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[ it would be nice if, at some point, gabe got a little bit of advance warning before being shoved in front of a group of bored undergrads and told to lecture.

just once.

really, that's all he's asking.

it's not that he minds filling in for savage during his 10am—he doesn't, although he's a little jealous they have a "special topics in quantum physics" course for undergrads at all; thanks, harvard—but he'd appreciate more than ten minutes' notice next time. quantum entanglement is the kind of thing that needs props to make sense, and throwing markers at people just isn't the same. ( and—what's your name? a'ight, cohen is gonna spin in a circle, and you, with the pink hair—alvarez?—you're going to spin next to him. no, together. yes, really. trust me, it'll make sense in a sec. )

but it's not a complete disaster, as usual, and he manages to get them actually discussing and moving and talking amongst themselves on the way out of class, which he counts as a success. he notices a small clump of girls file in five minutes after he starts lecturing and take a seat in the back corner, silently texting amongst themselves and batting their eyelashes down at him. that's actually starting to become a regular thing, but hell. might as well give them some science if they're going to be in here.

still, he can technically only keep them for an hour, and gabe sets them free to wreak havoc on the slushy winter campus at about forty-five after. once they're all out of the way, making more noise than really ought to be possible for a clump of twelve students plus visitors, he picks his way through the maze of desks to where cambridge is perched with this week's novel, leaning backward and bracing himself casually against a nearby chair. ]

You know, you sitting in the back of the class making faces at my analogies isn't exactly helpful. The basketball thing made perfect sense in context.

[ technically they weren't faces so much as "variations on the theme of lineface", but gabe's gotten very, very good at telling a judgmental lineface apart from an exasperated lineface at fifty paces. ]

So, what are we reading this week?