I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday! I am doin' pretty well; I've spent a good chunk of quality time with both sides of the family, I've made contact with friends, and I've gotten some good relaxation in.

Which is nice, because I've had some crap days in the past two weeks. And who better to tell it to than my lovely flist?

( Tuesday of Finals Week )

Shhh. Don't let it overhear you, but it looks like my semester is...over ( Read more... )

Ah, Finals. The time of year where everything needs to be done yesterday, and yet, one cannot resist procrastinating like woah ( Read more... )

Grading. One of my extra credit questions is "Where does the word pidgin come from?"

One student's answer:
Well, see the word pidgin comes from the bird pigeon. Way back in the day, sailors were marooned on an island and found a tribe of locals. The two groups could not understand each other for the longest time. One day they discovered, though ( Read more... )

Today has been shit ( Read more... )

Flist, please skip. There's no need to lock it down, but there ain't no content here for yall.

( Quiz )

Ugh ( Read more... )

Ugh. This is my finals week, it looks like. Next week is technically finals, but as is the case many a time, the rest of this department rushed to cram it all in at the end.

So here's the usual finals week to-do, in a couple of Unordered Lists, so I can keep 'em straight:

Things for my classes

• Outline essays for I
  
• Write essays for I - five? ( Read more... )

It's been a bit of a long day ( Read more... )

Okay. So we're not going to do that again until the semester is over. < /slightly cryptic ( Read more... )