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  • "Hey, what are you doing tonight?"
  • "Oh, grading."
  • "What are you up to this weekend?"
  • "Gotta do some grading."
  • "Any big spring break plans?"
  • "Just going home and grading."
  • "What'll you be doing this summer?"
  • "Probably grading."
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“♫ Once there was a way to get back homework… ♫” (RT @jonathancoulton)

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A bit of a repost:

♫ I’m sitting here, red pen in hand
And reading words I don’t understand
It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-grading!

“I don’t know what you mean by this”,
“Is that your idea of analysis?”
It’s delightful, it’s delicious, it’s de-grading!

There’s a flaw here, I swear
If I saw it, would you even care?
You don’t read feedback I give you, anyway — I’m
Wasting my time!

The students whom I have to thank
They get it right, or they leave it blank!
It’s delightful,
It’s delicious,
It’s despicable,
It’s degenerate,
It’s depressing,
It’s deranged,
It’s de-grading! ♫

(The verse I’m crucifying is of course Cole Porter’s “De-Lovely” — reposting to include the audio, which is Ella Fitzgerald’s rendition of the original.)

I will miss my CSCI S-1 students (last section tonight!), but at least I’ll always have their problem sets to grade. Always. Oh, God, always.

Dept. of e-mails I sent that sound like me: “As a break from grading, I’ve been writing little scripts all day to automate things I wasn’t planning on doing in the first place.”

Free(-range) as a bird

(Edit: Before you rush to congratulate me, will you look up “free-range poultry” first?)

(Posted after my last exam but before most of my grading for two classes. I admit I often aim high on my jokes — really, really misjudged the audience this time. This one probably should’ve been the less snappy but more comprehensible, “Free as a bird, specifically, a free-range chicken.”)

Acting as though I’m responsible -> people are misled to think I’m responsible -> people give me responsibilities -> I have to act as though I’m responsible. Help!

please bother me, I’m grading (along with four people on my Gchat friends list)

(Reprise of my earliest status message, only now in the middle of a CS1 grading session. Cindy actually saw my status message and replied.)

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Everyone knows nice guys finish last. Then why are my students so surprised I haven’t finished grading?

Great discoveries in counterproductivity: 1) Other people actually read my Gchat statuses. 2) Dining hall: good place to work, better place to be distracted from work you don’t want to do. Off to grade!

Stayed longer at 124 grading session than any of the 124 TFs. Next up: 2 hours of E124 OHs. O Death, where is thy sting?

(I TF’d for CSCI E-124 in the Extension School, so I didn’t really need to be there when the College course was graded. But I’m insane!)