You know...

[xp_cyclops]

I am, though I might regret admitting it, more or less reconciled to the fact that there will be clutter and mess of various types in the public areas of the mansion during, oh, exam time, or other periods of high stress around here. Doesn't make me happy to see it, but it's inevitable.

Given this is summer vacation, though, I'm having trouble justifying, let's say, the disaster area that is the rec room. I just picked something off the top of my head, there - there are other examples. Our admittedly highly trained and oftentimes invisible cleaning staff can do a lot, but there's absolutely no reason that they need to be cleaning up after students who can't be bothered to pick up after themselves, rather than dusting the antiques.

So. Stop leaving trails of destruction, or I enroll you all in a compulsory housekeeping course this term. Sound like a plan?

Comments

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Wasn't me! Haroun makes me pick up my stuff now.

Am whupped.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Sorry, sir. I've gotten my stuff out, but I had nothing to do with the mess by the game systems.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

So long as you've gotten your stuff out, no need for apologies.

Now I just have to hunt down and glare at the people responsible for the mess by the game systems. Fun.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

I'm not ratting out any fellow students or anything, but you might start with the roommate of a certain resident mechanical boy-genius...

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey, hey. That mess is totally NOT Mine, except for the plate and juice and I was USING THOSE.

... Okay, and the sandals, and the shirt, and the hint book.

Maybe the notebook too. Maybe not. I can't remember.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Just clean it up, Kyle. Everyone is much happier when I'm not stomping around contemplating being high-handed and dictatorial to make a point.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

But its not all MY MESS!

I'll get my stuff but not the stuff that's not mine.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

... I don't remember saying anything about cleaning up stuff that wasn't yours. But now I'm pondering it.

Because after all, is it going to kill anyone to pick up unclaimed mess for the greater good? I don't think so.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

That's NOT FAIR! I didn't make that entire mess!

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Ask me if I care, Mr. Gibney.

You can however limit your efforts to the area around the game systems. Just to show you that I'm not a total ogre.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah. I'll go pick up the crap. If I find anything that belogns to anyone not me, its getting dumped in boxes outside their doors.

[x-jubilee.livejournal.com]

I see no mess. That is highly organised, I assure you. I know exactly where everything is. *firm nod*

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

...mess? This concept is odd and foreign to me.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Not true. Have you SEEN your hair when you come into the lab at 6:30?

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I have. It is a neat and orderly braid, thank YOU.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

If that's what you're calling it these days. I thought it was a new mutant power manifestation. Shocking.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

You. Invest in a nice suit.

Then again, I'm not sure they'll be able to put you down for 'open casket' when I'm done.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I happen to own three very nice suits, thank you.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Three? Well then. I do believe you are the girl in this partnership, chickpea.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I think that sounds an awful lot like jealousy talking there, Paigey. I am told I clean up quite well, thank you. And not just by my mother.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Oh, I said nothing against your ability to clean up well.

It's just that I own... a dress? No, wait! Two. Sorry, two dresses. One wearable, though.

(And that's not what I mean by wearable, before anyone thinks it.)

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

You like to live dangerously, don't you?

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Go take a quick look in the rec room. Nice visual example of high-order 'mess'.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

How very... strange. Why would people choose to organize their things in a giant... pile?

How do they find anything? Where is the color coded system?!

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

I've known people who 'color coded' by the quantitiy of greyness from the dust. That was alarming.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

That's... somewhat alarming, yes.