[identity profile] notmysupervisor.livejournal.com
Today when the students filed into the….classroom, they were presented with a couple of handouts.

"Hi," Cheryl said, almost nicely. "Welcome to the last time I have to look at your stupid faces."

Well, that cleared that up.

“We hope you’ve enjoyed getting to see just a small fraction of some of the amazing careers out there that you guys might be suited to,” Pam enthused. Well, Pam hoped so, anyway. “Today we’re gonna revisit our first class. Remember how, back then, we talked about what you want to be when you grow up? We’re gonna do that again.”

"Except this time, we've given you some reasonable goals, just in case the last six weeks haven't done it," Cheryl added, vaguely passing out the papers. Some may have ended up on the floor, shh. "Because remember, boys and girls, there's no fucking way there's an astronaut in this classroom. What college is going to take this place as your alma mater?"

Weirdly enough, Cheryl, lots of places. It was super-strange.

“Hate to break it to you, but this school is not exactly a rigorous bastion of academia,” Pam sighed. “I’m not even sure it’s accredited. I mean, think about it. They let us teach here.”

Look, Pam and Cheryl were at least self-aware enough to know that they were horribly inappropriate and should never be allowed to influence young minds, like, ever.

"Because Pam got in trouble for shooting someone."

Sort of. But still, Cheryl knew that was a black mark.

"So get familiar with those lists. Tell us what you wanna be when you grow up, now that you have a better idea of what that really is going to entail."

Humiliate yourself and pick out a degrading future, so that you could pass class! Have fun!!!
[identity profile] holyshitsnacks.livejournal.com
Today, class was not taking place in the weird mindfu Danger Shop. Today, there was only the plump blonde crazy lady and not the skinny brunette crazy lady. And the blonde lady looked super-happy.

Human Resources! )
[identity profile] holyshitsnacks.livejournal.com
Today, class was once again meeting in the weird head-fucky place that normal teachers just called the Danger Shop. And the weird hea- Danger Shop was made up to look like the enormous lawn of a gigantic estate. The mansion was way off in the distance; you people were cluttered around a garden, and probably squinting at all of that super-bright sunlight. Realism, yay!

On two lounge chairs under a gigantic beach umbrella you would find the two most unqualified teachers on the entire Eastern seaboard, wearing sunglasses and sipping lemonade.

Gardening )
[identity profile] notmysupervisor.livejournal.com
Today, the students met once again in the mindfuck room, which Cheryl had (somehow) programmed to look like an expansive, luxurious mansion. Careful observers may have noticed that the portrait on the wall had at least one pretty familiar face, though she wasn't wearing her tiara now.

"Hi nerds, welcome to my house," Cheryl said, welcomingly. "Or, like, what my house in Manhattan looks like, anyway. House-mirage. Anyway, today we're gonna learn about how to be heiresses. I know it might look easy, but it's super-not. You have to dress well, you have to develop a persona, and you have to find a fellow rich person to support you in case your money ever runs out. Which mine won't, but still."

She gestured over to where there were racks and racks of moddable very elegant clothing. "Make yourselves look fabulous, like heiresses. And then your assignment this week is to develop an eccentric heiress persona. Are you some charitable dumbfuck? Are you like Paris Hilton and you're gonna need a purse-dog? Are you a stunning railroad tycooness who works as a secretary to keep her overstimulated brain from telling her to set her ocelot on her students?"

At that moment, there was a roar from elsewhere in the house. "Speaking of, he's here. My pet ocelot. Or else that was Pam. She wandered off, too." Pause, frown, and then, "I hope they don't run into each other. Or get lost in our Underground Railroad tunnels. Or run into each other in our Underground Railroad tunnels. Oh, wait, yes I do, that sounds awesome."
[identity profile] notmysupervisor.livejournal.com
Today when the class met in the Danger Shop (or "mindfuck room," as Cheryl had insisted on continuing to call it), they were met with what appeared to be a large open field with sparse grass, a fairly significant number of RVs, the faint sound of music off in the distance, and lots -- lots -- of people with long hair who smelled sort of earthy.

Welcome to a Grateful Dead concert, kids.

i don't even know, you guys )
[identity profile] holyshitsnacks.livejournal.com
Today when the students came to the Danger Shop, where they'd been told to meet thanks to a hastily scrawled note on the door to their normal classroom that read We're in that big mindfuck room, go there, they'd find Cheryl and Pam standing in a room that certainly looked like a TSA checkpoint. (Assuming all of you were familiar with such a thing.)

"Ugh, they found us. Pam, we have to be more vague next time."

