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Living Room
Joseph is sitting on a recliner in the living room of his apartment at 2383 Long Ave #1. Ask Joseph about things in his life using the sentence form "ask Joseph about {topic}" without quotation marks or brackets. For example, "ask Joseph about work"
Move around the apartment by typing north, south, east, or west. The dining room is to your east. A worn Ikea coffee table is in the middle of the room. A flat, thin, touch screen device called a Kindle Fire is laying on the table.
Joseph is smiling invitingly, and gestures you to sit down.
You can see a couch here.
>notify on
Score notification on.
>x me
As good-looking as ever.
>i
You are carrying nothing.
>x Joseph
You see nothing special about Joseph.
>x recliner
You see nothing special about the recliner.
>x table
You see nothing special about the coffee table.
>x couch
You see nothing special about the couch.
>take Kindle
Taken.
>x it
You switch on the Kindle. It can read books, browse the web, watch YouTube, stream video, and more. It is a gift from Joseph's dad.
>e
Dining Room
West is the living room, north is the bedroom, south is the kitchen, and east is the bathroom.
The dining room is highlighted by a built-in hutch with a mirror.
The glass-windowed cabinets contain our non-fiction book collection.
A well used expanding table is sitting in the middle of the room. It belonged to Hannah's great grand-mother. A new digital camera is sitting on the table.
>x hutch
You see nothing special about the hutch.
>x cabinets
In the glass-windowed cabinets is a non-fiction book collection.
>x collection
You open the glass-windowed cabinets.
The title "Twisty Little Passages" sticks out to you.
>x Twisty
The interior cover contains a handwritten note which seems to pertain to the interactive non-fiction that you are currently playing.
It says "try typing 'score'.
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>score
You have so far scored 1 out of a possible 24, in 14 turns.
>take Twisty
Taken.
>x camera
A Hannukkah present from my Mom, we finally have a digital camera! Expect lots of our photos to populate your Facebook (or Google+) feed in the near future.
>take it
Taken.
>s
Kitchen
A two-butt kitchen if you ever saw one.
You can see some beets here.
>x beets
You see nothing special about the beets.
>take beets
Taken.
>eat beets
Joseph and Hannah will be happy that you had some beets.
The beets do not taste like dirt or death. You suspect that your poop may be red the next time you have a bowel movement.
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>n
Dining Room
West is the living room, north is the bedroom, south is the kitchen, and east is the bathroom.
The dining room is highlighted by a built-in hutch with a mirror.
The glass-windowed cabinets contain our non-fiction book collection.
A well used expanding table is sitting in the middle of the room. It belonged to Hannah's great grand-mother. A new digital camera is sitting on the table.
>e
Bathroom
A small plain bathroom.
You can see a toilet and a sink here.
>x toilet
You see nothing special about the toilet.
>x sink
You see nothing special about the sink.
>sit on toilet
You get onto the toilet.
>poop
You feel lighter and more at ease.
Your poop is red.
>pee
>flush toilet
I'm sure Joseph and Hannah will appreciate that.
>wash hands
Wishy washy with the soapy...Joseph's time at the preschool is starting to rub off on you.
>w
(first getting off the toilet)
Dining Room
West is the living room, north is the bedroom, south is the kitchen, and east is the bathroom.
The dining room is highlighted by a built-in hutch with a mirror.
The glass-windowed cabinets contain our non-fiction book collection.
A well used expanding table is sitting in the middle of the room. It belonged to Hannah's great grand-mother. A new digital camera is sitting on the table.
>n
Bedroom
>s
Dining Room
West is the living room, north is the bedroom, south is the kitchen, and east is the bathroom.
The dining room is highlighted by a built-in hutch with a mirror.
The glass-windowed cabinets contain our non-fiction book collection.
A well used expanding table is sitting in the middle of the room. It belonged to Hannah's great grand-mother. A new digital camera is sitting on the table.
>w
Living Room
Joseph is sitting on a recliner in the living room of his apartment at 2383 Long Ave #1. Ask Joseph about things in his life using the sentence form "ask Joseph about {topic}" without quotation marks or brackets. For example, "ask Joseph about work"
Move around the apartment by typing north, south, east, or west. The dining room is to your east. A worn Ikea coffee table is in the middle of the room.
Joseph is smiling invitingly, and gestures you to sit down.
You can see a couch here.
>sit on couch
You get onto the couch.
