1. Darn. A BETTER tagline for the sara lee "soul" bread commercial would be

"We're not just white bread, baby!"

2. Mmmm... I decided to try the new Kashi TLC granola bars. The kind I got are Pumpkin Spice Flax. They are gooooooood. Just sweet enough.

3. Confidential to my student who just took a makeup exam: would it KILL you to say "thanks"? Or even say two words to me? I mean, after I stayed extra-long on Friday waiting for you to call or e-mail, then wrote a special make-up because I couldn't give you a test like the one I had just handed back, and then because *I* approached *you* in class today about "when can you take that makeup?"

Seriously. I know you're Football Hero and all, but last I checked, I wasn't your servant.

4. Came up with an amusing and hopefully helpful analog of diffusion for class today: I brought in some little smiley face stickers I had had for another project. Selected four students sitting close together and put a sticker on each of their hands. Told them they were like the molecules of dye that the textbook talked about. Then had the whole class get up and start milling around "randomly" (as random as you can get people to do). Stopped at particular points to ask the "dye molecules" to show where they were with a show of hands...it would probably work better in the future if I did it as a "stepped" thing where I had people walk at roughly the same rate (some moved fast, other slow) and stopped them every four steps or so - but it still showed the progressive mixing of "dye" in "water" and that once equilibrium was reached, the molecules did not stop moving.

I suppose if people really got into it, I could also mimic the situation in "hot water" (everyone move faster) and "cold water" (everyone move slower).

I don't know. I get a few eye-rolls over this kind of thing but geez - get over yourselves, people. If you can't be a little silly in college, it's like your last chance. (Well, unless you become a professor...). But I also have people respond well to that kind of stuff so I'm going to keep doing it, the eye rollers can just suck eggs if they're going to be that way.