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[shesepankh]

Saturday morning sees Bella with her notebooks about magic all in her knapsack, her medallion safety-pinned by its chain to her bra just in case she trips the wrong way, waiting with Charlie for pickup for the Avalon trip.

Comments

[shesepankh]

"Percentages and careful arrangements of runes and cancelling things out. It's very mathy. Maybe I'll minor in math on top of majoring in Spanish and - or maybe the Spanish will be the minor, it'll depend."

[castmyown]

More snickering. "We have lots of things to study. It's a really good thing I'm good at math."

[morethanimaginary]

"Nerd," says Savannah affectionately.

[shesepankh]

"I'm not bad at math, but of school subjects it's my worst. Maybe it'll pick up now I see a use for it beyond things like statistics and arithmetic."

[castmyown]

"It's useful for some other things, too, but - yeah, way more useful for inscriptions than normal day to day life."

[shesepankh]

"If it were very useful, they wouldn't have to come up with such contrived word problems. I suppose maybe people who are good at coming up with homework exercises have better uses for their talents, though."

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "Basically, yeah."

[shesepankh]

"I wonder if in a hundred years magic will be a dreary elective in high school and people will complain about it?"

[castmyown]

"If they do then they're lame."

[morethanimaginary]

"Or sane. One of the two."

[shesepankh]

"But magic is so potentially practical, Savannah! What do you want to do when you grow up?"

[morethanimaginary]

"I have no idea. I'll figure it out when I get there," she shrugs.

[shesepankh]

"Do you plan on going to college?"

[morethanimaginary]

"Maybe!"

[shesepankh]

"It's going to be time to have a not-maybe answer, soon."

[morethanimaginary]

"And I will figure it out then," says Savannah brightly.

[shesepankh]

"Luck to you. Angela, plans?"

"I'm not sure. Maybe teaching or - I don't really know."

[morethanimaginary]

"I recommend avoiding math. Teaching it, learning it - whatever. Don't be like the nerds."

[shesepankh]

"I don't mind math so much," says Angela.

"Maybe you can teach some kind of not-magic course at my school when I start a school. I'm planning to be specialized, but maybe not that specialized."

"That'd be at like - university level though, wouldn't it? That might be a little much for me."

"Maybe, I'm not sure. It could wind up being the sort of school kids show up to afternoons and weekends, like, I don't know, Hebrew school."

"Oh. I don't know."

"University is more likely though. Well, trade school sort of thing."

[castmyown]

"University level would give you the ability to not have to do as much work to be the same level of selective. It's already common practice to see grades and essays and talk to teachers about it."

[shesepankh]

"Well, yes, but I'm not sure I can call someone's English teacher and be like 'hello, can you tell me if Tom Jones is the sort of person who will carelessly handle or deliberately misuse phenomenal cosmic power?'"

[castmyown]

"Good point, but it's not like you can do that with someone who's 12, either. Since they haven't settled as who they are in the slightest yet."

[shesepankh]

"Yeah. So, university is probably more likely and then I have entrance essay questions like 'what would you do with three wishes'."

[castmyown]

Darren snickers. "I bet lots of people put 'World Peace' on there without any expansion on it. Technically the world's at peace if everyone's dead or brainwashed, with wishes you should be very careful of what you're getting."

[shesepankh]

"So I have a minimum wordcount and specify that the genie is kind of a jerk."