Wheee

[baratron]

I have, at this moment in time, 13 freaking A-level chemistry papers to mark. You'd hope that this close to the exams, I'd just be ticking stuff or writing the odd small comment, but noooo, I still need to write copious notes about mistakes on them. Some of my students are also stupid and give me 4 exam papers all at once, which means they make

Comments

[barakta]

I once explained valency as being like polyamory. It helped that my student, my Romanian host had 4 boyfriends at the time and if she could get a good chemistry grade she'd not get other hassles...

"Carbon is like you, it likes to shag 4 people"
"Nitrogen is like you when you've dumped $bloke-4 cos you're sick of him and would rather stick to shagging 1-3"

"Hydrogen is monogamous, it can only have one connection at a time - most of the time, hydrogen bonding is a bit of a cheat..."

[baratron]

LOL!

*wonders why Firefox's spellchucker doesn't recognise the word lol*

(I usually use Opera which doesn't have a spellcheck, but my Opera has 20+ distracting tabs in it, whereas Firefox only has 3)