The Perk [Friday morning]

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It was now looking as though the whole teaching thing was going to happen, and as in all things in her life, Irene was attacking the idea with a sort of single-minded bent towards organization and thoroughness. Feeling quite recovered after the events of the weekend, she'd trekked out to the Perk this morning with her laptop in tow, and had cozied up in a corner to try to put her half-formed ideas towards a syllabus.

She kept getting distracted by the need to add things in, though -- every time she wondered whether something might be inappropriate, she realized that was probably all the more reason to include it, really. But that didn't mean everyone agreed, and it was only when she heard some discreet coughing over her shoulder that she realized that she was possibly looking up the not-most-public-safe things in a highly public place.

And clearly the answer to that was to angle her computer so that no one else could see her screen. It wasn't her fault that other people had hangups, really.

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"Ooh, like what?" Kitty said, taking a seat because now she was all interested.

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"Like that you won't go blind if you touch it, and there's more to sex than just trying to make a baby, and that if you don't even like the sort of person that you could make a baby with, that's okay, too." Irene smiled. "That's a little bit of personal bias, honestly. It's horrifically confusing to be gay in traditionally-taught sex ed."

And there was another one who knew, now. She'd end up telling half the island at this rate, but honestly, she almost didn't really care.

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Kitty didn't even react to that because she'd been written by Chris Claremont. "That's really cool. Kids need to hear that stuff. And it might be especially helpful somewhere where you get all confused a couple years when everyone up and changes genders."

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"Exactly. Gender's just a social construct, and all that," Irene said with a little smile. "Figured I might touch on dating and self-confidence, too, just because -- well. It hasn't been so long that I don't remember how awkward it all was. And I bet it's especially bad somewhere like here, where you don't just have to worry about asking the cute girl out but also whether your date might be canceled because of lamprey rain."

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"Add in that some of these kids are from way different backgrounds than the norm here..." Kitty said. "I would totally take this class if I was a student."

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"That's promising," Irene said with a bright smile. "Are you teaching again, as well?"

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"Yep. Technology," Kitty nodded. "I read radio on a day when no one in a common room knew you could watch things on an iPad and I decided some people could use a crash course in catching up to 2014."

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"That might be the most tragic thing I've ever heard," Irene said woefully. "I know someone who just got his first mobile, and I taught him all about Siri and such a few weeks ago, but -- to not even know you could watch things on an iPad. It's what they're designed to do."

She shook her head, adding, "It'll be nice to have at least one friendly face on the faculty, anyway. We both know Derek doesn't count."

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"Derek could never be called friendly," Kitty agreed.