↬ February 6, 2014

[knightly]

Somehow, it's only now that I've reached the human experimentation portion of my senior project that I've realized my senior project involves human experimentation.

[WARDED TO SENIOR RIBBONFINS]
No, this isn't official business. Well, it is, if we want to discuss giving each other homework help. [...] Actually, let me make a list of which subjects we'd be willing to organize for.

But only after I say what I wanted to say! Which is to say, I warded you all because I wanted to ward my friends, but then I realized I had far too many friends at this school. At that point, most people would give up and simply write this as a public post, but upon considering that for precisely six seconds, I started getting heart palpitations at the thought of making my love life subject to public discussion. Yes! You read that right. Ravinder Dhaliwal is proverbially "eating crow" over those years of saying he's not interested in dating, and will never date until well after graduation. I'm not going to ask how many of you made bets over when I would cave, because I'd like to optimistically think the answer is "none."

Why do I make so many terrible jokes when I'm uncomforta Right. So. I have a boyfriend. His name is Diego. He's an Azurcrest. And beyond this highly embarrassing announcement is an important question: do I get him flowers? If so, what kind and how many? Because roses seem rather serious, don't they?

Tabitha, I hope

[WARDED TO DIEGO MORALES]
Hi.

Comments

[knightly]

Ideally, you'd have a good night's sleep and pleasant dreams. Worst case scenario... you're trapped in horrific nightmares and you never wake up. [...] Or you grow gills. Oh, God. Should I experiment on mice first?

[Senior Ribbonfins]

It occurred very suddenly and somewhat beyond my control. Honestly, I'm still trying to decide if this is an early April Fool's joke. You would expect this kind of thing from Azurcrest.

[...] That's not honest at all, I'm making a bad joke. Yes, I have a boyfriend.

[sheepish]

Mice?

[knightly]

For the record, I don't want to do that. I'm not a fan of animal testing, even with assurances that it's relatively safe. "Relatively" is always the keyword there, and I don't like the risk.

[sheepish]

I can test it instead? Dreams don't bother me. I experience sleep paralysis sometimes so I'm fine with being trapped.

[duelled]

But what if the mice get trapped in nightmare land??

[Senior Ribbonfins]

That's great. Diego is I know you And just in time for Valentine's day.

You should do flowers! They have all kinds, not just roses. Honestly I like the tulips more than the roses.

[knightly]

Then I would be trapped in nightmare land. I don't want to do that to innocent mice. Or innocent classmates. So... this is a predicament.

[Senior Ribbonfins]

Is it good timing, or terrible timing? Somehow I feel Valentine's Day makes everything so much more intimidating.

The tulips are nice. Thanks, Ivy. [...] Will you have a date next week?

[duelled]

I mean... better mice than you or me. But it'd be so sad.

[Senior Ribbonfins]

I think it's the best time for it. Now you get to be all lovey-dovey.

[...] No, I don't think so. But that's alright. I still have a lot of single friends, so we can all be sad sacks together.

[laaurel.insanejournal.com]

♫Highway to the nightmare zone
Gonna sleep you right into the nightmare zone♫

[quinning]

How would you find out if the mice have bad dreams?

[...] If someone's both a legilimens and an animagus, can they read the minds of the animals they transform into? Perhaps one of the students is a mouse double threat and they could help you with your project?

I shouldn't have smok

[hisshiss]

see cunninghams the only one around here I ever see making any damn sense

[quinning]

That's darn right, Youngblood. I'm asking the important questions.

[knightly]

Oh no, I meant testing on mice just to see that the potion is safe, at least. But beyond that... that's why I'm stuck, beyond the reluctance to do animal testing. I don't want to put "Clinical Trial Results: Four of my classmates were mentally scarred" on my final report.

But you know... maybe that's an idea. I don't know if we have any mice Animagi in the school. I think the closest would be... Ty?

[quinning]

But think of how much more your training applications would stand out! I haven't mentally scarred anyone yet (thank the Lord), but I did recently set a dummy on fire.

I've never seen mice and squirrels communicate but then again, I'm no nomajmagizoologist. Someone find the Squirrel Scout, Dhaliwal's got science to do!

[orangepip]

No you absolutely should not!