school-girl moment

I think most of my huge readership are facebook friends with me. So, last semester -- I bombarded everyone's newsfeed with my "Logue" obsession. I had a crazy case of mentionitis. I took two of Prof. Logue's classes last semester. And I talked about him a lot...I thought I had graduated from this school-girl crush this semester. Especially after many people caught on to the goodness that is Prof. Logue. As mentioned earlier, I do not like to remain on a bandwagon for too long because I am not good at sharing. I'm taking Corporate Tax with him this semester. There are very few professors I trust enough to allow them to grade 10 credits. Prof. West is the other one I'm gambling (trusting) on with 10 graded credits! (He is another story for another time).

My interaction with Prof. Logue is always off. This is probably my fault since I get too nervous around him and thus I come off very unnatural. I wish I could be who I am...in front of him! I am usually a very friendly, active, eager-eyed student (mostly for Professors Kahn and Avi-Yonah). I am cold and cool-headed during Corporate Tax (or so I think). I probably look bored, disinterested, or sleepy. I'm anything but those three things. But I was totally out of character in front of Prof. Logue today. Tina, Sally, and I went to lunch at Sadako. When we had finished ordering, in came Prof. Logue with another not-important-to-me-professor to have lunch. I was sitting with my back towards (against?) him as he sat at the next table. I had a meltdown. Oh no! Do I say hi? Will he recognize me? What if he doesn't? My life would lose all meaning. Should I say hi...or should I ignore him? Oh no, oh no!

I eavesdropped on his conversation with the other guy...but it was too intelligent for me to understand. A lot about tax policy, the President, constitutionality, statutory interpretation...etc. Yeah...I was being a total creepster and eavesdropping. When we paid for our food and stood up...I made up my mind. I will say hi! Ugh, mistake.

Instead of being normal...I waved frantically, rapidly...and said "Hi, Professor!"

UGH. SCHOOL-GIRL MOMENT.

As always, Professor Kyle Logue is so gracious and kind. He waved back (less enthusiastically than me but pretty enthusiastic on a normal-scale) semi-imitating me (with the five to six times wave) and said, "Hey, how are you!" He didn't call me Ms. Kim...so I have no idea whether he recognized me or not. He might not have...who knows.

I wish I was less of a freak. What a melt-down. Tina and Sally died LOL-ing. I must recover from this before facing him on Wednesday morning.

P.S. I have another important post to write. I also am not keeping my word...about placing a strict word limit on my entries. I apologize for the length of this entry.