3rd Floor Common Room [Tuesday, Late Morning]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy... was not generally a morning person, by any stretch of the imagination. Not unless she hadn't yet been to bed.

So it was mid-morning at least on a day she didn't have a workshop to think about, before she surfaced enough to pull on some clothes and bothered to find something to eat: toast. Well, toast and tea. A master chef in the making, this one.

The TV was on, for all she claimed she hated that sort of thing. She was watching for the mocking potential of their little dramas. That was all.

[[bored bored, and so open!]]

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[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"TV sitcom," Layla said with a smirk. "Depicting wacky rural life in Canada. No teenage angst in that one though."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Better or worse than this?" she had to ask. Subjective or not, it was good to have an opinion.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"It's funnier than most sitcoms," Layla said with a shrug. "I'd say better but that's just my humble opinion."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Here I thought you'd just know," Effy remarked, quirking a bit of a smirk. Yes, again, subjective, but still.

"Might consider sticking around to watch." It wasn't like she had much better to do today than melt a few braincells watching TV.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Quality of a show is more opinion than fact," Layla smirked. "And yeah, it's not like there's anything better going on at the moment. It's kind of nice just to veg out."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Not usually my thing," she admitted. There were far more interesting things to be doing, in her opinion. "But this place isn't being a good provider today." Had to have something to fall back on.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Well if you're lucky tomorrow all the girls will turn into guys and give you something to do," Layla stretching her arms. "Or rain cheescake."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Huh. "Don't actually know which of those I'd pick," she said after a moment. If she could pick, anyway.

On the one hand... messy, and the other, confusing and weird but possibly entertaining.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Hope for both," Layla chuckled. "Then it'd be delicious as well as organically confusing."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy smirked, and held up crossed fingers for her.

"Still sad I didn't get to run into as many boys failing to be feminine as I could've." Couple of people at least she'd have enjoyed seeing like that.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"You should've hung with me," Layla replied. "I put out a whole bunch of bras for them in the lobby. The parade of confused boys was worth the cost."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy snickered as she fiddled with her mug. "I bet."

"If I'd known, I would've joined you." Watching people be awkward was a whole entertainment source in itself.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Next time I'll give you a heads up," Layla said getting up from the couch. "I'm grabbing some cereal. You want any?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy shook her head, tucking her feet up under her.

"Weird American cereal doesn't go with this." In her experience, the stuff in those cupboards tended to be fluorescent and bizarre.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Of which Layla seemed to be taking cereal from each box and mixing it together in one big bowl before taking yogurt out of the fridge. "It's not weird. It just has toy surprises inside," she replied. "And will put you into a sugar coma with the right mixture."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Working on that already today?" Effy asked, watching her fill that bowl.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"I have to work today," Layla replied as she started mixing the yogurt with water. "I'll need the extra energy. Being hyper makes the day go faster."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Where'd you work?" she asked after a moment.

She could see how being hyped up on sugar might help a little, whatever it was. Might've chosen something stronger, herself, but each to their own.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Things Reborn," Layla replied as she poured the yogurt/water mixture over the cereal. "It's one of those used things shops. Vintage clothes. Old record players and stuff. Quiet place to work and the money is fairly decent."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Think I've seen it." When Effy didn't want to spend time cooped up in the dorms (or cabins, for that matter), she wandered.

"Bric-a-brac sort of thing?" Never could tell what you might find in somewhere like that.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"That would be it," Layla said coming back to the couch with her bowl of cereal. "I like it. Plus the boss is pretty laid back so I can do whatever I want to do as long as the work gets done."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Not bad." Effy nodded slightly as she watched her make her way over.

"Don't think that sort of work would be for me." She'd have to sit still and take orders from people. Neither of which she was particularly good at.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla kind of chuckled at that. "I'm not sure there is a job you'd enjoy," she said sitting down and beginning to wolf down her cereal. "Unless they paid you to smoke."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy could hardly deny that, and gave a bit of a laugh.

"You hear of one of those, let me know."