Purple crayons...

As a teacher of middle school and high school aliens for nearly 7 years, I was told on a number of occasions that it was best not to grade my student's papers using a red pen. Why? Because it would wound the spirits of the kids that missed a lot of the questions to see all that red (the paper looks like it was bleeding).

So each year before the school year would start I would stock up on school supplies and I made sure that I had enough multicolored pens to survive the school year's grading and that I didn't wound anyone's spirits. Instead of papers being covered in red ink, the papers were covered in purples, blues, greens, browns, whatever color Crayola made I used (other than red of course).

Well, after the first week of the NCAA tourney, it looks like my brackets went through a kill zone! Look at all the red...


My spirit hurts just a little bit...