LOG: Sunny Sky Lunches

[the_informant]

Who: Florida (Native), OPEN
What: Florida has a little picnic for him and his friends
Where: Reid Gulch Park
When: Saturday, 3/12
Warnings:

The days when he doesn't have work or information to collect are so rare. Florida would have thought that taking less kill jobs would mean more time for himself, but between watching out for Tex's family, trying to be there for his girl, and everything going on with the team lately, getting out and about has been hard. So today, on his afternoon off, he decides there is only one right thing to do: enjoy the time.

He packs up a large picnic lunch, sends out messages to his teammates, Sigma, and dear little Wash from another world, and heads out to the park. With him he takes all sorts of foods, games like ring toss, a few toys for Rex, and a book for himself in case no one decides to show up. And once he arrives at the park he finds a nice sunny spot to lay out his gear, updating the messages with a gps marker in case people decide to join him.

That done he takes out Rex's frisbee and gives it a toss to watch the now full grown dog frolick off for his toy.

Today is going to be a good day, with or without company.

Comments

[ambitious_muse]

Sigma blushes. "That's--" It's incredibly flattering. Possibly not what he wants, but still. "Thank you. Someday, maybe. But... there's school to worry about."

[the_informant]

"I'd forbid it before you were done with school," Florida informs him simply. "It just wouldn't do."

[ambitious_muse]

Well, he may just take several years to figure out how to say no.

"I'm not dropping out," he says. "Or stopping. No matter what my brothers seem to think."

[the_informant]

Not that he'd need to say it.

"Good. People regret leaving school sometimes," Florida smiles. "I wish I ever went."

[ambitious_muse]

"I mean, you could still go back," Sigma points out. "If you wanted. You probably know more in your subject areas than some professors, though, and you'd hate the group projects."

Though the thought of siccing Florida on some of his former lab partners makes him grin.

[the_informant]

"I'm too old, to set in my ways, and too bad at taking instruction," Florida counters. "No, I could never go to school. I don't have hte education for it."

[ambitious_muse]

"How ironic is it that we have to teach people how to learn?" He sighs and takes a bite of the fruit salad.

[the_informant]

"Teach a man to fish..." Florida muses.

[ambitious_muse]

"Yes, but teaching someone to fish has immediate and obvious value," he says. "It doesn't take four or more years, or cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars."

[the_informant]

"True, I suppose," Florida shrugs. "I wasn't taught either way, so you have to understand I'm not hte best gauge of any of this."

[ambitious_muse]

"And I'm just grateful my academics have paid for themselves." Where would he be without a scholarship?

Where is he going to be if he can't get a good fellowship for graduate school?

[the_informant]

Oh, he'll get a good fellowship, if Florida creates it himself.

"No doubt you'll handle it well," Florida smiles.

[ambitious_muse]

"I've done my best," he says. "And I'm in a pretty niche field. Hopefully that will take care of me."

[the_informant]

"I bet it will," Florida smiles. "And I think your field will really benefit from your presence."

[ambitious_muse]

"Really? Thanks." He's blushing. He stares at his salad. "I certainly hope so. It's about time someone started caring about the source of these plague clouds."

[the_informant]

"People care and are not alowed to act due to Charon and the other major corps making so much money off of it."

[ambitious_muse]

"Which is why what I'm doing is so important!"

Why doesn't Delta understand that?

[the_informant]

"I get that. Remember, I am in your corner here," florida smiles. He is here for sigma in this. "I dislike Charon."

[ambitious_muse]

"I just wish the rest of my field agreed with it."

And his family. Why are they so afraid about something that's so important?

[the_informant]

"I'm the sort of man who knows a lot about bad people," Florida shrugs. He knows things.

[ambitious_muse]

"It's not as if they don't know about it," he says. "They just don't do anything about it."

[the_informant]

"There is only so much one CAN do," Florida counters.