How your head feels under something like that

I couldn't get a straight answer from anyone here about how to say theta hat (the Greek letter theta with a caret on top -- it looks like this and it's a statistics thing that you either already understand or don't want me to explain). When I threw out theta sombrero as a possible translation, I was just going for a cheap laugh. (People here mostly don't think I'm as hilarious as I usually think I am). I definitely wasn't expecting to hear "Yeah, say that. It's funny." So, today I talked about theta sombrero. And some people did laugh. Wow. (Full disclosure: It's also possible that they were laughing because theta sounds sort of like teta which means tit in Spanish, but whatever. I'll take whatever laughs I can get.)

Anyway, today was better, I think. Class, I mean. I made a few digressions from reading the slides, and the students were a little quieter, and I even answered a few questions. I'm not complaining, but I definitely expected this job to give better disaster stories than it has so far.