HELLO EVERYONE!

WE HAVE A REFRESHINGLY SHORT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PROFESSOR BRANIGAN!!

Hello Students.
Unfortunately, I will be leaving Psychic High for a short break. It will be back soon, but for now I am sure you are in the hands of Professor Martin. They are fully capable of taking on my duties while I am gone, but if you have any questions or complaints, you can always contact me, administration, or @GROTTO G.S.M. INC. .
This short break is due to a personal emergency, that I wish not to disclose the details to.
Thank You for Your Time and Patience,
Professor Branigan

OH... NOW PROFESSOR MARTIN WILL BE THE ONLY ONE POSTING HERE.
ONLY THEM. JUST THEM...
AND THEIR "ESSAYS"...

AND...

WE ARE NOT SAYING WE ARE DISAPPOINTED, WE ARE JUST SAYING THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR A TEACHER TO TAKE "A SHORT BREAK"

AND EVEN THOUGH "WE CARE" ABOUT YOUR "PERSONAL EMERGENCY" WE ARE JUST A LITTLE... "WORRIED".

HONESTY, ACHAVA, WREN IS AN OUT OF CONTROL ARTIST AND YOU ARE THE ONLY THING KEEPING THEM IN CHECK, YOU ARE JUST SO DEMORALIZED AND HOPELESS THAT YOU KEEP A WET BLANKET ON EVERY OCCASION, WHICH IS A REALLY NICE BALANCE TO WRENS WILD PERSONALITY AND...

WHAT WE REALLY MEAN IS THAT "WE REALLY HOPE" THAT "PERSONAL EMERGENCY" "CLEARS UP".

IN OTHER NOTES, WE WOULD LIKE TO "THANK" OUR RECENTLY HIRED CONSULTANTS, LENGIMAN BUTTON AND MANA TONGEAU, ON REINVIGORATING OUR "PASSION" FOR QUOTATION MARKS.

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HELLO EVERYONE!

PROFESSOR MARTIN HAS ONCE AGAIN ASKED US TO SHARE ANOTHER ESSAY WITH YOU. IT IS... IT IS JUST...
OKAY, IF WE ARE BEING HONEST HERE, WE ARE A LITTLE ANNOYED BY THESE CONSTANT SURREALIST ESSAYS, BUT WHATEVER, IT'S FOR "ART" AND IT IS "COOL" AND ALL THE "TEENS" LIKE "IT". WE JUST ARE A "LITTLE" ANNOYED AND "HOPE" THESE "ESSAYS" WILL BE LESS FREQUENT.
WELL. ANYWAYS HERE IT IS:

Students, I have to admit something. I am not actually married to Zac Efron.
In fact, I have never even met Zac Efron. And as some of you may recall last week, I said, "Me and Zac just went down to a Universal Pictures set for a film he is going to be in and I saw a good friend of mine Larissa Carris!"
I continued on with my story, but while I did meet my friend Larissa Carris at a film studio, it was not Universal Pictures or with Zac Efron.
This did not really change the context of the lesson and really most of you didn't notice, so the next day, just to see what you guys would do, I said, "I was going with Zac for a coffee date,when I saw my best friend Larissa Carris!", just to kind of test out a response and no one said anything! None of you asked at all about who Zac was, or what I was doing with him, or even if Zac was okay with our date being interrupted rudely by Larissa, but I digress, it was a little off topic, so I let it rest.
But the next day I come in and say, "I was going with Zac to his Bestest Movie Guy cast party, when I ran into my friend Larissa Carris!" because at that point, I just wanted to see if anyone would notice, but nope, no one said a word. And I have to be honest, I was a little annoyed.
So, the next day, completely for scientific research I said, "I was at this exclusive Hollywood party last night and Zac and I were taking to his co-star, Zendaya, said 'Are you Wren Martin? I am such a fan of your movies? Can I star in your next one?' Sadly, I had to turn her down, since I am teaching now, but of course there was a split second I considered abandoning Zac Efron, my husband to make a series of film noir style shorts staring Zendaya, but then I knew, I couldn't abandon my job and students or my very, very, very gorgeous husband, Zac Efron,"
Which really was a blatant lie. Not one ounce of truth. As hard as it is to believe, Zac Efron is not my husband, nor does Zendaya want to star in my films.
That night I had been dancing to the entire Amor Phohibido album with my roommate, Larissa Carris, who was dying her hair blue, because it was dream of hers that she realized after we shared a bottle of rosé, and when you are drunk at midnight, dying your hair blue sounds like a really good idea, but then you wake up with a harsh realization that blue "really just isn't your color" and that you should wake up your roommate right now, in tears, to take you to their hairstylist, who is too expensive, but when you're are hungover no amount of money sounds like too much to get rid of your atrocious bright blue hair that "totally clashes with warm toned skin".
And that is also why I was wearing sunglasses and a bright pink, "Shamazzzam!!! Dance Club and Bar" sweatshirt during class today. As well as why I was drinking lots of coffee and chewing vigorously on vegan sugar cubes, which are a quick fix to any hangover.
So students, I apologize for lying about Zac Efron being my husband and hope you can forgive me. And as always, students, stay on the hunt for T R U E A R T, and if you have found it, be a dear old friend and fetch it's favorite Selena album.
-Professor Martin

