Fourth Floor Common Room [Sunday evening]

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So, okay, Olive had sort of...sublimated all the stuff from yesterday. It was just easier, if she stopped freaking out and just rolled with stuff. So, okay, yesterday she'd met a guy from another galaxy and a robot and hey her roommate could fly. No big deal. Really.

You know what was helping? TV. Olive wasn't like, a TV junkie or anything, but being able to count on a Sunday afternoon spent in front of a marathon of the meta for Futurama was like a universal constant. A multi-universal nexus constant, even, it seemed.

So Olive had brought out her sewing to the common room and flung herself down on the couch, eyes half-trained on the screen and half on her needle. Eventually, she might even get up and make popcorn or something, but that seemed like work. Right now, she was good where she was, thanks.

[open, totes. And do you know how hard it is to make up a meta for Futurama? I don't usually give up on these things.]

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With new kids around, Stacey figured it was smart to wander around a little and get to meeting new people. Which is what brought her up to the fourth floor to talk to the girl with the super pretty hair (much better than Mallory's, too) and ask, "What are you working on?"

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Olive turned towards the new voice, smiling a little, and held up the beginnings of a coin purse (http://www.craftsy.com/project/view/patchwork-strips-fatty-clutch/3788). "I'm always losing all my quarters in my bag," she admitted. "And hey, that is a lot of money over time."

She'd taken accounting classes. That felt like a legit statement.

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"Oh, that's so cool," Stacey said, actually meaning it. "I can't do anything like that. Do you do a lot of this?"

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"Kinda. I modified a bunch of my clothes for a...performance art thing last year," Olive admitted. "But I also have a sewing machine so I cheat a lot, too. It's not hard, though."

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"Maybe I'm just bad at it, then," she said. "I can maybe put a button back on, but if I really needed something done, I'd probably be knocking on Petra's door."

Or she'd be buying new clothes on her mom's credit card.

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"Petra was saying we should have a workshop or something," Olive mused. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure that the girls from a billionty years ago are better at it just because they didn't have anything better to do but learn how to sew."

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"Or because their stores were ten miles uphill in the snow," Stacey said with a little shudder.

That wasn't her being mean, by the way. She actually imagined that's what it was like.

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"Both ways," Olive said. "And they hadn't invented boots or sleds yet."

Yeah, no, she was being mean.

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"Oh, no, they had boots. Those things that were really high and laced up? They're totally retro now."

No one wore those anymore because putting on your shoes took an hour.

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Toby'd thought about heading over to his own common room to watch some TV, but then a little snooping had revealed that hey, there were already some people hanging out on the fourth floor, so...

"Hey," he greeted. "What's on?"

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Olive just pointed at the television helpfully. "It's the one where the robot's a jackass!"

That's all of them. Seriously hlpful, Olive.

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"Isn't that all of them?"

... Not that he'd seen the show as it didn't exist yet in his time. But, you know. Narrative mind reader.

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Olive pointed at him, then touched her nose. "Kind of the hook, I think. I dunno, I mostly have it on for background noise. Silence is creepy."

Not always, Olive. God.

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"And here I thought the saying was 'silence is golden'," Toby teased.

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"Silence is like, aluminum at best," Olive corrected.

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"Useful when dealing with leftover Chinese food?"

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"And for making mind-control protector hats," Olive agreed seriously.

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Jessica spent last night doing paperwork, this morning getting ready for classes, and this afternoon getting in a little workout.

So right now she was ready to relax. After overcoming the first day nerves and pretty much figuring out that nobody was going to try to destroy her here, she figured she could even do that out in public where there might be people. Weird, right?

"Somehow, 'watching cartoons' wasn't what I expected to be the first thing I saw people doing when I came to boarding school," she said. "Maybe it really isn't so bad here."

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"I know," Olive said. "I feel like I should be reading some kind of really dusty book with my nose about an inch from the page. But, you know, this was on and doesn't aggravate my allergies."

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"I'd give you some Claritin so you could stop rotting your mind with this stuff, but I'm all out. So mind-rot it is!" Jessica said, plopping down on a couch. "What is this anyway?"

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"You've never seen this?" Olive asked, raising her eyebrows. "It's syndicated like crazy and it's been around for like, ten years or something. It's about this group of future delivery people and their obnoxious robot."

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"I'm not saying that I grew up without TV, but it definitely wasn't used as much as it was in other households," Jessica said. "And then it was mostly used for PBS and Discovery. Stuff like that."

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"We're big on Animal Planet at home," Olive said with a nod, "but sometimes you just need animated filler. I can only learn so much."

No, Olive, sometimes you're just lazy.

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"Sounds legit," Jessica said. "I've had this on in the background while doing school work before, but, I usually focused more on the work than the TV. Honestly, they should have made me stop studying because I was wasting electricity if I wasn't going to really watch it."

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"Yeah, I'm a multitasker," Olive admitted. "If there's not TV or the radio or something on in the background, I'm probably not working to my full potential because I get distracted by little things."

Like cards from her grandmother. But no one was naming names.