Getting my bearings

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So, here I am. Put away my stuff, parked my car, got a tour. Place is...big. Nice, too. I didn't mean it wasn't nice or anything. Just big. Big isn't bad. Just weird. I'm gonna stop typing now.

My name is Fred Dukes. I'm new here. Was told about this journal thing, so I figured I'd go ahead and start doing it. I brought my old Dell laptop with me, and it's nice that I can use it, I guess. Justifies its existence and everything.

It kinda feels like I'm talking to myself. This is weird. Not like Mansion weird, but still weird. Not bad. Weird is not always bad. Sometimes it is though.

This is gonna take some getting used to. The journal I mean. Well, and the new place. And the whole going to school thing again. And being what I am. I mean, I've been like it forever, but I'm still not used to it. You know, it's all just kinda gonna take some getting used to. Gonna stop typing again.

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x_cynosure
2009-03-02 05:23 am (UTC)
Welcome to the school, monsieur. I am Jean-Paul Beaubier and I teach literature and flight. I wish you luck with your settling in.
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x_empath
2009-03-02 05:28 am (UTC)
I am Manuel de la Rocha. Welcome. If you see a four year old passing by in black, please be aware she does not speak english, but Spanish. Her name is Valentia.
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x_empath
2009-03-02 05:31 am (UTC)
On another note, she is a mute, therefore, technically she does not speak but understands Spanish. It is late and I should have been in bed hours ago.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 03:52 pm (UTC)
Gotcha. Quiet girl. Sleepy dude.
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x_forge
2009-03-02 06:14 am (UTC)
Welcome, Fred. I'm Forge - you seem to have figured out the journal system okay. If you have any need for help with the tech stuff, my office is right next to Professor Xavier's - feel free to stop by in the next few days, the Xavier Institute provides all the residents here with a cell phone and other amenities.

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x_jubilee
2009-03-02 09:42 am (UTC)
Wait...you have an actual office? You don't reside in the basement with the machines that go ping and boowoopwoop and the crazy blonde? My world, she is changed. I don't know what to do now. I might have to start singing a song about stars.
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x_forge
2009-03-02 02:06 pm (UTC)
I have had an office for quite some time now, thank you very much.

And no, I reside upstairs with the least crazy blonde. Although around here, "least crazy" is a completely relative term.
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x_jubilee
2009-03-02 08:04 pm (UTC)
I obviously don't try to break in there often enough. I do love that we have enough blondes around this place that there can be a competition for 'least to most crazy'. Are there other categories? 'Blonde most likely to end up in Hell.' That's Illyana, obv.
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x_wallflower_
2009-03-02 09:39 am (UTC)
New person! Welcome, welcome. Don't let them frighten you off with stories of dinosaurs and crazy English people. That's just their way.

I'm Laurie, recent Xavier's graduate and currently in Ireland in the beginning stages of the Laurie Collins World Tour 2009.

Just remember, never eat anything that small children give you there. Especially not if you hear ticking.
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x_wildchild
2009-03-02 01:50 pm (UTC)
Weird's relative, dude. After the fourth or fifth person with weird colored skin or a tail or whatever, you start setting the bar for weird a LOT higher. You get used to it.

I'm Kyle Gibney - I'd be the tall one with claws and fangs, so for here - low on the weird. I'm also one half of the people you call if you break anything, need anything fixed, or have anything in your room that just isn't gonna work right with your powers, as long as it's not a techie thing.

If it's a techie thing, you call Forge.
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x_blink
2009-03-02 02:28 pm (UTC)
Just remember, it could be worse.

I'm Clarice.

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x_penance
2009-03-02 04:19 pm (UTC)
Hello Fred! It is good to see that you are finding the journals. I hope you are making the settling in, yes?
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x_nothungry
2009-03-02 04:22 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I think I got all the stuff out of my car. Thanks again for showing me around earlier.
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x_penance
2009-03-02 04:43 pm (UTC)
You are welcome.

Do you like apples, by the way?
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x_nothungry
2009-03-02 04:46 pm (UTC)
Uh, yea. Guess so. Why?
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x_penance
2009-03-02 04:57 pm (UTC)
There may be the welcome present for you soon, yes?
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x_nothungry
2009-03-02 05:15 pm (UTC)
Oh!

