Anyway, I learned a very valuable life lesson a couple weeks ago.  During a conference with my professor, he complimented my commentary on the novel we'd read.  Thing is, I must've been wearing a shit-eating grin having heard him say in his totally awesome British accent, You're a bit of a mystery to me. Your writing is too good, because he then proceeded to ask me if I'd plagiarized my analysis (I hadn't).  But he let me stutter and mumble explanations and apologies for a good minute before he finally rolled his eyes and said he'd bothered to copy/paste my entries online to look for evidence of academic thievery and found none (because I hadn't!!).  So, lesson learned: always wear a pokerface when two feet away from green-eyed men.  Or something like that.