Red Eared Glutton

When I was very young, my mother, in a disturbingly pavlovian fashion, convinced me that if I told a lie, my ear would turn red. Lo and behold, it started happening without fail. It still happens, to this day, though I do not often lie. Today in class it happened, and I spent at least 2 minutes trying to figure out what I had lied about.

One day I’m going to answer every single stupid question that our professor asks in class. Most of them are so obvious that everyone is afraid of answering, as merely being associated with such a dumb question makes one look dumb. But one day, I’m going to take over, tongue wagging Jordan-style. I might stare down the guy next to me after I answer. “What now?” I’ll silently say. So, if x+y holds under all real numbers, what else can we say? “y+x holds, WHAT NOW, EAT IT I’M BRILLIANT”. If we can say that this holds for cartesian 2-space, we can we say about cartesian p-space? “THAT IT HOLDS! STILL!” Man, I can’t wait. There was a guy in our gym class who was titled “gym class hero” in high school. I will be a “math class hero”. And then I’ll barely pass.

By the way, storm next wed/thurs period up the east coast. No news yet on precip type.

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