The Various Gods & You, Monday, First Period

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Both teachers were at the front of the class this time! And Jane looked much calmer about it all. Which was nice.

"Hi, everyone," she said with a smile. "After the movie last time, we'll be looking at the Greek pantheon. Which is... just as weird as the Norse one, it seems."

"I would say weirder," Don said, possibly because he was obligated to do so. Possibly because there was at least less incest on the Norse side of things. Possibly because, "None of the Norse ate their kids that I'm aware of." Okay, but you had that boat made out of dead men's fingernails, Don.

The lowest bar ever, Don.

"Yeah, there was a lot of that," Jane admitted. "And also so much punishing mortals for vague insults."

"Well, gods are touchy. Some gods, okay? Some gods." And some gods were proving his point. "The Greek pantheon is led by Zeus, at most the second-best god of thunder, and his sister-slash-wife, Hera, which may explain why he's cheating all the time." Look, Don called it like he saw it.

"She's also the goddess of marriage," Jane added, "so she doesn't take the cheating terribly well. By either trying to kill the poor women or children involved."

Not cool, Hera. Not cool.

"In my universe," Don said, "the Greek gods we probably dealt with the most are Ares, the Greek god of war--well, one of them. Athena is the goddess of....tactics, strategy, things that generals plan out in tents. Ares is the god of the soldier bleeding down in the dirt. So he often comes off as a bad guy, someone who has to be stopped, because he always seeks to continue violent conflict. We also see a lot of Hercules, the half-mortal son of Zeus who's something of an adventurer-hero." Also, not that bright. "He and Ares fight a lot." Definitely information you could all use!

"So today we'll be asking you which of the pantheon you identify most with," Jane suggested. "A thought exercise."

Don passed out a handout on the Greek gods that, yes, had just been printed out from Wikipedia. Listen, it was this or you got Thor's commentary. "Also, which gods do you think you're not like? Who would you get along with? All that sort of thing."

Sex and Sexuality, Monday 3rd period

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When students arrived today, there was a message tacked up on the door:

Your professors could not come to a consensus. Try back next week.



[Sorry, guys; I just absolutely cannot brain today. Hopefully next week after med adjustment will be better.]

Fast Talking, Monday, Period 2

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"So, as you may have noticed by now, fast talking isn't exactly the same thing as honest talking," Aphra said, in a massive understatement. "In fact, it often involves quite a lot of lying."

"But you can trust us to be honest with you," Isabela assured them, like they hadn't started the semester pretending to be each other. "If only because it's less effort than keeping the lies straight."

"Which brings us to today's lesson, keeping your lies straight. Or more likely seeing how many tookas you can juggle while everything's on fire." That was a very...colourful metaphor, Aphra.

"You all need to come up with a lie, your classmates will attempt to poke holes in that lies and you need to fill those holes without contradicting yourself," Isabela explained. "Because sometimes it doesn't matter if someone knows you're lying, it only matters if they can catch you out."