Queer as a 3 dollar bill and hit on all the male students. I
  never took a class from him. But I sat in his office for many
  long hours as he discussed whatever the latest frontiers were in
  artificial intelligence, mathematical modelling, the history of
  mathematics, and the like. I was mad because his course was
  full; it was something about how mathematics relates to the
  Universe, fractals, patterns and stuff and I wanted in. This was
  WAAAY back in 1990.

  So instead, I hijacked him outside of classes and begged him to
  be my adviser for a semester.