Gorditas

I get the distinct impression a lot of the time that a lot of the students are laughing at me. They're laughing at something anyway, and looking in my general direction. If I asked themwhat was so funny they wouldn't tell me, and I guess I probably don't want to know. Today, at least, I kind of knew why they were laughing. There is something in statistics called the t distribution, and compared to the normal distribution (the bell curve) we say it has fatter tails. My translation of fat tails to colas gordas got through two Spanish-speaking proofreaders, so I figured I was ok. I think it is the right translation, but I found out later that if you are Spanish or Catalan and have the maturity of a 14-year old, I guess colas gordas might maybe sound a little bit like fat dicks instead of fat tails. Anyway, when I first said it they all started laughing, and when I repeated "and what does it mean, colas gordas?" they really started laughing. And, since I basically have the maturity of a 14-year-old myself, then I started cracking up, even though at the time I barely even knew why.

Maybe this job isn't so terrible after all.