marking musings

[childeproof]

I am currently in that state of abstracted madness known to all who teach - I am marking undergraduate essays. In between chewing my hands and barking at the ceiling, that is.

One student, in an essay on absurdist theatre, and having pointed out that a pair of characters almost managed to do something, has just informed me solemnly that "as my

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[childeproof]

I fear so.
*drags hands down face*

Link about how those of us on this side of the Atlantic are also doing mass depression:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1342798,00.html

[rosiespark]

LOL. Shall try and remember to say that "my social ontology is all out of kilter" next time I'm having one of those days when I feel like I'm an alien on this planet.

[lobelia321]

Heh, do you know thamiris? She also is going insane from marking.

[andien]

Ah now I remember - I have insane Kurdish clients so that I don't have to teach undergraduates any more and I'm married because I don't want to have lodgers any more...good, that's settled then !

[childeproof]

My lodger is now my soon-to-be ex-lodger.

Mind you, it sounds like a perfectly good reason to get married. In a world of appalling wedding-centred schlock, my partner and I, should we ever actually marry, are planning a strictly honest invitation explaining it's all about the presents.

Maybe specifically about the Le Creuset.

[childeproof]

I'm s'orry im two in'coherent to rite bk 2 yu.

*bangs head on desk*

Marking exams is far worse than sitting them, I hope you realise...