Flight and Flying [Tuesday, June 2, 4th period]

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When the students entered the flight shed (thankfully no longer smelling of bleach), they would notice a sequence of lights spread across the ceiling.

"Meet Drol," Anakin said, waving his hand. "The god of the moon of Iego, who brings destruction to all those who attempt to leave." He snorted. "In reality, Drol is a system of laser emitters programmed to track onto a ship as it hits orbit and blow it out of the sky. That same technology was later used to exterminate entire planets. We'll get to in a few classes. For today, you will be piloting a G9 Rigger freighter, which is neither sexy nor particularly speedy, but it's your first time flying in space, so you need something that can take a little beating up."

He flashed them a tiny smile. "For you beginners, you will only have to navigate around the asteroids in Iego's atmosphere. People with a little more experience will face off against Drol. Figure out how to disable the system without exploding, please."

He clasped his hands together in front of him. "Begin."

Archeology, Thursday

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As the students walked into the Danger Room today they'd probably notice the stall of white horses in front of them.

They might also notice a convoy of trucks driving away with Nazi emblems on it.

"Sometimes when you find an object of historical value, you get to keep it and put it in a museum," Indiana said with a grin. "Other times someone else wants that artifact more than you."

He pointed at the trucks. "So if you want it back? You'll need to get it yourself. Mount up!"

[OCD is up]

SAT Prep [Workshop #4]

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Veronica and her very large cup of coffee were sitting on the desk this morning as the students entered the classroom.

"Good morning, guys. There's coffee and donuts over there. I figured that you might need the sugar and caffeine since we're discussing math today."

It was almost criminal to discuss math so early in the morning.

Once everyone was settled, Veronica went over the best way to approach the math section of the test.

"Any questions?" she asked. "Next week we'll do some practice problems."

Sexual Anthropology, Tuesday, Period 2

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"Good morning," Brennan greeted the class once they all seemed to be in their seats and more or less quiet. "I hope you all made it through the alligators all right; Valentine helped me dissect one and I'm still reviewing our findings." She gave a tiny, grateful smile to the girl in question assuming she was there.

"I know our syllabus says today's class will be about sexuality and religion, but that's really too broad a topic to cover in this class, especially given the wide range of cultural backgrounds. Instead, we'll be talking about aphrodisiacs." Oh, impending irony. "An aphrodisiac is any substance used in the belief it enhances sexual desire. In modern culture, there are certain drugs known to function as aphrodisiacs, such as testosterone supplements, a drug called Yohimbe, and Bremelanotide. Drugs like Viagra, which cure impotence, are not seen as aphrodisiacs because they have no effect on the sexual centers in the brain."

"However, of more interest to this class are the folk medicines and foods seen as aphrodisiacs. These have included some chosen for suggestive shapes or origins, like rhinoceros horn and tiger penis, as well as an incredible range of foods, such as arugula, basil, chocolate -- which may actually have a mild chemical effect -- fennel, oysters, coffee, and the sap of red bananas. The ancient Egyptians saw lettuce as the most potent aphrodisiac of all. Most of these, of course, work only as placebos. There is also cantharadin, known as 'Spanish Fly'; it acts as an irritant and can cause death in too large of a dose."

"Today, I would like you to report back to me on your mock courtship exercise from last week, then sample from the platters of alleged food aphrodisiacs in the back of the room and note any effects they have on you."

Beach Play - Tuesday - Period 5

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Today the class met in the Danger Shop where it still looked like the beach only now Marshall was in control of everything. It sort of made him feel like a god. Or that dude from The Truman Show. Either way it was badass.

"You might be wondering why we're meeting in the Danger Shop when it's a perfectly nice day outside. No, I just don't have a god complex. I need to make sure it's breezy out because today we are flying these things--" Marshall held up a kite. "For those of you who don't know, this is a kite. The whole point of a kite is to get it to fly in the air and, more importantly, stay in the air. They're not really a fun toy. It's more of a toy used to show off in front of your friends because these little suckers can be hard to work."

Marshall went a little bit into how to get a kite up in the air before actually demonstrating it. He made it look remarkably easy. "Now it's not going to be this easy for all of you. Actually I bet some of you won't be able to do it at all. Some people have the gift and some don't. It's nothing to be ashamed of."

