Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 29, 2009
Invigilated, graded, and submitted the last deferred exam. My responsibilities are officially over.
Breathe easy for six minutes, and then get back to work.
Damn.
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 26, 2009
… and I am free for the summer!
It’s really weird, but I’m feeling for the first time in my career like I actually need a break from teaching. I think between the wedding and the teaching and the dissertation and the professional development and the article and the departmental service, I’m a little overwhelmed. A [...]
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 23, 2009
Choice quotations from answers to my CanLit exam:
“AID’s is like pregnancy. Only worse.”
“Comedy was invented in Nova Scotia in 1820, but did not catch on until the 1900s.”
“She thought he put her at risk by being a manwhore. But really his mom was a junkie.”
“Sex became common in the 1980s.”
“Sir John A MacDonalds was a [...]
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 21, 2009
It’s boring.
That is all.
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 8, 2009
Finished teaching, today. A little bittersweet. I don’t feel like I ever fully connected with these students like I did with my peeps from last semester. I don’t think they really got all of me, you know? Between the crazy cold from hell and the blood pressure stuff and finishing my dissertation draft, for the [...]
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 6, 2009
AND almost finished setting the final exam! I should wrap it up on Wednesday and maybe even get my grades all sorted out in the computer. I’m feeling very free and easy at the moment. There are three or four more essays to come in (if they ever will) that I will still have to [...]
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: April 5, 2009
If I work my tail off, I can get through all the grading between now and the exam today. And then I won’t have to do anything else for like three weeks except working on my dissertation! Finally, regrouping to focus on my own work sounds like a really good thing. And normally it doesn’t. [...]
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: March 26, 2009
Having the plague and about twelve hours to grade a stack of essays. AT THE SAME TIME. I am so lucky.
It may be the advil talking, but I think these essays are substantially better. Almost the whole class has gone up by like a third of a letter grade. (It probably is the [...]
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: March 20, 2009
Can’t wait to get home, go for a run, and then unplug for the night. Here’s the weekend work pile.
readings for ENGL 2608
Monday lecture
Wednesday lecture
Thursday tutorial
edit (last?) chapter of book
grade (last?) tutorial paper
grade 2608 on-time essays
grade 2608 late essays
Posted by: fiftypercentninja on: March 19, 2009
please write yourself
sincerely, part of a ninja
