Yesterday

Yesterday, I was back at school after being totally lame for skipping on Monday (though I was sick and did have an appointment which conflicted with one of my classes). Anyway I had done most of the reading for my 9:00 a.m. class, granted it was completed under a sudafed haze, but still I figured I would utilize the pre-emptive response in order to avoid any potential socratic embarrassment.

For those who don't know - the pre-emptive response is simply volunteering, as soon as possible to something the professor says, in order to respond to a question or comment that you are able to discuss intelligently. The goal being that you've spoken in class and it's much less likely that the professor will call on you for something else - that something else generally being something contained in the reading that you didn't complete.

Alas, as soon as class started the first words out of Professor Brand's mouth were..... So, I fumbled around and looked afool because I didn't even have a command of the basic facts of the case. For example "What country was the buyer located in?" Where I responded "London" - right, I know that London is a city, but whatever I was still kind of sick.

Regardless - it sucked, and I was kind of pissed that I was such a douche - because I really like the class and the professor, but now I fear that he's thinking "This kid doesn't know shit about International Business Transactions" -- Such is life.

Though, the upside is that generally after such a harrowing experience I would have immediately had a cigarette after class, but because of my trusty nicotine patch - I was good to go!