"That's what he just said."

So here's a little lesson: don't go up to the professor after class with an "interesting" point you want to talk to him about when you haven't really been paying attention to lecture!!

The sad thing is, I knew I hadn't been paying attention to the first half of class, but I genuinely thought I had been paying enough attention the second half (in between writing paragraphs of my memo due Friday) that I caught what was going on in the class discussion. And right at the end the professor said something that interested me. So laddy-dahdy dah, up I go to the professor, and when I say "What about this?", he said "Yes that's what so-and so said and that's why I said . . . " etc. etc. He wasn't mean about it or anything and didn't call me out on not paying attention (not that he needed to at that point) but it was a bit embarrassing.

So I decided the only way to get myself out of it was to just keep talking, because I couldn't let him think that the only reason I had come up there was to make a point that had already been made when I wasn't listening. It's true this is a very Cecelia solution (to keep talking) but in this case I think it was the only plausible way to save anything. It worked reasonably well - at least enough to allow me to gracefully exit!

I'll blame it on my empty stomach. I'm hungry.