I almost didn't manage to squeeze out the last two essays for tomorrow's conferences--especially as a student showed up for conference today, and although I thought she hadn't submitted her essay (one less for me to mark!), not only had she submitted it, I'd confirmed the submission with her and it was in my files. Fortunately she was understanding about it (or was able to fake being understanding, which is close enough for me), and we set up an appointment for tomorrow morning. So that meant that I didn't have three essays to mark, as I originally expected, but seven.
And I still got them all done. According to the little clock on my campus computer, I hit "send" on the last one at 8:01 p.m.
Ye gods and little fishes.
At some points, I'll try to remember to say a little about a student I spoke to today; he's the one who had to call his mother for his password, and our encounter today revealed a nastier side to his personality--not by a lot, just a smidge. And another student who had made almost no impression on me either way in class turns out to be quite bright--and to have a charming smile, which I'd not seen before. These individual conferences are revealing in a lot of ways.
The good news now is, not only do I get to go home before 10 p.m. tonight, and not only do I not have to get up at 4 a.m. tomorrow, I can actually spend some time tomorrow between and around appointments pulling together all the work I need to take home to mark over the weekend, figuring out what I got back from Printing in terms of handouts (and when I need to hand them out) and groovy things like that.
Now, however, after this miniature blog post, I am going to stagger off to my car and carefully drive home. My back has been killing me the last three days from all the time I've spent nailed to this chair; I'm looking forward to walking across campus a time or two tomorrow, just to get some of the kinks out.
I'm sure I'll be bitching over the weekend about how much work I have to do, but none of it is essay grading.
I don't have the energy to sing the "Hi-ho" song, but now, it's home from work I go.
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