"So each of you grab a kite and practice flying it. If your kite starts going down and heading towards the head of another student please shout 'Fore!' or 'Oh my god, duck!' as a warning," Marshall said. "Don't shout 'heads up' because that is a completely misleading term."

Why would you put up your head if something is about to hit it?

Library [6.2]

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Another Tuesday, another library shift. Only instead of dealing with expansionist genres or any wee-tiny invasions or other strangeness, today found Anemone shifting out the old magazines to make way for the new issues.

What? Sometimes there was normal library work to do.

[The dish left the spoon to run away with the OCD, but open library is open.]

Logically Speaking, Period 6, 2 Jun '09

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Mohinder was standing at the front of the classroom by the time the workshop had assembled. Written on the board behind him was 'Theory -> Hypothesis -> Observation -> Confirmation'

"We're looking at deductive reasoning this week," he said, passing out notes as he did so. "Where the conclusion of an argument is necessary - or has to follow from your initial conditions. Not that a valid argument has to be true - from 'All yellow objects float' and 'All taxis are yellow' the conclusion 'All taxis float' is valid, but not sound, because the starting premises aren't true."

"This form of logic is probably most popularly known from the tales of meta for Sherlock Holmes," continued Mohinder. He cued up the television, saying, "Such as this chain of reasoning about a man's hat," and this clip played.

The clip paused, Mohinder turned to the group. "Now it's your turn to construct a argument as to the events or people pictured in your handouts, and convince your classmates of it. I'll be here if there're any questions."

[OCD's up and the water's fine!]

Criminal Justice: Wednesday [June 3rd]

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When the students arrived at the Danger shop today they'll find that it had been transformed into full service car wash.

"I'm switching things up on our syllabus today," Gibbs said sipping his coffee. "Today we're going to be learning how to capture a fugitive. Half of you will be the fugitives, the rest of you are the chasers. When we've done one round then we'll switch. If you need to know who this is done then we'll give you an example."

Turning around to look at his TA's, he pointed at Buffy. "Summers. Arrest Skywalker for murder. Feel free to rough him up."

When that little demonstration was done Gibbs then went on to do a demonstration on how to handcuff a suspect.

Finally Gibbs read off the following list of names:

( Fugitives! )

"This group is the first group of fugitives," Gibbs called out. "If your name was not read off then you need to start chasing and arresting people. NOW!"

[ooc: OCD is up! Setting is a car wash with all the appropriate items. "Fugitives" can try and run through/hide in the car wash or cars or anything else around the car wash.]

Healthy Diet and Living; Wednesday, Period One [ 06/03 ].

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"Good morning!" Daisy greeted the class brightly; ever since getting up this morning, she'd been feeling very good and energetic and like it might turn out to be a very good day for her. "I'm sure if you have a look at your syllabus, you'll see that we're talking dinners today. Well, one of the best things about food and eating healthily is that it's something that's better done when shared. I'm going to hand out to you a packet of healthy recipes intended for two, and you're getting a bit of homework today. Hopefully homework you'll like. And get something out of."

She threw the wink at the class before she could stop it. "You're to put together a little dinner date using one or more of these recipes before next week. It can be with whoever you want, even someone from class if you'd like, and I just want to know how the cooking went and how the two of you liked the meal. Anything else that happens if you're own business."

Bless, that was an eyebrow waggle, too. She couldn't help it. "Anyway, since that's all stuff for later, today we'll just throw together a little healthy breakfast to have before you start your day. And I was originally thinking something like muffins or quiche or something, but then I remembered pomegranates. Pomegranates, mixed with oatmeal and chocolate is an excellent breakfast. I know a lot of you like your chocolate, and pomegranates are just so...sweet and lush and juicy; the moist inside, bright, lush and pink-red in colour brings to mind...they just make you want to..."

Okay, put the pomegranates down, Daisy. She cleared her throat a little. "Well, anyway, it's an easy enough recipe so you shouldn't have any trouble. I'm around to make sure you don't burn anything down and good luck on your dinner dates. I probably don't need to mention that I recommend the pomegranate duck."

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