I’m fixing to crunch my students’ grades from last semester to determine how much their attendance contributed to their final average. Just from eye-balling it, I figure at least 75% of the grade variations can be attributed to whether or not their butts were in their seats. The wierdest thing about me doing this is that I’m actually very anxious to see if there’s a trend. No matter what the numbers say, I know I shouldn’t harp on it too much. As Mark Twain once said, “There are three types of lies: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

I ran across this picture while I was at Mom and Dad’s on Christmas (click for a larger view). It’s me and my prom date in 2000. I had a wonderful time. Brittany, the lovely lady in the picture, is one of the sweetest girls I know. I’ll never forget that night.

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This is the first time in four years that I don’t have to pack up %50 of what I own and head to Mom and Dad’s for a month. I can now leave everything exactly where it is. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be heading there for all the neato food, but I don’t have to actually pseudo-move back in. This is wondermus.

On the teaching front, everything went smoothly today with the new round of students. I get paid on Wednesday, which is always good. Yipeeee!

I got my hair cut at Wal-Mart this morning. (Before you laugh, I think she did a fantastic job.) After Robin, the stylist, had finished with the cut, she pleaded with me to put some blue gel in my hair. I’ve never had colored hair in my life (not even on Halloween), but it’s two days after Thanksgiving, I’ve got a good hair cut, and I’m in a good mood, so I figure what the heck. Needless to say, it looks odd. I proceeded to do my grocery shopping with my blue hair. It’s amazing how many double-takes I got whilst parusing the ailes looking for my usual fare of frozen pizza and pizza-related items. A guy walking like he’s drunk with blue hair. You don’t see that in Wal-Mart every day.