Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Grading vs. Anything Else

What will win, in such a stand-off? You know the answer, but here's my story.

On Thursday, I received 24 movie reviews from my intro to lit class. On Friday I received 40 8-10 page research papers. Since then, I have graded approximately 8 papers - the ones for students who wanted comments. Today was going to be a major grading day - finish the grading today (ideally) and then tabulate final grades for the writing classes tomorrow. What am I doing instead?

1. Working out. (It's about time - I took the last two weeks off.)
2. Going to the salon to a) get my eyebrows waxed because I'm too lazy to tweeze for myself and they are way out-of-control, b) get my hair cut, though I think I'm kind of growing it out again - who knows?, and c) get my hair highlighted so that it will look like summer hair instead of drab dirty-blond winter hair. Did I mention that I made this appointment this morning? And that I don't technically "need" to get my hair cut for like 2-4 weeks? And that in part this whole thing is inspired by the upcoming (though as yet unconfirmed) meeting with the Greek? But not only that, as I am going to Hometown next week, so it's not like I don't want to look great for that, too....

That's pretty much the whole day right there (because yes, I slept until a blissful 9:30 this morning. Love classes being over. Totally.). Well, no reason not to put off the grading for one more day....

4 comments:

divine oasis said...

ah yes. live in the moment. the papers will be there for you later on.

have some fun. treat yourself.

Seeking Solace said...

I did not work out when I was on vacation. So I need to get back on track too.

Inside the Philosophy Factory said...

Yea procrastination!

There is plenty of time for grading later -- besides, your students would want you to be in a good mood while grading their papers... I always tell my students that I tend to grade the later sections easier, so it is worth the wait.. and they buy it :).

Your grades will be due sooner or later -- and, when you have some evil administrator-type sending you nastygrams because the grades aren't in, you'll be motivated...

Addy N. said...

I have been procrastinating today, too. If you need something else to keep busy, I tagged you on my blog yesterday!