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1. Louise meets a girl named Eleanor in the hallway of her school and is wowed by her skull-motif clothing. She asks about it, and the two instantly bond over their shared love of things gruesome, grisly, and disturbing. They become fast friends, and agree to meet up at lunchtime to compare notes.
2. Gene has a similar experience : he meets Geena, a girl who has been temporarily transferred into his home room. She is like a female version of Gene, and young romance quickly blooms.
3. Tina sees Jimmy Junior sneak out the back door of Jimmy Pesto’s dressed in what she calls “sexy cowboy clothes”, and is intrigued, so she follows him to : a square dancing class!
4. Louise meets Eleanor in the cafeteria for lunch, and they are happy to see her, but then someone points at the two and says “Hey, look, Louise is having lunch with CREEPY ELEANOR!”. Louise panics at the realization that Eleanor is a major social liability, and turns on her, mocking her brutally and causing her to run from the room crying.
5. Trouble in paradise : after spending an afternoon with Geena, Gene’s nerves are frayed and he begins to suspect that he’s made a huge mistake.
6. Tina joins the square dancing class without hesitation, and tries to use it as a way to get close to Jimmy Junior, but is frustrated by square dancing’s circular nature. Jimmy Junior barely even notices her, because he’s too busy trying to get close to a high school girl named Sheila.
7. Bob and Linda are sitting in the kitchen when all three of their kids, in age order, breeze past them to go flop on their beds and mope. Linda looks at Bob and says “Don’t look at me, you’re the one who cooks their food. ”
8. Louise tries to forget all about Eleanor, but when she tries to sleep she dreams that the exact same thing is happening to her, right down to people calling her Creepy Louise and Eleanor turning on her and brutally mocking her bunny ears. She wakes up screaming, and can’t go back to sleep.
9. Gene finally gets completely fed up with Geena, and yells “My god, don’t you ever stop? Do you not have an off button? I hate to break this to you but you are not nearly as cute or funny as you think you are. So do the world a favor and SHUT the HELL UP!”. It’s only at that exact moment that Gene realizes that this could be how other people perceive him.
10. Zeke shows up at square dancing class and mocks Jimmy Junior for doing something so “lame” and “gay” until Jimmy Junior caves in and quits, and tells Tina she should quit too. But she has come to like square dancing because all you have to do is what the dance caller says and it all turns out beautifully. She has even created a square dancing persona named Rosa Lee, and nought her very own sauare dancing outfit. So she is torn.
11. Louise sits with Eleanor at lunch the next day, and says she is really, really sorry and feels terrible about what she did. Eleanor, still hurt, doesn’t believe her. So Louise stands up on the table and shouts “I, Louise Belcher, hereby declare that Eleanor and I are best friends, and anyone who has a problem with that had better ask themselves just one question : do you really think it’s a good idea to piss off the two creepiest girls in school?
12. After a lot of soul searching, Gene returns to his home room class to apologize to Geena, only to find that she’s been transferred back to her usual homeroom class. And he doesn’t even know her last name, or what class she’s in.
13. Tina eventually leaves the square dancing class to pursue Jimmy Junior, but not without regrets. The last thing in the episode is Tina hanging up her square dancing outfit and saying “Some day, Rosa Lee. You and I will paint the barn red.

Not bad! All done and only thirteen beats. I was worried that I would have too many beats with my three plotlines – a half-hour show shouldn’t have more than fifteen. But it turned out fine, even with the little token appearance by Bob and Linda.

The final script will have a lot more than what’s in the beat sheet, of course. For one thing, it will have jokes, including more from Bob and Linda. Plus (how fun is this), I will get to decide what I want the business next door and the exterminators in the opening will be called.

I am thinking “Siouxsie Sushi” and “Like That Old Game Centipede Only For Real”, respectively.

Today was my only “full day” of the week. It’s not really that big a deal. I got my usual lunch from Subway : a cold cut comb on nine grain bread with cucumbers, lettuce, and onion, plus a bag of Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips and a bottle drink, which today was Diet Pepsi.

Then I went to Satan’s Sweet Shop, known by its earthly named Purebread (see what they did there?), and got my usual Thing I Should Not Be Eating. Today I tried a Salted Caramel Bar, which was very good. Favorite thing I have tried there, actually. Also the closest thing they have to Nanaimo bars, which is cray zay.

Not having Nanaimo bars in a Vancouver bakery is like not having steak in a Texas roadhouse.

Tomorrow I have one class, and it’s not till the afternoon. So I get to sleep in till nine or maybe even ten! Oh, the decadent glory of it all.

Before then I have to read the script for Bonnie and Clyde and then write a little blurb to show I read it. It’s for my Script Genre : Crime class, which is a fun class without a lot of pressure, perfect for being a Friday class.

And we get to watch large chunks of movies, too!

And after that, it’s the weekend again! Yay!

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.