Beginning Gourmet Cooking Techniques | Tuesday, 1st Period

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal waited until everyone was settled, then leaned on the counter. "Our next topic is one that is very important, so we will be spending two or possibly three weeks on it. And that is safety. It's important not to unintentionally poison yourself or anyone else with your cooking, after all." Intentionally was a topic for a different class.

"Safety is important from the very beginning — from choosing your foods, through cooking them, and until you have eaten them. We will be covering each aspect." He paused for a moment. "Well, we will be covering choosing foods from a grocery. If you hunt your food by other means, you are on your own; I'm not teaching that class," he joked, smirking faintly.

( We will start with dairy. )

History: An Exploration of Overlooked Historical Events ; Tuesday ; Period 3

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Riley decided to go with a lighthearted class today. It seemed like a day for it and he wanted to give the kids a bit of a break. They were back in the Danger Shop since he needed it for the activity.

"So, how many of you guys have heard of the Loch Ness Monster?" Riley figured at least a few of them would have heard the name. "Today, we're going to talk about Nessie's lesser known sister. While Nessie has a well known place in history, Tahoe Tessie does not."

Unfortunately, Riley didn't have any pictures to show off of Tessie. "Tessie supposedly resides in America's largest alpine lake, Lake Tahoe. The legend of Tessie actually goes back quite far. The Washoe and Paiute tribes told tales of Tessie as far back as the 19th century. They told of a creature that lived in an underwater tunnel called Cave Rock and sightings continue today."

Riley paused for a second. "People say that Tessie is between ten and eighty feet long, has a serpentine body as wide across as a barrel and ranges in color from jet black to turquoise. People say the skin is smooth despite having reptilian features. So, theories on what Tessie is?"

He waited again to see if anyone would pipe up before he pressed on. "The most popular theory is that Tessie is either a sauropod Plesiosaur, Pliosaur, Icthyosaur or a Mosasaur due to the fossils of the creatures being found in the surrounding Nevada dessert and Sierra Nevada mountains. Tessie experts dismiss these theories because they say the lake was formed during the last Ice Age which meant the dinosaurs were extinct by then. Another theory is that it might be a population of Sturgeon or even a new species of Freshwater eel."

Obviously, no one really knew what Tessie was. Riley flipped on the sim. "Today, we're at Lake Tahoe. There are boats, diving gear and anything else you might need to go look for Tessie. See if you can find her and if you do, give a shout so we can all see!"

Riley didn't think anyone would find Tessie but you never knew!

Hand-To-Hand Combat & Self Defense, Tuesday

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"So, I know we did a movie last week, but Mr. Hansen couldn't make it in today, so we've got another easy day," Raleigh said. "Better than a day spent doing laps, right?"

And he even picked a fun movie! With a vague connection to the subject.

"Next time I'll make popcorn," Raleigh promised, putting the DVD in.

Library, Tuesday

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Nearly four years in Fandom, most of those spent as a library aide, and William was still learning new things about the place.

Like the fact that the library possessed not just the usual reading or audio-visual materials, but also... a small collection of puppets. Mostly animal puppets, as it happened.

Puppets who were currently re-enacting Punch and Judy, a story with which William was rather familiar. Although the part where Punch was a squirrel and Judy a parrot was new.

[ooc: no ocd because laaaazy.]

Ethics [Tuesday, November 12, 2013]

[sith_happened]

Do you hear the sound of robotic screaming, class?

Do you have a very bad feeling about this?

Good. It's terrifying robot toddler week!

"Good morning, class," Anakin said loudly, a slightly fiendish smile on his face. "You each get one of these delightful children to care for this week."

The delightful children were all shrieking their scary faces red. "Each of them has been programmed to be able to walk, climb, and knows a few words, but tend to communicate mostly by yelling and pointing." And throwing things if you guess wrong. "They're each approximately 18 months old, so they are not yet toilet trained."

Oh, you lucky, lucky students.

"They are also teething, and half of them have developed colds as well."

He picked up one of the shrieking children and they stopped yelling immediately because he was a giant cheater. "In addition to keeping them alive--they're programmed to let me know if you neglect them in any way or lock them in a closet for the week--you must also take them out for regular exercise and to face the questions and stares of rude people who have Views on teenaged parents."

Or at least teenaged parents hauling around terrifying robots. "This is a practical ethical exercise: you must decide if it's morally correct to give the child nothing but cookies just because it will shut her up for ten minutes, or marathon Curious George for ten hours because it means the baby isn't climbing your bookshelf or dropping your phone into the toilet."

Anakin enjoyed this class far, far, far too much.

"Come up and pick up your child and tell me his or her name. It's your first ethical choice: if you name it something horrifying, that will probably come back to bite you."

Sports and Stuff [Tuesday after class]

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Now that Cade had found there were all kinds of sports (or "sports") that could be played while drinking, best believe that he had a theme going now to his weekly events.

They were avoiding the cold weather by playing this new game on the basketball court and if someone snagged a beanbag in a basketball hoop, Cade was just going to laugh at them. "Today's game is called cornhole," he said, "which, surprisngly and sadly, isn't dirty. It's pretty much like throwing horseshoes or hand grenades--" thank you, Cade, "--except instead of trying to kill people, you're trying to get your beanbags through the hole in the board thing."

Cade tilted his head. "Yeah, that totally sounds dirty. Anyway, You get four chances. If the beanbag goes through the hole, you get three points. If it lands on the board, you get one point. First team to 21 wins."

[OOC: Open to all!]