Good Omens...And Bad: Prophecy in Theory and Practice, Class Twelve

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Monday, November 27, First Period

It would seem that someone has been doing a lot of baking lately. A huge spread of homemade breads, various scones, muffins, cinnamon rolls, and cookies is available for munching on during class. In addition there is, of course, the usual tea, accompanied by coffee, hot chocolate, and hot cider. Aziraphale appears to be a bit on the fidgety side, and is actually walking about the room as he talks, rather than sitting in his chair.

"Before we begin class today, I have an announcement to make. I have been called away on assignment, and will be leaving town a week from Tuesday. During my absence, class will be led by Dr James Wilson, with the assistance of Miss Halliwell and Miss Belacqua. I'm certain that you'll all give Dr Wilson your utmost respect and attention, just as you do for me.

"Now, we have a full day ahead of us. First there's a short test for you to take, and then we'll move on to the lecture."

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[ooc: Please wait for OCD is up, enjoy!]

Library [11/27]

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Yomiko opened up the library on time and settled in behind the desk. She'd spent most of last week in her basement with the books, and probably was unaware there'd even been a holiday.

Intro to 21st Century American Culture - Monday - Fifth Period

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Lorelai was sitting on top of her desk when the class entered. Students would notice listening stations around the room.

"Today we're going to learn about popular music," Lorelai began. "In my personal opinion, most of what they call music today sucks. But I'll let you all make up your own minds. The listening stations are set up to play Billboard's Top 100 Singles."

Right before the end of class, Lorelai called for attention. "We're rapidly approaching the end of the semester. Don't forget about your final projects. Each of you will need to give a presentation to your classmates about a form of popular culture from your time or place. If you have questions, let me know."

Cross Species Communications - Monday 11/27/2006

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Student's handwavy recieved vocabulary lists for the language of Spiders last weekend. However, when they get into class, they do not see a spider at the front of the room with Mary. Instead, there is a (rather sheepish looking) swan.

"Good afternoon Children... Due to a rather unfortunate and tragic series of events we do not have a guest speaker to review the language of spiders. Instead, we have a swan to speak to today..."

The swan tries to look innocent.

"Swans are large water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form the tribe Cygnini. Sometimes, they are considered a distinct subfamily, Cygninae. Our... Guest today is a Cygnus olor, which is a common temperate Eurasian species, often semi-domesticated. Descendants of domestic flocks are naturalized in the United States and elsewhere. Not all varieties of swan hold their necks in a curved position and display their folded wings with the feather's splayed, but our guest here and his close relatives do.

Now the language of Anatidae is quite different from that of Passeriformes as we discussed previously in the term. Knowing the language of one can help you communicate with the other as some of you have discovered. Sometimes, there are variations as a result of regional or species variations."

[[ooc: Please wait for OCD. OPEN!!! Students are expected to try and speak Starling to the Swan. FYI - Cygnus olor are mute. Hilarity ensues. Please mod your own game of charades with the Swan who's name is "Princess" (Yes, it's a male swan and yes, he hates his name) if you would like. If you don't my slooooooow play, let me know oocly. I spent 10 hours at Disneyland with Walter!Mun yesterday and I'm mildly braindead this morning.]]

Spanish Class, Monday 2nd Period

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El was face down on his desk. He appeared to be sleeping.

Broots might notice El had a numver of bandages. John would probably know why.

The "study vocabulary amongst yourself" sign was up next to El on his desk.

Lunch - Monday

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Heppy Mundey stoodents! Ell stooffffed veet toorkey? Bork bork bork! Stooffffed veet toorkey!

Tudey's Menoo:

-Hut Dugs

-French Freees

-Seled

-Meelkshekes

Interstellar Relations, Monday, 6th Period

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She wore her favorite suit to class today, and was standing at the front of the classroom as the students entered. Her arms were folded across her chest, one elbow propped upward, a cup of coffee held not unlike the torch on the Statue of Liberty. Well, except not that high -- maybe about shoulder-level. She waited for class to begin with a mischievous gleam in her eye.

