FREEDOM!

I turned in all of my teaching grades yesterday and now I am FREE for a whole month! By free I mean that I am down to ONE job...no teaching...no taking of classes. For me that is amazingly light as schedules go. As often is the case, I have learned another lesson the hard way (that's the best way...you remember them always). I made the terrible mistake of making the due date for final papers the last day of final exams. Now that's okay for the students, but it meant I could not pick UP their papers until the day before grades had to be posted (and even then it's a 2:00 deadline). So I had to fly through the papers (of two classes, at 4-7 pages each) to have my grades ready to upload. But I know for next semester to have the students turn them in the Friday BEFORE finals, which will give me a week to prepare and enter grades. Now if I could just figure out a good way to keep track of roll.

Oh, and I got MY grades for Contemporary American Lit and History and Theories in the Book...both "A"s....YEAH BABY!