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1) He has jury duty with Sam.
It’s a two month long trial on some low level fraud and embezzlement, and Daniel first notices Sam because of the shiny dress blues she wears to court. After that, he remembers her as the pretty Blonde who was so pissy she couldn’t get excused or dismissed.
He doesn’t get excused, either, probably because the Defense likes their chances with a Professor of Archaeology who doesn’t really grasp the finer details of financial ethics.
They should have kicked Sam, though. They’re not allowed to speak to each other for most of the trial, but he does figure out that she’s wicked smart and that she has it in for the guy who’s wasting two months of her life sitting in a sticky old courtroom for half the summer because he wanted a bigger piece of pie.
They find the guy guilty, of course, and the last time he sees Sam is in the elevator ride to the lobby.
He asks where she’s off to know that they’re released.
Sam smiles enormously and says, “Whole new world,” and they both laugh because they’re escaping the stuffy jury room.
Daniel goes back to his apartment to box up the last of his possessions. His contract expired when school ended, and he’s off to be a Visiting Professor at yet another university. Without his Ph.D, he’s never going get tenure anywhere, and on his horizon is another cheapo apartment for another year.
2) He has Teal’c in his Archaeology of Egypt course at the U of Colorado.
The course is mostly freshmen, so Teal’c stands out. Not just because of his age, of course, but the whole…huge muscles thing. He’s registered as non-matriculating, apparently taking classes for his own purposes. Daniel’s shocked – the guy looks like a football player, not the scholastic type.
He also wears a hat to class, and he never takes it off. Sometimes it’s a baseball cap and sometimes it’s more interesting. Daniel’s taught this course a thousand times, and he could give the lectures in 10 different languages, so he makes a game out of spotting Teal’c in the crowd and guessing what kind of hat he’ll be wearing.
The class is 175 students, so Daniel never actually gets to talk to Teal’c. At the end of the semester, he gets Teal’c’s bizarre term paper, detailing the biographies of a few somewhat obscure Egyptian Gods – liberally interpreted, to say the least - and taking the events of their lives far too personally.
It makes little to no sense, and Daniel should fail him, but he doesn’t.
3) He gets a speeding ticked from Cameron Mitchell.
And yeah, he was going 92 in a 65 mile zone, but he can’t afford the fine, so he won’t be coming back to this state.
He thinks the Highway Patrolman is a giant dick, and he very nearly gets arrested for not smiling politely and taking the ticket without comment.
The dude seems deeply unsatisfied keeping the highways of Kansas safe, perhaps because so many people are driving as fast as they can to get out of the state.
It was a comment along those lines that nearly got him taken into custody. He also had a small bag of pot underneath the passenger seat, ahem, and that was the primary reason he stopped goading Officer Mitchell.
4) He shares a diner counter with Jack.
They don’t really notice each other. Daniel’s enjoying his coffee, and the gray-haired guy in a leather jacket next to him is eating some kind of stinky fried fish.
Daniel finishes up and pays his bill. His wallet is pretty empty, these days. Field season hasn’t started yet and he’s living hand to mouth until it does. He’s embarrassed that he can only leave the waitress a fifty cent tip, and he rifles through his billfold for a few minutes as if expecting to find a secret compartment. Finally, he leaves what he can and exits quietly, not realizing that his neighbor was watching the whole thing. Jack supplements the two quarters with another dollar after Daniel sneaks out.
5) He gets a physical from Janet Fraiser.
She works at a Free Clinic on Saturdays, and happens to be there when Daniel comes in. He thinks he has the flu, because he can’t stop throwing up, and he tries to ride it out. But then his stomach just will not stop hurting, and the fever sticks around, and he doesn’t have any health insurance in the summers, so in he goes to a free clinic in Colorado Springs.
His doctor is a petite little lady with blonde highlights in her hair, but her size is belied by the way she manhandles him on the exam table. She’s friendly enough, but she’s also convinced that he has appendicitis and needs surgery.
Daniel’s pissed off about this, because if he has surgery, he won’t be able to do fieldwork, and then he won’t be able to eat. His finances aren’t Dr. Fraiser’s concern, though, and she gets him packed off to the county hospital.
He doesn’t see her again, but the surgeon who removes his ready-to-burst appendix tells him she probably saved his life.
