fandomhigh | Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

"World War I started for Europe in June, 1914," Tyler said, once the class seemed to be assembled and relatively quiet. They were meeting in the danger shop today, with a row of chairs at long tables arranged in front of flight simulators. "Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian anarchist." There was the trace of a smirk at that bit of information. "Anyhow, so that lead the Austrian empire to make demands against Serbia, which lead to a bunch of alliances throughout Europe. It's like dominoes falling into place. Russia mobilized troops against Germany, and by August all of the biggest countries in Europe were at each other's throats. Here is a handout about the whole thing, if you want to read how it all went down."

( And The Rest Is History! )

[OCD is up! Have at thee!]

death-and-pies.livejournal.com

Ned had debated coming in for the club meeting after yesterday but he figured that, if anything relaxed him, this would. His ankle was still sore, messily bandaged under his pants and there were bruises but they were mostly hidden. He was just glad those things were gone.

"Hey guys," he said wearily, giving a wave. "I, uh, hope everyone's all right after yesterday. If you're not, feel free to take a free day and just relax. I wasn't planning on doing anything stressful anyway. Today, we're going to be working with pizza. Most people don't seem to know that pizza's one of the most diverse foods out there. You can put just about anything on a pizza and, these days, you can use just about any sort of bread as a crust as long as it holds up. So, we're going to be making pizzas today. There are ~~moddable~~ crusts and ~~moddable~~ pizza toppings for you to experiment with. If you think you're good enough, you can even toss the pizza dough into the air while you're kneading it. If it gets stuck to the ceiling, you're cleaning it."

It may have sounded like a joke but it was serious. There was no way Ned was cleaning pizza dough off the ceiling.

"Have fun."

And he headed over to his own station, cautiously looking around for harpies.

Current Mood: worried

trustshisbarber.livejournal.com

"When you're putting together a newspaper," Jonah started the moment the last student stepped into the room, "the best headline, story, and picture go on the front page. If you're working in the tabloid format - the smaller, 'magazine' style of pages as opposed to your traditional long newspapers that fold over a few times - the middle is usually filled with business and classifieds, stuff that most people aren't going to bother looking at. It's an area your typical reader's never getting to anyway, so throw it in the middle where they don't have to deal with it!"

"But what about the back page? Well, depending on who your readers are, it's even more important than the front page, because that's where the sports section starts. And just like most things and people that focus on sports, it's insane! The cover story is on the back page and then you start flipping backwards through the paper. If your paper is 90 pages, the big stories are on 88 and 89. The most popular sport for the season takes up the mid-90s, and then it keeps falling until you get to major league soccer somewhere around page 87."

"The sports section used to be filled with statistics, news on player injuries and signings, and some analysis about either how good or how bad the home team is, literally depending on the day. But now it's all about steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. So that's what you're going to be writing about, too."

"Yesterday we had a bunch of harpy invasion on the island. And then when I got off the phone with my mother-in-law, we were attacked by mythological monsters! Since we don't have any sports around here, write about this like a sporting event instead. Recap any attacks you may have been in or seen from the safety of a window - but if you're writing about yourself, be sure to write in the third person and pretend that you're talking about someone else, just for the sake of the article - or just make crap up based on whatever you heard on the radio. If you managed to completely miss it, write about another time you saw people fighting something here. Give a basic description of the fight, give some analysis about why the person who won the fight did so while the monster lost it, and - most importantly - write about what kind of unfair disadvantages one side had over the other. Because that's what sells sports stories these days."

"Get to work!"

brandyforapples.livejournal.com

When her students came in today, Abigail Irene was quite pleased to have nothing to hand them.

"Yesterday, I'm assuming that many of you faced the creatures that were harrowing just about, well, everyone who dared step out of doors. Considering the nature of the creatures, half-woman and half-bird, magical, of course, I'd like to take the class to discuss the various methods those in this class might have used to deal with them.

"After all, one of the most important lessons one can learn in the realm of Thaumaturgy is how to deal with the unexpected results."

[ocd up!]

finding-x-dream.livejournal.com

Agnes, being the first to arrive in the classroom today, was surprised to find a note instead of a teacher. So she read it and sat herself neatly on the desk to wait for everyone else.

"Miss Bennet seems to be ill today, and has stayed in bed. So, we're to discuss our favorite authors, or works, or genres, and what we like best about them, and why we'd recommend them to others. And, uh, least favorite and why. Just a general discussion. And if Hinata has a topic she'd like to discuss or something she'd like us to do, we're to do that as well."

She shrugged and looked around. "Uh. So, discuss?"

peace_n_war

Warren was feeling a little more upbeat than usual. It possibly had something to do with the invasion, yesterday. Which would possibly explain why he felt like being out and about enough to actually get to the Journalism Room a little early.

And since he was there early, there wasn't really any harm in setting up, right?

And once it was set up, well, it wouldn't hurt to order out for pizza. To celebrate the island having survived the harpies with only their personal hygiene left to suffer, of course.

"Like it isn't obvious what the most recent news was," he stated flatly as the group assembled. "So tell us what you're going to write about, and then eat pizza already."

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