Journalism Class - Friday September 23

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider is sprawled atop his desk, cat draped over his feet, staring up at a holo feed that is playing on the celing. He has a large mug of something that is steaming gently beside him and a pack of cigarettes with a lighter atop it by his elbow. The rest of the newsfeeds are also on, but muted.

The one above him seems to be going on at some length about prisoner riots.

On a large board propped up in front of the class is a sign that reads:

Attention students:

Today is gossip day. I want you to spend the class period discussing the strangest and most vicious rumors you've heard regarding the school, your schoolmates, the townies and your professors. Go nuts. At the end of class, I will go back and review and whoever came up with the best (ie most fascinating, funny or repeatable) rumor will win a prize.

Also? Homework assignments for next week, coming to a notice board near you.

Comments

[scissors--.livejournal.com]

((so definately not in this class, but boy i wish i was...gossiping as an assignment 0.o ))

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe came back in and sat at her usual seat, looking around to see who else was showing up to class. She was still wearing the dark sunglasses and she had another highly caffeinated beverage with her.

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider made a beckoning gesture to her without looking away from the feed on the ceiling.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe slid off the desktop and went over to see what was up.

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce contemplates just which of the rumours she's recently heard would be appropriate, and finally says, "We heard a teacher recently had an abortion because she was pregnant by an underage student and didn't want to get caught." She pauses, "We've also heard Professor Jackson is gay, but that's not so much rumour as attention to detail."

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake looked up from his coffee. "Which one's that? That Jackson guy, I mean?"

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce peered at the tussle-headed boy, trying to place where she'd seen him before. "You're.. Jake, right? Professor Jackson teaches archaeology and anthropology.. and we think he teaches dead languages or something too."

Her willpower a known marvel, she does not question why Jake was showing interest in a homosexual teacher. She most definitely doesn't offer to introduce them.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka comes in in time to hear Duce saying Jackson's gay. "Nah, Duce. He's not gay. At least, if he is, he's very very bi. I saw him...react...when Janet kissed him yesterday."

Beka smiles. "Now, I did hear that Lee Adama waxes his chest and uses 7 hair products."

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce shrugs, "Didn't say he was, just said we'd heard he was."

Snorting back a laugh at the commentary on Lee, she quips, "From the look of it, the hair product part is sheer fact."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory sits down, looking highly uncomfortable, and trying to overhear the conversations around her.

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Recognizing Rory as she takes a seat, Krycek looks over to her, smiling a little in greeting. "So d'you have any good gossip?"

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander sits down, pulls a Twinkie out of his pocket and lays it on the desk in front of him, then scratches his head. "The only true gossip I know is about people who came from my other school, and most of it would either get my ass kicked, or not surprise anybody." He started unwrapping the Twinkie. "I mean -- '_gottahavefaith Good In Bed, News At 11' ? Not seeing the shock and awe."

[chasingangela]

Angela turns around in her seat to smile at Xander. "Yeah, all the gossip I've heard is true stuff about people I know, too. Which is ... kind of not the point of gossip, unless I'm, like, not understanding the concept."

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce pantomimes shock and awe for Xander's amusement. She then shoots him a grin, "The question remains, is she actually good in bed, or is it all hype to make the people she sexes up sound like studmuffins? Really, do guys ever bash on the horizontal prowess of the women they're sexing, if they hope to ever have said experience again?"

[forlornslayer.livejournal.com]

Buffy hears this and slides into the seat next to Xander. "So, I'm guessing you had a Faith where you came from, then? Is she evil?"

She shrugs. "So far the entertaining gossip I've heard is only that Angelus is trying to get romance advice from the Sociology professor."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

A friend of a brother who knows my cousin who also goes here told me that the biology professor lets some sort of pheremone seep into her room just before classes that make all the male students want to sleep with her.

Don't believe me? Have you seen Jayne lately? Julian?

I rest my case.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe hears Jayne's name and spins around to look at John.

"Jayne is just fine." She frowns. "And Professor Sidle would never do something like that."

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe slides into her seat just in time to hear John.

"I don't believe that for a second, if only because some of the female students seem quite taken with her too," she says, smirking.

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia sits in class looking around at everyone talking. rumors rumors *sighs* *yawns* I am so tired *raises hand* "Professor Spider sir, may I use an extra credit to not do this assignment? I am *yawn* really tired today."

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

"Certainly. You have several points, I think." Spider turned his head to look at her over the tops of his glasses. "You look terrible. Take a nap."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica sits back and quietly listens to the gossip going on around her. She isn't in the mood to share any of her own today.

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe gets up and goes to sit down next to Veronica. "So, I heard from the roommate of the girlfriend of one of our hallmates that the school chef? Isn't really Swedish." She gives a mock gasp, then nudges Veronica, hoping to get a laugh out of her.

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

Jessica doesn't bother to move. "Gossip and rumors," she thinks, "are key to understanding the whole of a situation, but not if I'm the one giving information away."

[caroline-todd.livejournal.com]

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

I heard that Professor Jerusalem actually loves children and really likes being hugged. In fact. I think Crichton should try that hug thing out. Right now.

Oh and Daniel Jackson is totally gay. So is Kawalsky. And pretty much everybody here.