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Spring Into Sherlock over at sherlockmas is going well! *knock wood* The submissions are rolling in, and I've managed to design things in a way that I don't have to threaten to break any kneecaps if people don't come through with their commitments! (Though I may have threatened the lives of a few anonymous kittens. Hey, whatever works!)

Here's a conversation I had with two students tonight: (Isabelle is 10, Max is 13.)

Max (apropos of nothing): How do you think the world is going to end?
Me (unfazed): I think in a few hundred million years, the sun will expand, and...
Isabelle: You don't think the world will end in 2012?
Me: No...
Max: You don't think the world will end in a zombie apocalypse?
Me: I don't know...what if it did?
Max: I would hide out here! (Meaning the math center.)
Me (scoffing): Are you kidding me? Look at those big glass windows up front! The zombies would get right through that...
Isabelle: I'd hide in the prize case!
Max: I was going to say that!
Me: How would you even fit in there? Besides, it's made of clear glass...you guys really gotta work on your zombie survival plan!
Max: Well, then I'd hide in the trunk of your car!
Me: I don't know...I don't have a very big car.
Max: We'd drive over to Kroger (a grocery store), and eat a bunch of food!
Me: That could be a plan...I could die in a Kroger.

Sometimes, being a good tutor means teaching the kids about life, and not just about math. :P

Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have this mental image of the Whole Foods set sitting in a circle arguing the most ethical way to kill a zombie. I think if I was going to hole up in a Whole Foods, I'd have to take the one in the South Loop here, since it's 1) close to the river, so there's easier transport and 2) there's a fitness center in the same building, so when we have the inevitable zombie ethics debate, I can have everyone haul the treadmills up the escalators and we'll give that theory a go. And then we'll all die, but at least we'll have a good story to tell. There's something kind of satisfying about weathering the zombie hordes in a Whole Foods. That or the Apple Store... if you're going to fail, you might as well go out flaunting the frilliest frills of civilization.

(... I kind of really want to write post-zombie-apocalypse micro-colony fiction now.)

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

I support this writing goal and will offer suggestions too if you want the freak show variety type of ideas, of a sane individual with a completely irrational fear of zombies and thinks of escape plans often.