Fandom Radio, February 21

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Hello and good evening to you, on this cool but pleasant evening in Fandom! This is Lieutenant Archie Kennedy, which means that today is Tuesday, which in turn means that tonight in the Crow's Nest II, it's time for Royal Navy Radio. Remember, this is only on Tuesdays. All other nights of the week remain appropriately piratical.

Something I read this week leads me to believe that if I blather on too long, nobody will remember any of the things I actually report. Something about how it's seventy percent how you look, twenty percent how you sound, and only ten percent what you say? That doesn't leave me much to work with, so I'll not waste your time with too much pointless chatter. Of course, this may not work either, but in the name of the grand experiment, let's try it, shall we?

Schooling

Advanced Criminal Justice talked about Justice in Fandom, and how it works; we may not have actually reached a consensus on whether it actually works. It may be gainfully unemployed. I'm not entirely sure. Professors Chaucer and Dream switched classes today, with the former teaching about Dante in Classics and Foreign Literature, and the latter discussing the works of Edgar Allan Poe in Poetry. Rather a hellish theme for the day, but I could be wrong.

Introduction to Archaeology perused academic journals, Studio Art discussed the kind of balance that won't help you when you're running along a yardarm, and History of Art had a midterm exam.

Molarity, which I assume has nothing to do with teeth, was discussed in Chemistry today, Speech discussed aspects of power, which I assume is not in the electrical sense, and Political Campaigning discussed polling, which I'm not going to assume is a word related to "political," even though it could be. Further in concepts I don't understand, Business Law and HR Management respectively studied torts and professional development. Speaking of development, there was much pucking around in General Physical Conditioning, with floor hockey being the order of business.

Professor Camulus appears to be absent, as Phoebe stepped in to lead today's Arthurian Traditions class in a discussion of the Knights of the Round Table. One of whom apparently looks just like my best friend from back home, who, I feel the need to say, is not the same person as Hamlet's best friend from back home. At least, as far as we can tell. Jumping a little further ahead in history, History of Medieval England learned about the Magna Carta, while Western Civilisation studied the Roman Empire. Tomorrow, in discussion section, I'm going to ask Professor Pierson if Caesar was ever, at any point, a small yapper-type dog. He could have been John Crichton in disguise!

Speaking of John Crichton, our ambitious one-man menagerie, we have one more class to cover today: Advanced Journalism, where the biggest story of the day turned out to be that young master Crichton aspires to adorn the heads of as many students as possible, if Professor Skeeter's intuition proves correct. And he's well on his way to being quite a well-worn hat, an ambition with which both Rory and Xander were only too glad to help him.

*pause*

Evidently it isn't just the ladies at this school who find hats incredibly alluring. Not so alluring, perhaps, was Callisto's mishap with her Quick-Quotes Quill, which she stopped to discuss with Professor Skeeter despite not actually being in the Advanced Journalism class.

In the TA lounge, Kiki made tea, and only Vala and John Connor stopped by to partake. For God's sake, people, it's tea. Appreciate it, damn you.

Food, at least, was appreciated in the mess hall, where Blair, Nadia, and Kiki were reading, but Edward and Vala both ate alone.

In that den of revelry, the Fandom High Library, Angela, er . . . *pause, rustling papers, muffled "ergh?" sound* Erm, it says here that she asked Parker if Jarod was brokenated. I'm just not asking. At all. The lovely Parker-who-is-not-Peter discussed the upcoming school play with Jack Harkness and also with Vala, and later discussed Angela's graphic novel with Zero. Angela? Just how graphic is this novel? Not terribly graphic, I'm assuming, as you were reading it openly. Either that, or standards around here are even more lax than I thought. Logan Echolls wanted to get into Special Collections. I say, Logan, wasn't that bunny incident enough? And finally, Rory and Angela speculated on the Librarian's whereabouts.

In the Officers' Quarters, and Happenings in the Chain of Command

That school play? Acting Principal Finn announced that casting was posted outside his office.

Kiki dropped by Professor Chaucer's office hours, Professor Cregg and the Doctor had rather quiet office hours, and Professor Gilmore-Danes had visits from Doctor Grissom and from her daughter. (Hello, Rory!)