Today's occupation: Drug mule )
atreideslioness: (Who Walks In Beauty)
[personal profile] atreideslioness
As the students came in today, they would see piles upon piles of food.  Spice bread, teas, cakes, sweetmeats, steamed vegetables, and iced coffees were laid out around the room, and Ghanima was humming under her breath.

Hatt al-hudad
Al-maahn al-baiid
Ay-yah idare
Adamm malum

Once the bell rang, she shook her head.  "As I mentioned last week, there is no formal final," Ghanima said.  "Instead, I'd like each of you to tell the class what profession you're thinking of entering once your education is complete, and why.  I don't care if you stand up and say, 'I want to be Grand High Poobah of the Universe because it sounds fun.'  That's fine, fun is an acceptable answer.  Telling us that you aren't sure yet is an acceptable answer.  However, I want to remind you that the name of this class is 'Career Choices', and that there is always a choice.  Even if you think something is predestined, you always have a choice.  That, however, is another class entirely."

"Feel free to help yourselves to whatever snacks or treats you like.  All of these," she said, gesturing to encompass the food around the room, "are foods from my homeworld of Arrakis.  Normally all of our food is cooked with Spice, however, I've substituted harmless Terran spices to avoid any complications.  Poisoning my students might endanger my current career." 

Still singing softly to herself, Ghanima went to take a seat with the rest of the students.



[Please to be waiting for the OCD is up!]
[For the non-Dune people, song is here (actual scene) and here.]
atreideslioness: (House Atreides)
[personal profile] atreideslioness
When the bell rang, Ghanima was leaning against her desk, a large dish of hard candies next to her.
"And, as with most radical liberal professions, there is a manifesto out there!"  Ghanima waved one last packet, grinning.  "Ah, the joys of the internet."

"I have decided that instead of a 'final' next week, you are going to teach me.  I want all of you to present, just briefly, on the career of your choice.  It doesn't have to be anything we covered in class, and it doesn't have to be long, anywhere from two to ten minutes should be enough."  She moved back to sit on the edge of her desk again, playing with the candy dish.  "After you're all done presenting, I'll have a surprise for you." 


[ wait for OCD up!  Bring forth social justice!]
atreideslioness: (Daugher of the Golden Path)
[personal profile] atreideslioness
As the bell rang, Ghanima was (as usual) perched on the edge of her desk, feet swinging.

"Good afternoon and welcome," she said, smiling. 
"It is important to note that this is not a safe profession.  Stunt performers and stunt doubles die every year.  No matter how highly trained or competent you are, it is not without risk." 

[Plz to be waiting for the OCD is up!  Have fun!]
atreideslioness: (Fremen Princess)
[personal profile] atreideslioness

“Today we are covering a profession not on your original syllabus, but I hope you’ll forgive me the spontaneity,” Ghanima said as she leaned against the wall.  “After speaking with some of my fellow teachers, and listening to some of the radio broadcasts, I think there’s a profession that possibly suits most of you.  After all, you are teenagers." 


“Next week we will be covering the profession of the stunt performer, followed by social work.  I have not yet decided upon your final test, but I promise to let you know as soon as it has been chosen.”

“Also, my office hours are on Mondays in number twenty-two, should any of you need me.  Do I even have a TA?” 




[Please to be waiting for the OCD up!  Hit it!]
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As the students filed in, the might notice that the statuesque blond standing at the front of the classroom was not their normal teacher.

"Good morning,” she said, her voice carrying effortlessly.  “I am Lady Ghanima Atreides, and I have been tasked with teaching your class for the remainder of the term.  You may call me Lady Ghanima or Miss Ghanima, whichever you are more comfortable with.  The first person to call me Lady Atreides gets detention.”  Ghani grinned unrepentantly.  "Lady Atriedes is my grandmother, and I am nowhere near that old."

"Now, if I could have all of you introduce yourselves, along with whatever profession you had been considering up until this point, so that I may put names to faces."  Ghani pointed randomly at one student sitting in front.  "You.  Go."


[identity profile] canadianpopstar.livejournal.com
Robin kind of wondered how many people would even show up to this class, but she wasn't going to protest. It was only an hour, it was a small class, and she had promised to help as she could. Besides, it was hard to ignore someone that formidable flagging you down and going 'Healthy person! You can teach for us!'

Which was why Robin found herself standing at the front of a classroom, which is something she never thought she'd be doing. Well, unless they were kindergarteners and calling her a lesbian, which these looked a little old for.