WELL THAT WAS CERTAINLY... EVENTFUL.
IN OTHER NOTES, WE ARE LOOKING "HELLA GROOVY" AND LOVE OUR BRAND NEW "THREADS". #wokeuplikethis

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HELLO EVERYONE!
HUMAN BEINGS AND THE ART OF FILM IS IN SESSION! PROFESSOR MARTIN ASKED US TO SHARE THIS FOR YOUR LATEST ASSIGNMENT.

Once Upon A Time, I was a actor and writer in an experimental theater group called The Flying Onions: time and space. During this time, I wrote many plays, including a obscure and forgotten play called, "Welcome to The Great Oblivion,".
It was a critique. A critique to the truly oblivious culture, containing many truly oblivious inhabitants of this culture, whether of chance or choice. And I do not mean conspiracy. I never have. I had a character called Froot Roll by the Inch, or FRI, pronounced free, for short. This was meant to be a level of irony. Living in an oblivious culture creates a freedom called ignorance, not the freedom we so idealistically pursue.
I never expected it to me interrupted as otherwise. The character was named after a product. They were so unfortunate that their parents thought it was okay to name their child after a fruit flavored strip of candy. I was in every way making fun of it all, not endorsing the character, but then I had a conversation after a show with a audience remember.
"I loved that you named the so called, 'oblivious character' a name like free! She is the only one not burdened. She is truly free!" The audience member gushed. He clutched the program tightly.
"Oh..."I said, "That's not what I meant,"
"What do you mean?" He said.
"It was meant to be ironic that her name was Fri. I mean, she is named after a food produ..."
He interrupted me halfway, "Okay, maybe that was your intention, but I think I took something better from it. I mean, if that was true this play would be super pessimistic!"
I was silent. How could I reply to this? I thought it should be obvious what I meant.The stark reality is that your art will be interrupted and reinterpreted differently by every single person who views it. Whether that difference is major or minor, each person has a different version of events.
So, students, Do you think the artist's intention matters? Who decides the meaning of the art, the artist or the audience? Tell me your thoughts on this subject in five hundred words or less.
And as always, students, stay on the hunt for T R U E A R T, and if you have found it, be a dear old friend and fetch it some lemongrass candy cigarettes.
-Professor Martin

PROFESSOR MARTIN, RATHER... INTERESTING, AS USUAL. WE WISH ALL STUDENTS GOOD LUCK ON THEIR CONTINUING SEMESTER!
ON OTHER NOTES, OUR CONSULTANT POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED AND WE ARE LEARNING! #blessed


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HELLO EVERYONE!

PROFESSOR MARTIN HAS ASKED US TO SHARE THIS.... INTERESTING ESSAY (?), THAT THEY WROTE FOR... SOMEONE.
WE ARE NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS, THEY JUST SHARED IT WITH US ON GOOGLE DOCS WITH A MESSAGE THAT SAID "share this essay with those who are in the eternal search T R U E A R T,".
WE DON'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT "T R U E A R T" IS, OR WHO FALLS UNDER THE CATEGORY OF ETERNALLY SEARCHING FOR IT, SO WE THOUGHT WE WOULD JUST POST THE ESSAY HERE.

