Just another day, just an ordinary day...

Today I endured another tortuous math class. I don't think that cute men should be allowed to teach, and here's why...

The teacher was just about to wrap things up, when this girl flutters her eyelashes and asks him to help her with a laughingly simple problem. While he's painstakingly writing it all out on the board, she's batting her eyelashes, and playing with her nails, smiling coyly at him... to his total oblivion. I very much doubt sincerely as to whether or not she heard his little lesson, but she stared in rapt adoration as he explained something to her... but she definitely was NOT staring at the board.

And she wasn't the only one. There were a few other members of his fan club, hanging around the classroom, not paying attention to any of the lesson, but waiting for class to end so they could ask some important (no doubt) questions.

I started noticing this strange phenomenon last class period, when a couple girls had a question to ask him about something, and hung about his desk, giggling at everything he said, and it took a VERY long time to ask whatever question they were asking.

I think the most amusing thing is he doesn't even notice. He's rather shy, and, like a typical math geek, more interested in Calculus than the female species. Sorry to all you math whizzes out there, but that's been my rather amusing observation. No, I didn't get that impression from Dilbert...

What he does notice is the giggling and whispering that goes on in class among his fan club. He actually stopped lecture today and said, "I can see that your attention span is GONE, how about we wrap it up for the day. If any of you want to stay and ask questions, that's fine, the rest of you can go."

I had to ask him when I could re-take my test, so remained with the fan club, but ... finally decided I'd just ask him later.

With old and cantankerous professors you just don't have this problem. Of course, I shouldn't complain. Old and cantankerous professors would most definitely not have taken my assignment a week late, nor would they have said, "Yes you DID have a crappy test score, so I'll think about letting you retake the test..."

Now, all I have to do is survive my Psych class. As long as we don't have a surprise test...