Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[Once again in a turtleneck under her suitcoat, she smiles sleepily at the class with the satisfaction of someone who has spent all of someone else's money]


201--Speech
Deliver the speeches that were assigned Tuesday.
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301--Theory
Yesterday you played poker. You were to watch one another for body language. Poker is all about reading people. Today, we're playing poker again, but this time were upping the stakes. We're playing for real money. Each of you come and get fity dollars, in singles and change please. Please pay attention to how your own, as well as others, body language changes now that it's for actual cash...which, yes Anya, you will get to keep all your winnings. Go.

Comments

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Just wing it, Parker. Moment of catharsis, a revelation, and how you dealt with it and what it meant to you. You'll do fine, I'm sure.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Um. Okay. Catharsis...." Parker hates getting into the personal, but, she's rattled and can't think of anything else.

"When I was thirteen, a friend of mine died of cancer. I couldn't be there with Faith when she... left, because no one told me that she was in the final stages." Parker pauses, calming down as she thinks. "I wrote a letter to her before the funeral, and put it in her casket when I went to say good-bye. It had a list of all the things we'd wanted to do, all the plans we had for the future where we were both there, and all the reasons why I was glad she was my friend, even if it wasn't for very long. Writing that, and 'sending' it to her, helped me deal with being left again." Parker bites her lip at that slip, then hurries on, "And it helped another friend of mine, who didn't know what to do either. He did the same thing. People talk about closure all the time, like getting the last word makes everything okay. But really, it's more that you can-- you can imagine what they'd say, back to you, after that. You can keep having conversations with them when they're gone, if you have somewhere to start it. So grief and loneliness can be ... escaped, for a while."