Apply...

Wise up Grad Programs! Don't have an electronic application that requires me to print off 30 pages of crap and mail it in... my life is not that stable and I don't have enough printer ink... this is going to require a trip to staples and/or campus.

I will survive

It's been my mantra this past week.
So far I've survived: teaching the WHOLE semester, grading 50 papers, and my first grad app. Still my in-laws to go!


If only I looked like that in red spandex pants and rollerskates!

Evaluations

It's course (read Instructor) evaluation day!
Despite my usual level of anxiety at times like these, I couldn't care less. I already got a nice review from a faculty member and don't really care about what the little grade-grubbers think about my book selections.
I, like my students, am done for the semester. I, like my students, am focusing on my own life.
AND
I found a little post on RYS that reinforced the point that essentially these evals. mean little to my future:
"Your responses provide important information we use to evaluate part-time instructors for re-hiring and scheduling of future classes. Although, to be fair, part-timers are so cheap and pliable, that unless you report that your instructors have been sodomizing animals in lieu of lecturing, we'll probably hire them all back and put them in your classes again next semester. It gives a nice break to our real professors who are trying to get ready for tenure and promotion."

Success!

Suck on that GRE! Up 160 points! Now All I have left off my list....
Oh yeah, EVERYTHING ELSE!

Two Weeks of To Do

1. Grade 50 papers (maybe some won't turn them in?!)
2. Grade 50 tests
3. Retake the GRE (Tuesday)
4. Lecture at least 5 more times
5. Start and Finish 5 Applications for PhDland
6. Buy tickets to see the in-laws with the measly check they gave us for airfare
7. Contact cat-sitter
8. Manage to not lose my mind
9. Manage to not gain more weight and maybe lose some
10. Clean my house so the cat sitter doesn't judge me, can't handle a repeat of last year

First Worldwide Festival of Dignified Rage

"Our voice is small to be the echo of that word, our gaze small for so
much dignified rage.

The process of seeing each other, looking at each other, speaking to
each other, listening to each other, is still lacking.

We are others, the other.

If this world does not have a place for us, then another world must be made.

With no tool other than our rage, no material other than our dignity."

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Thanks tac for making sure I had this! Looks like there will be a job for me after all!

Anywhere a Mouse Can Go...

Way to go class! Stellar use of prepositions!

"Slavery was very common among Bob."
"He saw the workers of trying to take advantage of him."
"The workers went in great lengths."
"Mexico has gone thru many changes." (Though not used incorrectly, still must be spelled right.)
"In this time of period..."