Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

A young girl with red hair and a black suit sits cross legged on the table in front of the class. She's eating doughnuts and drinking a coke.

301--InterComm 3rd period

"Hey! So today we're gonna talk about senders, and how the ethos of the sender can chage the message. Ethos is the credibility of the speaker, as opposed to Logos which is the logic of the argument or Pathos which is an appeal to the emotions of the receiver. Got it? Cool.

Kay, so...I'm not looking like myself and that might have maybe caused a problem or two over the weekend. So you're all smart and stuff, especially Shep there, whatcha think? Tell me all you know aout senders and how they craft the message".

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401--Advanced 5th period

She's nearly bouncing around, and she lays printouts of the images in front of them.

"Gestalt! Got you attention? We're going to break these down using the Gestalt principles of design and see if we can decide what gives them power. Ask me whatever, you know. It's cool. This is new and kinda hard and stuff.

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She looks over at him and rolls her eys. Sighing heavily, she takes her coke with her. "Man, I'm not getting anything taught today. What do you want, Shep?"

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep makes a face at her. She's got an awfully smart mouth. "To keep you from getting your ass kicked. You told me you weren't a student here. I told Lana you weren't a student here. If she sees you..."

He's not sure which was more likely - this new girl getting her face slapped again or him getting pounced on for lying. Only... he hadn't.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a student, dork. It's me. CJ."

She sucks down a third of the can, then jerks her thumb back to the room.

"Come on, we're talking about senders."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Very funny." He's looking up and down the halls like he's hiding from someone who may come around the corner at any minute. Because... he sort of is.

"Seriously. And if that's not a big enough threat, our principal doesn't take kindly to random people wandering around his campus. And I hear he hired a mountie to bounce people out. Now, mounties don't sound all that scary, but if Principal Smith hired him, I'm guessing he's probably pretty good at doing his job."

He grabs her elbow. "Come on, we need to get you out of here before all hell breaks loose in one form or another."

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She wrenches her arm back, hair flying over her shoulder, "Dude. Chill out...I swear it's cool. I'm CJ...I was Saturday night, I am now...I mean, come on Shepbaby, what do you need for me to prove it? Whatthefuckbear?"

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, unless CJ got a vocabulary transplant along with..." he looks her up and down... "the everything else transplant, I don't think so. And it was 'whatthefuckgrizzlybear.'"

He crosses his arms over his chest. Something odd is happening here, but he can't figure out exactly what it is.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Of course it was. Hey, riddle me this smart boy, how come you always seem to find me when I'm wasted? I mean, at least Saturday I wasn't wearing leather pants and all lost and stuff."

She smirks and punches him softly in the arm.

"C'mon, Shep! You know it's me! Jeez...just cuz I went in the locker and came out me but younger doesnt' mean I'm not still me! I'll still take away your computer, if that'll make you feel better."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep hopes he doesn't look as queasy as he's starting to feel. This girl does know an awful lot about his history with CJ.

"You do understand that you've lied to me, however this plays out. Either at the bar - pretending not to know me - or now. How am I supposed to know which lie to believe?"

Now he's kind of pissed. No, not exactly pissed per se, but... screwed? Yeah, that's it. 'Cause if this was CJ...

... then he hit on his teacher in the bar.

... and then his girlfriend decked her.

No, there really was no good endgame here.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Get over yourself already. You were talking to me like a person, and I was digging it. You're always all 'ma'am' and 'Ms. Cregg' with me. I just wanted to talk to you. Your kinda interesting. No big, I mean...whatever." She shrugs. "Sorry I pissed your chick off."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Aw shit..." Shep leans back against the locker behind him. It's either that or fall to the floor and cry. "You're telling me I was... hitting on my teacher?" He bangs his head into said locker several times. "I can't believe you let me do that! I... you... I... Lana." Oh, shit Lana was seriously going freak now.

Suddenly the complete irony of the situation hit him. With as straight a face as he could muster he said, "I don't suppose you'd believe that before getting sent to this odd little place I was a 33 year old guy in the US Military?"

His head hurt now. Not just from the locker-banging, thought that didn't help nearly as much as he thought it would.

He reviewed the events of last Saturday mentally replacing 'strange teenage girl' with 'OMG!CommProf!' This wasn't good for him at all. Not in any universe.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Jeez...relax man. I didn't even get that, I just thought you were being nice. Lana...she's posessive or something?"

She takes another drink and quirks her mouth, "33 and in the military? Sure, why not? If that's true let me ask you this..."

She grabs his shoulders and smiles so wide, "...how freakin cool is it to be young again??!? I mean, this rocks, right?"

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

He was considering banging his head into the locker again. He couldn't believe he'd been hitting on Ms. Cregg. That wasn't right. Not that she wasn't incredibly good looking in her current form but... He dropped his head into his hand.

"I have no idea what got into Lana... that was way out of bounds. She freaked in the park after she ran out. She isn't sure why she went so nuts. And, you know, she's sorry. So please don't take it out on my grade.

He thinks about the point she's made... he made... whatever. "Being younger has it's perks. Yeah, I guess. This a permenant thing for you too?"

He's calming down a little. At least externally. Internally... still feeling a little queasy. Lana was going to flip out in multiple ways.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"It's cool, Shep. Just...calm down. Don't barf or nothing. I'm not mad." She lets him go and looks at him, "Your's is permanent? Right on. I bet mine wears off. It was that locker, you know?"

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"For the moment it seems to be... has been since September. But you know... don't say anything to anyone okay? This is all weird enough for me."

He stops to think for a minute. "So what was all that being from Neptune and whatever about? Why not tell me then? Just to watch me flip out in class today?"

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Not a word." She nods softly, not wanting to spread his stupid lie around anyhow. What a total suck up.

"So, yeah, I am from California, and I'd just talked to V...what can I say? I lied. To your face. Sorry 'bout that too."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep srubbed his hand through his hair. "Why? To see me make a fool of myself over the 'new girl'?" Oy, this was as embarassing as it could get, right? On second thought, if it could get worse, he was pretty sure he didn't want to know about it.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"No! Not even! I told you...it was just nice to talk to you without you being all..." she waves her hands all around him and looks disgusted, "...like this."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep shrugged and sighed having no idea what to make of that. "Um... okay." He had this horrible feeling that he was about to be come an object lesson in 'sender/receiver paradigms' once they walked back into that classroom.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"We cool then? Shep?" Smiling once again, she finishes her coke and crushes the can. "Cuz it's time for you to prove you're wicked smart...mensa boy."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Oh god...I said that to you, didn't I?" Then he started remembering the other things he'd told her - about moving around and the stars and all that. That wasn't stuff you told your teacher. He wondered if he were about to have a facial aneurism from blushing so hard.

He sighs very loudly, very fatalistically before indicating the classroom. "After you."

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." She walks in ahead of him and looks back over her shoulder, "Darlin'."

She laughs hard as she resumes sitting on top of the table and takes another doughnut.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

Shep follows her into the room and sits in the back. He slouches down in his chair and tries very, very hard to fall through the floor.

Re: 301--Interpersonal Communication

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

[OOC: This would be a *really* bad time for Lana to come around the corner. ;) ]