Thunder!

There were two giant thunderstorms accompanied by torrential downpours this weekend. Who would have thought? But both Saturday and Sunday morning, whoosh. It was like Florida in the middle of the afternoon. Only instead of clearing up right aftwerwards it was cloudy and kind of rainy all day long. Being the easily amused person that I am, I found it quite entertaining.

And now for something totally random. Sometimes in my learning/essay writing I can't help but think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, more specifically the portion in which he discusses the fact that he has a test that day on European facism. I want to say 'I'm not English, I don't plan on becoming English, so who's cares if their bus system is deregulated?' That's sad on many levels, I realize. And for all of you considering making such a move, it's best to keep those buses regulated. Or you will end up with a stinky man from the Isle of Wight telling you over the course of about 6 hours what a bad idea it was from the get go. That guy earned the nick-name BO Dereg. For obvious reasons.

Everyone's favorite prof is Dr. Cherrett. He makes freight and home delivery interesting. And that's not easy. We call him chesty because he tends to rub his hand on his chest when he's lecturing. We've also got the Stat Rab, who teaches statistics and has a crazy beard reminiscent of a rabbi. Then there's one we call proto-chesty, who is a younger guy who seems to try and be like chesty but is more along the lines of a simpler, unperfected version. We're still working on coming up for a name for this other guy who always has an unnatural amount of stuff in his pant's pockets. This is sad, I realize, but it gives us something to do in the ten minute breaks we sometimes get in the middle of two hour lectures. And they make good group names for pub quizes. We've had the most luck with chesty.