thelizziebennet

Lizzie Bennet frowns at her French fries. "These are cold. Do you think I should take them back? I should definitely bring them back. What if the guys at the counter don't even know they're serving cold fries? They should know. Nobody else should have to suffer with sad, cold fries."  She makes an overly dramatic sad face and holds up one limp fry. "Yuck." 

Her best friend Charlotte Lu rolls her eyes, well accustomed to Lizzie's rambles. "You're avoiding my question, Lizzie. And you don't even like French fries."

"I don't not like them," Lizzie protests. "They're a fine potato product and hamburger-adjacent foodstuff."

"Forget the fries. Seriously, what are you going to do for an independent study for Dr. Gardiner's class?"

Lizzie stops toying with her food and tips her cafeteria chair backwards. "Uh, I don't know, something awesome, like shadowing the Amish and see how they incorporate modern technology into their strict rules of community?"

Charlotte winces. "Really? That's your great plan?"

"No," Lizzie says. "Not really. I actually have no idea. Why? What are you doing?"

"Weeeeelllll," Charlotte says, looking smug. "I might have an idea that's substantially better than the Amish."

Lizzie purses her lips and makes an impatient do go on motion with her hands. After all, anything is better than the Amish. Charlotte is well aware of this fact. 

Charlotte, who of course knows that Lizzie had no actual interest in anything involving the Amish, only looks more smug. "I thought we could do a video blog. Me filming, you talking about your life, both of us sharing the editing duties as needed..."

She trails off as Lizzie stares at her."What? It's a good idea."

Lizzie laughs. "It's a great idea, Charlotte. You're definitely the brains of this operation. Although...who wants to watch me talk about my boring life?"

Charlotte shrugs. "Since it's for a class project, audience reach isn't really important. I think if we focus on community building and social media - on a small scale, of course - that's all we need to do."

Lizzie nods, thinking fast and whipping out a notebook to start jotting down ideas. "And we'd use audience theory, right? And maybe uses and gratifications?"

"That's sort of what I was thinking, yeah," Charlotte says. "We can hammer out the specific theories later, but those are good starting points. I was thinking we could maybe explore hypermedia seduction, but that might be a bit more in-depth than we really want to go with this."

"Yeah, we'd have to figure out how to manipulate the narrative to make that work, and I don't know that I want to think about my life that way. It would be simpler if they were just video diaries of what actually happens..." Lizzie trails off, her pen racing across the paper. "I like it, though. As long as we're a team in the community management aspects, I think it will work really well."

"Of course I'll work on the community stuff," Charlotte says, grinning at Lizzie. "We're a team, just like always."

Lizzie looks up from her notebook and grins back. "Absolutely."