Chapter Five Notes
Ananda: Yeah, I like wandering off... *g* By the way, all the Naomi-Blake arguments? Quite realistic. ;) Ehm, beyond that, yeah, first bit, is daydream. Yeah, the math critters? The hair is, essentially, our dear friend Dan's, the rest, I think was inspired by a chalkboard. The evil math queen is based on an old math teacher (9th grade.. Course II...yeah, *evil*!), the tent based on her classroom. Alliteration is fun (Micky likes alliteration *g*). Zerubbabel is our dear friend Eric "The Great", who, having heard about some of this insanity, expressed a desire to destroy the evil math queen. (He came up with his own name.) Yes, I realise it's a bit violent, and some's kinda lame, but... *shrug* That's all I could think of at the time.
Laurel: Actually, there's a small dispute among three of the four of us as to just how evil this particular math teacher *is*, as Daf and I thought she was just fine. Zinni is more or less disqualified from the argument because she didn't have the teacher...not that Zinni likes to argue anyway, so it's just as well. Hey! Look, I don't know what happened when she got your class, but to my grade? She was EVIL. Period. ;)
Later note: Hrm. Been re-reading...wow, is that violent!!! ..at this point, the story was a lot more fantasy/daydream, it was a place to fix the things we thougt wrong in our "real" world. Like, if you notice, Blake and Naomi are pretty close pretty quickly in the early parts. I later backed off a little, to make it closer to reality..tho then, y'know, real-Blake and Applebus-Blake (like real- and AB-Bryan) kind of split. But I wandered off my original point. Neither I nor Zerubbabel would actually intentionally burn anyone at the stake, evil-demon-math-teacher or not. (It just sounded nice at the time, dealing with our frequent frustrations with stupidfrickinEVILMrs------. Yeah. Basta. ^_^