OMG, SUMMER!
*slumps onto bed*
God. What a month. Or really- what a crazy last two months. Lusty Month of May ate my soul but I did complete all 31 days and nearly tied with snapelike for the win. She earned the prize by a vote however which is grand! And she had the money sent to the RSPCA! Soooo fabu!
And this month, I feel like I've lived on campus, grading essays nonstop. The essays from that weekend of grading a few weeks ago came back to campus and every failing essay had to be read again so we could determine which of our 3 pre-college/remedial courses to put their authors into. Woo. Between those two points there was the following: My own grading to be done- two essays per student plus a revised essay for them all. Tallying of points. Administration of the standardized final exam. Grading of said exam. Re-reading of said exams whose writers were sitting on the pass/fail line for the course. Organizing of the placement essays into ridiculously restrictive groupings. Selection of essays from those groupings to be retained/analyzed statistically. Photocopying of all 400 of those essays, one page at a time.
*headdesk*
In happier news! I have a new laptop. *pets new laptop* It's lovely and white and fast and shiny and it's not dying. These are all good things. Bad thing: No photoshop. *pouts* This means my promised icons are still uncreated and I've not been able to complete my posts for hex_files. *wanders around aimlessly* WHy am I without Photoshop you ask? Because the Ex has it, not me. Bah. Now I wait on my brother to send me his older copy. Hopefully. I asked for it a month ago. *waits more*
Returning to happier news, SECTUS! OMG!!! Only a month away. And even crazier fabulous wonderful news that means I can ignore proper comma usage? sethkyne_blue now going to Sectus! *SQUEE* And then she and I are sticking around London for a few days so she can see the city. *bounces* YAYAYAYAYAY!
Right, so I'm actually in the UK for nearly a month. I leave on 04 July and fly to Edinburgh for a week. (Oh thank god. I'm SOOO homesick.) Then I train to London for a Children's Lit seminar for almost a week. Then I visit wildestranger for a few days and have an ORGY with her and shaggydogstail and captain_stem and some M&S cake. Then back to London to meet up with sethkyne_blue then Sectus then omg yay time with her in London! And finally she and I fly to Boston together (poor flight). Finally I have two nights in Boston so I can see nightfallrising.
I'm going to have SO MUCH FUN!
And then I come back to teach 11 classes a week at the uni for the month of August. Woo again.
God. What a month. Or really- what a crazy last two months. Lusty Month of May ate my soul but I did complete all 31 days and nearly tied with snapelike for the win. She earned the prize by a vote however which is grand! And she had the money sent to the RSPCA! Soooo fabu!
And this month, I feel like I've lived on campus, grading essays nonstop. The essays from that weekend of grading a few weeks ago came back to campus and every failing essay had to be read again so we could determine which of our 3 pre-college/remedial courses to put their authors into. Woo. Between those two points there was the following: My own grading to be done- two essays per student plus a revised essay for them all. Tallying of points. Administration of the standardized final exam. Grading of said exam. Re-reading of said exams whose writers were sitting on the pass/fail line for the course. Organizing of the placement essays into ridiculously restrictive groupings. Selection of essays from those groupings to be retained/analyzed statistically. Photocopying of all 400 of those essays, one page at a time.
*headdesk*
In happier news! I have a new laptop. *pets new laptop* It's lovely and white and fast and shiny and it's not dying. These are all good things. Bad thing: No photoshop. *pouts* This means my promised icons are still uncreated and I've not been able to complete my posts for hex_files. *wanders around aimlessly* WHy am I without Photoshop you ask? Because the Ex has it, not me. Bah. Now I wait on my brother to send me his older copy. Hopefully. I asked for it a month ago. *waits more*
Returning to happier news, SECTUS! OMG!!! Only a month away. And even crazier fabulous wonderful news that means I can ignore proper comma usage? sethkyne_blue now going to Sectus! *SQUEE* And then she and I are sticking around London for a few days so she can see the city. *bounces* YAYAYAYAYAY!
Right, so I'm actually in the UK for nearly a month. I leave on 04 July and fly to Edinburgh for a week. (Oh thank god. I'm SOOO homesick.) Then I train to London for a Children's Lit seminar for almost a week. Then I visit wildestranger for a few days and have an ORGY with her and shaggydogstail and captain_stem and some M&S cake. Then back to London to meet up with sethkyne_blue then Sectus then omg yay time with her in London! And finally she and I fly to Boston together (poor flight). Finally I have two nights in Boston so I can see nightfallrising.
I'm going to have SO MUCH FUN!
And then I come back to teach 11 classes a week at the uni for the month of August. Woo again.