Overrated...

Well, while Chris is off in Argentina hunting for birds, I am here in Boston getting an education. If you've been reading this blog, you know that I got my first paper back last week, and that I did pretty well.

I just want to go ahead and say, for the record, that it was a fluke.

Case in point: I'm sitting in class today trying to keep up with a conversation about Emergent and Conventional Literacy Development, and I raise my hand to comment on the topic. What comes next is both disturbing, and completely embarrassing.

I will say that I did actually think the comment out before I said it. In fact, I even prefaced my comment with the remark, "you're probably all going to be less intelligent after I tell you this".

And that should have been the end of it.

No such luck. I'm not sure what reaction I thought my comment/practical everyday connection would evoke, but I'm pretty sure that after the words, "when I was watching 'The Biggest Loser' on TV last night" came out of my mouth, I lost my target audience.

I'm just going to let you think about that for a little bit. And trust me, there was no mind-blowing comment after that.

Oh well. One A at Harvard is nothing to scoff at...

**Did I mention that I got run over by a girl on a bike yesterday? Clearly I'm suffering from some sort of mental block as a result of the collision. OK, so she just ran over my feet, but I've definitely been traumatized...