So, uh, are you doing anything after the midterm?

I'm quite enjoying the Immunology course - there's enough new stuff to keep me engaged but it's (to me at least) simple enough to not make me sweat over Thursday's upcoming midterm. Last Monday, however, we had a "discussion section" in the evening outside class time, which the TA decided to make into a review session because a lot of people were confused.

After a very short time we came to the conclusion that he was a prat. I think most immuno newbies left more confused than they came in. As CS Lewis wrote of Eustace in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, he "had never learned to tell a story straight". For introducing people to immunology you HAVE to tell it as a narrative - what happens when a pathogen enters the body. He was jumping all over the place spewing out blobs of unconnected, and often irrelevant, facts. I had an almost unbearable impulse to leap up and grab the chalk from him.

Anyway, the following email he just sent out has failed utterly to improve my opinion of him:

I hope your studying is going well (and just know that I’m around, and am flexible for the next few days if you want to get together). I also thought I would direct your attention toward the release of Matchbox 20’s new album, Exile on Mainstream. Anyway, it’s released tomorrow so you better appreciate that… or else.

Is he trying to ask the entire class on a date or what? *baffled*