This morning I taught my class, which I do on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Today as the class was ending, I reminded my students that there is no class this coming Thursday.<\/p>\n
“We will be meeting again next Tuesday morning,” I told them. “Meanwhile, remember that there is no class on Thursday. I hope everybody has a happy Halloween.”<\/p>\n
As soon as I said it, I realized that I had gotten the holiday wrong. But once you’ve said something, you can’t just unsay it. So I had no choice but to roll with it.<\/p>\n
“Oops,” I continued. “I should have said Thanksgiving. Then again, I guess it depends on how scary your family is.”<\/p>\n
Fortunately, that got a laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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