Even though he's evil, Mr. Dumaine is my hero. He assigned a writing assignment the second after we turned in our research paper. The rough draft is due Monday, then we have an enormous Crucible test Wednesday, and then we have to turn in the final draft on Thursday. Psycho. But anyway, when questioned about how long it should be, he suggested we use "The skirt analogy". He explained that this meant "long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting". I was amused.