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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hippocrachus" data-source="post: 2829525" data-attributes="member: 14148">"Pretty interesting stuff, all in all. When I was in Vienna..." the Professor of The Study of Ancient Civilizations 1A was saying to his wholly uninterested students. The class was mainly an elective for most of them; the others were in Professor Silber's Anthropology class and only showed up because he gave out extra credit for it. It didn't help that the semester was ending."Were we going to do a review for the final?" one of the bubble-headed talkative types asked, not trying to hide her dislike for his anecdotes."Oh. I don't think it's really necessary, Jennifer. Just review the mid-term and quizzes," he replied, taking petty pleasure in her sudden apprehensive look. "The essay will be a choice of Macedonian Conquest or the Persian Resistance of Alexander. They're pretty open-ended, so I expect you to focus and elaborate on the key points."It wasn't what an elective was supposed to be like. Professors weren't supposed to expect you to actually pay attention in a course that filled a slot and kept your schedule full-time.The groans were music in the ears of the cynical young Historian.Take a damn gym credit next time; this isn't nap time, even if you have spent most of your time here sleeping, he thought to himself bitterly, the whole time keeping an outwardly unreadable expression."I don't remember you going over that!"That's probably because you were hung over."I'm positive I did, Jennifer. In fact, I can remember the color of my tie I wore the day I gave that lecture." Blue. It was always blue. Some shade or another. It was doubtful that the blonde was observational enough to notice, so Gabriel wasn't surprised when she didn't get the joke.A bell tower sounded three somewhere on campus."Right. We won't be meeting next Wednesday," Gabriel talked over the sounds of scraping chairs and shuffling books. "Next Friday...the 13th - how lucky for you - at 9:00am sharp."He waved to a few of the star students in his Anthropology course as they left smiling.Probably laughing at the whiners..."Remember: Friday the 13th at 9:00!"The door shut as the last straggler left the lecture hall with a soft click.I need a martini.[sblock]More to come when I get home from work <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> [/sblock]</blockquote>

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