Doctor Tommy Oliver -- and I don't know why I feel compelled to call him by his full name, but I think it may be the smart doctor glasses -- left a note for his housemates today before leaving town on what I can only assume was sudden and unexpected business.

We also had a report that Vice-Principal Pierce was visited by Logan and Pippi late yesterday.

And in the Teachers' Lounge, questions about the Washington, D.C. trip were asked by Professors Pierson and Cregg.

In the Crew Berths

Lyta and Bridge were watching news and discussing fashion in the third-floor common room this morning. A fashion tip for you, Cadet Carson: wearing your best friend's girlfriend's body is not exactly a style to be aspired to. But really, that was days ago. The fourth-floor common room played host to Blair, plants, and pot; Ivanova got dirty with him, and Molly came looking for him as well. Jaye was demanding entertainment in the damnably noisy second-floor common room -- oh all right, I was there too. Yes, it's bloody noisy. Yes, it irks me when I'm not in there. But I was there. And there was much talk of people's posteriors, and jokes about muffins. Among other things. And in the fifth-floor common room, Pippi and Nadia endeavoured to understand A Midsummer Night's Dream. Which, I'm given to understand, has nothing to do with our Languages professor. As far as I'm aware.

*rustles papers* Oh, for God's sake, why did Cally and Anders have to be nauseating in my first-floor lobby? That's it. I'm frequenting the sixth-floor common room from now on. This is unconscionable.

The East Attic was busy today. In perfectly innocent ways, thank you, at least as far as my notes indicate. Nadia visited Veronica (who, I have to say, is a lovely girl despite all the scurrilous rumours people like to perpetuate about her) to talk about her trip to Washington, D.C.; Janet also visited Veronica with plans of some kind for Professor Skeeter. Piper and Phoebe later joined the lovely Miss Mars to talk about the new doctor in town, whose presence now qualifies Belthazor for membership in the Doppelganger Club, which isn't official but should be. Evidently Veronica had interviewed "Doctor Not-Bel,", as my notes call him, earlier in the day. Parker stopped by the East Attic as well.

Janet was studious, Blair was meditative, Vala returned from her weekend away, and Angel and Callisto were apparently a good medium for pen and ink. Victor received gifts from Walter as well as an update on the Washington trip, and Xander received his Jake-stolen clothes back from Krycek.

There was fraternal bonding between Cameron and Angel, letter-writing for Sam, letter-receiving for Ivanova, drawing for Alphonse, and pet-feeding and quiet time for Maia.

On Shore Leave

Plenty of activity at the book shop today? I, er, can't pronounce the name, but it looks lovely. Agatha was in, looking for a dictionary, Artie posed and looked for books, Jarod came by, and Nadia and Pippi came by for play help. Mister Giles also had a discussion about England with Alfred. I'm sorry I missed it.

Lilah was in today at Wolfram and Hart, Pippi and Marty discussed the D.C. trip at Empire Records, and Orlin stopped by Sparky Repairs to tell Agatha he was leaving town for a few days. This did not go over terribly well with Agatha. Honestly, Orlin, are you surprised?

At All and Sundries, Edmund helped my Driver's Ed classmate Ivanova find coffee, and Blair was on a pot search. Pippi danced with Jay and Silent Bob. I'm not sure what this signifies exactly but I'm sure I'd have liked to see it. My sources seemed to find it incredibly entertaining. Jarod was emailing over at the brothel where my not-girlfriend paid money to slap Cameron's arse.

Tonight at Caritas, Veronica had a strange day. Apparently that was even before she got to work. John and Veronica both sang, but not together, Lucas was at the bar, and Agatha complained about, and I quote, "guys and stupidity."

And finally, Blood Gulch Arms, where our lovely and deadly mayor is proprietor, was open today. Thus ends today's log of activity, and so also ends my watch here at the Crow's Nest II for the night. And so, Fandom, this is Archie Kennedy signing off, wishing you all fair wind and clear skies, and a very good night indeed.

Oh, and stay away from that couch in the first floor lobby.