My Thursday night class should be retitled Advanced Narcolepsy: How to Use Your iPhone While Sleeping Through Class. Afterwards, exhausted from pulling even a few comments out of my class, a student approached me because she was having "trouble" with the 3-5 page position paper I assigned. * When I asked her what the trouble was, she said, and I quote, "I don't have the kind of brain that's good for...thinking...."

And my first thought was "As opposed to those brains that are good as decorative doorstops?"

I mean, what else is a brain good for if not thinking? And, as one friend pointed out, who identifies him/herself as someone who doesn't think?

It would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that someone is paying thousands of dollars to "educate" this child.


*This paper shouldn't be a problem for even a freshmen in high school, nevermind a college student wishing to embark on a career as a business professional.

Labels: higher education, students

I am currently 3 papers away from getting all my final papers done, then I have 22 reading logs to grade, by tomorrow at 11. After that I have 48 hours to grade 18 business writing finals and 25 literature finals and calculate final grades by Monday at 1.

Think it's easy? Not when you have sentences like the following:

Pangloss is not considered to be a friend rather is regarded more as a tutor but he has a big influence in him and even if they had their differences previously they were friends.

The whole paper is like that. I kid you not. My cat could crap a better sentence than that. As you can see here she is even less impressed than I am. (No camera can really capture the hatred emanating from this cat because it would shatter the lens so I have to get this side views. For the sake of all of us.)

Of course, because I'm not stressed enough I decided to bake today for a Christmas party I was invited to tomorrow. When the going gets tough, the tough procrastinate...and make spice cookies and brownies. (There were a lot more brownies earlier today, but ahem...they somehow vanished. Obviously there are brownie eating elves living under my bed. If only they graded papers I wouldn't mind so much.)

Those lovely spice cookies are courtesy of this lovely lady who brought a whole freakin' plate of them to Bakerina's party. I thought they were awesome and even went so far as to buy seasonal cookie stamps so that I could fully enjoy them.

Now do you understand why there have been no posts? But Sunday will be a lazy day of lolling and grading so that Monday will I will unleash a torrent of blogging upon you that shall make you all BEG FOR MERCY. But since I will be leaving for France on December 29th, you'll lots of time to read and enjoy.

And now back to the all nighter.

Labels: cookies, english, grading, grammar, insanity, students