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try grading the damn thing.
i have a pile of about 80 "in-class writing assignments" to grade by next thursday. at this point, i just want to randomly assign numbers to the front page because i feel like that would be a better use of my time. i've already gone through my only thing of bubblewrap (it's soothing to pop the bubbles and pretend they are the little students stupid little heads...). not that i'm resentful and bitter or anything. just most of my friday afternoon/evening was sucked away grading only forty exams. and i'm sure on tuesday, i'll get a lot of students asking if we've graded them yet. because i'm supposed to sell my life to grade these things. (i guess it's not that far from the truth...)
besides that, what else has been going on? um, not much. i got passed around deerpark (via the phone -- no worries mom and dad) yesterday because lauren went drinking there for her (our) bday and so everyone at the drc wanted to talk to me. fun times. i miss them. i wanted to be there so badly. although the last time i drank at the deerpark (for st. patty's day) i woke up still drunk and had to fudge my way through work. it was, shall we say, painful. [mom and dad & any other relatives: pretend that you didn't just read that...]
oh and stata. the bane of graduate existence in the social sciences. we have homework with running regressions or something and, well, i don't understand it at all. if it were in spss (another statistical package) i could probably run the damn regression, but it's not. i have to work with syntax ("because we are going to get you all in the good habit of it" - sanjiv) which i hate. and the program seems equally disdainful of me. whatever. i just want to get my grade, get the hell out of quantitative methodologies and play in qualitative crap. who cares about stats when you can manipulate the hell out of them and make them whatever you want them to be. seriously. let's really think about this. what are we tell ourselves about anything?
can you tell that i'm not all lovey-dovey with grad school right now? yeah.
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Grading papers sucks! I'm so glad I'm at least grading math, I would kill myself if I had to grade 80 writing assignments (hence I am not a Language Arts teacher, and never will be)
Best of Luck sweetie!! Hopefully grading the second half will be easier, you'll get into the grading mode a lot quicker than you did with the first half, you'll see ^_^
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