Cricket. No, wait. Lifestyle. That's right.

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

Trescothick is out. 82 for 1.

My Lifestyle seminars are now fully booked. I ended up with thirteen students rather than twelve, but I'm sure that'll be fine.

My students are these: caroline_todd, _steele_, lauraholt, neptune_wallace, pure_blooddraco, rory__gilmore, _fleurdelacour, rosefern_todd, ___lily_evans_, comewillingly, magitekboy, deirdreofamber and ihatedenmark.

It looks like our first topic is going to be cheese.

Could all the students write a hundred words on ways in which their lifestyle has been affected by cheese, or how they could use cheese to improve their lives, and leave their work here?

They'll form the basis of discussion when we hold the seminar itself on Monday.

Comments

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Morning, Bart. I'm just on my way down to the basement. Sorry to butt in.

Gilmore, you can resubmit this to me as extra credit for Journalism 401 as long as it meets the Journalism 101 requirements as well.

100 words is 100 words. Get as much mileage out've 'em as you can.

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

No worries, Spider. I'll be asking for a hundred as an introduction to each of the topics this semester.

My biography all in order? Research coming along nicely?

I've just had lunch. A rather good one, at that. Excuse me, play has already restarted, so I must get back to my box.

My Life With Cheese Take Two

[caroline-todd.livejournal.com]

Cheese has affected me greatly throughout the years, the biggest impact I have noted being from cheese however, is my love for English and public speaking.
On the proviser that colours, as some psychologists theorize, do in fact effect your mood, my love for orange cheese (made in America) as opposed to yellower cheese obviously unleashed creative activity, (as orange tends to do) and made me more talkative. If I had leaned towards the yellow (inspiring energy) cheese, I am confident, I would be taking P.E. classes now, and failing all the classes I love that need creativity (creative writing...).

[magitekboy.livejournal.com]

The thing about cheese is that I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate ... hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE cheese. It clashes with my boots.

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't think of Denmark as a big cheese country, but thanks to the many cows we have roaming our verdant hills, a good number of cheeses have originated from there. Havarti, for example, is a kind of soft cheese named after Havarthigaard Farm where Danish farmer Hanne Nielsen first created it. We used to eat a lot of Havarti cheese when I was younger. My father used to have it sliced up and put in his sandwiches. He would tell me that eating it was what kept him healthy. We haven't had any cheese since my father died; my uncle Claudius is lactose intolerant and hates the stuff. Figures, doesn't it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_steele_/]

Cheese & Crackers, Paramount Picture, C 2005.
A delightful film by some standards.
The main charter, 'Tolan' (Tolan Furusho) finds himself in more than just hot water when the spray cheese disappears from the fridge!!
The main female, Jasmine (Jasmine Svare) wanting to know where it is does not help one bit.
He comes up with many an hilarious explanation to why it is gone, which she doesn’t believe.
The plot on the other hand is in whether they are true or not.
A movie, that although did not, in any way change my lifestyle, did have the potential too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry, professor - I can't believe I missed the first class. I must have missed the times posting! If it's not too late, I'll havd in my assignment now.

*hands in assignment*

Again, I'm so, so sorry!

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

*hands in assignment*

You know, when I first heard about this assignment I figured it would be easy but when I was actually doing it, it was pretty hard to think of how cheese has affected me. I did manage to think of some reasons.

[rosefern-todd.livejournal.com]

Cheese has affected me in many ways, although the most traumatic experience was when my brothers filled my boyfriend’s shoes with stilton, every time he came to the house.

I wouldn’t have minded if they had used Cheddar or Edam or Red Leicester, or even that pre-processed sliced stuff you can get from Supermarkets. But stilton is so smelly. And it’s deliberately mouldy. Plus Paul was allergic to the stuff.

I mean, we probably could have made though that, Paul just started checking his shoes before he put them back on, but then they started chucking it in his hair.



(OOC: Apologies for the lateness, I've been offline for the last few dys. Trying towork out which lessons I missed, and retcon my character into being there)

[lauraholt.livejournal.com]

*hands in, neatly done*

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[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

(ooc: I need to think about how to handle that -- perhaps I can treat it as an essay which is empty of any original content, or something. I'll have something to say about it when the seminar itself starts in a couple of hours. I understand the technique is within the rules of the game, but the students who've done that will have to do some swift thinking on the hoof when the discussion comes round. I'll make life easier for students who have actually written something)

[pathetic30plus.livejournal.com]

[mannybianco.livejournal.com]

OOC - Yes, that's frighteningly easy to do. Thanks for the compliment -- it's a lot easier to play them well if you play characters just like yourself.

[pathetic30plus.livejournal.com]

[lauraholt.livejournal.com]

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[deirdreofamber.livejournal.com]

*cheese, comparing the holes in Swiss Cheese to fjords, 100 words on why cream cheese is so a cheese and how good it is mixed with something called salsa. Also, questioning why something processed is a "cheese food", isn't that redundant?*

Neatly typed, double spaced and in a folder.

[neptune-wallace.livejournal.com]

*leaves hastily scrawled essay in the assignment tray*

Sorry it's late - I had... stuff over the weekend.

[isnotimportant.livejournal.com]

Ah... stuff. I quite understand -- I have... stuff myself, from time to time.