The Adventures of Señor Turtlefish, the Incredibly Awesome Guy, Part VII

Writer's Note:  There once was a part VII - XI, but they were lost due to the aging of the internet and certain website being forgotten.  These are complete re-writes.  If you have a copy of the old ones, think of this as a choose-your-own-adventure story.

Continued from Part VI...

As Turtlefish remembered the events of August 25th, he realized that there happened to conveniently be a raft after he became conscious again in the ocean.  "That must have been how that raft got there."  It dawned on him that this power would allow him to surely defeat Señor Turtlefish with ease.

Turtlefish quickly got to work.  He first imagined a large curtain to hide things behind.  But what should he hide behind it?  Of course!  The police, since his plan was to send Dr. Nemesis to jail after all.  All of a sudden 2 policemen, who also happened to be good at being stealthy and quiet appeared behind the curtain.  Turtlefish pulled the curtain back just to make sure it had worked, then continued on with his preparations.
****
The red dot was getting closer and closer to the green dot on Dr. Nemesis's screen.  Why can't programming a GPS be as easy as pushing a button.  But wait!  It is now.  Welcome to 2014.

Just as he was about to get there, Dr. Nemesis remembered something very important.  He didn't have a present for the party! He also didn't even know who was throwing this party.  Or even what kind of party it was.  This is sounding more and more like a trap.  (*insert meme here*)  It's probably a birthday party, since everyone has birthdays and they seem to be the most common kind of party.  But what if it's a costume party?  Better get a costume just in case.  And learn to use quotation marks, since the reader is probably confused as to what's going on now.  Thank goodness someone decided that stream of consciousness is a writing style now.  I don't even know what that means, but I think it's something like this.  Off to buy party supplies!

To be continued...

The Adventures of Señor Turtlefish, the Incredibly Awesome Guy, Part VI

Continued from Part V, after many much months of waiting...

Dr. Nemesis, seeing that this would be a good opportunity to leave work without being noticed, quietly slipped out of the teacher's lounge.  When he thought no one was around, he reached up to his large goggles and flipped a switch.  He could now see a map of Over-here-ville with a red dot at the location of the party.  He also saw a green dot which was where he was.  But Dr. Nemesis, being as not-so-smart as he was, didn't know what the flashing blue dot on the map was for.  All he knew was that he needed to line up the red dot with the green dot to get to the party.

****

Meanwhile, Señor Turtlefish knew Dr. Nemesis would here soon and would be expecting a big party.  He had to set something up.  He sat down to make a list of how he wanted everything to look.  He wanted helium balloons floating to the ceiling, colorful streamers from wall to wall, and five thousand of those weird round tables you can find at LDS meetinghouses around the world, each with its own magnificantly decorated 20-layer cake.  All of a sudden, he looked up, and everything in the building was exactly as he had imagined it.

Suddenly, his thoughts turned back to the August 25th event and the anti-freezing freezing ray...

To be continued...

Welcome to Wisconsin

Not the chemistry building, but a pic from the bus stop.

So much has happened this month!  I'm just trying to collect a few of my first thoughts and impressions of Wisconsin.

Baby Thor loves his new home!

We went to Sam's Club on one of our first days here, which isn't too far away from our apartment.  They sell wine at Sam's Club!  I didn't even know that.  Not that I'll ever buy any, but I guess it just doesn't sell that well in Provo.

Sam developed hand, foot, and mouth disease right after we got here.  We had a rough couple of days, but just rolled with the punches.

One of the first things the Chemistry Department had us do were the qualifying exams.  They aren't used for a whole lot, but they were certainly intimidating still.  They're graded on a pass/fail standard, so they aren't too stressful.  I just wanted to brag a little bit about how I was the first person to finish the inorganic chemistry exam, but I still passed.

Just a few our details from the rest of our adventures so far (you'll have to imagine the rest of the stories, I guess):

I think these seats are original to the building

• I love hearing Baby Thor laugh and giggle.  He really loves being thrown onto our bed.  
• It's wonderful to have LDS friends nearby.  Brian Graham also came from BYU this year, so we've been spending time together during our new grad student training.  It's also great to remember how awesome it is to show up at the local ward and meet a wonderful group of people who are accepting of you the way you are.
• Wisconsin cheese is delicious.  We got some cheese curds and other local cheese in Middleton, which is essentially a suburb of Madison.  I think we'll always have cheese on hand.
• I hate the humidity.  It's like living in a cloud of warm sweat.  Maybe I just don't like the fact that I can't afford, and it doesn't make sense, to buy an air conditioning unit this year.  
• Lastly, Baby Thor falling asleep on his own has been such a blessing.  He definitely understands that being carried into his room means that it's time to go to sleep.
• Some of the classrooms are okay, but others of the lecture halls, and especially the teaching labs, are absolutely outdated and should probably be re-done.  If I was looking at being a professor instead of a grad student, I might think twice about teaching here.
  
  

  

  Lecture hall stuck in the 60's. 

The Adventures of Señor Turtlefish, the Incredibly Awesome Guy, Part V

Continued from Part IV...

****

Over-Here-ville was one of the strangest places on earth.  On the outside it appeared as though it was perfectly normal and average and anything else you could ever want.  But upon closer inspection, you noticed that it had only one school, just like any other small town; but this one was different.  It of course had many teachers and students, as many schools do.  There was a teacher in particular, though.  He simply had this oddness about him.  He had super huge goggles, a long black lab coat, hair that was permanently spiked upward, and crooked yellow teeth.  Being the Chemistry teacher, he didn't seem too out of place.  His name was Dr. Nemesis.  Everyone thought that Nemesis was his strange last name and that the doctor signified that he had a doctorate degree in something.  In reality, Nemesis was a mad scientist name and Dr. really did signify he had a doctorate degree. 

One day during school, Nemesis went to the glorious haven of the teacher's lounge.  Here, teachers could relax and let the care and worries of school float away into nothingness.  Returning to our story, as Dr. Nemesis sat down on one of the comfiest couches in the room, he thought he felt something brush his hand as he reached for the remote.  Dr. Nemesis, now looking down at the little side table, saw Señor Turtlefish's colorfully decorated invitation.  He stopped to open it, when one of other teachers in the room yelled, "PARTY!!!"  Suddenly, a disco ball dropped from the ceiling and they began to dance and scream in the soundproof room.  While this was going on, Dr. Nemesis tried to yell to the other teachers about the party he just learned about, but the music was simply too loud.  He figured that since they weren't invited anyway, it would be okay.

To be continued...