The Chikamori Selfacy (A Reboot)
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-451kWfI6hzI/X8bPPtEyeVI/AAAAAAAAk54/KB3_SyRJ73IFG8EkSAmOkYAyCBOz1giwgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/ChikamoriSelfacyReboot_banner.png Prologue: June 12, 1970; Sacred Spleen Hospital...
Forum Discussion
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-451kWfI6hzI/X8bPPtEyeVI/AAAAAAAAk54/KB3_SyRJ73IFG8EkSAmOkYAyCBOz1giwgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/ChikamoriSelfacyReboot_banner.png
Chapter Ten - "Satoshi and Molly" (Part One)
So far Satoshi had not had his life completely turned upside down by getting together with Molly, his days went as per usual. Get up, in his underwear, go downstairs, head to the fridge, get something to eat and vegetate for the day until his shift started at one o’clock where he would get dressed and head down to the theatre to do his daily routine of working till nearly nine at night before heading back home and doing it all over the next night. It wasn’t a bad routine of sorts. It had some regularity to it and Satoshi was perfectly happy. And to top it all off, Molly was the icing on the cake of sorts. It was peaceful to say the least.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uisbEg6oDsk/YE5GuA20H4I/AAAAAAAAnzs/JGnchM8KnmwRkHpePD5cV6cH0_PJkux9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-17.jpg
That peace and quiet came to an abrupt, screeching halt when she, after a few too many passionate interludes between the two of them, had to make a dash for the washroom. No...it wasn’t mold growing on the birthday cake – the fridge was kept too cold for that to happen. Let’s just say that the Watcher thinks that it would be a rather cold shower for the two’s ardour. It could be classified as a viral infection that caused her illness, a stomach flu of sorts. One that takes eighteen years to get rid of at the earliest – at least in Canada. South of the border, it took until twenty-one before you could kick it out of the house.
Molly and Satoshi’s collective reaction to this news was “oh...flark!”
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZwsSrsIiig/YE5G-MVczTI/AAAAAAAAnz0/UympV93D1zM8LIRCf1xblsNwmokkJ-mZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-3.jpg
The rest of the family were too busy with the rest of their lives to worry about the fact that there was going to be a screaming, squalling and stinking addition to the house and very likely a big disruption to their peaceful existence. There would be l’essence de parfume de extrémité arrière or L’eau D’Excrement if one wanted to be fancy. In other words the house would reek with diapers.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KRwKks3Y0Po/YE5HL1amrDI/AAAAAAAAnz4/WEYdG3iyI4kXaoShJOaYLu0hztIzje1iwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-109.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwdbv1-Wi1Q/YE5HL471TlI/AAAAAAAAnz8/2f1FPVzxLn0juPE-ILHWJTEdnqd9UCOOwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-110.jpg
All of that prompted the four youngsters, the young adults, that is; to hastily do their best to get the hell out of the house and go do other things, like get themselves prepared to take their scholastic aptitude tests in preparation for university.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--TvwXWSf9dY/YE5Hc_z2CEI/AAAAAAAAn0M/O7VCUZyqhxssOHgkUcWp151o6YMSG34RACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-77.jpg
Hail to the Thunderbirds! Hail UBC!
Thunder and lightning — Onward to victory!
Hail to the Blue and Gold, Hail UBC.
