Monday, January 30, 2006

To Anyone Who Received Long Emails From Me Last Week

I would just like you to know that I wrote said long emails as a guilty pleasure, at the expense of the 41 student papers that needed to be graded. I don't regret these guilty pleasures, though, because:

a. Obviously, I value electronic sociality more than I value returning student papers in a timely fashion.
b. Even with my inefficiency all week, I was hugely efficient yesterday and managed to finish grading the papers and return them today, only a week after they were turned in. And I even had time to hang out with a couple of wonderful new friends last night.

To Anyone Who Didn't Receive a Long Email From Me Last Week:
I'm sure I love you anyway.
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7 comments:

  1. Christian1/30/2006 11:03 AM

    One should never return student papers within a week. Unrealistic expectations. Now you're screwed when they write longer papers at the end of the semester and they still expect quick turnaround.

    And how do I know if you sent me long e-mails? What constitutes "long"? Did I just get short ones? And were they sent willfully or begrudgingly? These are all important things for me to know so that I can assess Fobby's love for me.

    Perhaps word verification says it all: yprvohrk.

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  2. Cricket1/30/2006 12:22 PM

    sure, sure

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  3. Anonymous1/30/2006 1:52 PM

    Well, further thanks then. For emails and hanging out with us both. You guys rock.

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  4. Anonymous1/30/2006 1:58 PM

    I'll have you know that the above sentence refused to be corrected of ambiguity, despite my best efforts.

    Version 1: For both emails and hanging out with us.

    Version 2: See above.

    What I meant: Both for emails and hanging out with us.

    Ahhh. There we go.

    J

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  5. Earth Sign Mama1/30/2006 8:30 PM

    Because I am such an egotist about my writing, I once tracked down a teacher at Oxnard Community College to get back a paper about Kate Chopin that I'd written and he'd never returned. We went to his office and there was a GIGANTiC pile of papers halfway up the wall from the surface of his desk in seemingly random order. (really, I could not discern any stacks) Amazingly enough, he found mine. It was corrected. But I don't know if he ever atually returned anyone's papers from that class...

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  6. B.G. Christensen1/31/2006 9:30 AM

    Edgy--Word verification does say it all, as it usually does.

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  7. B.G. Christensen1/31/2006 9:30 AM

    Oh, and Fobby has unconditional love for everyone.

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