going to see zoolander in a little while. that’s good.

in my finance class today, predictably, the teacher felt it was a good idea to take a few minutes (about 20) at the beginning of class and offer his thoughts and opinions on recent events. this is bad. as soon as i left for my first class yesterday, i told my roommates, “you know, i bet all my professors are going to use this as a chance to get up on their soapboxes and make me listen to what they think about all of this, which frankly i don’t care about a single tiny bit.” and naturally, it happened today in finance, the class where i don’t care even when he’s teaching the class, much less how he thinks “we need to be sure not to blame any group for the actions of a few men”. yeah, thanks prof. you’re a very wise person.

my asian religions professor, god bless him, first said, “in news of a topical nature, you should give blood…” and wrote on the board the times and location of the campus blood drive. and then he said something like, “but our job right now is to talk about Buddhism,” which he went right into doing. i seriously love that guy.

this was odd though; with about 15 minutes still to go in class, in a lecture room that seats about 300 and which has no windows or open doors, all the lights suddenly go out. it’s pitch black, and the professor stops in mid sentence and everyone’s quiet for a second. but that’s not the worst. some obviously ingenious person toward the back of the room says, to the dark room, “i smell smoke…”. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT! so everyone gets freaked and is about to leave in a scrambled panic, and the lights come back on, on a crowd of peole half-standing and nervous. the teacher says, “okay okay, everybody sit down”, one of the TA’s goes out to insure there’s no smoke or fire or anything going on out in the hall (which there isn’t at all… yeah, that guy was brilliant), and we finish class.

okay that’s my story for now. ben stiller, don’t let me down.