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School; for the lack of a witty title.
Topic Started: Aug 28 2007, 08:55 AM (8,958 Views)
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Nov 17 2007, 08:22 PM
I hate you so much. Hang on, what lesson is this in?

It's for Science Fiction class. It's my elective.

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Science Fiction class? I wish I had a Science Fiction class at my school.
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Science Fiction class? :WTF: Should I even ask?
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What do you mean, "should I even ask"?

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What exactly do you get taught in Science Fiction class?
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I had coffee today. Me. Coffee. I’d only ever had sips before, so this was really the first time in my life.

It was for Science. First one person dropped a metre ruler and the other person had to catch it. How far it had gone down was recorded, and the experiment was repeated two more times before the average was found. Then the person had to drink some coffee, and their reaction time was recorded again in much the same manner as before.

I was in a group of three with Flic (CrimsonRegrets) and Frances. Flic made the coffee, I drank it and Frances dropped the metre stick. The first five times we tried I missed it completely, but eventually I was able to catch it the right amount of times.

So now it was time to drink the coffee. This was a long and painful process, but the worst by far was yet to come. After waiting about a minute for it to cool down, I picked up the teaspoon and took a sip. No sooner had I done so than I had a hysteric coughing fit. It was disgusting! 100cm3 of water and a level teaspoon of coffee. No milk. No sugar. Black coffee. I must stress that this was my first real experience of coffee. After recovering, I continued to drink the coffee off the spoon, as it was still very hot. After a while Flic and Frances were getting quite exasperated, urging me to hurry up.
“For god’s sake, Izzie, just take a big gulp and get it over with!”

So I did.

JESUS CHRIST!!!” I yelled, the hot coffee burning my tongue and throat.
“Izzie!” gasped Flic reproachfully, “Don’t blaspheme!”
“Aren’t you an atheist?” Frances asked Flic, who looked suddenly guilty.
“Um… I could be… Half and half… If I wanted…” she mumbled.
“She’s being a bishop for work experience.” I said, and the others continued the conversation while I drank the coffee.

A long time and several profanities later, I had finally finished the drink, and we proceeded to celebrate. Bad news came from the direction of Flic, however; I now had to sit still in silence for ten minutes.

This has probably been the longest ten minutes of my life so far, and I mean that. I’m a very hyper and talkative person. Flic and Frances were holding a conversation to which I think what I wanted to say would have been a valuable contribution. But I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t move. I could hardly breathe, and my friends found this amusing.

“Let’s take this opportunity to annoy Izzie when she can’t do anything about it!” joked Frances, and poked me a few times. Flic thought this was hilarious, and started to jab me with the metre stick repeatedly. From this moment on she made those ten minutes a living hell for me. She poked me, sang badly, and generally said a lot of provoking things, none of which I could react to. I kept gesturing at my watch to ask how much time had gone, but it was always a really short amount of time. It dragged on forever.

Finally the last twenty seconds came, and Frances helpfully gave a countdown. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… 0! I exploded, shouting at Flic that I was going to kill her, but then the teacher told me to be quiet.

We did the ruler test again, and, surprisingly, my reaction time was worse after the coffee than before. But I couldn’t murder Flic yet, because we had to do a bar chart of the results, and then I had English. I’d get her at lunch.

English was a blur.

I walked to English slightly faster than usual, muttering to myself “Felicity [second name] must die” over and over again. I got to English, sat down, and put my things on the desk, still muttering to myself. I think we should have waited longer than ten minutes, because this is when the coffee really started to kick in. I was trembling violently, fidgeting, twitching. I occasionally threw in the odd “ten minutes straight of pure torture” or “coffee is very bad”, but apart from that my high-pitched monologue was unbroken. I was vaguely aware of Joy and Sarah (Wolfsong) asking me questions, but I couldn’t really concentrate. The lesson started and we divided into groups of four. Luckily Joy was in my group, or who knows what could have happened. After a while Joy went to the teacher. I’m not sure what was said, but she asked to see me and asked me a lot of questions.