I am not a rigid professor, I employ many techniques and dear reader, I am in love with T R U E A R T. T R U E A R T is an elusive beast, I attempted to capture for a long part of my life, but let me tell you T R U E A R T is not something to be captured. Yes... once you find it is incredibly tempting to simply capture it, but it will DIE in captivity. I have seen it die right before my eyes.
Once you find it, which will take it's own rigorous process, you must befriend it. And once you befriend T R U E A R T , you will make more T R U E A R T, which will go out into the world, to be befriended by someone else. Or befriend the T R U E A R T you created and help it grow strong, through training and learning. But you can never make your own T R U E A R T , if you attempt to tame T R U E A R T.
Is this literal or an analogy? That is for you, dear reader, to find out.
- Professor Martin

WELL, THAT WAS CERTAINLY... INTERESTING.

IN OTHER NEWS, GROTTO G.S.M. INC. IS LOOKING FOR A CONSULTANT. THIS CONSULTANT WILL TEACH US HOW TO PROPERLY USE WORDS LIKE, "LIT", "AF" AND, "FAM", AS WELL AS TEACH US WHICH OUTFIT WILL MAKE US LOOK THE MOST "ON POINT". THEY WILL BE PAID HOURLY STARTING AT $45/HOUR, SUBMIT YOUR RESUMES HERE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION.

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HELLO EVERYONE!

WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT! WE ARE PAST WINTER BREAK AND GETTING INTO OUR NEW SPRING SEMESTER, AND SADLY WHILE UPWARD MOBILITY AND THE MODERN WORKER IS NO LONGER IN SESSION, WE HAVE DECIDED TO SPONSOR ANOTHER FANTASTIC COURSE, CALLED HUMAN BEINGS AND THE ART OF FILM!

IT WILL BE HELD IN THE FLOATING AUDITORIUM AND CO TAUGHT BY TWO AMAZING PROFESSORS, PROF. BRANIGAN AND THE BRAND NEW, PROF. MARTIN. IT WILL BE WORTH THREE FINE ARTS CREDITS, BUT CAN BE USED AS A 2 FINE ARTS CREDIT AND 1 ABSTRACT THOUGHT CREDIT.

WHILE YOU ALL KNOW PROFESSOR BRANIGAN, YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW PROFESSOR MARTIN.

PROFESSOR MARTIN RECENTLY BEGAN TEACHING AFTER, QUOTE,
" I was wandering around miserable in a jungle, trying to make the art I so desperately wanted, when I fell into a swampy river. In this river, I saw this little hot pink teddy bear abandoned by some kid or something. For some reason, existential horror ripped through my soul. I immediately thought, 'there is no such thing as nature anymore,' I laid in the river for several days, staring at the hot pink teddy bear. My crew found me and asked me why I was sitting in a swampy river. I looked down at my clothes covered in swampy river mud and debris and looked back up at my crew. I stared up at Jenny,the person in charge of scheduling, and began to sob. At that point, I knew it was time to make a change,".
BEFORE TEACHING, THEY WERE AN AVID NATURE DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER, WHICH MIGHT PUT THE WHOLE SWAMPY RIVER THING IN PERSPECTIVE.

PROFESSOR MARTIN SAYS, "I love to teach. It is my new passion. You never see little hot pink teddy bears abandoned in swampy rivers, when you are a teacher. You just see a bunch of people, learning,or ignoring you and sitting around. I just love to teach," AND THAT THEY ARE EXCITED TO TEACH THIS CLASS.

NOW, WHAT IS THIS CLASS? IT IS ABOUT FILM MAKING,THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FILM AND CULTURE, SCREEN PLAY WRITING, FILM THEORY, AND HOW TO "MAKE IT" IN THE FILM INDUSTRY. THE CLASS WILL FEATURE SEVERAL GUEST SPEAKERS, INCLUDING AWARD WINNING ACTORS, DIRECTORS, WRITERS, AND PRODUCERS.

THE CLASS HAS FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITIES, INCLUDING THE CHANCE TO CREATE OR STAR IN A FILM WITH YOUR CLASSMATES! THE CLASS WILL END WITH A TRIP TO THE EMPEROR STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL IN JUNE.

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 20TH AND CLASSES START JANUARY 22ND!
WE HOPE YOU SIGN UP!

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HELLO EVERYONE!!
A MESSAGE FROM PROF. A. BRANIGAN:

Hello!! I hope you have kept up on your readings (The Picture of Dorian Gray, Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji*fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!, Posture Drawing for Beginners, and How to Win Enemies & Scare People By Carnegie Dale ) because it is time for your readings project!!!