UBC Forever, Onwards to Victory.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_PYCfCewqiI/YE5HpbLUfjI/AAAAAAAAn0Q/QKlm3jJd7yMBg3boVBf48oh3OpDQ6Ao6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-239.jpg
The Thunderbird, a long standing tradition at the school and the revered mascot was under fire by those who thought that utilizing the native symbol of the Thunderbird was disrespectful to the Native population of BC and thus were seeking to substitute it with the noble Llama. The four were directly in the camp that they should be able to use the Thunderbirds and be referred to as Thunderbirds despite the support for the Llama mascot by those who were inured with political correctness. Somehow the llama didn’t have as much ruthless aggression to it as using the Thunderbird. When one pictured a llama, one pictured a South American ruminant chewing its cud and looking rather blearily at the camera. And Haruo couldn’t imagine playing hockey with the UBC Llamas – that mascot would look just horrifically comical on ice.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--OURbCCPFBM/YE5H1uL6JKI/AAAAAAAAn0Y/KH_YFd_lmvstQ8eyRd6gIFfdO3EP6PeAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-241.jpg
Meanwhile, Satoshi was trying to figure out what happened. Even while being questioned by Haruo on how the SATs would benefit him in the future as he was going to be an angler, he was still trying to figure out what could possibly be done about the situation with Molly’s gravid state. This was going to take all of his brain-power to figure out and Satoshi felt that he’d really put himself and Molly in a situation. He had always been told that one should marry the mother of his child and in that respect that would be the proper thing to do. On top of that, he also had to now raise the child of someone who hadn’t had the proper fortitude to own up to their mistakes and raise their own child. So was he prepared to take on Sandi as his child? That was the main question that he had to ask himself. But considering the fact that he was able to divide his attention between the fact that he had his own set of problems and give Haruo cogent advice on his own problems, it was pretty well certain that Satoshi had the makings of a decent father.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J8IUAc83IXU/YE5IEISmuyI/AAAAAAAAn0g/-h31kNtBJhwHYcPiUSSS_w9V3cOxRouCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-13.jpg
For Haruo, River, Bebe and Torao, the Scholastic Aptitude Test was quite a brain-yanker. Some of the questions took a straw, jammed it up their nostrils right into their cranial cavity and gave their lipton-noodle-soup a good stir. Stuff like: The number of radians of arc in a circle is 2π (pi)... so was that cherry or lemon or since there was 2...could you have both?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--XpXpRyN4Qk/YE5QNdxRvYI/AAAAAAAAn0s/HkT_kzmFJNUeSKVKvxA6rtJJGy7_8m1pACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-86.jpg
“Oh, Torao, how many electrons in a moron?” Haruo asked jabbing Torao in the ribs.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cFvVZ6AoDI/YE5QkgL-AHI/AAAAAAAAn00/AaRmMk_XaZE94hBZJdRMJM-0-LnquL0eACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-149.jpg
“1.5 x 10^28 electrons in a human being; the last time I checked you were missing two which is about the right total for a moron.” Torao shot back. Ah...the love of relatives.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2kwUc0Hq8pI/YE5Q10gFeyI/AAAAAAAAn08/3O1lz0MxzcIwMMfYnbJz8-UZc2o0Ldz8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-85.jpg
Bebe and River ignored the two of them jawing at each other. It had always been like this. Brotherly pranks between two cousins who were as close as brothers having grown up with each other. They were all a family. Haruo and River having been together since birth and Bebe and Torao growing closer together as a couple.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9gNo7XbEk8o/YE5Vim4f-jI/AAAAAAAAn1E/WbtQco6MTCIzAZ2M6-aQ1dr0GMwhhVu2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-96.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n-VNG7lPAnU/YE5VivMGvtI/AAAAAAAAn1I/1MurlbHALrIxRAS2iWg7qlfIBrw6IkjsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-112.jpg
“The chemical formula of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is now well established. The molecule is a very long chain, the backbone of which consists of a regular alternation of sugar and phosphate groups. To each sugar is attached a nitrogenous base, which can be of four different types. Two of the possible bases—adenine and guanine—are purines, and the other two—thymine and cytosine—are pyrimidines. So far as is known, the sequence of bases along the chain is irregular. The monomer unit, consisting of phosphate, sugar and base, is known as a nucleotide...” River was starting to think that her brain was starting to short out...by the fifth paragraph.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uyS3_erri3Y/YE5WotCPSII/AAAAAAAAn1U/AAYkScM0A7seTu2c3VHi-2W9XsQ1YSokgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-105.jpg
“The authors use the word “backbone” in lines 3 and 39 to indicate that:
A) only very long chains of DNA can be taken from an organism with a spinal column.
B) the main structure of a chain in a DNA molecule is composed of repeating units.
C) a chain in a DNA molecule consists entirely of phosphate groups or of sugars.
D) nitrogenous bases form the main structural unit of DNA.”
AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMj30ik_tLg/YE5XSRPDeTI/AAAAAAAAn1c/lIYP6AISlnI9FR4fT6dwn3lk_BaG6MJZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-94.jpg
“Exactly how the hell is this supposed to benefit me in the arts?” River muttered caustically to herself as she grasped pencil to fill in the multiple choice question answer selection sheet making doubly sure that she was filling in the right line so that the automated checker wouldn’t attribute her selection to the wrong question.
(End Part One)
Chapter Ten - "Satoshi and Molly" (Part One)
So far Satoshi had not had his life completely turned upside down by getting together with Molly, his days went as per usual. Get up, in his underwear, go downstairs, head to the fridge, get something to eat and vegetate for the day until his shift started at one o’clock where he would get dressed and head down to the theatre to do his daily routine of working till nearly nine at night before heading back home and doing it all over the next night. It wasn’t a bad routine of sorts. It had some regularity to it and Satoshi was perfectly happy. And to top it all off, Molly was the icing on the cake of sorts. It was peaceful to say the least.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uisbEg6oDsk/YE5GuA20H4I/AAAAAAAAnzs/JGnchM8KnmwRkHpePD5cV6cH0_PJkux9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-17.jpg
That peace and quiet came to an abrupt, screeching halt when she, after a few too many passionate interludes between the two of them, had to make a dash for the washroom. No...it wasn’t mold growing on the birthday cake – the fridge was kept too cold for that to happen. Let’s just say that the Watcher thinks that it would be a rather cold shower for the two’s ardour. It could be classified as a viral infection that caused her illness, a stomach flu of sorts. One that takes eighteen years to get rid of at the earliest – at least in Canada. South of the border, it took until twenty-one before you could kick it out of the house.
Molly and Satoshi’s collective reaction to this news was “oh...flark!”
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZwsSrsIiig/YE5G-MVczTI/AAAAAAAAnz0/UympV93D1zM8LIRCf1xblsNwmokkJ-mZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-3.jpg
The rest of the family were too busy with the rest of their lives to worry about the fact that there was going to be a screaming, squalling and stinking addition to the house and very likely a big disruption to their peaceful existence. There would be l’essence de parfume de extrémité arrière or L’eau D’Excrement if one wanted to be fancy. In other words the house would reek with diapers.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KRwKks3Y0Po/YE5HL1amrDI/AAAAAAAAnz4/WEYdG3iyI4kXaoShJOaYLu0hztIzje1iwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-109.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwdbv1-Wi1Q/YE5HL471TlI/AAAAAAAAnz8/2f1FPVzxLn0juPE-ILHWJTEdnqd9UCOOwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-110.jpg
All of that prompted the four youngsters, the young adults, that is; to hastily do their best to get the hell out of the house and go do other things, like get themselves prepared to take their scholastic aptitude tests in preparation for university.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--TvwXWSf9dY/YE5Hc_z2CEI/AAAAAAAAn0M/O7VCUZyqhxssOHgkUcWp151o6YMSG34RACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-77.jpg
Hail to the Thunderbirds! Hail UBC!
Thunder and lightning — Onward to victory!
Hail to the Blue and Gold, Hail UBC.
