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I helped She Who Must Be Obeyed grade a few of her students' papers yesterday evening.

Her second-grade class is studying abbreviations (bear in mind that the class is omni-cultural, and is somewhere between hepta- and nonalingual).

One of the multiple-choice questions was:

Which of these is an abbreviation for "foot?"

(a) Dr.
(b) ft.
(c) Mrs.
(d) in.

One student answered '(c)'. When I showed it to the Marvelous Spousal Unit, she shook her head and said "Ethan" (Ethan is not Rory's real name, and Rory is not the real name of the culprit). She was correct in her guess; it was Ethan/Rory/Unmentioned. I commended her and said, 'it's that obvious, eh?"

She said, "no, he was just my first guess. I could give you the names of two other students who'd be likely to miss that question. They don't get any help at home. You see what I'm working with?"

For the rest of the day, she kept murmuring "Foot. I would at least have chosen an abbreviation that began with an 'f.'"

Curiouser and curiouser.

Meanwhile, I discovered 'Organic Mexican' coffee beans at the local farmers' market when they were out of something esoteric that Ichi had requested. Darksheare will recoil, but it's great when you add a little Silk Dark Chocolate Almond milk to it.

Meanwhile, it's a great day for Scouting.