[ The beginning of the day starts with the usual routine. Wake up in Rodger's dorm as the sun comes up, head to Longacre dorm to meet up with Eurydice, go get breakfast in the cafeteria with Spongebob and the others. But today he has an actual job to do, and it's a welcome distraction from picking away at the song he's been working on for the past he can't even remember how long.
He heads over to the library, blissfully unaware of the goings-on in Mime Club, and starts pulling down books on various methods of preserving food. Survival foods, canning, fermenting, drying. Most of what he can find seems to be about canning and jar-fermenting, which hopefully won't be too much of an issue. He's pretty sure there are spare jars in the kitchen? And if not, they can start using the jars that the kitchen came stocked with as they empty them. He spends a good amount of time doing that, writing down promising recipes and methods in his notebook, before finally, inevitably, he gets distracted.
People coming in towards the afternoon are much likelier to find him sitting next to his stack of more on-topic books reading a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an illustration of him at the piano on the front. It's... aimed at late grade school children, so it's not particularly thick, but Orpheus seems absorbed in it nonetheless.
After someone eventually reminds him of what he's supposed to be doing, he heads back to the kitchen, where he spends the rest of the day trying to put what he found earlier into practice. Today he's focused on getting the fresh fruits into jars, consulting a book on the subject for all the ones he's less familiar with but otherwise just going for it, boiling them carefully in apple juice before pouring them into jars and sealing them according to the instructions. He keeps some of the fresh fruit reserved for people to have as-is through the end of the week, but by the end of the day he's assembled a respectable collection of jars of various fruits.
That accomplished, he'll finally head back to bed, collapsing after a long day of work and falling asleep. ]
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He heads over to the library, blissfully unaware of the goings-on in Mime Club, and starts pulling down books on various methods of preserving food. Survival foods, canning, fermenting, drying. Most of what he can find seems to be about canning and jar-fermenting, which hopefully won't be too much of an issue. He's pretty sure there are spare jars in the kitchen? And if not, they can start using the jars that the kitchen came stocked with as they empty them. He spends a good amount of time doing that, writing down promising recipes and methods in his notebook, before finally, inevitably, he gets distracted.
People coming in towards the afternoon are much likelier to find him sitting next to his stack of more on-topic books reading a biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an illustration of him at the piano on the front. It's... aimed at late grade school children, so it's not particularly thick, but Orpheus seems absorbed in it nonetheless.
After someone eventually reminds him of what he's supposed to be doing, he heads back to the kitchen, where he spends the rest of the day trying to put what he found earlier into practice. Today he's focused on getting the fresh fruits into jars, consulting a book on the subject for all the ones he's less familiar with but otherwise just going for it, boiling them carefully in apple juice before pouring them into jars and sealing them according to the instructions. He keeps some of the fresh fruit reserved for people to have as-is through the end of the week, but by the end of the day he's assembled a respectable collection of jars of various fruits.
That accomplished, he'll finally head back to bed, collapsing after a long day of work and falling asleep. ]