>ask Joseph about work
Joseph says, "Work is going great. From 8:30am to about 1pm I work as a Mental Health Behavioral Aide at Fraser School. I walk six blocks to a family's house (the Conness') and get their kids off the bus at 2:30pm. I hang out with them until their parents get home around 5:30pm."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about Conness
Joseph says, "They are an extremely nice family. They have two boys, one is eleven and one is six."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about mental health
Joseph says, "At Fraser School I work one-on-one in a preschool classroom with a client who has a mental health diagnosis. My clients are typically four to five years old. I develop strategies to help them cope with the demands of the environment and also help them achieve goals based on their treatment plan."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about client
Joseph says, "Information relating to my specific clients are protected by HIPAA."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about treatment
Joseph says, "The treatment plan is set by a mental health professional. It includes goals such as 'coping' or 'safety' (broadly). I observe and interact with the child. After building rapport and discussing the child's needs with my supervisor we devise interventions to help them."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about interventions
Joseph says, "I will probably be giving a presentation in May about some of the interventions I have used with my current client. My focus is to use child- centered interventions. This means using things that inherently resonate with and motivate the child to help them cope with their day.
For example instead of using generic body calming strategies such as taking deep breaths, I allow my client to read books in a quiet spot because reading is so calming for her. Instead of taking a walk down the hall when she needs a break from the classroom, we do 'dance breaks' where she gets to bring a friend to the music room and they get to dance and relax for twenty minutes twice a week."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about classroom
Joseph says, "I work in the Chameleon classroom at Fraser School. The lead teacher recently left to pursue a better paying job, so we are still waiting to find out who the new teacher will be."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about boss
Joseph says, "My supervisor is superb. His name is Mike MacCawley and he is very supportive and experienced. He has really helped me to get better at my job and advocates for me and my coworker Brittany."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about coworker
Joseph says, "Brittany is a masters student, I'm pretty sure. I forget where. She is very good at her job and it is great to have another behavioral aide in the same classroom so that we can support and learn from one another."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about house
Joseph says, "We are moving into my Mom's old house in St. Paul on February 1st. That looks a lot closer from this side of the holidays. We will have another married couple for housemates, Alec Jenkins-White and Kjersti Campbell."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about mom
Joseph says, "My mom got married on October 15th, 2011 to Mark Keljik."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about Mark
Joseph says, "Mark is a great guy. He owns an oriental rug shop in Minneapolis. They are the only rug shop in the metro area that still deals in antique and rare rugs."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about rugs
Joseph says, "Mark gave us an oriental rug as a gift. It is beautiful and you should ask us to tell you about it the next time you visit."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about dad
Joseph says, "My dad's side of the family is doing very well. My stepmother Jane, a teacher, recently switched schools and is very happy with the change. My brother is nine years old, and my sister turned sixteen this year. She is learning to drive. My dad continues to work on his music, and has taken up the piano in addition playing the guitar for many years."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about Hannah
Joseph says, "Hannah is currently on a well-deserved break from her 8 month internship. When her break concludes she will be doing a twelve week rotation at Abbott Northwestern Hospital."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about hospital
Joseph says, "I suggest you ask Hannah about that."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about Magic
Joseph says, "For the past couple years I have been slowly trying to increase my competence at the card game Magic. Twice a month I volunteer at the Maplewood Library with Alec and Francis Jenkins-White (and occasional others) and teach teenagers how to play Magic. It is a great game primarily concerned with resource management, probability, and assembling synergistic game elements in order to maximize your influence on a complex system. It has a fantasy theme and some nice art as well. I can tell you more about my competitive season if you like, or more about how the game works."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about season
Joseph says, "I earned 50 competitive points in this last season (August 9th- December 25th). To put my competitive achievements in proper context: the best player that I know scored 2,303 points in the last season (he took 11th at the World Championship of Magic in San Francisco this year and was also Rookie of the Year). The leading player in competitive points in the last season had 3,452 points. Obviously I have a long way to go."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about game
Joseph says, "Magic is a game in which you take the role of a wizard in a duel. Your opponent is another wizard, the one who you are dueling. The object is to defeat the other wizard. You do this by reducing their life to zero. Life can be reduced by casting spells that deal direct damage (such as a fireball to the face) or by summoning creatures that attack the other wizard for you (such as werewolves, dragons, sphinxes, etc.)
The strategy of Magic is similar in many respects to Fantasy Football. You assemble a team (in Magic comprised of cards) into a deck. Each of your cards has varying value in different situations. You don't want too many of any kind of card. You need to make sure that you maximize how your cards interact with each other and with your opponent's cards."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about Kindle
Joseph says, "The Kindle is pretty neat. You should try examining it."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about sex
Joseph says, "You really think I didn't realize you would ask that, David?"
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>ask Joseph about weather
Joseph says, "The weather? You realize that I'm just a computer program right? I have no idea what the weather is like."
[Your score has just gone up by one point.]
>quit
Are you sure you want to quit? yes
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