I am so completely whipped today, after being in the office until almost 9 p.m. last night, that I find I just cannot, cannot, grade essays. I downloaded them all; I got the PDFs translated into Word documents; I made a "quota" list--and just revised the quota list, because the four (only four!) essays I had originally planned to do today have been reduced to one and the start on a second. And at that, my whole being started whining so loudly I just gave in.
I think the process is going to go OK, though. I am working very hard to keep marginal comments to a minimum (and to keep them brief), and I'm doing the "mechanics" checklist for each student as I write comments. I did not, in fact, get to campus to make photocopies; I just printed them at home. Students have to make sure they don't get wet, though, as the ink will run--or maybe I'll photocopy them after they're marked, so the students get a more durable copy.
Whatever. It will all happen one way or another.
For now, I am too wound up to take a nap and too tired to do anything else of substance, so I'm going to turn into a mindless mound of protoplasm for a while and hope to have something approaching a brain tomorrow, after (again, I hope) a reasonable night's sleep. It should be a lovely night of sleeping weather--and letting go of the mind busy-ness now means I have at least a modicum of a chance to get to bed at an hour that makes sense.
More tomorrow, I reckon. Shutting my brain off in 5, 4, 3...
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