Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

"Welcome back. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend." Max eyed his students. "And that you took the time to do your homework."

"Today's lesson is actually going to be short because I'm going to try leaving most of our time for some demonstrations, but there is something I'm hoping you all pick up on today: each of you has a set of instinctive reactions when threatened. Everyone has different ones, of course, but the lesson to learn is that most of them are useful. Maybe not all the time, or in all situations, and it's useful to be aware of when to fight your instincts, but it's also important to realize that no matter how new you all are to the concept, each and every one of you has some ideas about how to defend yourself. And not all of those ideas are bad ones."

"For instance," another look around, this time with a grin, "I gave you a homework assignment last week I gave you a homework assignment with very little guidance, and I'm willing to bet that you all managed to do it. And I also suspect that most of you came up with something the others didn't, if only because of the way you think about things."

"So let's see them. Everyone take a moment to show us what you've brought, and explain why you picked it. And feel free to talk ideas with each other."

And then Max's grin turned downright evil, and he nodded toward the door that wasn't part of the usual classroom setup (thank you, Danger Shop!). "While you're doing that, you'll find a list of your names in totally random order by the door. If you're at the top of the list, come on through for a personal evaluation." That totally wasn't going to be an ambush so that Max could evaluate your instinctive reactions to surprise attacks. Unless it was.

Hint: it totally was.

[Continuing my no-sign-in experiment! If it really is a problem for you, feel free to leave an OOC comment, or hit me up via email! Or AIM! Or LJ PM!]

Comments

Re: OOC

[answer2bheard.livejournal.com]

Also also, now that I'm grabbing the school links for radio today, I can't help but notice that you didn't actually specify what the students were supposed to bring in for their homework assignment. So not only do people not have the option to sign in on busy days, but in order to participate, they have to navigate the comm as well.

That one, I'm going to assume was just an oversight on your part. But it makes things extra difficult for anyone who has other things to do with their Mondays. I won't be taking your classes in the future if this keeps up. I flat-out can't.

Re: OOC

[halfman-lion.livejournal.com]

This. Honestly, I came thisclose to not even posting the one-line comment I managed, because I was peeved I had to spend time hunting up last week's class. I can understand if it's an oversight, but it's an annoying one for those of us with other things taking up our Mondays.

Re: OOC

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

Totally an oversight. Mea culpa, and sorry for making you dig for the info. Especially when I knew it and could have tossed it in. I just forgot to.

Re: OOC

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

That was totally an oversight on my part, so that's totally on me.