"If you'll come in and take your seats from last time," Roslin said, gesturing with her coffee cup, "we'll get started."

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[A few OCD threads coming up. There will be a place holder for a later action for everyone to react to. ETA: Posted in the right place now.

ETA2: Please wait for the OOC thread. LJ seems to be giving issues, so it might be a bit.]

[Media Studies & Communication: Week 12, 4th Period]

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"Guys," Logan greeted the class as they filed in and sat down. "We're getting close to the end of the term, and you know what that means? Finals.

"What I'm going to ask you to do is incorporate some methods of propaganda and some of the advertising ideology we learned into a sort of self-advertisement. You'll be selling yourself - but not in any way that'll get me into trouble, thanks."

The screen behind him flipped through pictures both from the posters of the last couple weeks and some advertisements from a while ago.

"You can treat it as a political position, make something up, or however you want to run it. Just come up with a campaign - posters, word of mouth, commercials, however you want to do it - and what you'll be working for are signatures."

Logan held up a clipboard with a piece of paper on it and a pen affixed to the top by a string. "You'll have to actually collect the signatures yourself, using whatever tactics you like, but I do want to see something concrete when you turn in your signatures. Bring your poster, a taped copy of your commercial or even someone who helped you spread your campaign. I trust you guys to not just get a load of signatures from people who think they're signing up for swim team or something. Just remember I can tell if you're lying."

He gave everyone a hard look, then smiled. "You have this day to begin your projects. Feel free to use any of the resources from prior classes.

"This is going to be a somewhat different assignment," he said, perched on the front of his desk as usual. "But this will be a big help to those of you who might have missed some classes and are, as of right now, looking at a less than perfect grade. For every five signatures, you'll get one absence knocked off. Or you'll get points toward extra credit and possibly a reward, if you have no absences or you get more points than absences needed to be taken off.

"If you need to see how many absences you have, you can talk to me. If you're wondering why they count against you when I haven't said anything, well, it was always on the syllabus. It is, in fact, the only class expectation," he said somewhat dryly. "I don't think any of you would flunk from your absences, but if you want a better grade, just get a few more signatures."

[OOC: Wait for OCD! So close to the end, omg! And ping me if I've counted wrong on absences for anyone, please. Feel free to handwave actually checking on your absences, if you so choose.]

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Flight Club, Monday, 4 pm in the flight shed

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Aeryn does feel weird about being back in here, yes. However, it's not why she's looking less than pleased.

"Consider this one of those free-bee things," she says. "You can sign in to get club credit or whatever and leave, or you can stay here and watch a movie. It's called Air Commander and the Planet of the Future. I have no idea. Hopefully by the time it's over, the aspirin will have kicked in."

And she starts the movie on the TV in case anyone wants to watch.


[This is a game we play called Multiple Threads Will Make My Head Implode. Sorry for the lameness.]

World History in a Nutshell

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Xlass today was held in the DangerShop, as the class had *handwavily* been informed. It was set up to look like a 1930s classroom, with posters on the walls. At the back were small suitcases and boxes.

"Okay, first of all, I have to apologise for missing class," said Daniel, looking very sheepish. "In light of that, I've changed the syllabus slightly and today we're going to look at a part of World War II."


"World War II is generally regarded as starting in 1939, although there are those who would argue that other defining moments caused it. But on September 3rd of that year, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany two days after German troops invaded Poland. The BBC has a special report on the day the war began which you can explore and look at if you like."

"Now. After Poland fell, Germany paused to regroup during the winter of 1939-1940 until April 1940, while the British and French stayed on the defensive. The period was referred to by journalists as "the Phony War" or the "Sitzkrieg" because so little ground combat took place.

"During this time,
Operation Pied Piper took place. This was the evacuation of Britain's cities and was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history. In the first four days of September 1939, nearly 3,000,000 people were transported from towns and cities in danger from enemy bombers to places of safety in the countryside.

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