Good Omens...And Bad: Prophecy in Theory and Practice, Class Eight

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Monday, October 23, First Period

The classroom doesn't look much different than it did during Parents Weekend, except for the addition of a large tropical fish aquarium against one wall. In it are swimming five very content looking fish. If it doesn't seem to have any significance to the topic of Prophecy, that's because...well, it doesn't. Aziraphale just likes the fish.

"Today we're going to cover several somewhat lesser utilized methods of divination. Specifically, we'll be talking about elemental methods and handful of what you could call the most common of the less common -- including my personal favorite, the reading of tea leaves. There's even a form of divination using specially designed computer programs, although that one is somewhat under dispute."

LECTURE:
Geomancy (earth)
Pyromancy (fire)
Hydromancy (water)
Aeromancy (atmopheric conditions)
Tasseography/Tasseomancy (tea)
Numerology (numbers)
Bibliomancy (books)
Cybermancy (computer programs)

Class Participation:
"In honor of our recent Parents Weekend experience, I'd like each of you to share one thing about the past three days that you wish you'd read a prophecy about beforehand."

Homework:
"To prepare for next week's class, I want you to write briefly about a historical personage associated with prophecy, telling whether you'd like to change places with that person, and why or why not."


Syllabus
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[ooc: As always, please wait for OCD is up! Go!.]

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[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Collapsey, yay!

Re: Sign In

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi Longstocking

Turn in Your Homework

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Please turn in last week's homework assignment (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/1069426.html) here.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia turned in a handwaved assignment based on what her chart might be if she were actually born on the date that the orphanage had assigned her for her birthday.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders coughed. "So, um, about that homework assignment that I missed on account of being, um, stuck in a comic book . . ."

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe turned in the homework

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[demonbelthazor]

Bel turned in a chart, but once he got to the line of "Your mother, your home as a child and your early family life in general are very important to you," he scratched through all the text and wrote, "This is a joke."

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

According to Marty's chart he's a sensitive lad prone to boredom with a fascination with cutlery and writing utensils.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer turned in a piece of paper with "I am a fish" written in Greek 186 times.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair handed in his chart with an underline around the more laughable parts. Physically, you are very impressive. Basically very conservative, you prefer orderly, systematic changes and fear doing things rashly or impulsively. You prefer rich, elegant surroundings and possessions, and will try to acquire them as your budget allows.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

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Weiss turned in the homework.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn turned in a copy of her sister's horoscope.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia handed in her homework as well as another chart for the day she had been returned because she wasn't sure which day was good to use.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John turned in a handwavey assignment. He may have been depressed with spots of spaghetti sauce.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[likethegun]

Sam turned in his homework, discussing how only about half of his chart had been really correct.

Re: Turn in Your Homework

[daemonridden.livejournal.com]

Lyra turned in her homework, as well as any assignments she mighted have missed while asleep.

Class Participation

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

You know there were things you wish you'd known ahead of time. Share!

Re: Class Participation

[nadiathesaint]

There was really only one thing Nadia wished she'd known before, and it wasn't something she was supposed to talk about. So she doodled in her notebook and looked around for someone else to interrogate get to talk.

Re: Class Participation

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I wish I would've known that Donovan McNabb was going to barf all over the center's ass right at the beginning of that play yesterday in the Philadelphia-Tampa Bay game, so I could've changed the channel," complained Anders, who hadn't in fact left his room all weekend. "Ruined my dinner right there."

Re: Class Participation

[demonbelthazor]

"Yeah, sure, that Raynor was gonna show up," Bel muttered under his breath.

Re: Class Participation

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe groaned and buried her face in her hands when she heard the question. "Where do I start?"

Re: Class Participation

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Compared to some people? Marty had a pretty good weekend.

"I wish I had known how my friend was going to embarass me this weekened," Marty replied. "Then again that's pretty much a given on Parent's weekend."

Talk to the Professor

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Ask questions about the lecture, get permission to feed the fish, etc.

Re: Talk to the Professor

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Mr. Phale? I, kinda don't know what year I was born... So I did a chart for Old Man, my horse."

Talk Amongst Yourselves

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

If I don't say not to fireball each other, will you remember not to?

Re: Talk Amongst Yourselves

[demonbelthazor]

Bel was mostly quiet, wishing he could crawl back into bed and sleep off his injuries.

OOC

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

That's all folks!