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.))

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[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*

[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.]

[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?

[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?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory timidly raises a hand.

"What was your major, and why did you decide to go into teaching?"

[macanaut.livejournal.com]

Mac looked at Prof Jerusalem for a moment, thinking, "Okay, what's up with your sunglasses and what sort of relationship do you have with the tentacle monster in the basement?"

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce thinks about this for a long, looooong time. There are so many things she'd love to have the Professor answer, but most of them were completely inappropriate to this class. Things such as 'why is there sometimes the muffled sound of singing emanating from the front of your pants' and 'why does the cat insist on marking all failing papers with streams of liquid shit'. Ok, so the second was really a question for the cat. Duce was not asking the cat a damned thing. It might answer her, and she was perfectly happy being ignorant to whether the cat had the means to speak.

Coming up with two she felt were fairly non-evasive, she queried,
"What meanings, if any, are there behind the symbolism of your tattoos?"

"Do your glasses signify or correct colourblindness?"

[youngest-sister.livejournal.com]

Why dO you lIKe oranGe?

DO i asK anoTHEr quesTIon now? Um. Or no, i JUSt did.

oOps.

[teen-twin.livejournal.com]

*Connor ponders the two questions he might ask for a while. The professor is strange and oddly fascinating, and Connor wants to make sure his questions will be beneficial*

1) Do you believe killing is ever justified?

2) Does "normal" exist?

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander nurses a styro-cup of really, really, really bad cafeteria coffee, and wonders, not for the first time, if risking the espresso machine might not be such a dangerus idea, comparatively speaking.

1) What's your best advice for students on the subject of surviving Fandom High?

2) What's the number one thing anybody who doesn't want to piss you off should know?

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

1) What is the one place that you would never want to be?

2) If you happened to be stuck in that place, what would be the first thing you do?

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

1. Before coming to FH, what was the most unusual thing you encountered?

2. What one piece of advice would you give to a budding journalist?

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

1) In your own opinion, what's the worst thing you've ever done?

2) What do you miss most about the place you were at before you came to [Unknown site tag]?

[e-verdigris.livejournal.com]

What is your name quest favorite colour proudest moment so far?

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?