You can either:
1. You can draw a image or create a image about your favorite line from The Picture of Dorian Gray, Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji**fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!, or How to Win Enemies & Scare People by Carnegie Dale.
2. Present your favorite posture drawing from your Posture Drawing for Beginners workbook.
3. Perform your favorite monologue from Economics for a #Lit*fire emoji**fire emoji**one hundred emoji*World!!.

If you choose option one you have Saturday,November 13th, 2017 or 1589, whichever works better for you. You can submit a hard copy or a digital copy through your journal. Option two and three will have to be ready to by Monday,November 20th, 2017 to perform or present your work.

All options will be worth 25% of your grade. If you have any question, feel free to contact me during class or through the @grOTTO G.S.M INC. journal.

Thank you
Achava Branigan

HELLO EVERYONE,

WE APOLOGIZE FOR A RECENT POST TO OUR JOURNAL. IT WAS NOT INTENTIONAL, BUT A SERVER ERROR.
WHILE THIS IS NOT COMMON, IT DOES HAPPEN AND WE ARE WORKING TO FIX IT.

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Dear Diary,
Something happened today. Something weird, or I dunno, something ominous (?).
I know, I know, I am being vague, but...
I was in the Cafeteria and I was eating with @Cave Girl Claire , when I saw. . .
ugh I sound insane!!! ok ok I am going to say it.
I AM going to say it. (ew caps locks is disgusting)
ok, I will, I will say it.So, I was looking around for @Miranda Ashdove , who was going to eat with us, when I glanced towards to the lost and found section by the coat racks and. . .
and I saw this thing hanging up on one of the racks, it looked familiar for some reason and I thought "Oh, I should see if I know who owns this, so I can return it!"
I walked over and. . .

ugh i am reading too much into this
i just
UGH
ok wow that really is gross, I am not doing it again, like EVER
EWWW !!! ewwwwwwwwwwwww oh my god it is repuls....
ok ok sorry, I am
I am
distracting myself.
I just thought it was fake, it didn't think it was real, at least. . .
At least, It can't be real, sure it felt like that but . . .

it was a pastel rubber suit with a hazmat symbol.
a pastel hazmat suit, like the ones i saw, i mean i thought i saw at the imaginary graveyard
hanging up on a hanger, a custom hanger, on the lost and found coat rack.
why would ...
why would anyone have that?
why would would it oh my god oh my god i have to go
i have to go

THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR @Carol Song , FROM HER PROFESSOR A. BRANIGAN:

Hi Carol! I am sorry to hear that G-LUV isn't working out. Honestly, I think they are a little overrated, but this is what most radio today looks like. If you want to look at a fully organic or semi-organic station, or even an individualist station (These stations are full of freed robots, escaping their programming and building new lives for themselves).

I am thinking particularly about a Ciudad-Rusa Public Radio (sometimes spelled Ciudadrusa Public Radio), a semi-organic station, who have lots of opportunities.The Robot Empress Podcast, an individualist podcast, who are looking for a production assistant. While both would be a little outside of the curriculum, I think that this might be the direction you want to go in radio.

My roommate, Yekaterina Reina, who works at Ciudad-Rusa, who is always looking for "fresh meat" for the station, so it is nearly guaranteed you would get in. The Robot Central is hosted by two of my dear friends, Russe and Ville, it is a riskier option and definitly harder to get into, but I am willing to put a word in for you!

I am really sorry that you got stuck with G-LUV. I asked @GROTTO G.S.M. INC. to release a post telling students to talk to me, if they disliked their automated assignments for the intern assignment, but it looks like either they decided to go back to their censoring or everyone is too afraid to talk to me!

Anyways, Tell me what you are thinking and I can arrange it.

Thank you
Prof. A. Branigan

HELLO EVERYONE:
WE HAVE A MESSAGE FROM PROF. BRANIGAN :

@Klarya and @Carol Song , Thank you for turning in your work and your grades have been posted! I always love to hear the different perspectives from my students, as well as seeing students so engaged with the content.

As for you, @Klarya ,That is a great explanation and example of the Zarcadian Rhythm. I will definitely use it during class. If you are interested in mind rhythms, you should research gênant patterns. (A great explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCeQLeQiRP4 )

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