Awesome

Me: Great! I'm all ready for class: time to introduce magnetic fields and forces.

My Bored Brain: Wow, this looks dull.

Me: Look, it's the first day on a new subject, of course it's a bit dry. But there's some cool stuff in there.

MBB: Important, yes. But seriously: dull. I'm not gonna do it.

Me: We have to do it! I'm already behind what I'd aimed for on the syllabus.

MBB: Not gonna happen. Let's derive magnetism from scratch using electrostatics and relativity instead.

Me: Are you crazy? These guys are bound to be rusty on relativity; they may never have learned it well at all. And we don't have time for long digressions: I've dropped enough material as is.

MBB: Exactly! As the schedule stands, they're going to leave junior/senior E&M without ever hearing that electric and magnetic fields are secretly the same thing. I won't let that happen to any student of mine!

Me: Look, I just can't afford to... hold on... I can't afford... to bore them. How 'bout that.

Me, writing on board at start of class: "Today's plan: Screw it - we're doing something awesome."



Addendum: ukelele points out that by an awesome coincidence, today is The International Day of Awesomeness. Awesome.