November 5th to December 13th

11/5/07

“My wife had the animals and they had microchips implanted so they passed the microchip test.”

“I forgot to have a medical test- two medical tests done.” (his alpacas)

“Our animals were illegally in Vermont. They could have been confiscated.”

“They gave us a facility to quarantine them in.”

“If the health inspector ever found the animals, we’d be in big trouble.”

“I hate to say it, but it was my wife’s fault.”

Laura: “Do we have a quiz tomorrow?”
Fitz: “Uhhh…..”

11/6/07

“This is not a quiz…. eh… flicker.”

“This IS an alpaca sweater.”

“And now I have to take the second derivative of this beast.”

“And take two aspirin and call the doctor in the morning.” (pauses and then snickers)

11/7/07

“Looks like we’re depleted in a few numbers, but all the important people are here.”

“What a function.”

“You see, you guys are fighting it, but it’s not too difficult.”

Laura: “Why do you give us such difficult problems?”
Fitz: “Because it’s fun.”

“We want to take the limit as ‘x’ gets large.” (followed by laughter)
“What’s so funny about that?”

11/8/07

Laura: “Oh, shit!”
Fitz: “Hey! What?”

“Occasionally, I parked illegally.”

“I ran out screaming, ‘Fuck, fuck, fuck!’”

“Oh my god, I just screamed ‘fuck’ in this guy’s face!”

“Anyway, you’re supposed to say Sherlock after that.”

“Anyway, let’s do some fun calculus.”

“Let’s not muddy the waters with two variables.”

“So, I’m putting fencing in here, probably to keep the peas from attacking each other.”

“Don’t muddy the waters by doing it with the product.”

11/9/07

“Alright, sports fans.”

Megan: “How’d you get that? I don’t see it.”
Fitz: “That’s because you were too busy eating your bagel.”

“Ehh… I can read.”

“The trough, of the trough.”

11/13/07

“All the important ones are here, except Kristen Tedford.”

“Yesterday, I had a fellow bring a whole load of gravel.”

“I had to open several gates of our alpaca field.”

“You talk about being sore, I’m really sore.”

“I had taken the boys and put them in a separate field.”

“My, my, there’s only one alpaca that I see here.”

“They were probably a quarter mile away.”

“Seven of them were gone.”

“They don’t have any car sense either.”

“I yelled, ‘Come on boys, come on boys.”

“They all followed me like the pied piper.”

“A wild alpaca chase.” (they chased him a quarter mile back to his house)

“The mean value theorem. It’s a mean one.”

11/15/07

“David, where did you come from?”

“I fail to see the logic.”

“I can’t be wrong this early in the morning.”

“Calling Heather, garbage, this early in the morning…”

11/16/07

“You fold it in half and eventually it goes to the moon.”

“I have to admit defeat.”

12/4/07

“I have to get my head back in this whole thing.”

“Determine if extrema, extremum…”

“This is here the concavity changes… well, sometimes.”

“Pleasant? Oh yeah! It’s wonderful.”

“You like that, huh?”

12/5/07

Nick: “What if we don’t have honor?”
Fitz: “Then we have to cut your fingers off.”

“Turkeys in a boat… on their way to hell,”

“Derogatorily, we’ll call someone a turkey.”

Megan: “Quiet in the calculus room.”
Fitz: “Thank you.”

12/7/07

“I was heavy-handed with my point subtraction.”

“We’re going to go slow and it’s going to be tedious, until we speed up.”

12/10/07

Dan: “Let’s fire up this calculus machine.”
Fitz: “Let’s fire up this calculus machine.”

“I just want to do raw mathematics.”

“Well… we used to have Coke cans.”

12/11/07

Dan: “Because he loves Eisenhower.”
Fitz: “Oh, we're getting into all the McKenzie-isms?”

“In the face of calculus, arithmetic becomes a challenge.”

“Enigma, that's right.”

“Grammar is a big part of my life.”

“It was taught by a guy who was as dry as toast,...”

“I'm such a slow, ploddy reader... I tend to take decades to read things.”

“How are you gonna clown it up?”

12/12/07

“I can’t calculate infinite area… (grins) although I’ll contradict that statement later.”

“When you’re choking… or not chocking, coughing like that- put your hands up.”

“Invoke. Let’s bring it on the screen.”

“I don’t have to reinvent the wheel here.”

Dan: “Shit yeah.”
Fitz: “I beg your pardon?”

(writes “Pain” on the board)
Dan: “Is that an acronym?”
Fitz: “No, it means, “Ouch, pain.’”

Laura: “Did you go school, Ms. Damian?”
Fitz: “Stop that.”

12/13/07

“This one is based on a height of zero, which is disturbing.”

“This is kind of like bludgeoning it to death.”