lesson learned.
a pro-alumni professor on campus asked one of us to come into his classes to speak to his students on the benefits of belonging to the alumni association. since i'm the official student-alumni liaison, i packed up a few pamphlets and circular mousepads and headed off to class. turns out the prof is an alum and is super excited about the alumni association (score!) and pitching in with students, but when it came time to give out my goodies, he had the brilliant idea to take a stack of the mousepads, and just wing them at the unsuspecting students. i wasn't exactly sure that was the way to win them over to my cause, but he insisted. i tried getting him to do it, as i was trying to weigh out the liability factors in my head... he insisted it would mean more coming from me. so with profuse apologies bookending my actions, i wound up and pitched... i nearly took off the heads of about 4 students as it was impossible to predict where the spinning disks would fly.
next class came round, i tossed them one-by-one.
current mood: i apologize to those i may have injured