UBC Forever, Onwards to Victory.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_PYCfCewqiI/YE5HpbLUfjI/AAAAAAAAn0Q/QKlm3jJd7yMBg3boVBf48oh3OpDQ6Ao6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-239.jpg
The Thunderbird, a long standing tradition at the school and the revered mascot was under fire by those who thought that utilizing the native symbol of the Thunderbird was disrespectful to the Native population of BC and thus were seeking to substitute it with the noble Llama. The four were directly in the camp that they should be able to use the Thunderbirds and be referred to as Thunderbirds despite the support for the Llama mascot by those who were inured with political correctness. Somehow the llama didn’t have as much ruthless aggression to it as using the Thunderbird. When one pictured a llama, one pictured a South American ruminant chewing its cud and looking rather blearily at the camera. And Haruo couldn’t imagine playing hockey with the UBC Llamas – that mascot would look just horrifically comical on ice.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--OURbCCPFBM/YE5H1uL6JKI/AAAAAAAAn0Y/KH_YFd_lmvstQ8eyRd6gIFfdO3EP6PeAgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-241.jpg
Meanwhile, Satoshi was trying to figure out what happened. Even while being questioned by Haruo on how the SATs would benefit him in the future as he was going to be an angler, he was still trying to figure out what could possibly be done about the situation with Molly’s gravid state. This was going to take all of his brain-power to figure out and Satoshi felt that he’d really put himself and Molly in a situation. He had always been told that one should marry the mother of his child and in that respect that would be the proper thing to do. On top of that, he also had to now raise the child of someone who hadn’t had the proper fortitude to own up to their mistakes and raise their own child. So was he prepared to take on Sandi as his child? That was the main question that he had to ask himself. But considering the fact that he was able to divide his attention between the fact that he had his own set of problems and give Haruo cogent advice on his own problems, it was pretty well certain that Satoshi had the makings of a decent father.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J8IUAc83IXU/YE5IEISmuyI/AAAAAAAAn0g/-h31kNtBJhwHYcPiUSSS_w9V3cOxRouCwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-13.jpg
For Haruo, River, Bebe and Torao, the Scholastic Aptitude Test was quite a brain-yanker. Some of the questions took a straw, jammed it up their nostrils right into their cranial cavity and gave their lipton-noodle-soup a good stir. Stuff like: The number of radians of arc in a circle is 2π (pi)... so was that cherry or lemon or since there was 2...could you have both?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--XpXpRyN4Qk/YE5QNdxRvYI/AAAAAAAAn0s/HkT_kzmFJNUeSKVKvxA6rtJJGy7_8m1pACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-86.jpg
“Oh, Torao, how many electrons in a moron?” Haruo asked jabbing Torao in the ribs.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8cFvVZ6AoDI/YE5QkgL-AHI/AAAAAAAAn00/AaRmMk_XaZE94hBZJdRMJM-0-LnquL0eACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-149.jpg
“1.5 x 10^28 electrons in a human being; the last time I checked you were missing two which is about the right total for a moron.” Torao shot back. Ah...the love of relatives.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2kwUc0Hq8pI/YE5Q10gFeyI/AAAAAAAAn08/3O1lz0MxzcIwMMfYnbJz8-UZc2o0Ldz8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-85.jpg
Bebe and River ignored the two of them jawing at each other. It had always been like this. Brotherly pranks between two cousins who were as close as brothers having grown up with each other. They were all a family. Haruo and River having been together since birth and Bebe and Torao growing closer together as a couple.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9gNo7XbEk8o/YE5Vim4f-jI/AAAAAAAAn1E/WbtQco6MTCIzAZ2M6-aQ1dr0GMwhhVu2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-96.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n-VNG7lPAnU/YE5VivMGvtI/AAAAAAAAn1I/1MurlbHALrIxRAS2iWg7qlfIBrw6IkjsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-112.jpg
“The chemical formula of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is now well established. The molecule is a very long chain, the backbone of which consists of a regular alternation of sugar and phosphate groups. To each sugar is attached a nitrogenous base, which can be of four different types. Two of the possible bases—adenine and guanine—are purines, and the other two—thymine and cytosine—are pyrimidines. So far as is known, the sequence of bases along the chain is irregular. The monomer unit, consisting of phosphate, sugar and base, is known as a nucleotide...” River was starting to think that her brain was starting to short out...by the fifth paragraph.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uyS3_erri3Y/YE5WotCPSII/AAAAAAAAn1U/AAYkScM0A7seTu2c3VHi-2W9XsQ1YSokgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-105.jpg
“The authors use the word “backbone” in lines 3 and 39 to indicate that:
A) only very long chains of DNA can be taken from an organism with a spinal column.
B) the main structure of a chain in a DNA molecule is composed of repeating units.
C) a chain in a DNA molecule consists entirely of phosphate groups or of sugars.
D) nitrogenous bases form the main structural unit of DNA.”
AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PMj30ik_tLg/YE5XSRPDeTI/AAAAAAAAn1c/lIYP6AISlnI9FR4fT6dwn3lk_BaG6MJZwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Screenshot-94.jpg
“Exactly how the hell is this supposed to benefit me in the arts?” River muttered caustically to herself as she grasped pencil to fill in the multiple choice question answer selection sheet making doubly sure that she was filling in the right line so that the automated checker wouldn’t attribute her selection to the wrong question.
(End Part One)
