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Post by Seymour Glass on Aug 19, 2016 15:02:19 GMT -5
This is one for LSWannabe's ficverse.
*new neighbor moves in next door*
Monty: Wow! He looks like Tom Selleck. Jo, when I die, I want you to cremate me and throw my ashes in Tom Selleck's face.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Sept 10, 2016 8:51:23 GMT -5
Caroline: I've alway treated my students like young adults, because I expect them to act like young adults. If you treat teenagers like children but expect them to act like adults, they will resent you. My cell phone policy in my classroom is that your phone has to be in plain sight on your desk. I also keep my phone out on the desk, because I don't want to be a hypocrite. My husband has the same policy as I do and he teaches at the brother school of my high school. ******* Willow: Even though Vince and I were not married when we had Reverie, we gave her his last name, because we knew we wanted to get married eventually.
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Post by Invisible on Oct 10, 2016 9:43:23 GMT -5
*Uncle Monty filming a new vlog* Uncle Monty: I might have accidentally bought a new snake. Totally by accident. Inspired by this snake-obsessed lady. youtu.be/KUY7ZOSefno?t=2m10s
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Oct 10, 2016 20:36:23 GMT -5
Michelle: Hugo and I want to start trying for our next baby sometime in 2017. We think Jordan will be ready for a sibling by then and he'll be starting kindergarten in 2018, so it will be nice to have a baby in the house again. And we also plan on moving out of Brooklyn in a few years and buying a house. We're looking at Maryland, but we'll see.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Nov 14, 2016 18:10:40 GMT -5
Caroline: My husband, my daughter, and I are okay in New Zealand. The earthquake happened a 7 hour drive north of us in Kaikoura. I might have felt it a little bit. I do know what to do during an earthquake, though, because I've lived in Japan for 4 years. I was there during the March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. ******* *Prufrock Prep morning announcements* Nero: Attention students! There are a few uniform related things I will need you to remind you of. School shoes must be solid black. Carmelita: Dammit... *looks at black flats with pink bows* Nero: Skirts need to be between 3 inches above the knee and 3 inches below the knee. Isadora: *unrolls skirt* Nero: No sagging pants. Duncan: *pulls up pants* Nero: Undershirts must be white. Klaus: I wanted to wear a black undershirt. Nero: And ties must not be worn "short and fat", Violet: *reties tie properly* *At lunch* Isadora: Man, Nero's a killjoy. Violet: Yeah, like we have to wear our ties "properly". Duncan: And yet, there are kids with pot leaf patches on their backpacks. Klaus: And kids fighting and sneaking behind the bleachers. ******* Caroline: I just bought my Christmas turkey. It was quite expensive, 7 kg for $80 NZD. The same turkey in America would be around $30 NZD. I also plan on making sweet potato pie, because canned pumpkin is a magee to find in NZ. I make my own butter crust, because the premade pie crust in stores isn't really suited for my sweet potato pie. Contrasting to Christmas in Japan, where I would reserve my KFC Christmas dinner two months in advance. I learned that the first year I was in Japan the hard way, and ended up buying fried chicken at the 7-11 down the road.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Nov 21, 2016 23:26:33 GMT -5
Caroline is Patrick's sister, correct?
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Nov 22, 2016 0:14:12 GMT -5
Yep, they're fraternal twins.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Dec 12, 2016 0:26:53 GMT -5
Caroline: My husband, my daughter, and I are flying back to America during Term 2/3 break and we'll be staying there for a week. We'll be first flying to Auckland the night before, staying overnight and doing some things the next day. Then we'll be flying to Chicago, with a short layover in Melbourne and a longer one in Dubai. On our return, we have a 15 hour overnight layover in Dubai. ******* Caroline: Even though the rules at the school I teach at say that makeup isn't allowed, I don't really care, as long at it's natural looking. Only because some teachers are hard asses about makeup. Like one teacher has a pack of makeup wipes in her desk and will give you one if she sees any hint of mascara or lipgloss. I don't think it's fair that the teachers are allowed makeup, while the students aren't. It's just infantilizing teenagers, who are going to be adults soon. And at the end of the day, you remove makeup. It isn't permanent, like piercings or tattoos. ******* Caroline: My school in New Zealand doesn't have a cafeteria like mine did in America. Instead, we have a tuck shop, which sells things like sandwiches, doner kebabs, soups, salads, crisps, chips, cakes, sweets, bottled water, juice, and milk. It's all over priced, so a lot of people bring their own food. And you can eat anywhere around the school. You can also go home during lunch, as long as you sign in and out. At my American high school, only juniors and seniors can leave campus for lunch.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jan 13, 2017 11:01:23 GMT -5
