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[kaffeesuchtig]

If you were a professor, what answer would you expect to the question, "So why isn't your paper done now?"

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[mattscientist]

Something tells me that whatever I come up with won't be nearly as amusing and/or pathetic as actual answers you get.

A good friend of mine just failed a third of her class' midterm essays. And they're grad students. I miss teaching, but some days I don't miss it that much. :)

[mattscientist]

P.S. Lunch friday? I just got paid, and I know you're about to be. :)

[kaffeesuchtig]

Sure. I have about an hour as of 1:15. Would that work for you? We'd have to go someplace in Amherst, since I'll be on campus.

[sparkle_shortz]

It was the chickens, sir.

[kaffeesuchtig]

Uh, I mean ma'am.
I just think that being asked this question is so ridiculous. The answer will never be truthful, because there is always some way in which one's schedule could have been rearranged (e.g. sleeping less) to accommodate completion of the assignment on time (barring illness or tragedies). My truthful answer would have been something like, "I've hardly seen my partner in a week and a half, even though we live together, and therefore decided to invest some time in my relationship by attending a Halloween party with her."
Sorry, flipping off my rant switch now.

I think next time I will try blaming it on the chickens.

[mattscientist]

Oh, it was you being asked the question. Sorry. I figured it was your students being slackers.

Yeah, in that case, blame the chickens. Or Baudelaire's turtle.