Professor M where have you been? I only missed your last class and all of sudden you vanished.. I promise I'll submit my leave application.. next time..
Molls.. this is actually quite a dilemma and a common one at that.. I've got no idea what the solution is here. All I can say is how I think which is that I almost always take things at face value. Whatever someone says to me I accept it as the truth and move forward accordingly.
Hypothetically speaking, if I felt that I can change a person I'd still run the idea by them and see how open they are to the idea of that actually happening rather than assuming on my own that I'll manage to do it successfully and instead end up being disappointed down the line.
RE: No surprise
Haha.. never get tired of hearing it..