i remember everything, so who are you?

[self_composed]

Bella attends her classes with faultless punctuality, every time. She sits in the second or third row on an aisle in the middle section of seats, in the classes that take place in big auditorium lecture halls like the main section of Bio; she's willing to put herself closer to the professors in smaller classes like OS and of course her flute chair (third; she hasn't been quite ridiculously showoffy enough to climb beyond yet) is assigned. But right now, she is in Bio, learning tidbits about auxin and tropisms that the textbook didn't cover fully. She's running at about one and a half speed, just enough that she can trivially listen to and process the lecture against her memory of the text while also permitting some mind-wandering. She liiiiiikes her cognitive speedup power.

Comments

[self_composed]

"Anything else I should be on the lookout for? Giant Tesla coils, islands full of subtly diverse finches, Leaning Towers of Pisa off of which you might drop objects?"

[regularsized]

"Didn't we just go over how I prefer not to replicate other people's results before finding out new ones of my own? Giant Tesla coils sound like fun on a recreational basis, though. I wouldn't mind one of those."

[self_composed]

"I was just listing minimally portable scientific items," Bella says, shrugging and noting the required notes in her lab notebook. "Not filtering beyond that."

[regularsized]

"In that case, well done."

[self_composed]

"Why, thank you."

Lab lab lab. "Do you have any non-science-related interests?"

[regularsized]

"That depends. How science-related is origami, in your opinion?"

[self_composed]

"Not particularly so!" Bella says. "Fold anything cool lately?"

[regularsized]

"I'm working on a design that I hope will eventually be a duck."

[self_composed]

"Is it currently an egg?" Bella asks innocently.

[regularsized]

...

Bridget cracks up.

[self_composed]

Bella grins, self-satisfied. "I actually know nothing about how origami designs are made."

[regularsized]

"Guesswork and math," says Bridget. "In my case, heavy on the guesswork, light on the math."

[self_composed]

"Would have expected a physicist to go the other way around. Doesn't physics have lots of math in it?"

[regularsized]

"Yes. I just happen to think origami design is more fun if it involves a lot of crumpling up paper and throwing it at the walls."

[self_composed]

Bella giggles helplessly. This affects her handwriting, but she recovers after a minute.

[regularsized]

Bridget grins. "And now we're even."

[self_composed]

Bella grins back at her. "Are we keeping score, now?"

[regularsized]

"Yes. Measured in giggles."

[self_composed]

"All right then."

[regularsized]

"At least until it's been long enough that we forget the score."

[self_composed]

"How long do you think that'll take?"

[regularsized]

"Well, that depends how funny we are, doesn't it?"

[self_composed]

"I've never particularly defined myself as someone with a great sense of humor," Bella says.

She's drawing a lot of attention to things she isn't unusually good at - suspiciously good at. She's not sure if that will help, but it probably won't hurt.

[regularsized]

"I think that depends as much on your audience as it does on you."

[self_composed]

"Probably," Bella agrees. "Although there are some really humorless people in the world."