During my Midterm

So I'm definitely sitting here in class with my four remaining students post-midterm. It went much faster than I had anticipated and surprisingly I have quite a number of students who, "have been doing the assignments at home" and will e-mail them to me tonight before the midnight deadline. I'm pretty skeptical about this. I also have 3 students who just didn't show up for the midterm. I know it's only 50 points but that is a big chunk out of your grade. I don't know.

I worry about my Friday morning class too. I can definitely get a feel for who is learning the proper APA format and who definitely is not. I hate grading the assignments for the people that aren't getting it because it looks like their paper has just been in a gun-fight and lost.

Such is the fun of teaching I suppose.

I must say I was definitely enlived from my anonymous comments from my last posting. I didn't think anyone really read what I had to write anymore (not that I regularly write too much of anything- or have the time). But it is nice to know that somewhere out there people still care enough to read what I have to say.

Today was the first day I had to track Mr. M down at school to tell him to pick up the girls. Mal had a fever at daycare but I was sub clerking and there was no way I could leave earlier. I have had to call off the past two weeks on Tuesday because of my sickly children. It was a bit of a hassle and unfortunately I'm starting to think (more and more lately) that cell phones might be a good investment.

It took so long to get rid of that monthly bill and I really don't want it back anytime soon.

So that is that. I suppose since I know that people are reading my stuff I will start to write more again. Life has definitely improved since my pessimistic posting from December. Things have definitely changed, and for the better. I'm still riding things out to see how they go but right now we're working uphill and it's all good. Well, it's not all good, but since we no longer have to deal with Autozone stress 24/7 things have definitely improved.

Ta ta and happy grading to me. When I go home I'm getting on my pj's and grabbing a red pen and going to town with these midterms. And watching 'Red' with Mr. M. I hope it's good.