McQuaid Adjunct Office

## Location

The McQuaid Adjunct Office is the basement of the McQuaid student center, a location equally inconvenient for all departments.

## Appearance

The door to the office is wooden, with a small panel of translucent glass and a badly printed sign. There was a battered coatrack on one side of the door and a row of office mailboxes - which don't come with pre-created labels - on the other. Resident teachers must claim free desks and fill out their chosen desk on the whiteboard. Inside the room is rows of desks of differing vintages, either scarred wood, dented metal, or chipped Formica. There's a hodgepodge of chairs, trashcans, and other office furnishings. Georgia estimates the walls hadn't been painted in ten years. Like other shared offices, things get territorial easily. it's large, but not enough for privacy. The chairs are squeaky. The furniture are hand-me-downs from when tenured faculty and loftier administrative personnel redecorated and upgraded. Georgia's spat is against a wall near the door, a prime location if Sara wasn't before her. Its furnishings are mid-range compared to other schools Georgia has worked at.

## Known Residents

* Georgia Thackery
* Charles Parker
* Jim Michaels (trespasser; thief)
* Sara Weiss
* Two loud instructors
* Unnamed McQuaid adjuncts
* Fletcher Wildman

## Sequential History

### A Skeleton In The Family

Georgia claims her desk at the adjunct office and meets her fellow adjuncts, such as Sara Weiss, and reunites with old acquaintances such as Charles Peyton and unnamed adjuncts. Georgia makes some appearances to drop off some stuff she brought from home and sees with approval that Fletcher handled his storage issues without encroaching on Georgia's space. Georgia spends some time at the adjunct office looking at the Mangachusetts photos. She makes a deal with Sara: Sara gets to use her parents' office if she looks up the ID in Sid's skull for Georgia. She scours the Web for info on Jocasta Kirkland's murder and Fletcher looks over her shoulder, forcing Georgia to discuss it with him. She goes to her office to prevent herself from falling asleep before her afternoon classes. Georgia finds Charles at this office and takes him to the McQuaid Coffee Corner to ask him to drop off the suitcase holding Sid at JTU. One time, Georgia goes to the office to discover that Sara had discovered Sid in her suitcase and told everywhere. Georgia confronted Sara about it then remained in the office an hour afterwards to prove she had no reason to be embarrassed. Someone - later revealed to be Jim Michaels - breaks into the office and searches Georgia's desk. It's initially attributed to the Pennycross burglars. When Charles recounts his story, he saws he saw a figure he couldn't identify rifling through the desks, and he hit Charles. Jim Michaels only interefered with this office, and the adjuncts are blamed for the break-in. After the break-in, the adjunct office is filled with a hubbub of people reacting to the HR email blaming the adjuncts for the break-in being spread around and checking their desk to see what, if anything, had been stolen. Georgia discovers her desk had been messed with. When Fletcher wants to write a piece about adjunct life, Georgia tells him the adjunct office is full of compelling images and to tell a story other the Charles'. Georgia eliminates three Possibly Sids at the office in an hour and looks in Allen Reece before leaving at 5pm.

### The Skeleton Takes A Bow

Georgia thinks she'll have enough to check messages and grab lunch before keeping office hours. Her mailbox is halfway filled with McQuaid internal memos, notes from students, and a few pieces of actual mail. Yo comes to visit Georgia there and Georgia calls it the adjunct corral, a home away from home (sarcastically). Georgia goes to the office to talking to Charles about Patty Craft's ex-boyfriend Bert, but he isn't there, so she goes to her mother's office and finds Charles coming out of her father's. Sara goes to the adjunct office and mutters Robert Irwin's name aloud to bait Sara into gossiping about him. She does the same thing later and Sara is distracted by researching the Sechrest Foundation. Georgia is reluctant to leave Sid in his suitcase in the adjunct office because Sara snooped and found him last time. Georgia goes to the adjunct office again to find Charles and he's again not there.

### The Skeleton Haunts A House

Georgia sees Charles chatting with a man Georgia doesn't recognize outside the adjunct office. Georgia introduces Brownie to the adjunct office. Georgia unpacks at her desk, looking for oil for Brownie's chair, while Charles introduces Brownie to other adjuncts in the office. Georgia says she's going to find a corner in the student center or a place in the Campus Deli to meet with her students who come to office hours, because the adjunct office isn't private enough. Dab is appalled when Georgia describes the conditions and says Georgia can keep using her office for office hours. Georgia goes home instead of to the adjunct office because she has work and wants to compare notes with Sid. When Georgia goes to the adjunct office after class, Georgia is immediately swarmed by people asking about Linda's arrest, and Georgia answers them. Oscar O'Leary's desk is described as nearly as battered as the ones in the adjunct office. Georgia goes to the office to get her mail and finds Brownie chatting with Sara. She goes through her mail and finds a letter from The Ninja. Georgia avoids the adjunct office because she doesn't want to deal with Sara's gossip mania about the previous day's encounter with Alexis. The adjunct office becomes disused when McQuaid Hall is converted to the Dana Fenton Building and designated for adjuncts, where they will get their own cubicles, conference rooms for meeting with students, a break room with fridge and microwave, a copier, a printer, and new furniture.