"I don't let people rent space in my head."

Today while I have been oh so busy sitting at the front desk checking email and Fox News, I have listened to Jessica helping students register (open enrollment started today!). She is really nice and patient with them and at the end of her conversation always says, "No problem." This reminded me of our conference in Boston last summer.

Our first "keynote" speaker was a professor from Stonehill College in Massachusetts. I think he was a sociology professor and probably the worst "keynote" speaker I have ever listened to. (After him, I was done with the keynotes for the conference. I couldn't take it anymore!) He started off on the right foot by insulting everyone from Utah (the U, BYU, and USU) by stating that we had to be one of the least educated states from some article that he read. He didn't even know which state the article was about and just threw Utah in there (what about Idaho or Montana or like Alabama?) Jerk! Maybe this is changing, but last time I checked, Utah was one of the most educated states. After the insult, he kept spewing off all of these statistics about 24,000 children who had died in an African country earlier that week. He kept stating "I don't let people rent space in my head. Those children, I can't get them out of my head." Can you please get out of my life!? The only other thing that stands out from his oh so interesting speech was his crude understanding of basic mathematics to bring it back around (I realize the background was a little long). So Professor Tactless states, "No problem? When did two negatives become a positive?" What an idiot! (Maybe Ph.D. should stand for Phundamentally Dumb!) Did he not pass basic math when the teacher explains that two negatives equal a positive? It's not that hard, think about it.

PAINFUL!!