Free Time

"Don't give up because the pain is intense right now--get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose." -- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

The Classic Civilization 375 students handed in their 5-page response papers on Monday. This is my first experience grading papers, and I'm a little anxious about it. There is the time issue, of course--I feel like this coming week will probably be consumed by reading 40-some often identical papers. But I also want to make sure that my grading is fair and informative so students understand how to move forward.

To help with that, Karen, the most experienced GSI of classic civilization, is going to meet with me/us (I don't know if the other GSI will be there) to go over some papers and discuss how we'd grade them. For that reason, I haven't graded any papers yet. And since I finished all my other work so I'd have plenty of time for grading this week, yesterday became, essentially, a day off.

And that's something I really haven't had. I went home to visit my family a few weekends ago, but that was still....going somewhere, doing something. Yesterday was just a day to do whatever I wanted. Naturally, I installed and messed around with Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind almost all day, haha. But I also realized how valuable it is to have things to do and take care of and to see the fruits of your labor. The fruits of yesterday's labor was that I made a lot of mistakes in a virtual world and wanted to start over with a new character. Not the same.

Ah well. Back to Morrowind until lecture...