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[jupiter_bands]

[Sunday]

Why is school starting up NOW?

My life is over!

PRETTY MUCH LITERALLY

[Harriet why did the entire forum need to see this? Did you at least stuff it under a relevant discussion thread?]

Comments

[deathbell]

Over?

What threatens you?

[jupiter_bands]

Trigonometry! Chemistry! English! US History! Mysterious Zen studies! BAND!

Their evil plan is to squander my remaining time on earth.

[deathbell]

[Why is band in all caps he's kind of afraid now]

Oh.

I do not think I can battle such concepts.

[spookshine]

You'll be at school when it starts back up, right Gunnar?

[deathbell]

[He doesn't really have to anymore, but... Harriet and Lei Wan...]

Yes.

[spookshine]

:D!!

If you come early on Monday morning I can show you around before the first bell!

[deathbell]

Then I will be there.

[spookshine]

Yay! I'll meet you out front :D

[deathbell]

[Ah, these smilies... hm...]

Very well. :D

[After he hits enter and rereads it he decides that looks very strange. Let's not make a habit of it.]

[jupiter_bands]

Oh, but you'll have to. You enrolled in earth school, right? GET READY TO SPEND YOUR DAYS LEARNING BORING HORRIBLE CRAP!

[deathbell]

But with a pen, not with a sword.
I am

less skilled with pens.

[jupiter_bands]

It's not too late to flee this evil institution

Probably

Do you have a social security number? Is someone going to arrest you as a truant if you skip?

Why am I asking you things you won't know, that's the real question

[deathbell]

It is a good question.

Regardless, it would be poor form to abandon you to it, would it not?

[jupiter_bands]

ahahahaha that's nice actually but we're not allowed to help one another with schoolwork most of the time.

I guess people study in groups sometimes but that's a pain in the ass because you have to do it after school and that means devoting even MORE time to school and it's really faster and more efficient to just study on your own.

But uh, maybe if we have the same lunch period we can sit together hang out interact then.

[NOT THAT HARRIET SITS ALONE AT LUNCH LIKE A LOSER]

[deathbell]

A secret test. What you can get away with is advantageous, and learning to not get caught is its own lesson.

Or do Earth schools work differently?



Perhaps just lunch, then.

[jupiter_bands]

....you know, I think some kids do it that way, but supposedly that is still "cheating."

So no, earth school is not like criminal underworld training, although that would be awesome if it was.

[omg what if school has been a secret test about learning to cheat all along. it almost makes sense and seems like exactly the sort of thing Harriet would miss while everyone else picked up on it and proceeded accordingly]

[should she ask Duncan?]

[no no that's fucking stupid, don't ask Duncan]

[spookshine]

Whatever, I'm glad for it. My life was pretty dull without school taking up most of my day.

[jupiter_bands]

Yeah yeah, someone save us from the boring, horrible freedom

[spookshine]

It was boring and horrible for me :(

[jupiter_bands]

I was ALMOST having adventures!

My courage was at 99%!

Give me a math test to study for and I'll be back to 0

[spookshine]

Just don't care so much, it doesn't really matter how you do on your tests.

[ADVICE LEILEI]

[jupiter_bands]

...Actually good point. I wonder if I can not care? The inertia around giving a shit about my schoolwork is strong.

[spookshine]

It's easy! You're going to become a mage or something instead of going to college, right? And your grades don't matter for that, so there you go!

[jupiter_bands]

Actually if the teachers are gonna teach us about magic, maybe they DO, like maybe they'll tattle if we're shitty students on earth and then we try to be mages in Zen. IT COULD HAPPEN

[spookshine]

But to be a mage don't you just need to talk to the Asha?

Or you could always be something else instead. You probably don't need good grades to be a druid.