It's almost end of term, and I'm up to my eyeballs in marking. I don't want to see another paper for a very long time, but I have 11 of them that I need to get marked tonight, and another batch coming in on Thursday.
I'll admit that I've been procrastinating. To get the worst of it over first, I've sorted out the worst three papers to mark first. The problem? The first one is so appallingly awful that I can't seem to make it through a paragraph without wanting to chuck it across the kitchen. I'm beginning to wonder why I bother teaching at all, as everything I say seems to bounce off the sides of some students' heads, never mind going in one ear and out the other. What's even more frustrating is that these are the second drafts I've seen, and the worst one doesn't seem to have made a *single* change from the last go around.
I'm tired, sick (damned bronchitis), and frustrated ... maybe it's not such a good plan to mark these now. I'm going to take a deep breath, pack this stack back up, and try again tomorrow. In the meantime: Scotch, anyone?
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