Day 1 of grading: easily get through 20% of papers, get overconfident about stamina.
Days 2-5: grade 80% of total pile, increasingly slowly
Days 6-13: struggle to find words and motivation, 90% done
Day 14: chain self to desk with pint of ice cream to force grade last two papers, crying.

Focused most of my first year academic writing course this year on teaching people how to Google. That was the right decision because a) it turns out, yes, they are brutally bad at search and b) the payoff for remedying this is huge, in terms of writing and thinking and research gains. #pedagogy

Grading essays and self-evaluations and sometimes my students give me life, you know? They're so much weirder and more complex and more individual that they're often given credit for. Mostly no life skills, but that's easily remedied.

This is high art

🎵C'est le dernier jour d'école, youpi, youpi, youpi-youpi-eh!🎵

Last teaching day of the term for me, and I'm remembering that I used to celebrate that. I think I'll celebrate. If it's your last teaching day, congratulations! We did it!

Research paper grading protocol, 2025, the worst timeline: click on first five URLs in works cited before reading paper:

> *If* sources exist, then read/grade paper.
> *Else* assign temporary zero and trigger Notification Condition.

My therapist told me to create this account, because it turns out that Twitter was my main form of collegiality, the space of collective labour given and received, that made it possible for me to do the work. Okay, then.