Debt! And How to Get Out of It- 1st Period- Class #5

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The students were instructed to meet in the Danger Shop today... which was set up like a pet store. This was going somewhere, really.

"Hi guys," said Lily. "After the last week, I really can't make anyone talk about money. So what we're going to do is, you're all going to tell me one thing that makes you happy, and then we're all going to play with puppies!"

No one said it was going anywhere productive.

Photography [Week Five]

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"Afternoon, folks," Veronica greeted the class. "I hope you're all well and recovered from last week. We'll develop our photos from last week of anxiety and then discuss them."

They went into the dark room, did their thing and then settled in the classroom again.

"Let's see your photos and talk about how and why they convey anxiety."

After the discussion, she gave them an assignment for the following week. "Next week, I want photos that display sensuality in some way. These should not be dirty photographs. I'll be in my office on Thursday as usual if you need help."

Mythbusting, Tuesday, 8/4

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Class met in the Danger Shop today, and Tyler was notably subdued. He didn't feel right but was trying to hold it together enough to teach.

"Car myths," he said, once the class was gathered near a parking lot of simulated vehicles. "Sugar or bleach in the gas tank will kill the engine, a potato in the tail pipe will blow up the car, mothballs in the fuel tank make a car run better, a penny in the carburetor ruins the engine, an egg will fix a crack in the radiator. You've probably heard stuff like that -- the ones of you from worlds with cars, anyhow."

"Today, we're checking them out. 'Additives' " -- finger quotes on that word -- "are over on the table, and every pair of you gets a fake car to screw around with. If you're going to try to blow it up, handwavily let me know so I can get up the shields. If you don't know how to drive, pair up with someone who does. I'm passing out a diagram of a car's engine that should get you started."

"Questions?"

Library [8.4]

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Crisis was averted, everyone was back in the land of the waking, which meant life was (slowly) returning to normal around the school.

Anemone had ventured out to the library to handwavily research once or twice, but had usually ended up retreating to the safety of her room. The sleepers reminded her far too much of her own disorder; the moments when the Sickness would pull her mind away from her body, leaving an empty husk unable to respond to the most basic prompts while her soul was a reality away.

It wouldn't happen here, it couldn't. The Coralians hadn't come to this Earth yet, with the exception of her, and this sleeping sickness had been born of magic and not from the planet itself.

Which didn't make her feel any better about hiding away, but she'd been unable to cope with the blank faces and still bodies down at Town Hall, and the fear that maybe, maybe, she'd been the one to infect everyone with the Despair. That maybe her presence here was enough to wake the planet, and was jumpstarting her own timeline.

Anemone had never been so happy to be wrong.

And now people were awake. There were classes. And there were plenty of books to be shelved, and tidied, and a Special Collections to feed as a reward for not trying to eat anyone over the weekend.

The Fandom High Library was open, and the library aide was bustling about, riding on the book carts and cleaning up the mess left-behind by the researchers while Gulliver supervised.

Yup, everything was totally back to normal.

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Film Through The Ages, Tuesday, Period Three

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"Sound!"

Mitchell wasn't looking more than averagely nervous this week. Really, he wasn't. If anything, overeager might have been the word. "The Jazz Performer came out in 1927, cementing the presence of sound in cinema," he started, grinning lightly and trying not to look too much in Jack's direction if he was there. "They'd been working on different ways to introduce sound to cinema since the early 1920s, but it wasn't until the 30s that it was really accepted. Studios thought that if they put sound to film, it might compromise what they'd been doing with camera movements, with mise-en-scene..." He clacked his tongue. "That was crap," he said, succinctly.( Cut for TL;dr )

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