Breakfast at Milliways

[auxin]

So tonight, when he went to the bar, Auxin got a napkin.

He reads it, and frowns slightly.

"I can, but it's not breakfast."

Another napkin appears.

'It's breakfast somewhere.'

"Oh, I guess it is." Auxin smiles, and steps behind the bar, putting an apron on.


Breakfast at Milliways

Bacon, sausage and egg
Soft boiled egg with soldiers
Toast with butter and jam

Anything with caffiene

What'll it be?


[ooc: Snagging happy hour to recreate a moment of nostalgia.]

Comments

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Coffee," Yamato says, dropping a book of poems on the bar. "Strong, black. I'll be needing about a litre of it, and maybe refills."

[auxin]

"Coming right up." Auxin says. "Any particular type?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Just the strongest you have, if you don't mind," Yamato says, sitting down. "Don't much care what kind it is."

[auxin]

Probably not Klatchan, that would be too far. Auxin makes him the most strong coffee he can find that won't result in Yamato going Knurd.

"Here you go. What's up?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Nothing, just summer break work," Yamato says. "Ancient poetry, at the moment. Not exactly my wheelhouse."

[auxin]

"What do you do with that then?" Auxin asks. "Apart from learn it."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"You're not really meant to memorise it or anything, you're meant to go through and explain how the poet used some language-y thing and what kind of effect they were going for and what it all means. Shit like that."

[auxin]

"For entertainment?" Auxin asks. "Like performing a play?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Nah, for -- study, I guess? To teach you stuff about language and test to see if you know it?" Yamato shrugs. "It's school stuff, a lot of it doesn't seem to have an immediate point."

[auxin]

"Oh okay." Auxin nods. "I didn't go to school and I don't think Herb did any of that stuff."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's pretty boring stuff. Worse, I'm really no good at it."

[auxin]

"Can you take a different class?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's a mandatory class. Modern Japanese, ancient Japanese, history, ethics, writing, math, physics, earth science, chemistry, biology, P.E., health, English, English composition, English reading, and government are all required classes that everyone has to take."

[auxin]

"Wow." Auxin looks impressed. "I think the school Herb went to just taught reading and maths."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Most of it is kind of pointless for the majority of people, but I guess the point is to make sure that whatever kind of field you decide to go into after school, you have at least some education in it."

[auxin]

"Most fields round Ankh-Morpork are full of cabbages." Auxin jokes, with a laugh.

"What do you want to do then?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Me? I don't know. Engineering, I guess? I haven't really thought about it. Whatever I do, it's always going to have to take a back seat to the whole saving-the-world thing, right?"

[auxin]

"I would think engineering would be useful for saving the world." Auxin says. "You could build useful gadgets."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Not really the kind of world I live in," Yamato says, shrugging. "The others have their pet passions - well, mostly, at least - and they'll probably get careers in those."

[auxin]

"Will you need to use vehicles?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"We live in a country with pretty good public transportation, it's, er, fairly pedestrian friendly? So probably not."

[auxin]

"Why do engineering if it won't be useful then? It sounds useful."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Look, there is a very limited number of things I'm good at, I have to play to my strengths somehow."

[auxin]

"Oh, well in that case go for it." Auxin grins. "Does it pay well at least?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It depends what you do with your engineering-y stuff. The stuff I'm mostly interested in is aerospace engineering, and that's - pretty well-paying, I guess?"