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[izzyalienqueen]

After getting a few more hours of sleep, Isabel spent the day working on her campaign poster. Finally pleased with the results, she took a walk through the dorm and put them in every common room and on every bulletin board.







Once she finished, she returned to her room to get started on the reading for Western Literature.

[occ: Much thanks and adoration to courier_gavin for creating Isabel's poster on short notice. Thanks again!]

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[soldtoarmenians]

Xander, after getting out of the Senior Class meeting, had run into town for some doughnuts from Jeff, God of Biscuits, the NPC bakery - seemed like the polite thing to do would be to get his roomie some snacks to pay back the ones she'd bought for him, plus, well. Duh. Doughnuts.

He started to open the door to room 406, then, thinking about he possibilities there -- and whether free doughnuts would be enough to deal with a pissed-off roommate even if he walked in on a view he was likely to enjoy -- he decided to stop and knock.

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Isabel started to call out "Come in!" but then remembered what Belthazor had told her about vampires and invitations. Given the weirdness everyone seemed to take for granted, she thought it was probably better if she actually opened the door herself.



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"Hey," Xander said with a smile, holding out the doughnut box. "I come bearing yeasty goodness." He grimaced. "You know, that sounded less disgusting in my head."

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She wrinkled her nose, "Yeah, pretty much ewwww." Then she smiled. "Yum! Doughnuts!"

She took the box and turned back into the room, saying as she did so, "It's your room to, you really don't have to knock."

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Xander shrugged, grinning. "I figured better safe than ducking flying objects if I walked in and you were changing clothes or something."

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Laughing, Isabel put the doughnuts on the desk. "You're safe. I already thought about that. All changing of the clothes will happen in the bathroom."

Isabel opened the box and took a jelly donut. She grabbed the bottle of tabasco off her shelf and started to douse the doughnut with the spicy red sauce.

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Xander opened his mouth, and then wondered what exactly was going to come out of it. A suggestion that the jelly ones tasted better with mustard? She obviously knew what she was doing; it wasn't like there was anything normal people people normally put in doughnuts that you could mistake a bottle of Tabasco Sauce for.

He pulled out a Bavarian Creme and bit into it, not staring. Much.

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Isabel gestured with the doughnut at the Literature Book laying on the bed. "I figured I'd better get a start on my reading. Did you get all your classes?"


[occ: crashing now]

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"Smart and ambitious, huh?" Xander said. "I caught the StuCo posters on the way up." He glanced at the shelf on his desk, which didn't hold a single book for this semester on it. Which, er, matter of fact didn't hold a single book you wouldn't find inthe SF section at Barnes and Noble on it. "I got all my classes, but I'm definitely not at the studying point yet. I'm not even at the 'picked up the books' point yet."

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Isabel shrugged, "I like being involved." She followed his glance towards the books on the shelves and shuddered a bit. It was hard to appreciate science fiction given her own life of alien conspiracies.

"As for the reading, have you seen the reading list for Western Literature? It's pretty long. I'd rather start now then have to play catch-up down the road when I have to worry about the rest of my classes."

She took another bite of doughnut, grumbling when a gob of Tabasco-laced jelly squeezed out and fell on her pants. "Can you hand me a napkin please?"

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"Ah, yeah, you've got the reading-y kind of classes. Not that mine don't have books, but, well, my first class of the week is Shop, if that gives you an idea."

Xander reached for a paper towel from the roll on his desk, and handed it to her.

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"Thanks," Isabel took the paper towel and carefully wiped up the jelly. Unfortunately there was still a rather icky looking stain on her pants. Holding the paper towel in her hand over the spot, she concentrated on it, visualizing it disappearing. Two seconds later, she lifted the paper towel away and the spot was gone.

"Shop sounded interesting. But I like to sleep in when I can. I have to get early on Tuesdays and Thursdays for Speech 201, during second period. That's enough for me." She smiled and carefully took another bite of doughnut.

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Xander blinked at the presto-chango drycleaning trick, and shot a glance over at his paper towel roll. He was pretty sure they were boring old Acme-brand discount towels, no stain-removing properties there. Huh. Well, it was no shapeshifting or flying or vampire-killing superstrength, but he supposed it was kind of a useful power to have.

He shrugged. "Yeah, normally I'd be all for me and morning coming into as little contact as possible," Xander answered, "But Shop seemed like something I might actually be able to use after I graduate - and I'd heard people had a lot of fun with it last semester."

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Isabel had no idea Xander had realized what she had done. "I'm hoping at least one of my classes is fun. In addition to Western Literature, I have Speech 201. Belthazor said that Prof Cregg was great so I'm hoping class will be fun. Then there's US Government. The syllabus was pretty interesting in a snarky sense. It sounds like the Professor has a decent sense of humore."

She ate the last bite of doughnut and then wiped her fingers on the paper towel. "The only two I don't know about are History 101 and History of Art."

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"History of Art's the one we're in together," Xander said. "It's a new teacher, so your guess is as good as mine, there. Sounded like something safe enough that wouldn't actually ask me to produce art, which is a good thing for both me and the sighted public."

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"Oh that's right. Mun I completely forgot about that. I don't think I was awake enough at sigh-ups."

