff about how quiet it is, and that's when it gets noisy.

Sam: I'm not saying anything. I'm going to be very good, I promise.


Dorm News

Sam: Ino worked on writing some letters before class, something nice and quiet to balance out Francine and Merlin getting into a fight. It's Ben's birthday today too, and he got a call from John and Jaina as well as the gift of Tahiri turning back into a person again. That's always a pleasant surprise when it happens, if a little awkward due to the lack of clothes.

Dean: Depending on the company, lack of clothes can be a bonus.

Sam: Yeah, I don't think Ben or Tahiri had much of a problem with the situation. Arthur and Francine talked in the gym. At least, the squirrels seem to think they were talking. Griff got his jacket back and sat down in his room to sketch. Layla threw some balls at his head, which is one of those sentences that can never be read without an accompanying mental image, and when Alex came back to the room, Griff yelled at him for taking his jacket. Hopefully not with like, balls on his head or something.

Grace: *giggles* Baws!

Sam: *sighs* Zoe and Dad are gonna kill me. Alex Russo did some online shopping, and Layla got a little dizzy when she went back to her room. Karla noticed, and asked her if she felt something weird too, and George just checked to see if she was okay.

Tara was working on writing a letter home when Fiona stopped by and complimented her on how she'd decorated the room, which somehow led to a discussion of fighting and magic. Liir used a cloak to get to sleep, Dinah listened to some music and danced around her room, and Francine and Merlin got in one more mini-fight at the stables. I don't like it when the cute, sweet couples fight, it's not right.

Hannibal embraced his inner five year old and played around in the new ballpit up on the sixth floor. Chuck reluctantly joined him, and they talked about how, between Hannibal, me, and Dean, Chuck's becoming immune to flannel. I'd consider that a positive effect. Layla didn't require nearly as much convincing to get in and play with the balls, and I swear, I'm going to try to keep the rest of this as clean-sounding as possible.

Grace: Baws, Sammee?

Dean: If you're good, we'll see if we can sneak you into the dorms so you can play in the ball pit yourself, Gracie.

Sam: And so help me if the squirrels try to make it sound bad. Rachel didn't get the point of the ballpit, but then, she's apparently still having some trouble with the concept of goofing off, so Hannibal tried to help her with that. It wasn't until Layla talked to Rachel that she was really convinced to get in and--seriously, squirrels? Losing her ballpit virginity? Must you make everything filthy?

Leda admitted to Rachel that she didn't know what the ballpit was for, but Hannibal made sure to explain it to her, and George followed the trail of ballpit debris to the actual pit, getting in before sharing his excitement with Hannibal. Clearly, everyone has a two year old inside themselves somewhere.

Monday, Salle, Arthur and Merlin, you all know how it goes by now. Apparently, we can add "sadness and emo" to the list of things that won't stop Arthur from coming to teach. Dinah, in the other hand, was like a sparkling ball of perkiness, and she tried to spread it to the boys. Dinah, don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't be relied on in a pinch.

Emma was smoking out on the roof of the dorms this afternoon, thankfully away from everyone who doesn't want to be around that sort of thing. Tybalt joined her with a cigar of his own, and she tried to alleviate his concerns that if he goes onto the mainland, he won't be able to get back to Fandom. Kate was immediately taken in by how shiny Tybalt was, and I can't tell if that's literally or figuratively - oh, he was covered in glitter, so, literally.

Tybalt met Robin, and in his "Oh my god, a talking frog," moment, he kicked Robin to try to get him away. Wow, nice guy there. Elena teased Tybalt and said he looked festive, and Alex was surprised to see so many smokers up on the roof, but Tybalt called it serendipitous that they all just happened to be there. Jack Priest said there needs to be a smoker's lounge up on the roof, and he and Alex plotted what it might look like, and Elena said she just hoped they weren't going to end up smoking on schedule to all end up together again.

Jack asked Tybalt about his Cuban cigar, and Tybalt said they're not hard to get back at home. Emma said that if they were all going to start smoking together regularly, they'd need to start bringing booze too to really get things going, and I'm starting to think I'm going to have to be very careful about going up on the roof.

Kate was good and didn't smoke, sticking to the soda and Pop Tarts she had already. Layla stole some balls from the ballpit and threw them at Emma for...seemingly no reason except to weird Emma out? Robin introduced himself to Emma, and she was more weirded out by his cheerfulness than anything else. Elena offered to totally fix that whole frog thing for him if Robin wants it, and discussed dragging more innocent bystanders into their smoking circle with Emma. Consider that your warning, folks - or your enticement, if you like.

And then, tonight, probably prompted by his time on the roof, Robin stuck postersup everywhere to proclaim that yes, he's a frog, and no, it's not going to change, so people need to just deal. It is one of those things you just sort of get used to after a while.

Dean: Yeah. Frogs, aliens, demons... school is pretty much open to all.


Town News

Dean: Down in town, Alex-who-is-a-girl was reading a book of potions at the Magic Box, Liz was on time for her shift at the hotel, Irulan opened the Imperial Brim, and Lacey was released from the closet at the diner. Insert your own coming out of the closet jokes here, folks.

It's first days all around, for Mirax, who was well prepared for her first day at Things Reborn, and for Elle Woods, who was being totally professional shuffling blank papers on her first day at Cabot and Associates. Maron took Turtle's shift at T&C. Turtle being an actual turtle can only sigh when she's fed clover. And Aphrodite was reading Hentai at the sex shop. Which... seems entirely appropriate reading material for a sex shop.

Sam: Ugh, if you're into creepy things.

Dean: ixnay on the eeppcray exsay things. Little ears are listening. Worf was watching The View at Wellspring Arms and Rose came in to mock his viewing choices, as well she should.Ender was working hard in between checking email at Stark Industries and, as usual, was visited by Ben, who today was looking for droid parts. Ender was also visited by a white cat looking for petting and Ender deduced it was his sister Valentine. Yeah, siblings showing up suddenly with four legs is pretty common here, right Fido?

Sam: Hey, it's only happened twice. To me, I mean. That's not that much.

Dean: Gracie, you're not allowed to change into an animal. Castiel was investigating Jeff, God of Biscuits. ...I don't know whether to go for the religion joke or for pie here.

Sam: He didn't go for the pie joke, I can tell you that much.

Dean: Chuck stopped by and pointed out people normally eat the muffins, to which Cas replied that idolatry is a serious sin, and that would sorta be the religion and pie thing all wrapped up together. Except for it's muffins. Sammy here tried to convince Cas that Jeff isn't an actual god -- seriously this was something you had to spell out for him?

Sam: He's still trying to figure out how Fandom works, cut him some slack.

Dean: He's looking in the wrong shop. If he wants a god, he should check out the sex shop. Millie wanted to meet this 'god of biscuits' Cas was looking for and then confused Cas by talking about her past travels. That could be a new game maybe -- confuse the angel.

Max and Sam got a case they passed on to Daisy at 32 Apocalypse Ave, and Morgana was taking a walk through town when she decided to go back to the dorms quickly. Possibly to search out the god of common rooms, you should take note, Cas.

Finally, Millie was reading the aptly named Millie books at the Clinic.

Sam: I'd say there should be Sam and Dean books out there, but they'd probably be 70% you talking about pie, and I don't think that would sell very well.

Dean: Nah, there'd be more of us hunting things, along with a side of you being a puppy.

Sam: Yeah, go ahead, keep mocking me. We'll see who's laughing when you turn into a wolf again. And we should probably get the birthday girl home, so that's all for us tonight, folks. Have a good night and stay safe.

Dean: Say good night, Gracie.

Grace: Ni-ni!