Home Ec 7, Period 4, 2/16

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"This week," Steve said, "we begin talking about food preparation. We begin with...knife skills. Don't panic! I'm not expecting you to be chopping up onions like a pro by the end of class. It's perfectly fine to go slowly and not cut your fingers off. But once you learn how to do things properly, and get some practice in, you'd be surprised by how much easier it becomes, and how much faster cooking goes. Someone else has already explained the rest of this much better than I ever could, so you're going to watch an episode of Good Eats." Steve cued up the projector.

When that was over, he said, "Now, we still have most of the hour left, so guess what? You're going to put what you've just learned to good use. At your stations you have everything you'll need to make the gazpacho you saw on the show--including a printout of the recipe, and gloves for use with the jalapeno. Please use them. I'm not going to make you concasse your tomatoes, of course. That's a little advanced for this class," Steve said wryly. "I've provided raw tomatoes for you to practice chopping on, and tomatoes already concasse for use in the recipe. If you feel like you need to see a segment of the episode again to get a handle on the technique, or if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. This class coming right after lunch, you might not be so excited to eat the results, but we have plastic takeaway containers, so you can always take it with you and chill it to eat later."

Extreme Physical Education | Wednesday | Period 1

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Fraser was standing at the front of the Danger Shop again, holding what appeared to be a sled of some kind. There was a table of equipment off to the side, waiting for the students.

"Good morning," he greeted, holding up the luge. "Today, we're going to be taking on the gravity defying sport of street luge. Street luge is simple but it's very, very dangerous if done wrong and if we take on too much at once. If you know the sport of winter luge, you'll realize that this sport has very little in common besides the sled -- "

He pointed at the luge he was holding.

" -- and the fact that high speeds can be achieved. It's a dangerous sport but if done right, it's safe and it's exhilarating."

Fraser then went on to explain the basics of street luge including how to handle the board and the various pieces of safety equipment (helmet, pads, proper shoes, proper suits) that had to be worn before they got going.

"Today, I want you all to do this classic style," he said, laying flat on his back to demonstrate this classic style. "No head first. We're not ready for that yet. Everyone ready? All right, let's go."

Fraser got the simulation going, revealing several paved hilly roads for the students to practice their luge skills on.

Library, Wednesday (2/16)

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It was a relief to get back to the quiet and normalcy of the library today, after everything; that was the theory, anyway.

It was just a little too quiet, and on those occasions where she found herself with nothing to do, Gabrielle took to going into the stacks and picking out armfuls of random books to read just for the sake of having to go back and reshelve them herself later.

. . . which didn't do too much about the quiet, but it kept her hands busy. That, at least, was something. Thank all the gods ever that she'd never been the type to waste precious parchment and ink on writing morose poetry, and wasn't about to start.

What NOT To Do In A Fight / Period III / Week 7 (Atreides/Deadpool)

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"Moving on from the blah blah blah trauma blah blah had kids," Deadpool said, bouncing on his heels excitedly. "Today we finally get to my specialty: banter."

( Oh, he was like a girl at prom. )

"We've got some apples and bananas for fake weaponry, if you'd like. Feel free to run, dodge, whatever you need to do while trying to banter and fight at the same time."

The Science of Psionics, Wednesday

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"Next week, we graduate to telekinesis," Kerrigan said, as she paced idly into the room. "Today, we talk about the more... active... applications of telepathy. Passive telepathy we've covered - the discipline of listening in and knowing how the mind fits together. Active telepathy is a step beyond. It is when we start meddling."

She may have shot her TA if she was there a mildly amused glance there. "Hypnosis and other fields like it have been explored by humanity for millenia. The subconscious is a powerful place to reach into, provided you knock out - or pass by - the conscious mind. The subconscious controls where our ideas come from, how our body works, how we act before the idea has even manifested. Some scientists claim that all decisions are already made in the subconscious; any control we think we have over them is just an illusion."

She leaned against the desk. "Fertile ground for telepaths," she said. "We don't need to wave objects in someone's face to take out their conscious mind. We can slip past it - provided we're willing to navigate the maze that lives in all of your brain pans. Placing suggestions is an art form. You'd be surprised how complex these processes are - I can't just snap my fingers and make you cluck like a chicken."

Beat.

"Probably."

She was reassuring like that. "Smaller things are easier. A compulsion to go to a certain place, at a certain time. Being more inclined towards wearing a certain color in your wardrobe. But sometimes all you need is a small thing to affect a greater change, to throw everything off balance." She smiled. It was also not very reassuring. "Usually, the smaller the alteration, the more natural the change, the less likely anyone is to notice something has changed. A telepath specialising in suggestion is a lot like a surgeon. You won't know they've done their work until they've long gone, if you ever find out at all."

She tapped her fingers against the desk. "Three things today," she said. "First of all, as in every class, I want you to swap experiences. Theorise about the nature of compulsion. Discuss what you think you can do to stop invaders from tweaking your mind. Second of all, I have a movie for you that... discusses some of the processes involved in tweaking the subconscious. Finally, if any of you dare - I'm willing to give a practical example of a compulsion. Today, or during my office hours on Friday. Don't worry. It won't last more than a few minutes."

Ahahaha. Sure.

AV Club [after classes]

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"Hey, guys," Ben said with a little smile. "Today I thought we could work on the visual side of the AV club."

He gestured to a small array of cameras arrayed on the table in front of him. "These are called point and shoot cameras, which basically means you won't be able to take fuzzy, awful photos unless you are really trying," Ben summarized before launching into a much more technical explanation of the way the cameras worked.

"Give them a try now and then have fun with them this week. There's enough weirdness around here that I thought we could all take pictures and then show them off next week. If you manage to capture a shot of the gremlins or the radio squirrels, I'll buy you ice cream."