She reached over and grabbed a pencil and paper off the desk. Ten seconds later she held up a sketch of two stick people. "This is the limit of my art skills. So I think we're both in the same boat."

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Xander snickered. "After checking out the collected student artwork on those 'Things Everybody Should Know' posters from the 1st floor bathrooms? I think we're gonna need a bigger boat."

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Isabel perked up. "I think I missed those, anything I important I should know about?"

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Xander was not going to mention the one about him, even if possibly, maybe, he'd written it.

"Mostly just stuff about who's dating who, who not to make a play for, which would be mostly the previous list because their significant whatevers are scary, and who wears women's underwear." Xander licked at a bit of cream on one finger. "Which would be Lee Adama, apparently."

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"I'll have to pass by. And read how Jack Harkness is a good kisser as agreed to by half the school. I wouldn't want to give him a hard time or anything. The only couple I've heard of is Lana and Shep. But if the guys around here are dating scary women, it's probably good information to know."

Isabel got up off the bed and headed towards her dresser. "Who's Lee Adama and why does he wear women's underwear?" she asked.

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"He's part of the crowd that Angel hangs out with now," Xander answered. "I think he's dating Kara Thrace, but don't quote me on that." He raised an eyebrow. "If you believe the poster, he likes cooking and bondage with John Crichton. I'd take the stuff on there with a cople shakers of salt, though."

He relized what he'd just said, and corrceted himself. "Well, not all of it. The, uh, stuff about me was true. Unless somebody added more since the last time I looked."

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Went here because I'm a dork and hate squished text.

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{Ohthankgodmetoo.}

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He relized what he'd just said, and corrceted himself. "Well, not all of it. The, uh, stuff about me was true. Unless somebody added more since the last time I looked."

"Well if it's written in the men's room I won't see it. I heard a guy got detention for going into the women's room." She grimaced. "No gossip is worth that much."

Reaching into her dresser drawer she pulled out pair of pajamas and handed towards the bathroom. "I should probably call it a night soon."

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"Somebody - thinkin' Jake Gavin because he can turn into a girl, and I can't see the real girls putting it up outside - pulled 'em out of both bathrooms," Xander anwered. "They're out in the hall now."

He grinned at her PJ's. "Nice jammies."

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"Jake? Oh, I met him in the Perk the other day. I can see where shape shifting could be useful then."

She stopped in the bathroom door and held up the pajamas, "Chosen specifically for living with teenage guys. Between my brother and his friend who practically lived at our house, I never knew who I was going to run into in the hallway. I never expected I would have the same problem in my dorm room." Shaking her head, she closed the door.

[occ: I think that's a good spot to leave it for now. And can I say how amusing the shop class is?]

[soldtoarmenians]

{ooc - is good! And hee. I do want him to figure it out, since they already did a much-longe Cam/John misunderstanding thing, and don't want to retread old ground, or torture Izzie-mun any longer than I have to -- but playing "Whaaaa?"-Xander is always fun. He's so well-suited to it.}

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[occ: No problem. Actually Isabel is finding out all about dopplegangers from Janet in the library. There really was no way to avoid it considering Janet is Izzie's big sister. The next time they (Isabel and Xander) meet up, they can have a mutual "Did you know?" moment.

Completely off topic, but what is the acceptable font size for ooc comments? Would 2 be okay? 1 makes me squint too much.]

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{ooc - I don't actually set the font size - I just use the <small> tag, which goes to whatever the other user's browser reads as 'small' as far as I know. 2 would be regular size for me, since that's my default font size.

'small' is probably defaulting to 1 for me, but I also read LJ comment pages in style=mine so I'm reading everything in arial, which means I'm probably not squinting quite as much as you might be with the serif font on this LJ style *grin*

But I can put OOC comments in regular font size - aka not tag them at all except for brackets - when we're trading comments. The smallness is mostly to keep them out of other people's way, vs. me caring about the size that I'm reading.

In terms of the game? I don't think there's any set preference - some eople just started making ooc comments small as well as bracketed. And there's still no standardization with what kind and how many brackets people use!}

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[occ: no worries really, well unless we're doing really long, extended conversations in occ comments. I was just wondering overall. I think I'll stick with 2 myself. It's a bit easier to read.

BTW, given the events on the beach tonight, Isabel is going to be a bit emo tomorrow. So it's probably not the best time to talk about her twin with her. She knows about it. But she's got way too much else on her mind with OMG! Angel figuring out she's an alien.

And speaking of OMG! It's 4 in the morning and I can't believe I am WIDE awake. *headdesks*]

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[[ooc - Ironically, Xander *doesn't* know about it, officially, since Izzie hasn't taken the shop convo far enough for him to determine she's not you just being weird. But as long as Isabel and he miss meeting up with each other, he can always figure it out from something else, or end up going "WTF" a little later. I deliberately didn't have him mention it all night since the status of that kind of rests on the end of his conversation with Izzie.]]

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[[ooc - heh. Craplah. I forgot they're in Art History together, right off. Hmm - on the other hand, since we've got Introductions as basically the only thing to do in that class, it might actually be fairly natural for Isabel to mention in her 'Hi, I'm Isabel' bit, that "Hi, I'm Isabel, and if you see a freshman walking around with my face and my name, that's not me..."]]