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fandomhigh2009-05-13 12:20 am
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Seven Secrets to Success - Wednesday, 5/13 - Period Five
Rimmer was waiting in the Danger Shop, back stiff and smile smug. The room was set up like the average classroom, with desks and two #2 pencils on each. A copy of the syllabus lay in the exact center of each one, printed out crisp and fresh this morning. If there was a typo (or a complete nervous breakdown) on the sheet, he hadn't noticed as he'd been busy making sure that everything was perfect for his first class.
As soon as he saw his students, he knew that wasn't going to happen. Regardless, he was determined to soldier on, to shape these miscreants into proper Space Corps recruits even if they weren't in the Space Corps.
"Welcome," he said with overblown magnanimity, marching across the room in front of the students, "to Seven Secrets of Success. All of you are here because you want to succeed. You're not willing to settle for... for what life hands you, no" and he turned sharply on his heel to stare at them, "you're looking for more. Up up up the ziggurat, as I always say. You're looking to make the world look up to you. You're looking to make people say 'there's the kind of man I want running my ship; there's a son that I can be proud of; there's a man I'd sleep with sans head injury!'."
He realized he might have gone just a bit far afield and thus took the opportunity to spin again and continue towards the other side of the room.
"So! We will be doing introductions, obviously, but to show you just how accomplished your instructor is, you'll be getting not one secret, but two:
"Getting Straight To Work, one of the most important things to remember if you'd like to succeed. And the other, well," he smirked with hidden knowledge, "you'll just have to see when we get there."
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As soon as he saw his students, he knew that wasn't going to happen. Regardless, he was determined to soldier on, to shape these miscreants into proper Space Corps recruits even if they weren't in the Space Corps.
"Welcome," he said with overblown magnanimity, marching across the room in front of the students, "to Seven Secrets of Success. All of you are here because you want to succeed. You're not willing to settle for... for what life hands you, no" and he turned sharply on his heel to stare at them, "you're looking for more. Up up up the ziggurat, as I always say. You're looking to make the world look up to you. You're looking to make people say 'there's the kind of man I want running my ship; there's a son that I can be proud of; there's a man I'd sleep with sans head injury!'."
He realized he might have gone just a bit far afield and thus took the opportunity to spin again and continue towards the other side of the room.
"So! We will be doing introductions, obviously, but to show you just how accomplished your instructor is, you'll be getting not one secret, but two:
"Getting Straight To Work, one of the most important things to remember if you'd like to succeed. And the other, well," he smirked with hidden knowledge, "you'll just have to see when we get there."
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Re: Introductions
While 'spazzed' is a terrible word to use, there was no better one for the movement he made which seemed as if he was both trying to duck and jump at the same time while also appearing to desperately require a men's room.
Oh yes. Courageous, this one.
He spun around and looked for the source before eyeing Agnes warily.
"I would appreciate if you kept such parlour tricks to yourself while in class," he said stiffly. "But point made."
He considered assigning her some sort of demerit but decided the probability of getting cursed or something was too high and thus, it wasn't worth it.
Re: Introductions
She'd already mentally assigned Rimmer into the "very easy to curse" category: She'd just have to TELL him he was cursed, and he'd do the rest himself.
Re: Introductions
"Yes," ahem, "well" brrr "all the same."
He tapped around his head to make sure it was still all there and straightened his back.