xp_wallflower: (So innocent looking...probably evil)
Laurie Collins ([personal profile] xp_wallflower) wrote2006-05-08 12:00 pm

Good afternoon, I'll be your transfer student for today

Does anyone ever write a good first introduction? There's always that whole 'God, what am I going to say?' moment of awkwardness, isn't there?

Do I put 'Hi, my name's Lauren.' or 'Hey, this is Laurie and I'll be your new transfer student for today'? That last sounds like I should be saying something along the lines of 'Do you want fries with that?' though. Which is funny, because I was only talking to my friend Helen last month about how I couldn't decide if I wanted to get a part time job at McDonald's or not.

I can still do that, right? Because, much as retail is not exactly my 'career choice of a lifetime', it does give me money for things. (Clothing, a car when I get my driver's license. Okay, maybe not a car but one can dream.) And it beat wearing a chicken suit and standing outside a department store selling their 'crazy prices'. On the minus side, my hair will smell like fries at the end of the day.

So, as you may have realized by now, being psychic (It's funny because it's true! At least of some of you, anyhow.) my name is Laurie. Okay, it's really Lauren but only my Mum calls me that, and only when she's truly peeved at me. (Breaking the best china vase playing tag with the dog levels of peeved.) I'm a transfer student from the local high school (Go Salem Center Rams!) Wow, that sounded special. Truly, I do not win at Cheerleading. Always knew there was a reason I picked cross country running instead.

I assume at this point, it's probably a good point to tell you what my mutant power is. I do this thing with pheromones, don't really understand it much myself right now, something to do with how I smell, affecting people physically. Um, people who know about this kind of thing and are good with the explaining of such, help?

Anyway, that's me. I guess I'll see you all in class at some stage, or around.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
If I actually pass all of these (which is by no means likely), I won't have any GEs to worry about hardly and I can jump right into doing interesting things.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
So much hate for YOU!

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
A little hard work (okay, a lot) and preparation and you don't even need to be a genius to get ahead of the curve.

[identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't get glassy-eyed!

Besides, math is delicious!

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Paige! *grins* ! Did I mention how huge this school is? And! You guys even have this running track through a forest. That's so cool.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
:p I am not sneaky! I was perfectly forthright...as soon as you fixed my phone so we could talk on that rather then in person.

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
If you think that's cool, you should get a kick out of the basketball court. It's special.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*snickers* Okay, I now have this mental image of you collecting comic book character's noses in jars on a shelf. Also, I have this thing for talking a lot. At least, online anyhow. In person, not so much. Power thingie wise...It's kinda weird. They say I've got this chemical I emit that makes people's bodies react to the way I'm feeling at the time. I'm not sure what it'd do to someone with supersmell.

Maybe you'd be able to smell when I was doing it? Which would be kinda cool, since I can't tell when I'm doing it right now. Professor Xavier said that with work I'll start being able to tell.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah? Is it one of those indoor ones with the retractable roof? Those are neat.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey there! So many new people to meet. It's sort of overwhelming, but in a good way. What're you studying?

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
*grins* Hey Jennie. I think I saw him further up the thread. He seems nice. And...wait. You dropped a door on his head? *blinks* Why?

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Today, for my AP Gov exam tomorrow. Wednesday, for the econ exams Thursday.

Take your APs as a junior. I'm telling you, doing them all (or most) as a senior is death on a stick.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I have Ethics as my first class...I have no idea why since I didn't sign up for it. Is it a good class?

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
No, the roof isn't the retractable part. Its an outdoor court.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, Rahne. I've got cooking as one of classes, so maybe I'll see you there? Mom insisted that I take it when she saw it on the list of classes, since she's all about the being self-reliant.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
*blinks* Okay, this I have to see. What's underneath it?

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's alright. I'm more liable to poison myself since I'm taking cooking classes. And that's a power I've got to see. It's sort of overwhelming to see so many different types of mutation in one place. I had no idea there was so many kinds.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
*grins* You seem to have a reputation here. I'm now wondering what you did to deserve it.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I was the only mutant I knew when I started here, so I hear you. You get used to it pretty quick, though.

[identity profile] x-wildchild.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So no turning into ducks. Got it. Because being a duck = not cool.

I dunno - we can try it but I guess we'd have to figure out a safe something for you to feel? That's confusing thuogh.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
*ponders things to ask him since he's assistant groundskeeper type.* Is there anywhere I shouldn't go? Or, rules written down somewhere for the grounds? I forgot to ask the Professor when he was explaining everything.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I was merely being generous enough to deliver her lunch when she was ill. The same day I lost a tooth when she unloaded half the contents of her bookshelf upon my person. It seems no good deed goes unpunished.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
*nods* Maybe not today then. I'm so nervous, it's the whole new school thing. I've got powers training tomorrow though. Maybe we could test it then?

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Most of that stuff's in the student handbook, which if you didn't get a copy I can run one over.

[identity profile] x-wildchild.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I gotta go ask Dr. Moira first, because dude, being grounded for powers expiermenting is only for Forge.

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