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[CJ feels like her old self...from before. Beware of wicked sarcasm.]

201--Speech
Gang, we've had a week off, so we're behind. I need you to step it up. We're going to make speeches on Thursday regarding the elections...3 to 5 minutes on the topic of the week. You have the freedom to say whatever you want, but I expect it to be done well. Use ethos, pathos, and logos. Ok, brainstorm, and I'll be walking around to give you help. Go.
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301--Interpersonal Comm

Listen up. Families. What can we say. The accepted theory is that the family unit that is pleasing to us is a microcosm of the social structure...likewise, society is a macrocosm of family. Keeping this in mind...and moving away from the self into the hypothetical, lets talk dysfunction. [Writes DYSFUNCTION on the board] This means literally "to not work" but has many interpretations. We're going to figure it all out today...[flatly] then you'll be the smartest class in the school. Ok, go. Talk. Or I'll set fire to the room.

Chip...you're in deep shi--trouble. I need to talk to you out in the hall.

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I *am* quitting. You are looking at a quitter. That's me. Nicorette and candy, oh boy.

O'Neill named it while we were still wondering if I was carrying squidlets. I'm still thinking of suing the JA for ulcer support, now that Sunshine's off the hook.

*growls at him, her head down on the desk*

I hate it that you almost make sense.

*starts writing down notes again:*

POLITICS:
Suck
Destroy lives
Destroy friendships
Are not an effective method of governing
TAKE TOO DAMN LONG
Are not well-regulated
Are not as fun as they look like
Accomplish very little....

I'm so not surprised that O'Neill named it. I'm somewhat amazed with *what* he named it, but not surprised that he did it.

You complain that I don't make sense, then hate me when I do. This is a no win situation for me isn't it?

Wow... a bit bitter on the whole politics thing?

O'Neill's as warped as a bad sunproof job on a cheap Pinto. I could ask him how he came up with Raindrop, but I'm afraid to know.

*thinks*
*grins*

It really kind of is a no-win. No-wins all around, then!

Why would I be bitter? Most of the people I was backing won. Sure, it's wrecked my health, and I'm not even sure that winning was the point for those JA types. I'm re-reading The Art of War just to see if I can figure out if I missed something. Bitter? Nooooo.

POLITICS:
Is a method of dealing with an open system through unseen channels
Is less about worthiness, than influence
Occasionally, resembles prey-predator interaction to an unhealthy degree
Requires more stamina than the actual holding of office....

Have one of the SIMS break up with someone, see what happens.

Someone needs to name a drink the "no-win". Only way something good can come out of that.

Try reading War and Peace. Good book. And by the time you're done, all the current politicos will be 'remember him?'s. :)

I can't get the Sims to get in bed with each other yet, let alone break up. I had to start over after little miss Toaster Slayer took out the house.

You and O'Neill, naming things. We need to find you two a brave new world where you can indulge than tendency.

*blinks again* War and Peace. You really aren't as surface as the hair would imply, are you?

*sighs* Maybe I will try it. Can't be worse than reading affirmations on why I don't want to smoke.

*double-take as the Sims statement sinks in*

You Sim'd the school? And the CallySim was the one to take out the house?

*pauses* Oh, that's too fun.

~~been there, done that~~ If you think I'm bad with naming things, you should meet this guy I know named Aiden. He was the worst. Let's just say there's a reason my journal is called "We'll name it later."

Good book. And no, I'm not. But the act tends to keep people off their guard, which is all kinds of useful.

You don't want to smoke. Think of it this way... non-smokers don't usually date smokers. Who would want to kiss that? You're opening up your potenial dating pool by exponential numbers if you quit.

I haven't Simmed the school. Yet. It was *actually* Cally playing my Sims that caused the fire. Hense, the yet. She'll be in the next set I build. [insert even laugh]

Oh, that I have to see. Be sure to put in a Principal who shows up to randomly threaten everyone whenever things slow down too much. That, and a meteorite!

I have a boyfriend. Who didn't mind my smoking. But who will probably be glad about the non-smoking. *growls* *mutters* I've got enough problems without an exponential dating pool opening up under my feet.

Got any suggestions for the speech, Mr. Below the Radar?

POLITICS
Are enjoyed more as a spectator sport, than by the participants
Are only different from psychodrama in that they never end
Are a sign that people have too much time on their hands

I don't know if I'll get that much control. I do know there's a Death character if you let a character expire.

Boyfriend? Anyone I know?

As for the speech, I live by this moto: Be honest, be pithy, be brief and be gone.

Brief? Well, I'm screwed.

Michael Samuelle. You might have seen him around. French guy, wears sunglasses that match mine half the time. *laughs*

Ooo. Death. *pauses* Now, why does that make me think of that one tall thin guy who works at the clinic?

POLITICS
Never conform to the Platonic ideal
Never end how you expect them too.
....are unfortunately, the only option open to us at this time.

You can have most of my time. I don't really want to babble on this stuff too much anyway.

Don't know him. You'll have to introduce us sometime.

Is this class over yet?

Thanks. I have a feeling it might turn into a rant. Hopefully Professor Cregg won't have to get a hook to get me off the podium.

Sure. You're, uh. You're with Valentine, aren't you?

God, I wish.

*sighs and starts drawing pictures of fanged monsters around the margins of her notes*

Not *with* so much as... orbiting the same star. *With* implies a little more than may be accurate.

(give that one horns and he'll look like the guy on Sesame Street who honks his nose.)

*looks blank at the 'star' explanation*

Riiight. Okay. Not my business, so... never mind.

*tilts her head, gives the monster horns*

Heh. He does.

*draws a Kermit*
*draws a balloon coming out of his mouth*
*writes in it:*

POLITICS! Brought to you by the letter P! And by 0, a representational number of Politics!

Not a question of 'not your buisness', if that were the case I would have just said that. More a question of... I have no idea what the hell we are now that we no longer hate each other's guts. We aren't sleeping together... well, we are... but only literally... *shrugs* I don't think either of us are up to overanylizing it.

Can the politicians get a negative number? Or something like the square root of an imaginary number?

Kermit needs a Miss Piggy.

*Parker grimaces* Yeah, analyzing relationships, or thinking about them too much... can lead to Say Anything homages in the rain badness. Uh. Good luck with that, whatever-it-is, though.

Sure, God knows most politicians' approval ratings are in the negative numbers. Wait. The square root of a negative number *is* an imaginary number. So the square root of *that* is something like -- I don't know. A Ridiculous number?

*adds square root signs and little i's and minus signs in the ballon*

So he does.

*Miss Piggy looks like Miss Piggy. She also looks like the First Lady, waving, in pearls*
*the wave might be a karate-chop*

*her voice balloon reads: "VOTE FOR US, or HIIIIII-YAH!"

A ridiculous number! That's hysterical. A hallucinigenic number?

Draw the Chef and his chicken. Be sure Das has her Uzi. :)

Ooo. Yeah. A hallucinogenic number. Rewrites reality, while you wait!

*draws the Chef*
*can't quite get Das right, the wings are awkward*

*word-balloons say:*

"Bork bork bork!"

And

"Hallucinate *your* political reality! A Chicken can be President!"

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