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Well, then.
Nov. 3rd, 2008 09:07 pm*Takes a drink from her imaginary stiff drink and looks around teh internets for a minute*
Sheesh. What a day. I have a feeling that the rest of the semester is going to be rough, even with certain major deadlines out of the way. There's another one looming, actually--the deadline for an important research grant. Plus I am giving a presentation on Wednesday to my research cluster, and I'm giving the course lecture on Thursday. Maybe if I do a bad job my students will stop asking for so much help and will figure out that help cannot simply be extracted via osmosis. (Though I suppose that if they were to understand that they would first have to realize that osmosis is the diffusion of water across a membrane and NOT the same thing as passive diffusion, which is what they'd really prefer. I'm not sure my students can make that distinction quite yet.).
But I doubt I'll be capable of such a thing. Instead, I'll probably need to get these 40 lab reports graded and returned in a hurry. Ugh. They're going to do terribly--nobody came to talk to me about them--and that means they will take a long time to grade.
If you need me, I'll likely be hiding on election day. Actually, perhaps I'll bring along some grading for while I wait in line at my polling station. Because I'm going to be one of those people who waits for hours. It's going to be an exciting election to watch, though I must admit that I'm tempted to find somewhere to hunker down until some of the dust settles. The best sign of all, in my book, is that all of my students are talking about politics.
Sheesh. What a day. I have a feeling that the rest of the semester is going to be rough, even with certain major deadlines out of the way. There's another one looming, actually--the deadline for an important research grant. Plus I am giving a presentation on Wednesday to my research cluster, and I'm giving the course lecture on Thursday. Maybe if I do a bad job my students will stop asking for so much help and will figure out that help cannot simply be extracted via osmosis. (Though I suppose that if they were to understand that they would first have to realize that osmosis is the diffusion of water across a membrane and NOT the same thing as passive diffusion, which is what they'd really prefer. I'm not sure my students can make that distinction quite yet.).
But I doubt I'll be capable of such a thing. Instead, I'll probably need to get these 40 lab reports graded and returned in a hurry. Ugh. They're going to do terribly--nobody came to talk to me about them--and that means they will take a long time to grade.
If you need me, I'll likely be hiding on election day. Actually, perhaps I'll bring along some grading for while I wait in line at my polling station. Because I'm going to be one of those people who waits for hours. It's going to be an exciting election to watch, though I must admit that I'm tempted to find somewhere to hunker down until some of the dust settles. The best sign of all, in my book, is that all of my students are talking about politics.