It’s a two month long trial on some low level fraud and embezzlement, and Daniel first notices Sam because of the shiny dress blues she wears to court. After that, he remembers her as the pretty Blonde who was so pissy she couldn’t get excused or dismissed.
He doesn’t get excused, either, probably because the Defense likes their chances with a Professor of Archaeology who doesn’t really grasp the finer details of financial ethics.
They should have kicked Sam, though. They’re not allowed to speak to each other for most of the trial, but he does figure out that she’s wicked smart and that she has it in for the guy who’s wasting two months of her life sitting in a sticky old courtroom for half the summer because he wanted a bigger piece of pie.
They find the guy guilty, of course, and the last time he sees Sam is in the elevator ride to the lobby.
He asks where she’s off to know that they’re released.
Sam smiles enormously and says, “Whole new world,” and they both laugh because they’re escaping the stuffy jury room.
Daniel goes back to his apartment to box up the last of his possessions. His contract expired when school ended, and he’s off to be a Visiting Professor at yet another university. Without his Ph.D, he’s never going get tenure anywhere, and on his horizon is another cheapo apartment for another year.
2) He has Teal’c in his Archaeology of Egypt course at the U of Colorado.
The course is mostly freshmen, so Teal’c stands out. Not just because of his age, of course, but the whole…huge muscles thing. He’s registered as non-matriculating, apparently taking classes for his own purposes. Daniel’s shocked – the guy looks like a football player, not the scholastic type.
He also wears a hat to class, and he never takes it off. Sometimes it’s a baseball cap and sometimes it’s more interesting. Daniel’s taught this course a thousand times, and he could give the lectures in 10 different languages, so he makes a game out of spotting Teal’c in the crowd and guessing what kind of hat he’ll be wearing.
The class is 175 students, so Daniel never actually gets to talk to Teal’c. At the end of the semester, he gets Teal’c’s bizarre term paper, detailing the biographies of a few somewhat obscure Egyptian Gods – liberally interpreted, to say the least - and taking the events of their lives far too personally.
It makes little to no sense, and Daniel should fail him, but he doesn’t.
3) He gets a speeding ticked from Cameron Mitchell.
And yeah, he was going 92 in a 65 mile zone, but he can’t afford the fine, so he won’t be coming back to this state.
He thinks the Highway Patrolman is a giant dick, and he very nearly gets arrested for not smiling politely and taking the ticket without comment.
The dude seems deeply unsatisfied keeping the highways of Kansas safe, perhaps because so many people are driving as fast as they can to get out of the state.
It was a comment along those lines that nearly got him taken into custody. He also had a small bag of pot underneath the passenger seat, ahem, and that was the primary reason he stopped goading Officer Mitchell.
4) He shares a diner counter with Jack.
They don’t really notice each other. Daniel’s enjoying his coffee, and the gray-haired guy in a leather jacket next to him is eating some kind of stinky fried fish.
Daniel finishes up and pays his bill. His wallet is pretty empty, these days. Field season hasn’t started yet and he’s living hand to mouth until it does. He’s embarrassed that he can only leave the waitress a fifty cent tip, and he rifles through his billfold for a few minutes as if expecting to find a secret compartment. Finally, he leaves what he can and exits quietly, not realizing that his neighbor was watching the whole thing. Jack supplements the two quarters with another dollar after Daniel sneaks out.
5) He gets a physical from Janet Fraiser.
She works at a Free Clinic on Saturdays, and happens to be there when Daniel comes in. He thinks he has the flu, because he can’t stop throwing up, and he tries to ride it out. But then his stomach just will not stop hurting, and the fever sticks around, and he doesn’t have any health insurance in the summers, so in he goes to a free clinic in Colorado Springs.
His doctor is a petite little lady with blonde highlights in her hair, but her size is belied by the way she manhandles him on the exam table. She’s friendly enough, but she’s also convinced that he has appendicitis and needs surgery.
Daniel’s pissed off about this, because if he has surgery, he won’t be able to do fieldwork, and then he won’t be able to eat. His finances aren’t Dr. Fraiser’s concern, though, and she gets him packed off to the county hospital.
He doesn’t see her again, but the surgeon who removes his ready-to-burst appendix tells him she probably saved his life.
