Fourth Floor Common Room - Friday Afternoon [6/26]

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

Jon was hanging out in the common room today. Some video channel was playing on the television, but he wasn't really watching it. Nope, he was organizing photos on his computer. Photos taken at the fashion show.

Maybe he would consider becoming a photographer.

Sorry, no free food from him today.

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[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

Jon was probably a very bad friend then. "No, just the guy on the show had the same angry look. I think he was pissed at the host of the show or something. He won though."

[glacial_queen]

So long as he doesn't decide Karla needs to see one, all will be forgiven.

"All the models I saw looked that way," Karla said, making a face. "I think it was because they were hungry. I get really bitchy when I get hungry."

It may bear mentioning that Karla's Sapphire speeds up her metabolism, this making her burn through food much faster. On the other hand, some folks might have been able to figure that out by her last sentence alone.

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"I'll show you the show later."

Jon grinned at her. "What's your excuse for all the other times?" he teased.

[glacial_queen]

Karla gasped, and then burst out laughing. "Trying to follow in your footsteps, obviously," she said, snickering. "Bitch!"

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"I am not! I'm a manly man," he insisted. No matter what anyone said.

[glacial_queen]

"Of course you are," Karla soothed, smirking at him. "Does that mean you'd prefer me to refer to you as a prick or a bastard then?"

Karla was pleased. His comment had been worthy of a Warlord Prince.

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

Jon eyed her for a moment and then went back to clicking through pictures. "How about jerk? The first one works though, if you need to."

[glacial_queen]

"Who said anything about 'need'?" Karla asked, sitting on the arm of the sofa nearest to him. "Jerk will work fine. I'm trying to find a term I can call you in amusement without giving offense. Do you have such things here? I usually get bitch or harpy. Not that I can imagine why."

She leaned over to look at the pictures. "These are pretty good," she said. All the pictures sh'd managed to take had her thumb over half of them.

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"Jerk works." He wasn't touching that last bit with someone else's ten foot pole.

"Not bad for the camera I had. They would have been a lot better with a digital slr."

[glacial_queen]

He was allowed to touch it (TOTALLY NOT-DIRTY); she'd been joking. If nothing else, Karla was at least self-aware.

"Is that something you do in this world?" she asked. "Call someone something to show that you are pretending to be angry, but not really so? Or am I being completely alien again?" It happened with a regular enough frequency that she was starting to become blase about it.

"And better with a what-what?" she asked, confused.

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, we're pretty messed up when it comes to social norms." At least Daniel had said so. More than once, and usually while ranting after they had been chased by people with weapons.

"It's a type of camera. Fancier, used for professional shots. Also very expensive."

[glacial_queen]

"Okay then, good. When I call you a jerk, you'll know I'm not really mad, and you won't get mad at me for calling you that." Karla nodded once, decisively. It was good to have these things spelled out. People in this world rarely made sense.

"Gotcha." Hmmm...if Karla could remember the name, it would make a very nice natal day or Windsol gift for Jon. Karla was a bit fuzzy on things like 'expensive.' Money was one of the few things she'd never had to worry about. "What was it called again?"

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"All right then." He was trying very hard not to laugh, because it wasn't the worst friendly name he'd ever been given.

"Here, I'll show you." He pulled up another page he had been looking at and pointed at the camera (http://www.cameratown.com/assets/news/large/Canon_RebelT1i.jpg). "That's a digital slr, or single lens-reflex camera."

[glacial_queen]

"Oooh," Karla said, looking at it. She glanced up at the address bar and tried to remember the name: Canon Rebel T1. "It looks very...camera-y."

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it does. And it works really good to take pictures like this," he told her, as he clicked to another page. "That is the Orion Nebula. (http://www.adventuresinastrophotography.com/images/nebula/M42-Orion-Nebula-20071003.JPG)"

[glacial_queen]

"That's beautiful," Karla sighed, leaning closer to the screen. "One day, I hope I can visit the stars." Her voice sounded almost reverent.

She was definitely buying Jon that camera. Just so he could take pictures of the night sky for her.

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"They're pretty cool, but this is just a shot taken with telescope and a camera like the Rebel. If you get a chance later, look up the Orion on google, some of the shots from NASA and that are beyond cool."

[glacial_queen]

"NASA?" Karla asked. "What kind of machine is that?"

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

He laughed and shook his head. "NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They're one of the organizations in my world that handles space exploration."

[glacial_queen]

"Oh," Karla said, smiling a bit. "Are they very important then? Is that how you got to space?"

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"They're important and no. How I got to space is very complicated and involves a lucky find and probably would make those guys at NASA turn several shades of green with envy if they knew."

[glacial_queen]

"You'll have to tell me about it sometime," Karla said. "Because now you've piqued my interest."

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"Some time when we're trapped and have several hours to waste," he joked.

[glacial_queen]

"Great, O'Neil. You do know that you've just doomed us into having that happen, right?" Karls sighed, rolling her eyes. "Fandom is ruled by something intelligent with a twisted sense of humor. I just know it."

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

"Hah, been doomed for worse," Jon told her. "Jack once ended up trapped on another planet for three months with a very nice woman."