Joey Wheeler, 1st Hour Psychology: The Relationship Between Ignorance and Dislike
Personal Journal: Day 1
First of all, Mr. Johnston—I know you're a big, fancy psychologist guy with a million years teaching and all that, but I still think you're off your rocker this time. Tricking us into writing who we'd least like to be paired with, and then forcing us together is one thing, but making it into a huge, long project that's pretty much our whole grade for the semester is a bit much.
Anyway, I'll have you know that I do know Seto Kaiba, and I dislike him anyway. So no matter what you want to prove about us getting to know each other and suddenly becoming best buddies—it's not gonna happen.
Okay, now to really get into the first part of this monster assignment. I've never kept a journal in my life (because real guys don't write in frigging diaries), so I'll probably suck at this, but here goes nothing.
I tried talking with Moneybags after you paired us up. Didn't turn out well. You know that stupid part of this assignment, where we've got to spend three hours together every week for the whole month we're working on it?
Well, Kaiba's already got every single second we're spending with each other scheduled. I tried telling him that he was being an over-controlling tight-ass, but apparently he has 'important meetings' and 'business trips' and 'a productive job' and a bunch of other crap like that, and can't make exceptions for a stupid high school assignment.
In other words, he's such a jackass that people need to schedule ahead to hang out with him. Not sure if I should be pissed off or pity the poor bastard, but right now I'm definitely leaning towards being pissed. I mean, really? He's making me shove aside my obligations because he thinks his are more important, and then he made me look like an idiot when I tried to argue, just because 'running my company' sounds more important than 'changing oil' or 'fixing cars' or any of the other stuff I do at my job.
He also had it worked out how much money it would cost him if he'd try reworking his schedule, and said that if I tried complaining, he'd make me reimburse him. While I'm pretty sure his numbers were pulled out of his ass, I got his point.
So it's Kaiba scheduling our hang-out time, and me tailoring my work hours around it.
Because he's an ass.
Anyway, that's about it for the journal entry. We didn't have time to start on that list of 'Get to Know Each Other' questions you gave us, so I don't have anything to say about those. Haven't hung out with him yet either, thank god.
That's all for Day 1, professor. Can't frigging wait for tomorrow.
Seto Kaiba, 1st Hour Psychology: The Relationship Between Ignorance and Dislike
Personal Journal: Day 1
Discussed schedule with partner. Wheeler exhibited typically uncivilized behavior and attempted to argue with my infallible planning. I listed big numbers and made them sound important. He accepted my logic. My schedule has been implemented.
I am due to spend exactly one hour with Wheeler tomorrow afternoon. Will have more to document then.
End of Day 1.
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A/N-
Hello, all. I haven't written anything for over a year, because... well, you know how life is. This is my first foray into Yugioh as well, so I'm a bit nervous. The story is in a slightly odd format, so I'm not sure how well it'll go over. I guess I'll decide whether it's successful enough to continue after the first few chapters.
The story itself is planned to largely be a character study and will look almost exclusively like a school report at first, but once Seto and Joey get more involved in the assignment, the chapters will be a lot longer and will read more like a story. They'll also, I imagine, get more entertaining. I'll try to keep the voices as close to accurate as I can, but some things won't carry over because of the nature of the story (i.e. Joey likely wouldn't write a paper with his distinct dialect). Finally, I have no idea how schooling in Japan works and know very little about daily life in Japan, so I'm assuming I'll write things that mark this story as taking place in America. I won't specifically say that this takes place in America like the dub, but I imagine it'll be more accurate if you assume that's the case.
That's everything, I think. I've got a handful of chapters of this written so update times should be fairly consistent. Feedback would be much appreciate. (:
