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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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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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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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"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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Olive was reminded of Rhiannon. In a nice way, don't worry. "Think of how long their laces had to be," she mused. "What if your foot itched after you put 'em on?"

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"It'd be like when my friend Claudia had a cast on her leg, and she had to scratch her leg with a straw or a pencil or something," Stacey decided. "But it might be worth it, just to wear the boots."

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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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"I dunno," Olive ventured. "I mean, they're cute, but is it worth acting like you broke your leg? I'm more of a sneakers girl." Except for that brief period where she'd been a stripper-heels girl.

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"Useful when dealing with leftover Chinese food?"

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"Well, I'd have to at least try them once or twice." And then maybe shove them in the closet claiming they weren't 'in' anymore. "Sneakers are great, but I just like to mix it up a little."

And occasionally look like a fashion crackhead.

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"Well, yeah. It'd just take a lot of mixing for me to go the knee-high lace-up boot route," Olive conceded. "I'm way too lazy for fashion, most of the time. It's a curse."

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

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"If only," Toby scoffed.

There were definitely some people in Fandom who he could deal with not having to listen to.

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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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That was such a shame. This girl had so much potential! "But it's so much fun," Stacey told her. "It's like getting to express yourself as an individual."

With weird earrings.