Making the Curve

Well, if you have been wondering what I have been up to, wonder no more. The last few weeks I have been swamped grading papers for the teaching assistantship that I have (you know, the way I pay my bills!!!! smile) but now I am all done. Hopefully this year there won't be too many people requesting that their paper get looked at again to be regraded but then again, you never know who is going to be unhappy with the grade they get. I have had people ask to have a low A paper regraded just because they are certain that they deserve all the points possible. Were we like this as undergrads? I know I was concerned about my grades, but I don't think I ever pestered a TA to regrade something. I normally sucked it up and thought "Alright, maybe I should start my paper earlier than the day it is due!". Funny story about that: I never did get around to starting my paper until it was the day before (guess that is a little better than the day of....)

How did I spend the rest of my day after grading the final papers and then handing them off to the professor? Sent something off by the post to my favourite friend, came home, watched the series finale of "Xena" (yeah, you saw right. It is the way I got through all those papers - I watched all the seasons of Xena available at the video store), and then caught up on some trashy magazine reading (reading always feels trashy to me unless there is a spine to the material and some sort of synopsis on the back and/or inside covers). Now I am sitting here, blogging, and planning the other blogs I plan to post. There are a couple of things I would love to just put out there, like how I spent my birthday this year (quite a change from last year) or the crazy weather that we've had in Chicago (maybe there is something to this whole global warming concept). Random thoughts and updates. Post more later. Ta-ta for now