Journalism Class - Wednesday September 21

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

All the newsfeeds are on this morning, a different talking head on every wall and a few floating in the air around the classroom. Spider, however, appears to be paying attention to none of it, focus instead riveted on the somewhat complicated game he's playing with two small furry dice and the cat as they both sit atop his desk.

He's wearing an enormous, pointed clown hat and a pair of floppy shoes along with the rest of his normal ensemble and doesn't seem to find anything strange about it.

Once there is a decent-sized group of people in the classroom, Spider mutes the screens. Lighting two cigarettes, one for himself and one for the cat, he gets down to business.

"All right class. Today we're going to learn the value of asking the right questions. You can ask me any two questions about myself and then I want you to sum up what you learned into a single, succinct statement that you could use as a tag-line if you needed to refer to me in an article, say, if you quoted me on something. Something like...." He pursed his lips in thought. "'Stay Froody!' was the final exhortation of this extremely far out alien, wanting to encourage you to do well with your studies now that his career as instellar politician is at an end."

He grinned nastily, "You know, the sort of insipid tag line that the newsies use at the end of their interviews to make sure you've been paying attention. So. Two questions, and use them to construct any ending tag line you like that you feel sums me up. Extra-credit, as always, which can be used toward weaseling out of future homework. You may begin at any time."



Edit: ((OOC: My apologies to the students, but I'm too sick to play, atm. I'll try to finish up class after I get home.))

Comments

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake leaned back and eyed the Professor suspiciously (as usual). Any two questions, huh? This would need thinking about, since 'why are you a sadistic bastard' would probably give him an amusing but comepletly useless answer.

[jayne-serenity.livejournal.com]

*stumbles in, looking like hes recently been run over by a truck, several times*

*falls into his seat and puts his head down on the desk*

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe grins wickedly as she looks from Spider to Gavin.

"1) If there was one thing you could change about your current situation at Fandom High, what would you do?"

"2) What's up with your constant feline companion since you don't seem to like him very much?"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

How did you find such an extrodinary cat?

Can you take me through your typical day here at fandom high?

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

1) Are you planning on wining and dining Pricipal Connor before the Homecoming Dance?

2) Do you dance at all?

*sits back and waits for the answers*

[jayne-serenity.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been in love?

Who was the first person you killed?

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

*D'anna cocked an eyebrow, crossed her arms, leaned back in her chair and took a long, hard look at her professor. She thought, "He's a slick and slippery as a Canceron eel. I had better come up with something good."*


[ooc:along with the rest of his normal ensemble

...he has a normal ensemble? Somehow, I don't believe you. ;) Feeling any better? Oh and, 'cconstruct' is typoed.

ETA: *bangs head on desk* damnit, logging in to the right bloody account might help. My brain might return later this week, until then - look for lots of deletes.]

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

You like to live dangerously, don't you?

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

I was going for more completely off the wall, not gonna be asked by anyone else questions.

So, in answer to your question...yes.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider eyed Jayne thoughtfully. "Yes, I have. I never would have married her, otherwise. As to the second, the first person I killed was a man who was very determined to see me dead and my brains spread out across the wall of the seedy dive I was currently inhabiting. Something about his boyfriend having decided to move to one of the reservations after reading one of my columns. He being heavily armed and extremely determined, it was more of an accident than anything. I've been more careful, since."

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

"One thing?" Spider raised his eyebrows. "I would have a constant entourage of the most beautiful and exotic whores, a much larger paycheck and a direct spy feed into the offices of the current President."

He looked down to where he was absently stroking the cat beneath both her chins. For her part, she was taking advantage of his distraction to hook out a paw and help herself to his cigarettes. "The cat? She eats gekos... and she's not afraid of making her opinions known. Plus," retreiving the pack and holding it out of her reach, "she always remembers where I left my cigarettes."

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

"The cat was on my doorstep when I moved back to the city, chain-smoking and starving to death." He batted at the cat as it tried again for his cigarettes. "They're genetically engineered to take care of the geko problem and you don't find a lot of them running loose."

The second question gave him momentary pause and he looked over the top of his glasses at her. "I don't think there's any such thing as a 'typical' day at Fandom High, but mine generally involves a great deal of caffiene, some perfectly legal stimulants and a lot of swearing."

[jayne-serenity.livejournal.com]

Love and Brain Splatter...

*mutters something unintelligable*

[jayne-serenity.livejournal.com]

*raises head just enough to look at Pheobe*

Where'd ya go last night?

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

"All right," Jake said finally after much ponderind loning gazes towards t he cappuchino machine. "1) What exactly did you do before coming here? Feel free to not answer if the answer will traumatize me for life. And 2) Why the get-up today?"

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe grinned at Spider and made notations as to each of his answers.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe smiles at Jayne. "I kinda got kidnapped by Maia and Paige."

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

"The costume is in celebration of my current good humor," Spider told him, pulling out a small horn and honking it at him. "And before coming here this morning, I brushed my teeth."

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

"As, to my knowledge, there's nowhere around here to actually 'dine'," Spider told him, tipping his clown hat at a rakish angle, "and as my accompanying the Principal at this point appears to be more in the capacity of someone to watch her not un-attractive back, I very much doubt it. As for the dancing?" A sudden, mischevious smile crossed his face. "Yes, in point of fact, I do."



((OOC: I realize that there is a restaurant that does slightly upscale dining around somewhere, but as the owner never registered it with the town directory, Spider is unaware of it and will continue to be so until it does as it doesn't currently actually exist anywhere that I can find without backtracking madly through fandomtownies. I desperately wish the townies would remember to register so that people can find them.))

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

((OOC: He does. Black slacks, a black jacket, no shirt, sunglasses, black shoes, cigarette. ... and the tattoos. Honest. That's what he normally wears... most of the time.))

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

The sort of Lord of the Dance seeks fine dining experience.

There we go.

[chasingangela]

Armed with a huge cup of coffee and still a little red around the eyes, Angela drops in on journalism class. Her two questions for Jerusalem are:

1. What's the biggest thing you have ever forgiven someone for?
2. How do you feel about students' attempts to get the weapons ban overturned?

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Reminded by the presence of coffee that there was a cappucino machine within easy reach, Spider handed his cigarette butt to the cat and went to find some caffiene of his own. As he waited for the machine to finish, he answered her question. "The biggest thing? That's a very hard question. Forgiving Royce for his siccing my goddamn assistants on my ranks very high up there, however."

Collecting his drink, Spider wandered back to his desk. "As to the other, I wish them all the luck in the world."

[marieann-d.livejournal.com]

Rogue steps into class looking decidedly dishevled, but not unhappy. She looks up at the assignment and thinks for a moment.

"Who, in your opinion is the most dangerous student in this school, and where did you get your name?"

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake blanched at the honking, then blinked. "After brushing his teeth, Professor Jerusalem went on to celebrate his good humour by wearing a clown hat and floppy shoes?"