She told me and Joy to go down to the canteen and ask for a few cups of tap water, so we did, but they said we had to pay 2p for the disposable cup. Miss Davey should have paid, for sending us down there, or Miss Tucker, for making me drink coffee in the first place. I had three cups of water, which calmed me down and made me feel much better, but I suddenly felt sick, a feeling I had been distracted from before. We went back to class. My whole body was still shaking, and my brain was racing uncontrollably, so I didn’t get anything done all lesson. Of course, by this time the other people in our group, Chloe and Amy, had already told the rest of the class about me. Oh well, screw them. They think I’m a freak anyway; I can’t come out any worse off than I already am.

After English I was dragged down to the music room by Sarah, perhaps to keep me away from Flic, perhaps because she thought the soundproof doors were a good idea. By this time I could just about speak properly without stammering, and by the end of lunch most of the trembling had stopped. I was still talking very fast, but that didn’t matter, as I only had History next.

So yeah. That was my first experience of coffee. And my last, for as long as I live. Even after that. Never again.
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Nov 19 2007, 03:33 PM
What exactly do you get taught in Science Fiction class?

We learnmostly about how science incorporates in Sci-Fi... actually, most of the class is just making projects (like the stories we're writing0 and watching movies.

My mom will try to convince my dad to let me stay home from school on the 27th ("religious holiday" ;)), so if that happens I'll just watch it on the 28th. Another possibly is that we'll go to Fred Meyer on Monday evening to see if we can weasel out a copy of BBS a few hours before they're officially allowed to stock it. Which would also be good. I have a big science test on Tuesday - I KNOW that if I don't see BBS before then I won't be able to concentrate and I'll fail. :P

Sorry about your bad coffee experience, RDR! :zoidsad: Don't let it scar you for life, though. Coffee is good when there's somehing in it, and it's not boiling hot. I'd understand of you feared coffee after that though - I tripped on the school gym's bleachers and may and sprained my ankle very badly. I still get nervous leaving assemblies. :lol:

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If you add cream and have the chance to sip it, it's not too bad.
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I think it was mainly Flic's fault... *Twitches*

And SP, I still can't believe you have a Sci-Fi class. That's dancing amazing. I would love to have a Sc-Fi class at my school! XD And doing a GCSE in it!
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I think we need to give RDR some speed or something. If that's how bad coffe effects her could you just imagaine... lol

but seriously I had to that experiment to and I don't mind coffee but the coffee we had to drink was obviously just mudy water it was so gopping. And we weren't allowed milk or sugar because 'it would affect the caffines effect' which I find odd since you'd still be drinking the same amount of caffine. anyway... As a person who normal hs decaf I was a bit... hyper after the coffee. I could speak though. The caffine musn't hve effected the concentrtion of neurotransmitter across my synapses that much.

also @RDR - when did you do your test on the experiment? our group can't get our results back until your's have been marked. Which is really unfair. Why should the triple science class be punished for wanting to further their scientific knowledge :P

Sci-fi class would be awesome. I'd love to take a clss with animals best though. Like beginer veterinary science or something
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Happy "religious holiday", Force members!

We watched Futurama today! I brought in Vol. 1 Disc 2. Everybody loved it, even my teacher (which shocked me, considering Futurama's content). First we saw A Big Piece Of Garbage, and afterwards I was going to select another episode - as soon as I got to the menu screen most of the class was shouting "HELL IS OTHER ROBOTS!!!", a few shouting "MY THREE SUNS!!!" and one going "A FISHFUL OF DOLLARS!!!". I put on Fear Of A Bot Planet because nobody suggested it. I'm so mean. ;) I would have put on HIOR but that wouldn't exactly fly with my teacher.

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Sweet, a "religious holiday." Ooh, "force members." I like the sound of that, xD

That's awesome you got to watch and show Futurama to your classmates. I would love to do that. But yeah, I'm surprised your teacher liked it, too. Doesn't sound like any teacher at my school. Then again, we'd never have a sci-fi class in the first place, anyway...
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I'm not surprised you were allowed. I once brought in the Simpsons to watch during board game club, and the Simpsons has an even worse content.
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Ermmmmmmmmmm, no it doesn't. The Simpsons has a rating range from TV G - TV 14, while Futurama is nothing below TV 14.
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Nov 27 2007, 03:55 PM
Happy "religious holiday", Force members!

Best quote ever.

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Nov 27 2007, 06:49 PM
the Simpsons has an even worse content.

No it doesn't.
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