I have a new "most embarrasing moment"

I found out today that I may have inadvertantly asked out the professor of my geology lab out on a date last semester and only just realized it.

I never use the email on WebCT on WMU's website, but today I finally went there to clean out old emails and such, and I see an email from my prof. In this lab I partnered with this girl, Crystal, who I felt led to pray for and decided to invite her out to coffee with a group of us from church on the night of our midterm in lab. She was still taking her test when I was ready to go, so I wrote out a note and gave it to our prof.-- obviously I didn't want to give it to her and have him think that we were cheating. I handed it to him and said, "Can you give this to her? (I pointed at Crystal) I want to invite her to coffee with a group of my friends." He gave me kind of an odd look at the time, but I really didn't think anything of it. When Crystal didn't show up at Water Street that night I simply assumed that she had other plans or simply didn't want to.

Anyways, today as I read the email, I had a sudden sinking feeling in my chest. It roughly said that he was sorry and that he couldn't make it for coffee because he was grading midterms, but thanks for the invite. I was HORRIFIED! My immediate reaction was to email him and tell him that I hadn't been inviting out my married PROFESSOR, and that I am aghast that he had operated the last half of the semester under the assumption that I had been hitting on him. Discernement won over though, and I decided to leave well enough alone. Who am I to deprive him of a good story about a desperate female student, and the grades are all in and finalized for the class, so there is no point on that account. I did get a good grade in that class though- curious.