"Um. Hi. My name's Robin Scherbatsky, and um, I work in town at the radio station and at the bar?" She cleared her throat, because she had training in public speaking and shouldn't feel so awkward about this. "You can just call me Robin, though, don't worry about trying to swing my last name. So the lovely Dean Jones," she gestured to the back of the room, where the dean herself was standing for the moment, "told me you guys need a sub, and since I'm on my feet and stuff, I figured I could help."

"So, I don't know what you guys covered, but I work in the media, and I strongly encourage it as a choice of career if you can handle it. It means long hours, having to go places you don't want, probably not making a lot of money right away...but the reward is that you get to report on things that, you know, matter. Get the word out about stuff. And travel. I'm here because my station at home sent me."

"So we're going to do a quick little activity today." Robin took a brief headcount, and shook her head. "There's not really enough of you to all interview each other, so...you can all interview me, if you want. Just come up with something you specifically want to know, and then start of a series of questions towards that end. You can't open with anything too abrupt, because your subject'll usually close right up. But you can't take too long, either, or you'll lose it in the rest of the interview."

She shook her head. "Anyway. Go, I guess."
[identity profile] ismyhairout.livejournal.com
"Your teacher's not here," Hades said from the front of the classroom. "Instead, you have me. I know it's not every day you get such a treat, but try to contain your excitement like I am." He wasn't. "Each week you've been learning about different careers, yadda, whatever. Today we're going to talk about the only form of employment that really matters."

He pointed at the board and letters appeared out of nowhere that read 'SO YOU WANT TO BE A MINION!'

Information sheets were handed out.

"Minions are hard to find. It's a growth market out there. Get in with the right head honcho and you'll find yourself climbing up the promotion ladder quicker than you can say 'red shirt'. Now, it's not an easy job. There's a lot of running around, making coffee, disposing of worthless enemies that your boss can't be bothered to deal with himself. You know, like the first five years of being a reporter. You get some great perks with the job though. Come on! I'm talking travel opportunities, networking, a chance for some training, diplomatic immunity depending on who your boss is and where his secret lair is located. You get to meet plenty of people, pick up some new skills and, in most cases, a freshly laundered uniform is provided at the start of every work day. Some employers even offer great health insurance and their funeral plans? To die for.

Ha! I kill me. Yeeeeah anyway, enough with the talking. Here's a test to see if you'd make a good minion. For...educational purposes, of course. Take it. Don't bother me."
[identity profile] carbontelepath.livejournal.com
Today the danger shop has been turned into the insides of a cave where most of the floor is covered in water. Emma is waiting beside a pile of equipment. "Hello, students. Today we shall look at cave diving and the techniques involved." She gives everyone hand outs. "Let's first consider TGTAL or The Good Divers Are Living. Please study the rules on your sheet before you start assembling equipment. For safety you will be going in pairs."

She waits until the safety advice has been studied, then gestures towards the equipment. "If any of you cannot swim, you will remain here with me and direct your partner to his or her goal via a screen and a two-way radio."


(ooc: wait for ocd is up! Pick your own teams.)
[identity profile] carbontelepath.livejournal.com
"Today we're watching medical shows," Emma announced. She was still dressed in her uniform though. She held up boxsets of Dulles' Physique and TC. "They should give you an insight into the wonderful world of doctors and nurses."


(ooc: Wait for it! OCD up!)
[identity profile] carbontelepath.livejournal.com
Emma was in diamond shape today, and she was holding a pickaxe. "Today you are going to explore the exciting world of mining. More precisely, gold mining." She nodded towards the pile of equipment in the corner. "Make sure to wear hard hats and grab what you think you'll need." She paused. "No matter what happens the Danger Room will not let you get truly harmed."



ooc: wait for ocd! OCD is up!
[identity profile] carbontelepath.livejournal.com
"Good morning, students," Emma greeted them as they entered the Danger Shop. Today it was set up as an ordinary classroom. "I apologize if I seem a bit off today, but I heard some very upsetting news on the radio." IE Jamie was back. She pinched her nose with a gloved hand and sighed. "Oh well. One just have to be strong."

She had dressed up in her White Queen outfit in honour of the day. "Today we shall only introduce ourselves and have a look at the syllabus. Next week you shall begin acting out scenes as though you have a certain profession. It will be challenging, but I'm sure you'll all do well." She smiled. "This is your syllabus," she said, handing out the papers. "And this and this is your homework for next time. Study both as your roles will not be assigned until next week."

"Now, introduce yourselves and tell me which professions you have already tried or thought of."


ooc: wait for it! OCD is up!

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