As I am a sap who accepts student work until the final day of the quarter, I was flooded with student work that I need to grade. As the end of the quarter also brought an end to all of my lesson plans so far this year, I also have to work on what my classes are going to do on Monday (the students do not have school tomorrow, but teachers are still reporting for a professional development day). Considering that there were no meetings or practices that I had to drive the boys to today, and that I just quit playing the game that has been eating most of my time lately, one would think I put a dent in this workload today.
Instead I finished the second of Stephen King's books in the Dark Tower Series: The Drawing of the Three.
I could blame this lapse on the fact that I needed a break after the hectic pace that made up my day (e.g. At one point after school I realized that I was simultaneously handing one student a test he missed, giving another student the words for a vocabulary quiz she missed, receiving two different students' last minute projects, checking another student's current point total, and listening to Trevor tell me when his day's rehearsal was over--which he would get wrong. This went on for a while with some of the people and demands changing. The last student from the maelstrom to leave had a wide-eyed look and stated disbelief at the tasks I had juggled). I could blame it on my back. While I am getting better, sitting on the couches that I brought up from Michigan last year (which is currently my favorite place to get grading done) currently cannot be done without a throbbing discomfort that includes a reward of sharp pains for trying to get back up from sitting.
However, the truth is that I got hooked on the book (I was halfway through when I started today) and needed to know how Rowland was going to deal with the Odette / Dette problem. I did not foresee that the answer would be Susannah.
... and my distrust of lobsters has only heightened.
Instead I finished the second of Stephen King's books in the Dark Tower Series: The Drawing of the Three.
I could blame this lapse on the fact that I needed a break after the hectic pace that made up my day (e.g. At one point after school I realized that I was simultaneously handing one student a test he missed, giving another student the words for a vocabulary quiz she missed, receiving two different students' last minute projects, checking another student's current point total, and listening to Trevor tell me when his day's rehearsal was over--which he would get wrong. This went on for a while with some of the people and demands changing. The last student from the maelstrom to leave had a wide-eyed look and stated disbelief at the tasks I had juggled). I could blame it on my back. While I am getting better, sitting on the couches that I brought up from Michigan last year (which is currently my favorite place to get grading done) currently cannot be done without a throbbing discomfort that includes a reward of sharp pains for trying to get back up from sitting.
However, the truth is that I got hooked on the book (I was halfway through when I started today) and needed to know how Rowland was going to deal with the Odette / Dette problem. I did not foresee that the answer would be Susannah.
... and my distrust of lobsters has only heightened.
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