Dreaming of a world without grading.

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There are many things I'd like to blog about; how I want to move to China, how I had gelato on a freezing Seattle night, how I ordered risotto and got the same Nico Nico Calrose rice that I've eaten every day of my life. I could even blog about Battlestar Galactica. Or how I've signed up for language exchanges via Skype.

I want to blog about all those things, but I'm in grading hell. Gotta get to work. I wonder if there will be grading hell when I quit my job, sell my condo, and move to China to teach spoken English. Or something like that.

I like this clip of Steven Byrne. Apparently, this footage didn't make the broadcast, it's out takes from the DVD.

Snow Day!

Well yesterday was a normal school day, and we all felt cheated, just cheated that we had to be at school at 7:45. The roads were fine, of course.

Last night I was grading papers that were bad to terrible in quality, so I put in a DVD to take the edge off the dispair. When my movie was over, local news was already reporting school closures. Ha ha, not my school of course, I didn't get official word until twenty minutes to six this morning, when the faculty snowtree was activated.

So the State Patrol is asking the population to stay home. The forecast doesn't show the high temp rising above the freezing point until Thursday, possibly, so tomorrow it might still be frozen.

Local news has only rolled out a few special graphics; I haven't yet seen theme music. I'm sure they're working on it for this evening. Winter Blast! November Snow! They're showing a lot of people who've either abandoned their cars, or spent the night in a parking lot. A couple of sad cases show some dudes with their faces still painted from the Seahawks game.

So I'm so excited about a day off of work. I've graded everything I have to grade here at home (there's more to grade on my desk at work...) so today is going to be all about cleaning my house, putting up my Christmas tree, and making an apple crisp. I'm a block from a supermarket, a starbucks, a blockbuster, a taco bus, and a neighborhood diner, so I'm gonna be just fine.

Right now, the plan is to go back to sleep; then I'll think about breakfast.

GRADING

No time to post! Grading! Meow.

day two of creamy goo. i squeezed it and put it back in its crib.

so it's finally time to institute the pope's 2000 revision of the institutio generalis missalis romani. sure, abuse victims are committing suicide; our country is about to go to war; parishes are filled with real live sick people to pray for; there is still hunger in this world; yet our churches right now are working on . . . . you ready? . . . new rules about kneeling and bowing; new restrictions keeping the celebrant out of the congregation at the SIGN OF PEACE. i miss you, LS.

today, JF was wearing a "no iraq war" pin; the girl at cucina presto tried to start an arguement with her, saying 'we're going to save the iraqi people.' we have been starving them and letting them die for over a decade now. i hate cucina cucina; i hate the eastside. i was sure they were going to spit in our food, but then we saw that all the cooks were latinos and realized we didn't have to worry.

went to a 'debut' party for manny's. it was fun. i was surprised that he was asian; i said, 'are there asian brewmasters?' he said that yah, he was paving the way for all of us. it was a great asian american moment.

tried to teach 'pange lingua gloriosi' today. not enough people show up to rehearsal for us to change gears like that. we'll see. tomorrow is junior snow day.

it is thursday night and i didn't so much as lift my pen to grade. grading will take up my entire weekend.

First post

Hey, folks. Here's my first blog. I'll probably do it twice and then stop.

I shouldn't be doing this. I should be grading papers. In fact, the only reason I'm doing this now is because I ran out of monorail stuff to read on the net.

I don't know what to say to anyone reading this; Enjoy, I guess.