E-mail to Kitty

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

To: {ghost of the server room}
From: {hoping to be haunted}
Subject: So, about scheduling

I know you want to spend as much time as you can working on the big problem--you wanna go in sometime next week once your profs know what kinda quality they're getting in you, and see if we can convince them to let me show up for your classes and take notes for you and hand in your homework and stuff? Even if we only get one of them, that's that much more time you can spend monkeying code on the big machines instead of your laptop. What do you think, worth a try?

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[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

To: [that which is solid and stable in my life]
From: [not quite fading away from overwork]
Subject: Clearly, I'm not the only genius in this relationship

Yeah, that would be good. The commute's good for having quiet time to work, but the laptop battery only lasts so long. But hey, who knew I'd ever regret being able to skip all the massive intro courses. So much easier to sneak out of a lecture with 200 students than one with five.

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To: {I hear it's better to burn out anyway}
From: {but don't, okay?}
Subject: Well, if I dupe enough, my IQ could technically be said to multiply, so I could probably almost match you, yeah. ;)

Well, you could probably teach the massive intro courses. :) Let's see if we can make it so you don't have to sneak out--I figure you be brilliant, I be conscientious and legible and maybe repeat the lecture back verbatim, how can we lose?

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

To: [hears alarming things]
From: [isn't planning on it]
Subject: Psh. IQ tests and numbers don't mean diddly. You're brilliant.

This sounds like a plan. And really, and prof who isn't going to take "personal emergency, but I will keep up with the classes and provide my own note taker" as a valid excuse is probably teaching a course I don't really need, anyway. Although I may have to discuss dropping dance for this term with the instructor, cause I'm not going to be able to make it to any extra sessions...

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To: {sensible like that}
From: {relieved}
Subject: Wait, you're saying numbers don't mean diddly? I need to screenshot this.

Drat, no more dropping by early to pick you up for lunch and watching you frolic around in a leotard. Well, we all make sacrifices in times of great need.

Yeah, the way I figure it any non-jackass professor'll understand--it's not like you aren't going to be doing the work, and it's not like you're not going to ace it, so temporary nonpresence in the actual classroom ought to be forgivable.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

To: [Jamie]
From: [Kit]
Subject: The word 'IQ' there modified both tests -and- numbers. IQ Numbers don't mean diddly. :P

Well, when this is all over if it's too late in the term to catch up properly I can probably audit whatever's left of the class. And I'll still be studying with Stevie. Called her earlier and let her know I wouldn't be around for a while, and she's cool with it.

Eaxctly. Although I can see where they might be coming from, I doubt it looks real good to be asking for extensions and having absences this early into my first term. Alas.