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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-wildchild.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa. That was long. Not like TLDR long, but long.

I'm Kyle (Hi KYLE!) - and... whoa on the smelling. Super-nose here. Not like Superman's nose, which would be gross, nose in a jar, but ...

So you smell and it ... what? Turns us into ducks?

[identity profile] x-foliate.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Morning, sweetie!

Everyone play nice with Laurie or Paige comes to beat you up. The end.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh darn, if I'd have known that particular caveat, I'd have been all sorts of snarky and abusive.

[identity profile] x-foliate.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
And if I'd known you'd suddenly become social I would have warned her against you.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey now! It's not like I'm turning into Marius or something! I was polite and gentlemanly and everything. Besides, she snuck up on me.

[identity profile] x-foliate.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
No, then you would have done a lot of gesturing and leather pants wearing and whatwhat.

Ohgod. You're rooming with mini-manny.

(I'll leave the idea of you being gentemanly and accusing my darling Laurie of being sneaky alone for now.)

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so gentlemanly. And she's sneaky. Like a sneak.

Hey, come on down to the engineering lab when you've got time? I need some help of the genius sort.

[identity profile] x-emplate.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey now! It's not like I'm turning into Marius or something!

As doing so would imply you had a date with something other than your workshop every Friday night? Ah, don't you wish.

Pleasure to meet you, Laurie. Pay no attention to the rabble. I assure you, they're just jealous.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, Laurie,

...oh, hey, Lorna's not here is she? Yes! It's my turn to steal her line.

Welcome to the Madhouse.

I'm Terry. Pay no attention to my schoolmates, they're all insane. We're short on the psychic right now but a few of the teachers can read your mind. They usually won't though, it's bad manners.

...and that's the end of my break, back to studying.

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves* Hey! Woo! Fresh meat!

I mean, er, um, yeah.....

My name's Jennie. I do stuff with probability.

Also? Watch out for my best friend. He's the Australian guy. You'll know if it's him if you've been hit on within 10 seconds of meeting him. If he bothers you let me know, I'll drop another door on his head.

[identity profile] x-rahne.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, I'm Rahne. If you see a wolf, it's probably me. Otherwise, the other Scottish redhead. I help out in the kitchen and the medlab; if you're looking for food, I can point you to it or cook.

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps we should warn you about the abundance of redheads with funny accents.

Don't ask me why, I've got a theory, but it involves scary numbers and if I mention it to anyone but Forge or Paige they tend to get a little glassy-eyed.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, maybe the fries smell would cover up the pheromones? There's been stranger ways to control a mutant power, I'm sure. :)

I'm Jamie, and, y'know, one of these days I'm not going to explain my mutant power and let the newbie run around for a couple days thinking I'm Jamie, George, and Esteban, the amazing Madrox triplets. But this is not that day. :) I duplicate myself. It's a little weird. And I actually graduated last spring, but they let me hang around as assistant groundskeeper/kitchen minion, which is kind of convenient--if I give you food poisoning, I'm right there to mop the floor.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Esteban?

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
There's not a thing funny about our accents. You lot are the ones who talk funny.

[identity profile] x-tarot.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
My accent is not in the least funny.

Doug's multitude of accents -are- however, and that makes up for it.

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
But there are more of us than there are of you. Majority rules!

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
And besides, most of the completely incomprehensible accents belong to the medical staff.

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Not in the US, trust me, I'm studying for my government exam tomorrow. You lot let the minority elect your president all the time.

[identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fun to say.

[identity profile] x-roulette.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, shouldn't you be studying instead of reading the journals anyway?

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
...yes.

But I really don't want to.

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
SO glad I took government first semester. Of course, now I still have my essay to finish for Professor Xavier's Ethics final...

[identity profile] x-siryn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
So did I. That actually makes this worse because they don't give AP tests in the fall so now I have to remember everything from three months ago!

[identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, the AP test. Yeah, I opted out of those, since I've already used the CLEP tests for as many classes as the university will let me. I may be able to get out of the basic sciences and math courses, but it looks like I'll still be stuck taking English 101 and the social sciences.

For a Business course, even. ARGH. Stupid educational system...

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