Brooding for Dummies, Friday, Period 2

[furnaceface]

Today, class was once again in the classroom. Not a terrible surprise, that. Jono was looking a little off this morning, though. He'd woken up with a headache, and was half-slouched against the desk again, occasionally putting a hand to the side of the head as if that would somehow do something to relieve the pressure of... hell, he didn't know what. An oncoming storm, probably.

//Sometimes even brooding takes energy you don't necessarily have,// he said, his voice holding a kind of airy, faraway quality to it this morning. //In situations like those, it's fine to just settle in for a good helping of apathy, instead.// He tilted his head, some vague sense of amusement in his expression. //When I was a student, there was an entire bloody club for it. Motto was 'whatever.' It was great in that low-commitment not actually doing anything but still getting extra credit for it sort of way.//

... He wasn't sure where he was going with this.

//Right. Calling an impromptu Apathy Club meeting today. Just sit around doing nothing, or doodling or playing games on yer phone, or sitting in companionable silence, or... whatever. Whatever.//

[Whatever!]

Construction 102; Third Period, Friday [08/10].

[special_rabbit]

"'Morning, everyone," Amaya nodded a greeting to the students once they were all collected and gathered in the forge space, hopefully by now getting right to putting on their gear. They'll probably likely notice that there were lots of wood pieces and tools waiting for them, so, hopefully, they were in a building mood. "We've made some pretty good progress on everything on the building; there's really not a whole lot more to do, really, except a lot of little things, so today I thought we'd sort of do something a little different, a little fun, more carpentry than construction, but it'll still tie in. Y'see, today, we're going to be installing cabinets!"

Sounded fun, right?

"But we're also gonna be making them first!"

Which hopefully sounded a lot more fun. "Here's what we're going to do," Amaya said, leading into a pretty basic demonstration of how to do it, that they could follow along with in their own construction of the cabinets.

And once they were done with that, Amaya nodded approvingly at their work...or at least their efforts...and then hitched her thumb toward the stairs at the back. "Alright, good work! Let's haul these upstairs and get 'em installed."

And once up, Amaya walked through the process in the space designated with the kitchen. "Now, it's a small space," she said, "so you'll want to either take turns or work together, and if you have any questions, well, you know I'll be right here to answer them."

And, with that, she stepped back to let them work it out, figuring, if anything, it wasn't like she was going to be spending much time in a kitchen, so if it wasn't exactly the prettiest cabinetry, it was no big deal.

Japanese Blades, First Period, Friday [08/10].

[battlewithstyle]

Mitsutada looked completely relieved as he stood in front of the class with his guest for the week - a towering beefcake of a man with magenta hair flowing back into a long pony tail, wearing a traditional black kimono with hakama. No shenanigans with dramatic entrances or anything else this week.

"Welcome everyone," Mitsutada said. "I will get down to the class at hand. We are covering spears this week, with my friend Tonbokiri. I will let him introduce himself."

"Hello," Tonbokiri greeted with a warm smile. "I am Tonbokiri, one of the Three Great Spears of Japan, though that sounds like a boast which I do not like to do." He even looked a little embarrassed. "I was forged by Fujiwara Masazane in 1532, and famously wielded by Tadakatsu Honda, who was thought to be invulnerable due to never being wounded or bested in battle."

"There are even legends that he was so strong that his spear had a shaft twenty feet in length," Mitsutada added, gently teasing. Tonboki blushed and shook his head.

"That would be a very impractical spear," he said. "Though it is true that Tadakatsu had me shortened as he aged, so that he could still wield me even in his older days."

"Tell them the story of your name!" Mitsutada said.

"Oh!" Tonbokiri said. "It is pretty straightforward, if you know Japanese. 'Kiri' means cutter, much like in Shokudaikiri here. 'Tonbo' is a dragonfly. My name comes from the story that my blade was so sharp that a dragonfly went to land on the edge, and cut itself clean in half. I kind of feel sorry for that dragonfly, honestly."

Mitsutada nodded, knowing that sort of feeling. "Any questions for our guest today? I don't think all of your are familiar with his master Lord Honda, so he would be happy to tell you about him."

[ooc: OCD up, class is ready!]