Fourth Floor Common Room, Saturday Evening (6:45 on)

[weetuskenraider]

After oh so handwavey lightsaber training and some time down at the shooting range, like yesterday hadn't been practice enough, Tahiri had gone back up to her room to find a message from home waiting for her, asking if she could look over the file that had been sent to her datapad and give them some feedback. She felt a little guilty about taking her sweet time about it, the last few times she'd been asked to provide some insight on the Yuuzhan Vong perspective, but she decided that she could use some background noise in the process, and bad sci-fi movies weren't the kind she was looking for.

So she headed one floor down with her datapad in hand, staked a claim on the couch, and turned the TV on, flipping through random channels. Halfway through the sports channels she caught a bit of a pregame show.

" -- Los Angeles Sol squaring off against the Saint Louis Athletica, with a pair of national team superstars in goal: Canada's Karina LeBlanc for the Sol, and for the Athletica, U.S. Olympic gold medalist Hope Solo . . ."

Tahiri took her thumb off the channel-up button.

". . . what?"

[OOC: I was supposed to be at this game today. I have only been looking forward to this game all season. My car is in the shop and won't be ready in time. This game is not actually being televised, and I am cranky about that, but by god I am gonna mod a broadcast to make myself feel better about it. Also, if you think I've been looking for an excuse to do this forever you would be right. Open like a common room, and I'm a dork but I'll gladly admit it.]

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[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

Hurley entered the commmon room and paused.

"...aren't we on the wrong floor?" he said.

[weetuskenraider]

"Jaina's using the TV up there." Tahiri was still staring at the TV, just a touch slackjawed.

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Right," he said. "So, uhh, what're you watching?"

[weetuskenraider]

"Some sport that involves kicking a ball around a really huge field." Tahiri waved the remote at the screen. "I have no idea how this works actually -- no no no no no, don't let that in -- yes!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"You've never seen soccer before?" Hurley said. "Man, you've been missing out."

[weetuskenraider]

"I don't channel surf much," Tahiri replied, watching as the team in the dark blue jerseys set up for a corner kick. "But I'm rooting for the team in white."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Just because?" Hurley said.

[weetuskenraider]

"The one over there in the -- clear it clear it get it out of there! -- gloves and padding, standing in front of the net thing?" Tahiri pointed at the edge of the screen. "Her name's Hope Solo. I kind of feel obligated."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Obligated?" Hurley said, not quite following.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Rose said with a smile as she came into the CR and saw Tahiri. She went over to the fridge to try to find something to eat then glanced at the tv. "...they televise soccer?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Why wouldn't they?" Hurley greeted the girl he hadn't met.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Cause it's..." Rose made a face. "Soccer."

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Dude, what is wrong with soccer?" Hurley asked.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

She found a bag of carrots and her way to a couch. "Didn't say there was," she said, flopping down. "Just never saw it on tv before!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Hurley said. "Is this cause, like, you're from somewhere weird or just other stuff? Cause around here I never know."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose laughed and offered him a carrot. "Montana. I dunno. Does it count as weird?"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Heh, I'm from California," Hurley said. "I can't really judge."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"So totally weirder," she teased. "I'm more a physical contact kinda girl. Soccer doesn't always do it."

[weetuskenraider]

"Apparently," Tahiri replied, still fascinated and yet wondering why they spent so much time just going back and forth. "Never seen it before."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"No soccer in space?" she teased lightly.

[weetuskenraider]

"We have all kinds of sports back home, but not this one," Tahiri replied. "Hi, Rose. How's it going?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Just happy to be free of alligator guts," Rose said, making a face. The sewage in the hair had been the worst. "How about you?"

[weetuskenraider]

"Fought alligators and went to dinner with Ben. That was fun," Tahiri said with a grin. "Even if the fish were weird. They didn't bite you, did they?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Nothing like making a date of it," she grinned back. "I just got nibbled on. What the hell, goldfish with teeth? Is this revenge for flushing dead ones down the toilet?"

[weetuskenraider]

". . . well, that would explain that," Tahiri said, blinking. "At least this was less messy than the time we went out to kill the harpies."

So normal, this one.