Have you ever met someone so hopelessly clueless that you want to just smash their head through something?  My Facebook status right now declares that I have “LSPT”, aka, Low Stupid People Tolerance.  I think that the freshman orientation is really code for “The Biggest Gathering of Stupid People at One Time.”  I had one girl today that was such a pain in the ass.  Priority?  Making sure no classes conflicted with any potential rushing schedule, and not having any 8am classes.  And taking the easiest classes ever.

I admit I have limited patience.  I apparently have even less when it comes to some of these freshman.  I am so glad I am teaching a class of juniors in the fall.  Hopefully they’ll be a little bit more dedicated – or at least, have gone through enough college to have figured out the system so they appear dedicated.

In a non-stupid moment, I’m happy to report that I got a 100 on my 2nd statistics assignment.  You should probably look outside your window right now, as the pigs are probably about to fly any second.  I don’t know why I suddenly understand something math related, but I’m not going to question it too heavily.

Bonus thing learned today?  If you book a ticket on Southwest, even if you book a non-refundable ticket, if you call within 24 hours of booking it, you can cancel the whole thing and get a refund.  That’s unheard of!  I have been watching some plane tickets to Chicago.   Southwest popped up today with the lowest I’ve seen at $279.  I  waffled a bit, then decided it probably wouldn’t get better.  I guess all the goodwill in the  universe has gone towards helping me  do well in stats, because when I got home, my Yapta tracker had emailed me that a  flight on American Airlines had just dropped to $239.  After a few well spoken “Fuck”’s,  my boy called Southwest and asked about the policy – and we found out that bit about the refund.  I called, I cancelled…and then I booked on American, saving $50 (no, my math isn’t off – I got an additional discount through the conference on American, taking the ticket total down to $228).

So if you ever think you’re going to book a flight, then change your mind…book Southwest.