Keeping Your Wits About You... [Monday 2nd Period 10-11] Class # 12

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Wilson was waiting for his students this morning with a good natured smile on his face and a gingerbread latte in his hand. There was a spread of holiday yummies ranging from spice cakes to cookies and other things determined to add pounds to your waistline.

As everybody got settled, he set his coffee aside and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Good morning everybody, I hope we all had a lovely weekend?"



"Okay, today we're going to tackle something that is both timely and which might actually be of practical use to you all in the coming month. It's called, Surviving the Holidays."

As he spoke the last three words, he wrote them across the whiteboard and then walked down to the projector he kept at the front of the class. There were some key points on the slide which Wilson carefully went over in his lecture.

Finals.
Going home for the holidays.
Remember That Excessive Christmas-ness Gets on Everyone's Nerves.
Don't Do Things That Make You Miserable.
Communicate Holiday Plans and Expectations Well in Advance.
Don't Expect Perfection.
Take time for yourself.
Expand the Circle of Joy.
Being ready to return to school.

"Okay guys, for the remainder of the class I'd like you to get into groups of two or more and work up a plan for your plans on how to get through the next 6 weeks of utter insanity that is the end of the semester and holidays in general," it was possible that he had his tongue a bit in his cheek with this one. "I'll be up here making a list of my own."

[ooc: OCDs are on the way up!]

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Lecture : AKA Talk Amongst Yourselves

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Quietly please. ;)

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel couldn't understand how Christmas cheer could get on anyone's nerves.

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[blessed_twice]

"Does hearing too much about your family's sex lives fall under 'Expand the Circle of Joy'?" Wyatt asked idly as he took a seat beside Isabel.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel snickered. "It falls under something. Possibly the category of why I'm going to need a therapist later in life."

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[blessed_twice]

"Tell me about it," Wyatt said, rubbing his temple. "At least nobody actually whipped it out like I thought they were going to for a minute."

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"At some point? I might supply the ruler. If it gets them all to shut the hell up." She was mostly kidding. "I'm just glad I didn't make anyone's scorecard. "

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[blessed_twice]

Wyatt blinked and stared.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It was THAT weekend," Isabel flailed. "I wasn't exactly myself!"

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[blessed_twice]

"Oh. Yeah," Wyatt said. He couldn't fault her for that, because. . . . "Neither was I," he added needlessly.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris wondered if there were lessons on how to survive finding out that your alternate universe mother slept with her sister's boyfriend. Or her over-sharing roommate arguing about sex with half the guys at the dinner table.

And if there was, he wondered why they couldn't have had this lesson last week.

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana, had she known it, was thinking very similar thoughts.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris looked over and gave her a grin at some point during the lecture.

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She grinned back and rolled her eyes.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Could have used this last week," Chris whispered.

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"No kidding!" Lana said with a smile.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Is it sad that I'll probably go back at Christmas if I'm invited?"

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[blessed_twice]

Wyatt looked over at his brother and gave him a questioning look.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"What?"

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[blessed_twice]

Wyatt looked at Chris. Then he looked at Lana. Then he looked back at Chris.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"What?"

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[blessed_twice]

Wyatt made a circle of his thumb and forefinger, then stuck the forefinger of his other hand into said cicle and moved in and out a few times, all the while giving Chris a questioning look.

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris stared at his brother in horror.

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[ladycfitzgerald.livejournal.com]

Anne sat and looked over the list of items on the board with a growing sense of consternation. The holidays were supposed to be fun, not stressful -- how could anyone think of them as something that needed to be survived?

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[absolutesnark]

Summer had taken a late flight back to Fandom and was exhausted as a result. The list on the board made her even more tired.

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Savannah was writing things down in her notebook.