I believe I have caught up with all the stuff I didn't grade from last week. I don't know why I resisted doing it for so long (and several times started, graded one or two, and then thought "I can't do this right now" and stopped). It really wasn't onerous, and it's nice to have my feet clear so I can focus on grading revisions of essays in the week to come.
There has been a whole lot of silence on the freelance front, which is OK by me at the moment. I may have mentioned that at one point I was contacted by some book designers who wanted to include an estimate for my services in a proposal they were making to a west-coast museum. I heard from them that they didn't get the job, so that won't be landing on my desk over the summer.
I really don't have a whole lot else to say at the moment--other than noting that I did create overall posts on two discussion board fora, correcting misunderstandings and pointing out realities that the students tend not to consider in their responses to the readings (about U.S. industrialized agricultural practices). I have stopped commenting on most individual posts, as most students aren't reading my comments anyway, but I specifically informed students that those threads now exist and that, well, they should read them.
I don't know how much work I'll do on the class tomorrow; I imagine I'll at least check Turnitin to see how many essays were submitted on time. Apart from that, it will be a day mostly about life maintenance--and simply doing personal stuff that I want to do (transferring compost from one bin that is not bear-resistant to another that is, for instance; it should be warm enough for such shenanigans after the brief arctic snap we just endured).
Life goes on. Life is, generally speaking, just hunky dory.
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