On my agenda today was grading as many research papers as possible, including Sarah’s (see below), whose mother and grandmother might be disappointed in my estimation of their work. I made it to twenty-seven, which is a pretty kick-ass number, if I do say so myself.
In order to accomplish this, I sent Shef out for the day with “Cupcake,” one of his grandmothers, who picked him up at 10 am. She came armed with an itinerary of F-U-N, which included his third hot dog in as many days, basketball, baseball, tennis, and a cone and a half at DQ. Needless to say, he wasn’t sorry to drive away without me. In fact, he practically buckled himself into his car seat and yelled “have fun” repeatedly at me as he squealed in delight upon our impending separation.
Tomorrow, I’ll pawn him off on his Aunt Sarah and finish the lot. There are five days to go at school, and I’ve got to get this set of papers graded before I turn my attention to the final exams.
4 comments:
Oh god - I have to grade papers too and cant even spell my name I am so drunk. So glad Sheff could go of with cupcake for the day. I am so impressed with you doing 27, that is an amazing number of badly written ( I am sure) papers for one day
Good luck with the grading. Summer's almost here! You can make it...
oh, cg - if only we lived on the same contintent i'm quite sure we could be great companions.
yes, some of the papers were marginal, but i had lowered my expectations in advance so as not to be disappointed. also,they had been "screened" by an outside lay reader, so i didn't have to do any of the tedious cite checking, etc. it was the first time i've had access to such a service, and believe me, i'm never going back. :)
jm -- thanks, man. will i see you soon?
Sarah reminds me of a student of mine...who received a D on a book review. Her mom called me and let me know about her PhD. I wanted to ask her if she got it from Globe College or the one at the Mall of America, but I bit my tongue.
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