Teyla pulled the borrowed laptop closer as she lay on a bed in the infirmary. On the team's recent mission she had broken her leg in a couple places and was to remain in the infirmary until Dr. Keller thought it was healed enough for her to move around on crutches. Smiling at the game programs McKay had obviously forgotten he had loaded onto the laptop before borrowing it to her, Teyla opened the Stargate Program Intranet and logged in.

Ironically, Teyla had first thought that the idea of this 'intranet' would have been rather boring when McKay and Zelenka had described it to her as they worked via video with Colonel Carter. But now that it had been put to use for over a year now, she thought it quite entertaining. Not to mention it made many things easier around Atlantis. It took over a lot of paperwork that pertained to the team missions, making it easier to fill out for the Pegasus natives like her, and it made it easier for her to plan things out with friends throughout the city when she was too busy to talk with them in person.

Opening the 'inbox' for the 'email' that McKay had created for her, Teyla skimmed over the different subjects of the emails she had not read yet. Several of them had to do with past off-world missions. She paused, though, when she came to an email she had received from Dr. Zelenka. Smiling, Teyla clicked that one open first.


From: CzechItOut

To: AthosianGirl

Subject: Some more entertaining Earth culture

Greetings, Teyla.

I do hope your stay in the infirmary is not as dull as the others have been leading me to believe. Major Lorne forwarded this to me and I figured that it would be a rather entertaining way for you to learn more about Earth culture. If you wish to send it on to someone else, just copy and paste the questions into a new email, delete my answers, and type in your own. If any of the questions seem rather odd to you, blame it on our rather weird sense of humor. Do not feel left out if you do as we tend to find our sense of humor strange, ourselves.

-Zelenka

Quiz Yourself, Get To Know Your Friends

1. What is your name?

Dr. Radek Zelenka, Ph. D.

2. What's your job?

Second-in-Command of the Atlantis Science Department

3. What would you rather be doing right now?

Working on the department's big project we have going right now. It's very important.

4. What should you be doing right now?

Sleeping. Rodney kicked me out of the labs when he came in this morning. I mean, I did get some sleep, but I think Rodney meant more than three hours when he told me to get some.

5. What's your favorite TV show?

Star Trek, the Original Series

6. Movie?

Dune

7. Person?

Sir Issac Newton

8. Do you have a crush on anybody?

No

9. What is your fondest memory?

When the Intergalactic Bridge worked for the first time.

10. What is your worst?

Project Arcturus

11. Banana

Apple

12. Do you want to retire?

I haven't really thought of it.

13. Who are you sending this to?

Teyla Emmagen, Leader of the Athosians and member of AR-1

14. Why?

I figured you would want to learn a bit more about Earth culture instead of teaching us about the different cultures of Pegasus, for a change.

15. Who's your best friend?

Best friend? I cannot say I really have a friend that fits the definition of 'best friend'. My closest friend, though, would have to be Dr. McKay. (But I would never tell him that.)

16. Gotta secret you haven't told anybody?

A few.

17. Sci-Fi or Fantasy?

Even though my life is full of it, I would have to choose Sci Fi.

18. Do you play an instrument?

No

19. What is your most embarrassing moment?

I would rather not say...

20. Anything you want to add?

If you find anything about this confusing, Teyla, just ask. I'll be glad to come and explain it to you.


Teyla had to admit that Zelenka was right. She found emails like this very interesting. She had discovered that the people of Earth were more willing to share details about themselves if they were not face to face with the person they were telling them to. Waving at the nurse who was passing by on her rounds to check on the patients, Teyla meticulously went through the actions McKay had taught her to 'copy' and 'paste' text in documents. Happy she managed to do it without making a mistake, she did as Zelenka said and deleted his answers in the new email.