Reports of My Demise

[xp_roulette]

Have been greatly exaggerated.

I'm back, children. Miss me?

Of course you did.

As for where I was, well, remember when I used to say that I had the longest drama-free streak? Not so much anymore. Powers trauma. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject. As for my stunning new physique, when Mr. Summers gives his "Energy manipulators need to eat a lot for a REASON" speech, there really is a reason. It's why I no longer have boobs. The doctors say I will regain all the weight within a few weeks. Which is good, because being 5'7" and weighing 95 pounds? Not fun.

Also? I drop off the face of the planet for two months and suddenly we're crawling with new students. Who are all you people and what are you doing here? For those that don't know, I'm Jennie Stavros. When I put the weight back on, I'm the pretty one.

Comments

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

I'm totally prettier than you are.

Seriously though, welcome back.

Hey, are you on -my- calorie count for the next while? Because I totally have mad sandwhich skills, ask Angel.

As soon as I figure out if it's you or Marius I yell at, there'll probably be a yelling, but I figure it can wait. Yellings don't go bad or anything.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Sandwiches aren't on the menu just yet, Kyle.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Are mashed potatoes? Because I mash potatoes like whoa. I mean, if you need help with mashing.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

As long as it doesn't involve hard boiled eggs. If I have have to eat another hard boiled egg I will scream.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Quit whining and drink the tasty protein shake.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Does it come in another flavor? other than strawberry and ass?

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Not really, that's pretty much the nature of protein shakes. But I'll see what I can do.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

How longer do I have to drink the processed ass protein shakes?

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Considering it's the only way to shovel 5000 calories a day into you without making you sick? Probably a week or so, but you can have more and more solids every day.

I know it sucks. I've been there.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

I graduated to pudding already! I'm so proud of me!

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

What kind of pudding?

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

I am way prettier. Or I was, will be.

I miss my boobs.

And would this be the Angel that now lives in my suite?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

We miss them too and hope they come home soon.

The cute red-haired one with the fire and microwave powers, but not the one who turns into lava and not the one with the wacky hair powers. That's Amara. We got a bunch of fire people and a bunch of red-head people.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

I go away for two months and we have an abundance of new redheads and blondes.

They must be breeding like mad under the woodpile or something.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

In the most technical sense, you don't manipulate energy, you manipulate one or more of the fundamental forces - of which only one is quantifiable as 'energy', but I do digress. The biochemical reactions which supply the motive power for such manipulations DO require fuel.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

I've learned I don't so much manipulate as "fuck with the natural order of things" And I think the whole universe would be better off if I just stop messing with it.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've been on the receiving end of one of Moira's "Stop messing with immutable laws of physics, Forge Jennie!" lectures.

And feel free to help yourself to the protein drink mix in the cupboard. It's in the box marked "instant cod liver oil".

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

You know, ice cream has a lot of calories. Why can't I use that to gain weight instead?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Because you are made of protein, and thus need more protein. Specifically, you are made of meat, so you should eat more meat. It's simple logic.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

So they make me drink powder instead of making eat something like a steak.

Makes perfect sense.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Has to do with malnutrition, long-term dehydration effects, and what your body needs to regenerate before you can digest meat and stuff effectively again. Similar to recovering from major surgery, you need to heal the body before you can start exercising it again.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Bah. As if looking like skeletor wasn't bad enough.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. You'll get better.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever asked you if you were in a Terminator movie by the by? Because the icon you're using? Completely reminding me of the bit where Sarah Conner gets Arnie to rip off his arm for the poor Scientist guy.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Horribly inaccurate movie. Putting a powered endoskeletal system under layers of organic muscle and skin generates enough heat to basically parboil that organic tissue from the inside. Trust me, I know.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

See, it's future tech(tm) though. Wouldn't they have built a better coolent system by then? Say, coolant blood vessels or something?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as "future tech". All the technology that will ever be possible can be invented now, if someone just comes up with the idea.

The trouble with an internal coolant system is that the heat needs to go SOMEWHERE. Laws of thermodynamics, you can't just make energy go away, it has to go somewhere. With the amount of power needed to move an endoskeletal system of that complexity, even if you evenly distribute heat through a system covered by about 90 pounds of skin and muscle (assuming only a thin musculofascial layer), the Terminator's body temperature would have been above 150 degrees, hot enough to start blistering the skin and causing muscle tissue to cramp and sprain.

Either that or he'd have needed to fart boiling steam every ninety seconds or so. Which would have made for a more realistic, but less dramatic movie.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*ponders* We sweat as a way of regulating temperature, right? Why wouldn't something like that work with machine type tech? Although, I suppose machines can generate more heat then the human body can.

Although, the farting boiling steam would have made for a much more interesting movie. If nothing else, he could have used it against some of the baddies. Killed by flatulence!

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

We have new people in the suite. Although, considering I didn't get to talk to you much before you left, I suppose you could consider me new as well. Although, not as new as the newer people.

This all made much more sense at the beginning of this entry...There was sense somewhere in there, I'm sure.