Lacey: Evening, Fandom! Lacey Burrows here, the Canadian half of your Tuesday night broadcast team, hoping I'll make it through the show without my American counterpart killing me --

Katchoo: Because I care so frikkin' much about hockey? You're only worrying about that now, you dingbat?

Lacey: . . . well, yeah.

Katchoo: Some people. No sense of self-preservation.

Lacey: Oh, you're one to talk.



Classes

Katchoo: That's me, yep. Talkin' about classes now. And this is how you know we're right back from break week and into the usual Fandom insanity: Magical Ethics had to team up in pairs to talk depressed, maple-leaf-assed ponies back from the edge of a cliff. I can already tell you Lacey has no idea why they'd be depressed, but y'know, neither do I. And I don't care enough to ask. During the lecture, people were worrying about the ponies being simulations. Geez, look, I'd worry more if they were real, but that sort of thing is what Edmund and Alysha were there for. And in Ethics, we have a news flash: wrath is bad.

Lacey: Boy, that's rich coming from you.

Katchoo: Yeah, yeah. I wasn't the one telling the entire class about giving in to it. That was Anakin.

Lacey: He could've gotten you in to --

Katchoo: YOU WANNA SHUT THE $*!# UP FOR A FEW MINUTES AND LET ME FINISH HERE?

Lacey: I rest my --

Katchoo: *FEEDBACK* Yeah. Think about that, this semester's Ethics class. Or discuss what -- or who *cough*Lacey*cough* -- could drive you to that point of I'm gonna take this chair and beat you over the frikkin' head with it if you don't shut up and quit interrupting me I SEE YOU OPENING YOUR MOUTH THERE. Not Griff He was just TAing. Anakin wasn't TAing, but he was there too. Geez, who knew?

Lacey: Imagine that. Cindy was hung over and clinging to her coffee to walk the Monomyths class through the second act of the heroic journey. That's a tricky subject, even with getting literary context from the myth of Inanna, so hopefully people took notes before discussing temptation under the TAs' and Cindy's supervision. Justice and the Law covered what happens after a criminal's conviction and sentencing, with the lecture and discussion of what prisoners have a right to get behind bars. Medical care, quality of living standards, entertainment . . . personally I think coffee should be on there. Other class discussion went over crime and other systemic problems inside prison walls.

Katchoo: Geez, look at you with the big words. Did the squirrels have to write those out phonetically for you?

Lacey: No, thank you very much. Oh, and it probably goes without saying that the TAs and Miss Cabot were available. And in Living With Difficult Women Who Aren't Katchoo --

Katchoo: HEY. THE JOKE'S NOT FUNNY ANY MORE.

Lacey: -- Max wanted to know what everyone's lives have been like since the last time class met, but that didn't mean they were getting away without a lecture, or discussion about when the class was helpful. Principal Winchester was catching up on all the paperwork that piled up over break week, but caught up with Aly who was here visiting and heard Vice Principal Deadpool's argument about why teachers should be allowed to drink. Heard and saw, I should say, since it involved a picture of Jamie Madrox. And Anemone had a Doctor Seuss-themed cake in the library today because -- oh, gosh, I didn't realize it was his birthday! Henry asked for, and hopefully got, a slice. Although it looks like you had to ask in anapestic tetrameter to get cake.

Katchoo: Geez, that's kinda steep, innit?

Dorms

Katchoo: . . . anyway. Reserves got together, picked out red or blue cloth flags, and . . . basically played flag football in the preserve today. Why? Dunno. Ask those leader guys.

Bod got a visit from Kate, who invited him to Baltimore with her, and Mulan headed back to her room after a walk, and . . . really, furballs? Alex Karev got kidnapped by Emma and Rose to play pool . . .

Town

Katchoo: . . . or get suckered into his own surprise birthday party at Fast Eddie's, actually. Tacky hats were more or less required on arrival. Jack Priest got around to complimenting the party after trading a few insults with Rose, who congratulated Tiny Creepy Kid on not killing Alex over spring break and told Effy the entire point of the party decorations is to be tacky. Griff thought Alex was gonna mock him for the purple fez Emma was trying to get him to wear, and argued with Rose about whether hats are appropriate and if he's a rude party guest. And Tiny Creepy Kid was cheating at bowling. Figures. The birthday boy got a drink from Emma, who might've learned a thing or two about strippers in Iowa, debated Rose about whether he's too much man for her . . . the squirrels say no . . . told Griff Emma and Rose suckered him into showing up by telling him they'd make out for him -- guys, figures -- tried to bargain with Effy for favors since he knew she's the one who spilled the beans about his birthday, told Jack he didn't really do birthdays growing up, and got mocked by Tiny Creepy Kid. No idea who I feel more sorry for in that last bit there, so I'll just mention there were presents and cake and punch and all that usual birthday jazz.

Lacey: Over at Wellspring Arms, Mayor Summers had Jan in timeout. Reading was a popular activity for Jack Burton at the Photo Hut and Hinata at Book Haven, and you miiiiiight be able to stretch that to cover the studying Ino at Covent Garden Flowers and Tim at Android's Dungeon were doing, too. Raven was at Dite's Decadent Delights dealing with a boss who was earwormed and singing and moving a mini-fridge downstairs. All at once? Over at the Trooper Station, Gibbs and Vimes were at the daily grind. Presumably with coffee. Didi was knitting at Turtle and Canary, the Cafe Fina staff got candy from Lion-O and Snarf, Oz was keeping caffeinated at Coyote Medicine, and at the Arms Hotel, Mary was leaving all the blue Sweet Tarts to Gunther. Rose got a little snippy with Dimitri when he commented on her cleaning job at Atlas Gym . . . it might be a little early for spring cleaning, but hygiene is always a good habit to have.

Katchoo: Your PSA for the day. Everybody don't thank Lacey at once now. Jean came in to Groovy Tunes to hear Jono play and tried to talk him into singing. Possibly with more success than Kris had with the stubborn animals at the Gig. I dunno. I could ask, but . . . eh.

Lacey: Aaaaaaaand Angua and Vimes were at the Perk discussing how this world is strange because it's round and has sausages and people who only believe in one god, and I guess that's the sort of discussion you'd have to have over coffee.

Katchoo: What, have you ever had a discussion like that?

Lacey: Actually, yes.

Katchoo: Had to do something while you were stuck here in an empty town last week. Sucker.

Lacey: . . . and on that note, good night, Fandom! Have a better evening than some of us are going to.