Room 406, Thursday afternoon

[izzyalienqueen]

After going to the gym and then getting annoyed with Cam, Isabel returned to her room and attempted to study for her US Government midterm. She only had to stop occasionally to wipe her eyes.


[Door's open, it might be a bit slow because I'm baking cookies.]

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana poked her head in. "Hey Isabel -" She stopped herself. "Hey, are you okay?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh hi Lana," Isabel said as she wiped her face and looked up. "I'm okay, just studying."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked very concerned. "You look pretty upset. Is there anything I can do? Should I come back another time?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

She shrugged, "I'm just frustrated. And you probably know exactly how I feel. I just want to sit down," she said plaintively.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded sympathetically. "Yeah, I've got an idea. I'm kind of feeling at the end of my rope. Get all teary and over sensitive about nothing at the drop of a hat. I just want this to be *over*"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Exactly. This morning at the gym Cam goofily suggested having someone sit on me to see if it would stop," she shook her head. "Instead of treating it like the joke that it was, I got all pissed off. This better end soon. I don't want to spend my break bouncing around."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I know," Lana says glumly. "I had plans for vacation which involved more than just snuggling with Shep. Not to mention the whole eating being such an incredible pain in the butt."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Right now my plans for vacation include sleep, hitting the gym a lot, and going on the trip to Baltimore." She tilted her head, "Did you hear about that? I really do need to get some posters up. But StuCo is sponsering a trip up to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore one day next week. If you guys are around, maybe you can go. There's lots to do up there."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Really? That sounds pretty cool. We'll definitely have to check into that. I've never really been anywhere outside Smallville till I got here - and other than a couple of trips to the mainland to see Shep when he was in the hospital there..." Lana shrugs. "It would be nice to see some new places."

[janet_fraiser]

"Hey, how's it going?" asked Janet.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel banged her head against her government book.

[janet_fraiser]

Janet nodded. "I know what you mean." She held up her left hand, which had a surgical glove stuck over it, and her right hand, which still had her pen stuck to it. She looked a bit frustrated with her predicament. "Any evidence of lame supervillains yet?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Nope, no lame supervillains, just lame jokes on how to stop it." Isabel said, as she rolled her eyes.

[janet_fraiser]

"And of course that's just what you need right now," said Janet. She came in and sat down, then sighed. "Professor Skeeter 'accidentally' dissolved my sleeve when she was trying to get stuff unstuck from my hands."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"The sad thing is, if I wasn't so frustrated with the whole situation, I probably could have had fun with the lame joke." She grinned wryly, "Cam half offered to sit on me to stop the bouncing. I should have said yes, just to see if he would have done it or flailed about in embarrassement."

"Accidentaly or accidentally on purpose?"

[janet_fraiser]

Janet grinned. "Who ever sees the humor in their own problems?" she asked. "You never know, maybe it would really have stopped the bouncing. Just take him up on it later when someone has a camera around to take pictures at the look on his face."

"You never really know with her," said Janet. "I suspect the latter."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel snickered. "Now that would be interesting. If it did work, I'd have to stand up in each class looking for a volunteer to sit on me for the period."

"I've never met the woman but she scares me for some reason. She just doesn't sound nice at all."

[ooc: dinner time! I'll be back after 7ish]

[soldtoarmenians]

When he got home after his Creature Languages mid-term, Xander took one look at his roomie and grimaced. "You look... unpleased. Would tasty baked goods help in any way?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Thanks but no thanks Xander," Isabel said with a sigh. "I'm not quite in a baked goods mood."

[soldtoarmenians]

"Well, Twinkies aren't really baked, I think. They're kind of more like...extruded..."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm still not fully convinced Twinkies are really food." She stood up and stretched. "But I think I'll pass this time."

[soldtoarmenians]

"They're a foodlike product. I think they didn't quite pass the FDA regs for 'food.' They passed the ones for 'drug' but Twinkies In A Syringe didn't test-market well for some reason."

He dropped his books on his own bed and looked over at her. "What's up, seriously? With the unpleasedness."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I don't see why. Think of the marketing plan. Skip the boring chewing part. Inject those preservatives right into your veins." She smiled a bit, and carefully leaned the side of her hip against the desk. "I'm just frustrated a bit with this whole bouncing thing. You would not believe how much I just want to sit primly in a straight backed chair."

[soldtoarmenians]

"Ahh." Xander nodded. "Yeah, that's gotta be a pain in the a-- You know, there's no good place to go with that one."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"There's really not," Isabel said shaking her head forlornly. She sighed, looking pitiful. "It's not even a cool power. I mean seriously, your TV changing ability is at least somewhat useful."