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Healthy Diet and Living; Monday, Period Five [ 08/03 ].

"Hullo, everyone." Daisy, it would seem, had come into the classroom a bit early, to take to moving all the desks and chairs in the one part of the home ec room aside and lay down some mats, as well as brew some coffee. The good stuff, too. It's not like they were in the station. So she was having herself a giant mug of it, because she'd done her bad station coffee duty for the day, thank you. "Before we do anything, I'd like you all to help yourself to some coffee; there's tea, too, of course, if you're not a fan. Just a little something to wake us up a bit because it's been a long week and anything to help keep up up through this is probably a good thing."

"And I want to say thanks to Peyton for covering for me last week and apologize to you all for missing it, but there were some pressing matters that needed to be taken care of. If anything, I want you all to take from this class that you shouldn't try to turn old video game consoles into bombs. It only turns out badly."

"So far, we've focused, of course, a lot on staying healthy through what we eat, and this week was supposed to be the body, but I think we need a nice calming break. We're going to work a little on the mind. Keeping your head straight and healthy is equally important, and there are lots of ways to do that. Some people find their centering in a hobby or an activity, for example." Daisy would not be mentioning her own, as it was probably not classroom appropriate, ahem. "A lot of people use meditation, as well, and so we'll be taking some time to do that today. Meditation is a great way to just stop for a moment, give your brain a rest, and come out of it feeling as rejuvenated as a good night's sleep, if you get good enough at it. It'll help put things into focus if everything's seeming to get a little crazy, just by stopping for a moment, and focusing on just breathing. Our bodies tend to do that naturally, the whole breathing thing, but it's amazing how it can change us by slowing down and noticing."

"A lot of times, meditation works best by focusing on one thing. Your breathing, an object, a word, an image, a sound. Since I don't want that one thing to be our stomachs, we're going to start today by making a quick and easy snack, satisfy our stomachs before satisfying our minds. While we work on those and have some coffee, here's some information on meditation to look over,"--she had doubts about including that last one, but, come on, they were teenagers, it might be the only one they'd bother reading, and that was better than nothing-- "and if you did get a chance to get to that dinner, let's hear about it. If not, no big deal. I was gone all last week, but I could tell that it was an...off one. And then we'll hit the mats and try some meditation."

[[ OCD ~~is the way~~ says 'om'! Class Roster and Syllabus ]]

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Breathe in. Breathe out...

Claire ~~Bennet~~ Butler

Griffin O'Conner

Eva Rodriguez

Morgana

Sookie Stackhouse

Jack McTeague

Coffee. Gooooood. Mmmmm.

This would also be the time to mention how that date thing went if you had a chance to try it.

Edited 2009-08-03 12:59 (UTC)

Oh, right, the date thing. Claire would have done that if she things hadn't been so crazy. Oops.

Dates were for people not pretzels on the ground or waking up in the wet sand. Um. Griff considered that he should try doing that just to feel like he'd accomplished something for class. It was homework, after all.

You know what else everybody likes? Parfaits. Have you ever met a person, you say, "Let's get some parfait," they say, "Hell no, I don't like no parfait"? Parfaits are delicious.

And, yes that had to be copied from last time.

Now that the need for caffeine has been met and stomachs have something other than that caffeine in them, Daisy prompted everyone to get comfortable on the mats, close their eyes, and to listen to their breathing and focus their minds and let everything just disappear for a while.

She felt pretty confident that she didn't even have to worry about anyone falling asleep, either, all things considered. What she did hope, though, is that the opportunity to clear their mind and refresh a little would be helpful.

Meditation seemed like a nice thing. Claire was pretty sure she could stay awake, even though she hadn't slept a lot last night.

Closing his eyes and breathing had this odd tendency to cause his mind to wander to really awful and terrible things. He opened them once, trying to refocus his mind on something better but there was a lot of blood in his recent memory. It wasn't going so well.

The thing with meditation was that it was fairly easy to pick up on when someone was struggling with finding a center, and Daisy frowned, worriedly. "Griff?" she asked. "Everything okay?"

"Just can't seem to clear my head," he told her, opening his eyes and shrugging his shoulders.

"Sometimes," offered Daisy, "it helps to just think of a colour rather than a thing or nothingness. When I have trouble focusing, I try white."

"A color," he repeated. "That sounds far better than trying to clear things and remembering them all."

Daisy nodded. "Because when you think about clearing things," she said, "you're still thinking about them, and that sort of fudges with the whole clearing bit. But a colour is very simple, basic, easy. Especially if there's a particular colour you feel calms you better than most."

The opportunity to meditate was wonderful as far as Morgana was concerned. She was in no danger of falling asleep, even after the restless weekend, but taking some time to simply close her eyes and think of nothing but breathing in a rhythm was doing wonders for her mood.

Much though she would have liked to, Sookie never really got the opportunity to really meditate. Relaxing her mind was completely out of the question. But it was nice to relax her body, at least, and focus on quiet like this.

When she pings in!

Daisy's definitely around if anyone needs to see her.

Peyton was here. Still a little shaken from the events of last week even though she hadn't been directly involved, but here. And at least it had taken her mind off of her mom's death for a while.

"Thanks again for covering last week, Peyton," offered Daisy with a light smile. "How'd it go?"

Peyton smiled at her. "Okay, I think. I was... a little distracted, but it all seemed to go pretty smoothly."

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"Good," Daisy nodded. "No fires to report?"

Peyton shook her head. "No. It was all quiet. Especially compared to the rest of the week."

"Everyone all sleeping and everything?" Daisy guessed. "I wasn't here; turns out I had other things to do outside of London as well, but I heard it all on the radio this morning."

"It was... disturbing," Peyton admitted. "Luckily I was fine, but it was a little scary."

Daisy tried to remember specifics, but there were so many people that keeping a list straight of who exactly was falling asleep. "Were you...afflicted, I guess would be a good word for it?"

Peyton shook her head. "No, I was fine."

"Well, that's good," said Daisy. "But were some of your friends?"

Peyton nodded. "Yeah. A few of them." She shook her head. "This place still surprises me."

"Yeah," said Daisy, also shaking her head. "Can't think of when this place really isn't going to pull one over on you. Good to keep you on your toes. Certainly don't think I'll leave here feeling like I haven't had one bloody hell of an experience."

Peyton laughed. "That's for sure."

This post has made me crave granola. True fax.

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