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-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
You're cruisin' for more chance meetings with furniture mister.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. See? Ange would know, being as he's the one who had to pop me one to put an end to it. It was a bad scene. Quite.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, ta for taking all the surprise out of the relationship . . .

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
That was not my fault!

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I was trying to not scare her of the abundance of geniuses running around here either.

[identity profile] x-foliate.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm also pretty?

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
The original is still the best.

[identity profile] x-kitten.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
I figure, if we're going to be forthright about the bizarre quantities of redheads, we might as well come out with the truth about our strange, genius-attracting water source. Especially given how many of said redheads are also geniuses.

[identity profile] x-kitten.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Very pretty.

[identity profile] x-kitten.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
I think you may be biased...

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm totally biased. That doesn't necessarily make me wrong, though. :)

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot know the Matrix?

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
I get the feeling that you've had to deal with bad cooking on more then one occation. Well, I already know how to cook a lamb roast but that's about the extent of my cooking experience.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
Now that I can understand.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I always really liked wolves, used to love going to the zoo to see them when I was a kid. What's it like actually being one?

So do you have to get injections or something? Only, I hear bone marrow transplants aren't exactly easy things to go through.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
And this just answered a question I asked Marius even. So, I get to ask you the other question I asked him as well. What's it like being a wolf? Must be really cool.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
*ponders* Dayspring? Which teacher is that?

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
It has been sort of strange, the whole casualness about mutations and the like. It's not what it'd be like in town. (Not that everyone there is against mutants, just that I don't think they'd be so blaise about everything.) It'll take some getting used to.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hey Kitty!

After the last couple of weeks I've had, these guys would have to do a lot to worry me. Everyone has been so great. I'm all sorts of wow at the welcome.

Not that I should have worried but new school, you never can tell what it'll be like.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I guess I'll accept you as mostly harmless then. *grins* Do I get to see the little mouths? Rahne mentioned them somewhere in this entry and now I'll all sorts of curious. (So many comments, it's getting hard to keep it all straight.)

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Hey Angelo. You get to work with Nathan? Coolness. He's the one who got me out of jail. So owe him a lot.

[identity profile] x-wallflower-.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
...

That'd be one hell of a surprise. And there's absolutely nothing I can do with the word eat that won't sound bad. So I believe I'm just not going there.

[identity profile] x-rahne.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Scared me quite a bit at first, as it took me three days to figure out how to change back, but I like it a lot now. Things seem very... vivid in a way they're not in this form, and being able to have fur when I want it (and not otherwise) is very convenient, and so on.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The comments are indeed fearsome. Be honored; I personally hit the 103 mark my first post here, and it looks as if you're about to match it.

You can see the biteybits if you like, although that's usually a second date affair. Then again, Jennie's already ruined the surprise, so I suppose it can do no harm.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hairy, and with more uncontrollable appendages than one is accustomed to. That said, there are far worse ways to pass the time. The kicked-up senses have a way of making even something as mundane as Forge's old laundry pile quite fascinating. If not any more fragrant. Also, it tends to entail publically acceptable headscratches.

No, no injections. Perish the thought. As Rahne mentioned, I have my own little home-extraction process. My mutation is considerate like that.

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