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TA Lounge, Thursday 14th Sept

Now Mac has her TA lounge keys, she's going to make the most of it. Jake told her way back when she first arrived that the coffee there was the best in the school. She's just testing out that theory.

She has her laptop playing music at her, lots of coffee, pens, and a large stack of paper to keep her occupied.

[ooc: ~~OCD a' comin~~. Open for all TA lounge-ing, or Mac poking needs. All is good for I am bored.]

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"Nadia, hey." Mac smiled and folded up yet another bit of useless paper. "You want coffee? Or perhaps your very own paper plane?"

"Coffee sounds good. And a paper airplane might be fun, too." Nadia looked around. "You seem to have a lot of them."

Mac got up from the sofa, and went to pour coffee. "I'm trying to design this game to embed into my webpage," she explained. "I am currently in the design stage. It's going well as you can see."

Nadia looked over the doodled-upon airplanes. "It looks better than my stick figure art,"

Mac grinned, encouraged, "It's a start. Maybe eventually I'll come up with something I really like." She held out the mug of coffee to Nadia, "pick your own airplane if you want one. Some of them fly better than others, thus proving that my paper plane making skills are sadly lacking."

"I've never actually tried making one." Nadia sipped her coffee happily, then picked up an airplane and gave it a test toss.

Nose first, right to the ground, immediately.

Mac bit her lip, "Yeaah, that would be one of the sucky ones. If you keep going you might eventually find one that can cross the entire room." She gestured at the stack of paper beside her on the couch, "or you could attempt your own. You'll probably do better than I can."

"I don't know how. Unless I take apart some of yours first."

"I can try and teach you, but my skilled-ness is a little hit and miss," Mac shrugged. "Mostly with the miss," she added.

"Well, if you don't mind me taking them apart. . . ." Nadia was already starting to unfold part of the airplane.

Ah. She saw. She picked up a sheet of paper and started folding.

"You should probably see if it's one of the ones that actually flies without nosediving first," Mac advised her.

Nadia shrugged and kept folding.

Her system wasn't identical to Mac's. Every now and then she'd look up, hold out her hand in the air, and kind of wave it back and forth thoughtfully for a moment before going back to folding.

Then she tossed it.

It made it about a foot before nosediving. She nodded slowly and then grabbed the plane again and started refolding a bit.

"That's a good start, better than some of my earlier attempts." Mac pulled out her latest design-gone-wrong, and attempted to fold it into a swan. "I never have been very good at the origami thing," she said as she folded, apparently at random.

"I've never really tried it." Nadia finished refolding and threw again, this time adjusting her grip, the strength, and the angle of the toss. It went a good 8 feet before curving to the left and nosediving. "But I had to learn a thing or two about aerodynamics in my training."

"I used to think origami was cool when I was little, but didn't really have the patience to do it well."

Mac watched as the plane fly, and pouted. "Damn, they must have taught you well with all the aerodynamics stuff. You're picking this up fast."

"I've always been good at 3 dimensional, hands on stuff. It's the theory that sometimes trips me up." Nadia picked up the plane again, this time ripping tiny rudders into the backs of the wings to correct the curve.

Suddenly it all seems to make sense, "Ah, yeah see I can deal with the theory, it's the 'remembering which bit to fold when' part that gets me."

Mac pulls out her supposed-to-be swan and eyes it suspiciously. "Does that look like a bird to you?"

Nadia tilted her head as she looked at it. "It does seem to have wings?"

Mac pulled a face and attempted to make the wings flap like they're supposed to. They didn't move. "Yeah I think I did something weird." And with that started to unfold in an attempt to rectify the problem.

"Well, it still looks neat, at least."

"Thanks, but somehow I think you're just humouring me." Mac laughed, and refolded. This time the wings actually moved. "Check it out, I may be master origami-ist yet... I should probably work out what my proper title is before I adopt it though."

Alas, Mac lost Nadia completely when she started talking about titling her paper and adopting it.

"You should name it Bob."

Mac grinned, "I think that's a very sensible plan. Every self respecting origami bird needs a name." She pulled out the nearest pen, which turned out to be purple, and scrawled 'Bob' along the side. "Perfect. Are you going to name your plane?"

"Why would I name a plane?"

"You lovingly folded that plane for a good five minutes," Mac reminded her. "It deserves its own name... or at the very least a model number."

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