*Prufrock Prep Dining Hall* Carmelita: My phone was confiscated by that cakesniffer Mr. Remora. It's a blue LG Chocolate with a Hello Kitty charm Daddy brought back from Japan. He said I could pick it up in the administration building, but why did he have to confiscate it? Violet: Well, maybe if you weren't playing with your phone, it wouldn't have been confiscated, now would it. Carmelita: Whatever, cakesniffer. *The following week* Isadora: Look at Carmelita, being annoying with her new pink Blackberry Curve. Violet: She was bragging about how she threw her LG Chocolate into the lake by her house on purpose. So her dad took her to Verizon and he bought her that Blackberry. Isadora: Of course. She's a spoiled brat. Carmelita: Hey cakesniffers! I got a fancy new phone! Isadora: *sighs* Here we go... Carmelita: What kind of phones do you have? I bet you have dumb phones compared to my Blackberry. You could ask your parents to get new phones. Oh wait, you don't have parents. Violet: Go away, Carmelita. Isadora: She's so annoying. I have to put up with her as a roommate. ******* Samantha: The whole birth control debate on Twitter is so frustrating. I'm a queer cis woman who is on birth control partially because I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. There some assholes on Twitter, mostly cis males, who don't know how our bodies work. I can't control my ovarian cysts or my periods with my mind. I've also been married to a cis man for almost 7 years and I have a career. We delayed having children because of my career as a professor. I'm hopefully going to be promoted to Associate Professor after the spring semester, because I'm busting my ass. What if we had a kid earlier? Yeah, I could probably still do it, but my husband also changed careers almost 4 years ago. He spent 32 weeks training as a police officer. I don't know what we would do if I got pregnant while he was in the police academy.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jan 16, 2017 19:32:50 GMT -5
*The Baudelaires come to Hotel Denouement* Frank: Hi, I'm Frank. I'm one of the co-owners. The guy wearing the Doc Martens is my triplet Ernest, and our brother Dewey works in the library. Ernest: potato this salsa, I'm going to a concert. Oh, and we have a sister. Klaus: A sister? Frank: Well, half sister. But still our sister. Her name is Michelle, she's 22, and during the summer, she works here as our IT person. She keeps the computer system in working order. Violet: Where is she now? Ernest: She's in hipster college. Frank: She's in her last semester of undergrad at Oberlin College, for a Bachelor's in String Performance, with a minor in dance. Very talented on classical guitar, too. And ballet. Ernest: *cough* Overachiever *cough* Frank: Shut up, Ernest. He can't stand her boyfriend Hugo. Sunny: Hugo?!
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Post by Seymour Glass on Jan 17, 2017 4:09:09 GMT -5
Doesn't Ernest also hate Frank's wife?
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jan 17, 2017 11:55:08 GMT -5
Doesn't Ernest also hate Frank's wife? He used to, but since Harper was born, he's less of an asshole, because he wants to set a good example. His number one annoyance is when parents bring their children (not teenagers) to R-rated movies.
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Post by Seymour Glass on Jan 19, 2017 18:47:44 GMT -5
*The Baudelaires ring the doorbell and Nero opens the door* Violet, Klaus, and Sunny: Trick or treat! Nero: Give me your candy! Violet: We're the trick-or-treaters. You're supposed to give us candy. Nero: We're the trick-or-treaters. You're supposed to give us candy. I do not have time to give you orphans candy. I'm too busy practicing the violin! Klaus: If you're not going to hand out candy, then you shouldn't have left your porch light on. Nero: It's my house! I decide whether or not my porch light stays on.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jan 20, 2017 14:40:37 GMT -5
Michelle: I was going to go to grad school straight out of undergrad, but I'm glad I delayed it for 6 years. I did a ton during those 6 years and I don't regret it. And no, it doesn't mean I was less focused in grad school. I had a 4.0 GPA, which I know, is not that impressive, considering a minimum passing grade is a B, but my life experiences helped me in grad school.
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Post by Michelle Denouement on Jan 21, 2017 22:39:23 GMT -5
Caroline: We did some traveling over summer break. We just got back from spending 3 weeks in Tonga, Fiji, and the Cook Islands. Just filling my passport with interesting stamps. ******* Caroline: I haven't lived in America since 2010. And at this point, I don't want to move back, with Trump being president and all. If Bernie Sanders was on the ballot, he would have won by a landslide. I would have been willing to move back to America with my Kiwi husband and our daughter. ******* Caroline: If you're on public transit, don't potato ing talk on your phone. Especially if it's on speakerphone. I lived in Japan for 4 years and people put their phones on manner mode while on the bus and train. When I went America in 2015, I was in Lansing, visiting my parents. People were using speakerphone at potato ing Meijer.
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