You'd think that after grading a stack of papers, you'd feel a greater sense of accomplishment. Though, all I seem to feel at the moment is a concern for many a students ability to write. Tomorrow there'll be more essay's and hopefully my opinion will change ( Read more... )

It's been rather quiet around the school lately. Frighteningly so. In most cases I wouldn't mind, but that's because it's usually... not quiet. Haven't even seen much of Peeves around, but perhaps he's just avoiding me. We had a bit of a run in early last week and he came out on the worse end ( Read more... )

Now that classes have started again, I'm realizing that the time I spent doing absolutely nothing, I should have put to better use. I'm not usually one to procrastinate but... I did anyways. And now i'm behind ( Read more... )

I haven't gotten any sleep since Thursday night, which hasn't helped my headache and will make teaching tomorrow rather difficult. If the aftermath of Friday wasn't enough, it's been equally challenging to try and stop the pranks. Students are avoiding whole hallways because of the mistletoe and you wouldn't think ornaments could be so convincing ( Read more... )

It's to be expected that while teaching DADA, accidents are bound to happen. Even so, it doesn't make it any less tedious to clean up after a class period of badly aimed disarming spells. It is somewhat surprising that no one got injured in the flurry of falling bookcases and exploding tools. Though, a wand was shot out the window and a half ( Read more... )

I have to admit that one of the many perks of being a professor is the complete and unrestricted access to the restricted section in the library. When one's reading material gets painfully boring, there's nothing better than having access to books that you used to have to come up with excuses to look at ( Read more... )

I don't think I've spoken to SevJust got back from Hogsmeade - I've been spending far too much time in my office lately and I figured that while I had the free time I'd step out for a bit. Hopefully no one needed me for anything, and if you did, my apologies ( Read more... )

Sometimes the weekends really should last longer than just two days. And I really should stop trying to avoid Severus.I suppose I shouldn't complain; Seems as if the whole incident was forgotten rather quickly. Perhaps not forgotten, but at least not brought up. Even if I'm bringing it up by ( Read more... )

Tonks' reply came in the post this morOnce again, i've managed to get behind in my paper grading. Though, I shouldn't complain seeing as I am the one who assigns said papers. It seems I always forget how time consuming the process is until I've lost a weeks worth of evenings ( Read more... )

Finally finished grading the first assignments from this week. Classes seem to be going well so far - nothing catastrophic has occurred. And seeing as the subject matter in which I teach lends itself to atrocities, I'd say that this school year has started off quite well.

Even if it has been practically impossible to I believe a trip to the ( Read more... )