Faculty Lounge - 1/6/06

[overlord-zordon.livejournal.com]

Alpha 5 has set up several laptop computers all around the lounge for teachers to check in on the progress of their class signups.

Science and Mathematics
Sara Sidle
The Doctor
Dr. Tommy Oliver
Charlie Eppes

Social Sciences
Gil Grissom
Josh Lyman
Camulus
Jenny Calendar
Daniel Jackson
The Tick
Adam Pierson
Dr. Samantha Carter/Eighth
Lorelai Gilmore-Danes

Literature and Language
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dream
CJ Cregg

Life Skills
Justin Quayle
Angus MacGyver
Jenny Calendar
Dr. Tommy Oliver
Duncan MacLeod

Journalism
Rita Skeeter

The Arts
Ted "Theodore" Logan
Autolycus

There are also fresh coffee, orange juice, milk, muffins, and several varieties of fresh fruit in abundance.

[OOC: Links go to the subthreads from the signup posts. Some teachers may have more than one due to courses categorized in different departments.]

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[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh, after turning the wrong way down two hallways and ending up in a room that seemed to house nothing but old gym socks, finally found the teachers' lounge.

Giving Biff a slightly terrified smile, he opened the door and nodded at the two strangers inside. "Hey there," he said. "I'm Josh Lyman."

He walked over to a laptop. "This the way to check how class sign-ups are going?"

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"So you're Josh Lyman?" The thinner man looks incredibly amused by this. "And aye, it certainly is. How's Donna?"

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh clicked on some buttons, grinning to notice that his classes had been filling up faster than CJ's. "Donna's fine," he said absently.

Then paused.

"Wait. How do you know about Donna?"

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"You and I have a mutual...friend." Josh receives a large grin. Nothing Ten enjoys more than being deliberately infuriating.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh didn't get paid the big bucks, um, the government wages, for not being able to put things together quickly.

"Oh. CJ," he said.

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"Aye." The grin turns vaguely sappy. "The Doctor, nice to meet you."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh, being Josh, doesn't notice the sappy grin. He holds out his hand to shake. "A pleasure. What do you teach?"

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"Quantum Physics." Ten shakes his hand firmly. "Or how to twist one's brain into knots for credit."

[romanywitch]

"Jenny Calendar," says Jenny, waving at him. "You guessed it. You're teaching--U.S. History, right? And politics?"

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"That's me," he said with a grin. "And I know that there's a lot of talk about the declining state of American education, but how is it possible that I'm the first person to teach this stuff here?"

[romanywitch]

"Gotta say, there is a pretty eclectic mix of subjects here. But I'd think U.S. History would be mandatory. Most states require it." She shrugged, looking perplexed. "I only got hired about a month and a half before the end of last term. There might have been someone around before you, but random disappearances are kind of a way of life around here."

Oops. That came out before she realized it probably wasn't a way of life for anyone not from here or Sunnydale.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"People disappear like the squid did?" Josh asked, blinking a little rapidly. "Any connection between the two? I don't know? Some kind of squid-love commune?"

He looked appalled. "I can't believe I just said that."

[romanywitch]

Jenny looked embarrassed. "Sorry. The squid vanished sometime after they fired my predecessor--the last psych teacher. She kept it as a pet. The people? No one really knows." She'd tell him the police were probably looking into it, but that would be a lie. She was sure the police weren't bothering. They never did. "Going out alone at night? Not so much a good idea."

"You get used to the weird fast, don't you?" asked Jenny. "Pretty soon you won't even notice it."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Professional political operative," Josh said with a smile. "This is just a different kind of weird."

He poked a few more keys on the laptop and grinned. "Looks like my classes are a hit."

[romanywitch]

"What the heck are you doing teaching at a high school?" asked Jenny. "I mean, I get it for me, because, hey, actual high school teacher here. On the other hand, politics? Gotta be high stress."

"Go you." Jenny smiled. "I've got less than the full roster for the psych classes, but trust me, not a problem. That's just less grading for me to do. Magical Theory's overfull, though. Didn't expect it to be such a hit."

[equalsmcsquared.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry. Biff only attacks students if they enter the lounge." That probably wasn't reassuring, but Sara isn't quite caring.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Good to know." He rubbed a hand through his hair. "Doesn't it bother anyone else that it's a giant pink teddy bear?"

[equalsmcsquared.livejournal.com]

"No worse than the squid that was in the basement, the gremlins, or the zombie infestation."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"I'd heard about the first two," he said, "but not the zombies. We don't have any as students, do we?"

[equalsmcsquared.livejournal.com]

"It's a possibility. Several of our students are technically dead and there are a couple of vampires about." She's thoroughly enjoying his discomfort. One could easy accuse Sara of having a twisted sense of humor.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Oh, one of the vampires is my TA," Josh said in a casual voice. "I'm going to talk with him about his untapped voting demographic. Less health care, more dental programs, apparently."

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"Not the strangest thing you'll see around here."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Some green guy served me a drink last night. I believe you."

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"Lorne? Oh, Lorne's not that weird. Not compared to the duck that howls at the moon."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"You're just messing with me now, aren't you?"