Well, by dint of buckling down and sticking to it and all those other inspirational words, both Otis and I got all our work done yesterday. She finished the stack of grading that she has been working on for a week, and I finished all the assessing that I should return today and completed three job application packets (for Whatcom, Highline, and Pierce Colleges). Yay!
The only real break in the day was for a walk down to a new pizza place that opened up on Green Lake. The walk was great; the pizza was okay.
Stella came over in the late evening to kill some time before picking up a friend at the airport, but mostly she read quietly in the corner like a good girl while the work went forward.
In other news, I heard there was some football game yesterday that somebody won.
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3 comments:
Otis finished grading the monster stack of papers that was as tall as she was? That's, like, a page per second or something! Can't be very high-quality grading, that's for sure.
Soapy
Actually, I graded by osmosis. I touched each paper to my forehead and *WHAM!* I instantly new each grade.
When I got tired of that method halfway through, I astral projected myself into each paper and gleaned the essence of each paper that way.
The last 25 papers were the most difficult challenge, as I was damn tired! For these, I asked the three year old next door to write an A, B, C, D, or F in crayon on the top of each paper. I told him to be nice with the colors (no red "F's") cuz the student is bound to feel bad just from the grade. Pink F's, I told him. Much more gentle.
In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun and *SNAP* the job's a game. And every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake. A lark. A spree. A Mentos. It’s very plain to seeeeeee.........
That a spoonful of Courtney makes the stackofstuff go down! The stackofstuff go dooo-ooown, stackofstuff go down!
Soapy
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