Uh, thanks. :)
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x_meggan
2009-03-02 08:52 pm (UTC)
Welcome to the school, Fred. I'm Meggan Szardos--weirdest thing about me? I'm the blonde that you might happen to spot levitating down a hallway some lone night if I accidentally float out a window.

Doubt it would happen, but you never know!
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x_nothungry
2009-03-02 09:04 pm (UTC)
I walk around a lot at night. If I run across you should I, uh, pull you down or wake you up or something?
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x_meggan
2009-03-03 12:12 am (UTC)
If I look like I could be in danger of smashing head first into a wall, maybe it would be good to wake me.

Otherwise, just quietly steer me back the way I came. That usually works.

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x_dryad
2009-03-03 12:05 am (UTC)
Hey! Welcome.

I'm Callie the weird girl with the pink skin and pointed ears. Kinda hard to miss.
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x_cypher
2009-03-03 01:09 am (UTC)
Welcome. I'm Doug Ramsey. I'm an alumnus, technically, but I do manage to stop by the mansion fairly frequently to visit friends and conduct informal language tutoring. I work in NYC for the Snow Valley Home for Trouble Youths Memorial Center.
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x_jubilee
2009-03-03 09:33 am (UTC)
Shouldn't that be Professor Pete's and Mother Remy's home for wayward children?
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x_tarot
2009-03-03 03:40 pm (UTC)
I like how you say 'conduct informal language tutoring' when you mean 'swear at Forge in seventeen languages when he beats you in chess'
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x_adrienne
2009-03-03 04:52 am (UTC)
Welcome to the school. The feeling of weirdness never really does go away. I'm Ms. Frost, the math teacher, and my classroom door is always open except during Boston Red Sox games.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 05:00 am (UTC)
Not to be rude or anything, Ma'am, but if you teach math, there is a very slim chance you'll ever see me. No offense. It just ain't my subject...
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x_adrienne
2009-03-03 05:10 am (UTC)
Unfortunately for you, I teach all the math classes, and I am fairly certain your curriculum requires you to take one of the several that are offered, although I may be mistaken. Or you may have a special circumstance or some such thing I'm unaware of, in which case simply disregard me.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 05:13 am (UTC)
Quick unrelated question: If I _say_ I have a special circumstance, do I have to prove it?
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x_adrienne
2009-03-03 05:17 am (UTC)
Hypothetically, you mean?

Yes. Yes, you do.

And just fyi, hypothetical questions usually imply guilt. Not that I speak from experience or anything.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 05:21 am (UTC)
Yea. That word. Hypothetically. English really ain't my best subject neither.
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x_kaminari
2009-03-03 05:28 am (UTC)
~Translated from Japanese~

Trust me, could be worse.

I'm Noriko. Welcome to the crazy.

~Translated from Japanese~
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x_wildchild
2009-03-03 03:27 pm (UTC)
The school thing isn't as bad as you think. They'll figure out pretty fast what kind of educational help whatevers you need and get you back on track. I mean, dude, if I can pass Algebra II, anyone can.

But if anyone tries to tell you Herman Melville is quality reading, I recommend laughing at them, because OH HELL NO.
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x_dryad
2009-03-04 01:11 am (UTC)
Unless it's Bartleby, the Scrivener, but that story is so weird that it works.

Moby Dick on the other hand was boring!
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x_cynosure
2009-03-06 08:13 am (UTC)
Benito Cereno is fairly horrific. And yes, that is a recommendation.
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x_sway
2009-03-03 01:23 pm (UTC)
Hi Fred, I'm Zanne, the other half of the mansion maintenance team. Welcome aboard!
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x_diamondlil
2009-03-03 03:23 pm (UTC)
Welcome. I'm Lil, the blonde giantess you might see around. Don't teach or nothing but I'm in the gym a lotta the times.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 03:51 pm (UTC)
Hello Zanne and Lil. The gym? I don't really spend much time their either. Execercise doesn't really help me out at all.
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x_diamondlil
2009-03-03 03:54 pm (UTC)
It's a good place to punch things that you're actually allowed to hit. People get upset around here if you put holes in the walls on a regular basis.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 04:07 pm (UTC)
Usually I got paid to punch things back in the day. I don't know if I'm comfortable with doing it on my own time...
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x_diamondlil
2009-03-03 04:08 pm (UTC)
I've gotten paid to punch things, too. Doing it for yourself is a lot better. Trust me.
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x_nothungry
2009-03-03 04:15 pm (UTC)
I, uh, I'll give it a shot then, I guess.
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