Ida preps an exercise on manufactured personality while Ms. AS prompts her juniors to describe the tone of the party in Chapter 2.
MsAS: What do people do when they are uncomfortable at a party?
Class: Drink!
Fin
This class is going to go swimmingly! (And not the kind of swimming that Gatsby does at the end.)
In which Ida discusses driving to Idaho for Thanksgiving and their Dad's 60th birthday.
Ida: So, Dad says it's fine if we drive straight through and get there at 2 or 3 in the morning.
Bro: Uhhhh, you can't leave until late?
Ida: No, we can leave around 11am; I just have to teach first.
Bro: You have to work?
Ida: Yes. But then we can leave. It's a long drive, but there're four drivers.
Bro: When is it? Saturday?
Ida: No. It's on Thursday...Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday.
Bro: Wait, what's always on the 25th? Christmas?
Ida: ... ... ... So, we need to leave on Wednesday.
Bro: Man, that's a long drive.
Ida: It won't be so bad--we'll stop for food and to stretch our legs and it'll be fine.
Bro: Oh, I'm not stopping.
A few hours earlier...
Ida: I'm looking forward to driving the bio-diesel.
Dad: Yeah, don't let him drive the whole way.
FIN