In The Grand Tradition Of Spaceman Spiff

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Hobbes: What does your teacher object to about dinosaurs?

Calvin: Mostly my drawing them during math.

 

One of the laws of academia: it’s always the professor with the most useless lectures who takes roll. Coincidence? I think not. Lousy lecturers have to take roll, or no one would show up. I know I wouldn’t.

 

So today I worked out a climate chart for Kalkupu during class, which is nice because it looked like I was studiously taking notes on whatever the hell it was the teacher was carrying on about. Dangit, why I gotta make such a complicated planet? I’ve been having to invent climate zones—nowhere on Earth is there the possibility of a tundra/savannah. And I’ve never been very good at meteorology, so it’s taking a while. But hey—time well-spent, I think, given what the rest of the class was up to. (I did seriously confuse the girl next to me, though, who glanced up from her own doodle-encrusted notebook to see a complicated map next to my previous job, which was calculating the really fucking weird phases of the moon.)

 

I also got a few more paragraphs into my Runaway Squid story.* I’m starting to get restless with this spate of Doctors! stories … after I get to a sort of logical breakoff point with some of these stories, I think I’m going to switch points of view to Loke. (Book 2, I guess. Or Season 2.  Or I don’t know.)  She has a pretty strong personality; I want to hand her the reins for a while. But for now, I am still having a good time abusing poor Dreedo, with his time bomb Sea Monkeys that are set to turn into people if he can’t somehow get rid of them. He made it so I could still enjoy class, even if I paid no attention to the teacher.

 

 

Also! Non-sequitur moment: pictures of my badass and badly made Tom Servo earrings will be going up sometime with in the next few days. Like I said, don’t look too closely at them, and they’re awesome.

 

 

*This wasn’t actually the premise for the story.  It was going to be sort of soap operatic Law’n’Order: Moon Unit** stuff, but then the darn squid all this was going to center around up and took off, leaving me and my main character in a bit of a sticky wicket, whatever that is.

 

**sunshine_shamanwill get that.