So I get to class today and find the entire class and instructor sitting on some benches outside of the room. I walk up and join the group and my professor looks at me. I say hello and quickly listen intently to someone else's conversation, figuring he was planning to ask where I was last week for our field trip (in a class of about ten, it's easy to notice when someone's missing and almost equally easy for someone to mention that I had made it to lecture that same morning =^P). He continues to stare at me, so eventually I look back and hold eye contact. He informs me that since I wouldn't be able to attend tomorrow's field trip (he knew all semester that I couldn't do Saturday trips) there really wasn't much point in my being there. He said he'd mark me as present and I was free to go. I was like, "Works for me!" Yay.