Fifth floor common room, Monday morning

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was far, far too cheerful for a Monday morning. She was bouncing around the common room's kitchen, cooking up empanadas and breakfast burritos and singing along to something she obviously didn't know the words to. She had survived the weekend and handwavily won a bet against her boyfriend (though, being the good sport she was, none of the food she was cooking had pre-added peppers). Hence the good mood.

See? She totally didn't spend all her time dwelling and being "morbidly obsessed" with bad stuff!

[ooc: open, though there might be slow play for a bit as I work]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Nobody ever said all her time.

"Good morning." Pippi said.

[nadiathesaint]

"Morning. Empanada? Burrito?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Pippi said.

"So, we got through a weekend without anything very upsetting happening... I think we can count that as some kind of victory."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grinned and served up a chicken empanada and a bacon and egg burrito and held the plate out to Pippi. "Agreed."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmm." she said biting into her empanada.

"So what's on Tap for today?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shrugged. "We've got the lying workshop this afternoon,"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That reminds me... I need to use that as an excuse to talk to Pip." she said.

[nadiathesaint]

"What do you need to talk to him about?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"My cover story for lying class is to be an international arms dealer." Pippi explained. "So, I figure, he's met a few? And I didn't see him at all yesterday... And I need to give him back his jacket."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders had spent most of yesterday evening reading up on fundamental techniques of yo-yoing, and then spent the rest of the night awake, in an insanely focused fit of practicing, to the point where he was pretty decent at getting the basic up-and-down movements right. Now, with a four-shot mocha in hand, he was roaming the dorms with the smaller hardwood yo-yo to see if he could yo-yo while walking.

His kneecaps were a little bit sore from yo-yoing his knees while climbing the stairs by the time he'd reached the fifth floor, where the smell of food sidetracked him.

"Oooh. Something smells good in here."

[nadiathesaint]

"Hey Anders! Thanks. Want an empanada or a burrito? Spiciness is completely optional."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Empanada sounds good, mostly because I don't think I've had one before." Anders reeled the yo-yo back in and tucked it into the right knee pocket of his cargo shorts. "And if spiciness helps keep me awake, I'm totally in favor."

[nadiathesaint]

"Wakes you right up." Nadia grinned and added some hotsauce to a chicken empanada and held the plate out to Anders. "Let me know how you like it."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Half the empanada was gone, washed down with generous gulps of coffee (dubious culinary notion that it was), before Anders finally replied. "Okay, this is really frakkin' good."

After a moment in which the hotsauce kicked in, he took another gulp of coffee. "Awake now. Yes."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grinned. "Thanks! Want another?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders probably looked like that Mikey kid from the cereal commercials -- not that he would know Mikey -- as he held the plate back out. "Please?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia served up two more empanadas before dishing out a burrito for herself. "Feel free to hot sauce that to taste,"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders didn't exactly spare the hot sauce. He'd be lucky if he had taste buds left after this. "Thanks. Where'd you learn to make these anyway?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Morning!"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Pippi!" Anders said brightly.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oooo! Yo yo!"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Yup!" Anders showed her the cherry rosewood yo-yo. "Isn't it cool? I've got another one back in my room. It's stainless steel so it's all shiny, but it's a little big for me to handle right now."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Very cool." she nodded. "I love yo-yos."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? You know how to do any tricks with them?" asked Anders. "I haven't figured out how to do that yet."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I can Walk the Dog and do an Around the World... I never tried Rock the Cradle."