Journalism Class - Monday November 28

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider has what appears to be a variety of pumpkin pies laid out and he's regarding them with deep suspicion. There is a note reading, "For your poor, long-suffering students. We hope they hate you as much as we do! FA."

"Help yourselves to pie, kids. It's probably safe." Spider glanced down. "The cat ate half of one and seems to be just fine."

Turning to look at the class he shakes his head. "Today I want you to write about the most frustrating morning you've ever been through. We'll share and discuss. If you want to do it in the form of a '... you think that's bad? Try this on for size!' contest, I have no issues with that. Enjoy."

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[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova takes a slice of pie, which remains uneaten as she begins writing. She knows exactly which morning she was going to write about.

My most frustrating morning would have to be the one when my commanding officer decided that today I was going to learn how to be diplomatic. You see, one of the races on board the station have a quaint custom where they choose sides, purple or green, in a random lottery and then procede to do their best to incapacitate the other team. It's their form of electoral process and lasts for more than a year. What does this have to do with me? Well, on this particular morning, when I was assigned to keep the peace, the Green Drazi decided to start killing the Purple Drazi instead of just clubbing them over the head. Somehow at the end of it I wound up with a broken leg and as the newly crowned Green Leader.

She shuddered as she wrote. Bad memories.