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Okay, my last five students do not want me to grade their papers tonight. They want me to grade them tomorrow morning with coffee before the exam. I mean yes, I might end up sitting in the exam room putting the grades on the papers (I'm keeping a provisional list at the moment), but hey, that's something to do. It's certainly better than standing around watching them and worrying that one of them is going to throw up (yes, I really do fear this, all the more now that one of my students told me that this actually happened in one of her classes).
Rather than more marking, Wednesday reading meme:
What I've finished reading:
• A pre-grading reread of Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 52 papers on the Cuban Missile Crisis based on Thirteen Days
What I'm currently reading:
• Jonathan Reed Lyons, Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250 (Ithaca, 2012).
What I'm about to read:
• 5 more papers on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• 57 final exams consisting of three essays each
• Sean Gilsdorf, The Favor of Friends: Intercession and Aristocratic Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe (Leiden, 2014).
• Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (New York, 2002). [For conceptual purposes for my dissertation]
• W. Jeffrey Bolster, The Mortal Sea: Fishing in the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Cambridge MA, 2012). [Because I heard the author give a talk about it and it sounds fascinating]
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/755378.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
Rather than more marking, Wednesday reading meme:
What I've finished reading:
• A pre-grading reread of Robert F. Kennedy, Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 52 papers on the Cuban Missile Crisis based on Thirteen Days
What I'm currently reading:
• Jonathan Reed Lyons, Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100-1250 (Ithaca, 2012).
What I'm about to read:
• 5 more papers on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• 57 final exams consisting of three essays each
• Sean Gilsdorf, The Favor of Friends: Intercession and Aristocratic Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe (Leiden, 2014).
• Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (New York, 2002). [For conceptual purposes for my dissertation]
• W. Jeffrey Bolster, The Mortal Sea: Fishing in the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Cambridge MA, 2012). [Because I heard the author give a talk about it and it sounds fascinating]
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/755378.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.