Must I be prolific, or does it suffice to say
that affection has once again turned into another shade of gray.

Although not a stats professor in grad school anymore, I recently helped a fellow-xangan via remote assistance with her grad stats homework and 'take-home' project-tests.  Yeah, she got an 'A'.  And that was a relief for me.  Although you may think otherwise, every stats prof has his/her own statistical idiosyncrasies, especially when it comes down to applying statistical creativity to a project.  And what may serve as an acceptable interpretation for one prof, may be another's statistical fallacy.  So 'we' got an 'A'. haha. (well, she earned  it; I just got exonerated.)

You know that song "Dust in the wind...all we are is dust in the wind..."?  (Kansas).  It's pure nonsense.  Chimes.  All we are are chimes in the wind.