Transport today began with a holiday-relevant example of heat transfer: bringing a turkey from 41 to 180 degrees with the different convection environments of hot air (oven) and hot oil (deep frying). The problem began:

Assume spherical turkeys.

That struck me as pretty funny. Almost as good was the teacher's later comment, "Three is the same as one, for all practical purposes." I bet the normal population would beg to differ.

In MSE today the teacher called my name as I went in the door and congratulated me on my score on the last test. That was enough, but then in front of the entire class he said that "someone" got a 98% overall average and "that person" got the highest grade on each test and that he appreciated the effort. As I tried not to keep a straight face and look unconspicuous (and not hide under my desk, like I always want to when teachers do this), I wondered whether Catherine, who was sitting beside me, would ask me if that was me he was talking about.

Instead, she asked, "Do teachers ever refer to you by name when they're talking about you like that?" No question that it wasn't me.

Always different.