Build Your Own Philosophy, Period 2, 3/29/10

[tyler_gone]

The class would find a note on the usual classroom door asking them to meet outside on the basketball court. When they got there, they'd find Tyler in workout clothes and bouncing a basketball. He was cheerfully ignoring any lingering drizzle.

"I figured we all needed some time with fresh air with no monsters around," he said. "So today, this is gym class and we're playing basketball. This group" -- gesture to about half the students -- "is the red team, and the rest of you are blue."

"If you don't know how to play, you want to put the ball through the hoop. The people on the other team don't want to let you. You can't just carry the ball, you have to pass to a teammate or dribble, like this." He demonstrated, and explained a few other rules as he did.

"If you don't like team sports or you're still healing up, sit on the sidelines and find another way to keep busy for the rest of the hour. Or just breathe."

He was into the breathing part, yeah.

Comments

Sign in [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

First person to sign in is red, second person is blue, and so it goes!

Re: Sign in [3/29]

[trigons_child]

Raven

Re: Sign in [3/29]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy Stonem

Re: Sign in [3/29]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley Fitzpatrick

Re: Sign in [3/29]

[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

Listen to Tyler Talk [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

He could have tied this to zen, or something, but that would have been effort.

Play Basketball [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

Go for it.

Re: Play Basketball [3/29]

[lovemykilt]

. . . Dude, no one was playing.

Priestly shrugged and grabbed a ball to shoot some hoops on his own. He wasn't as good at basketball as he was at football, but he was definitely better at this than he was at beating up monkeyponies.

Do Other Things [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

... or don't.

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[trigons_child]

Raven didn't play well with others was not big with the team sports, so she sat off to the side to meditate instead, though she was disturbable if anyone wanted to talk to her.

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Whatcha doin'?" Hayley said, sitting down next to Raven. She didn't mean to interrupt, she was just curious. And figured she might get bowled over if she tried to play the game.

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[trigons_child]

"I am merely meditating," Raven said, giving Hayley a smile. "This game is not as violent as some, but I know nothing of the rules and would look foolish if I even attempted to try."

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Well gee," Hayley said. "If everyone was afraid to try things cause they might look silly, nothing'd ever get done." She giggled.

"But I understand. I think I might get hurt if I go out there. I ain't exactly the biggest girl in the room."

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan was not the athlete in her family so, yeah, sticking near the sidelines.

"Hey," she said. "How are you?"

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[trigons_child]

"I am well, thank you," Raven said. She'd avoided the fog after the incident with Kennedy. "How are you?"

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Glad everything is back to normal," Joan said. "Well, as normal as anything gets around here."

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy... wasn't really a basketball player at the best of times. After last week, she was even less so, if that was even possible.

Besides, she had a squalky droid baby to deal with since she'd abandoned it with Griff for most of last week. Just what every teenager wanted when she was trying to repress her rough mental state.

And of course she wasn't mentally plotting it's destruction.

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[intraspective]

Ino didn't mind the idea of playing basketball but she wasn't all that enthused about playing it alone either.

She sprawled out on the side and pulled out a notebook instead.

Re: Do Other Things [3/29]

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Concussion meant that unless someone healed her up first, Dinah wasn't bouncing around the court like usual.

She was sitting down and dribbling a ball though, because that was easy.

Talk to the TA [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

Once she pings in.

Re: Talk to the TA [3/29]

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan was around but please don't ask her to play basketball. After all, this is the girl who nearly broke her leg doing laundry.

Talk to Tyler [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

If you want him to show you how to dunk, he will.

OOC [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

It took a Skins rerun to make me realize I mixed up Sartre and Camus last week, for no better reason than sleep deprivation.

I suck sometimes.

Re: OOC [3/29]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Gotta love Tony's choice of bathroom literature.

Re: OOC [3/29]

[tyler_gone]

Totes. We're probably just lucky he wasn't reading Machiavelli.