fun with sentences

Went in a little early to harass talk with Justin and make him part of my evil plan ask him to write a letter of recommendation for Emerson College. It was somewhat gratifying to talk to him about how much of a pain in the ass those things are; he quite liked my midterm and correctly guessed that I'd been writing for quite a while. He also had his eight year old son with him, and I managed to offload a bag of peanut M&Ms I bought by mistake on the child for .75. Everyone was happy in the end. :-) (He insisted on paying me.) Class was amusing because the eight year old took part in it, and we were trying to get the difference between simple and complex sentences down (for the rest of the class that has no clue about grammar, not to sound pretentious or stuck up, but it's the truth) - and the kid started helping and adding on portions of the sentences as we were constructing them, which led to things such as this:

Justin: ... Mary wanted to talk to Jack about her ... in vitro fertilization ...
Justin v. 2.0: (interrupting) deepest personal problems.
Me: *snickerchokedie*
Justin: (dryly) Well, that's about as personal as it gets.

And then I went to the bookstore and got new pens. Because I'm a nerd and I like new pens. :-D