*Some* parliament members, Shir? I think a more accurate warning would be that some are logical and sense-making, and actually have the best interests of their constituents at heart.

You have not known stupid till you get a letter from Jeff Flake on any topic. Next to him, I AM Elizabeth Warren, although I counted myself really lucky to get a B+ in economics in real life.(too many charts that I totally suck at) I can see why his whole campaign was his white teeth and many blonde children,although even they are not the selling points they used to be.

*Some* parliament members, Shir?

Hi, there are still people I vote for.

I messed up a spreadsheet, which means I have to re-do 105 scantrons. (We need to submit scantrons with our students' in-class averages, meaning the average of quizzes and homework but not exams. The online gradebook that I use, where students can see their grades from their accounts, has the overall average, including the exams. So I downloaded the gradebook data in a spreadsheet and used that to average the homework and quiz scores, but the downloading and re-opening shifted the column labels over by one, and I didn't notice it, so I averaged the wrong things. So I need to re-do all of the scantrons, so that the university computer can take those scores and add them to the exam scores, which is, by the way, the exact same thing that my online gradebook already does, and I can easily submit the total scores after adding them, but the university for some reasons needs me to submit the in-class scores separately, so that their computers can add them to the exam scores themselves.)

I am having mac and un-cheese for dinner, and I bought a box of candy, because the thought of filling in ID numbers and grades in 105 scantrons, in order to add together some numbers that my computer can already add together, requires comfort food and sugar.

Why I couldn't do Hil's job: in addition to being horrible at math in my own right, I'd be tempted just to give everyone an 80 and take my evening back. (I may be unemployable, but not for the reasons people think.)

No, you don't give everyone an 80, that's the biggest tell that you've fudged the work. Most people get an 80, a few get 90s and 60s, one or two get 99 and 32. The Bell curve is your friend.

Yeah, you're right. And if I'd been teaching them for a semester, I bet I could guess who'd be where.

Actually computing the grades is the easy part. Filling them in on the scantrons is the annoying part, and it's equally annoying with the real averages or fake ones.

Why crime doesn't pay: it's just as much work to do it right as staying legal.