How is that you're even alive?

Do you ever have days where you look around and it seems like common sense has made a quick exit from the world and everyone is just wandering aimlessly making ridiculous claims, asking inappropriate questions, and holding you to completely inappropriate expectations?  I had one of those days, and it seems like several of the people I had to deal with today have just lost all of their common sense.  When that happens it makes me wonder how those people are even alive.  Like how do they know not to wander into the middle of a busy highway but don't know that asking me (the Italian professor) about the Arabic study abroad program just doesn't make any sense?  And how do they remember to feed and bathe themselves, but can't remember that you have to show up to class and do the homework to receive a good grade?  Or how do they know that it's not appropriate to ask about a professor's personal life, but don't realize that it's not necessarily appropriate to broadcast their roommate's personal life in the middle of my class?  Come on!  These are life skills people, some people have them and some people don't.  If you don't, I'm sorry but you are probably going to die some ridiculously tragic death because you forgot and wandered into the street.  So, here's my recommendation, use the common sense that you were born with.  I know you can do it.

In other news, I have solved (actually Marina and Katie solved it) the mystery of the miscommunication about my graduation stuff.  And here it is: someone removed me from the departmental email list.....so that form I didn't fill out?  The one I got yelled at for "forgetting."  The one that I was informed went out in an email and I spent the weekend wracking my brain to figure out how I could have ignored and deleted such an important email?  I NEVER GOT IT!  Yup, that's right.....the universal balance is back in place: Jessica was right, and he who decided to call me out on my forgetfulness was wrong.  Haha!  Of course I knew it would turn out like that somehow.  Why you ask?  Here's why: I am INCREDIBLY forgetful....but I'm also well aware of that fact and know very well that I write everything down on one of my 20 million sticky notes, or if it's really important I put it in the calendar of my phone and then I get a reminder 5, 10, and 30 minutes before I'm supposed to do something.  Don't you think that my doctoral graduation might have been something that warranted a reminder?  I mean, did you really think I'd forget about it?  Probably not.  I'm not one of those over achievers who will get two masters degrees, three PhDs and an MD so my 3 lovely letters and they will be my most important accomplishment....and have and will be my obsession until this whole process is over.  

I try to be open-minded and forgiving, but sometimes people make it so hard!  Ah!  It was one of those days where I feel like I was airlifted out of normal world and set smack dab in the middle of the island of no common sense.  But tomorrow is another day....stay tuned, I'm sure I'll have another evil rant for tomorrow's events.