June 16, 2010
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Busy Week!
This is the last week of my quarter. If I survive it, I will have 3 weeks break – the longest break in my year. I have to survive the week first, though!
It seems there is a conspiracy to prevent me from moving smoothly through this week. Yesterday, we made the 2 1/2 hour drive to see Dan’s Aunt Irene. It wasn’t a planned visit, but Irene’s best friend died, and we thought that it was important for Irene to attend the funeral. For that to happen, we had to drive down there and take her. It took 9 hours of time that I could have used to make a dent in my correcting. I could not really afford the time, but it would have seemed very wrong for Irene not to attend the funeral. When you are 95 and your 96 year old best friend dies, you should be there. It meant a lot to Irene, and it seemed to mean a lot to her friend’s family, too.
Tomorrow morning, Dan and I have to make a shopping expedition that will take most of the morning. Then, tomorrow night, we have our granddaughter Madison’s dance recital. Friday morning, I have an dental appointment for a crown and bridge prep that will probably take most of the morning, and Friday evening I have to help make 100 pounds of potato salad for a community celebration on Saturday.
That all sounds like fun, except maybe the dental appointment, but it also takes time that I need. Between now and Friday night, I have to get research papers corrected in 4 of my classes so that students can have the weekend to make changes if they need to do that. I don’t accept the papers if students do not have correct citations in the body of the paper and a correctly formatted reference list at the end. Even though I have been stressing that for 11 weeks, some of them still won’t have them. I will email those students and give them until Monday evening to add the citations and reference list and resubmit the papers. Some of them will do it and some won’t. The ones who don’t will lose 10% of the total possible points for the class. I would think that they would care about that, but some of them apparently don’t.
I know that I will figure out how to get all of this finished, but right now I can’t imagine how. And here I sit blogging. What is wrong with that picture?
Comments (7)
How wonderful that you went and took your 95 year old Aunt to her best friends funeral. It had to mean so much for her to be there to pay her respects. I hope you get everything done you need to do and then can relax when vacation time hits.
Sometimes doing the right thing takes us away from other obligations – So glad you were able to do that for your Aunt. My husband is in the same boat. He is teaching a summer session. They just finished the 2nd test and turned in projects so he is frantically grading so they can get them back Monday. He promised me he was taking next summer off!
I sure don’t envy your research paper grading. Grading is the reason I take the summer off…so my eyes recover from all the strain. Good luck with the papers and all the other commitments you have. I will be back at all that in August…
Wow I thought I was busy but nothing like you are , hope all your plans esp the dental appt goes well
@symbolreader - I hear you on the eye strain! I find it much worse reading papers on a computer, too. By the time I finish many days, I can barely see.
My lands I’m weary just reading what you have to do and have done! So blogging is a relief of the pressure OK?
@BLB - Blogging is a relief when I am actually blogging, but it is a stress later when I do not have all my work done and I look at the time I spent blogging. I am catching up today, though – thank heavens!