Fiddling as Rome Burns

I'm reading The New Yorker as we eat dinner, and see this cartoon:


Me: Please don't ever come home and say we're homeless.
John: I'll try not to.
Me: Then we'll just have to move into the other house.
John: Which one? (the Gray St house or the one in Leadville)
Me: HA HA HA! We have too many houses.
John: We should have a yard sale.

We've accidentally collected houses, like stray dogs, they are nearly worthless these days.

This is not actually funny.

Homework

We are supposed to take some information from our jobs and make a final project and presentation for Statistics class. Word problems like.

That's boring. Like I want to chart how many plants I kill a month. That's embarrassing.

I got a better idea.

I get my big pile of socks. I do not wear matched socks so they are all strange and most do not have mates. I make up some statistical sock drawing questions and answers.

But I also take pictures of my sock monkeys (Bippo, PurpleMonkeyDishWasher, and Nikki Monkey) doing things with the socks. Make a sort of children's book out of it. Do waayy more than asked because I'm gonna bomb the final test. Have it bound at kinkos.

My visual aid will be my hamper full of socks and my sock monkeys.

The sock project, numbers

Only socks in my clean pile were counted.

How many socks? 157
Winter socks? 68
Summer socks? 33
Fall/spring socks? 56
Bicycle socks (socks for the bicycling, though some bicycling socks have bicycles on them)? 11
Pirate? 19
Monkey? 13
Bunny? 5
Eyeball? 5
Stripes? 25
Polka dots? 1
Knee High? 28
Socks with mates? 46 pairs, 92 individuals
Socks without mates? 65

After this project, I am making Lillian a giant sock toy with all the socks I don't wear. ...you know... all three of them...


John: YOU CAN GO FOR 78 DAYS WITHOUT NEEDING TO WASH YOUR SOCKS?! I only have 2 weeks worth of socks!!!