Things I should be doing right now:

1) Grading papers
2) grading quiz corrections
3) Writing a donation request letter to my place of employment from the non-profit choir that I sing with
4) Applying to Grad school

Things I am actually doing:
1) Writing in this blog
2) Looking at the papers I have to grade with generous amounts of loathing
3) Having no clue where those quizzes even are in my grading folder
4) Gearing up to play a few games of Bejeweled Blitz before my next class

With those things in mind, I'm actually having a pretty solid day. Sometimes I forget what good conversation can do for my general outlook on life. I had two good conversations so far today, and my afternoon class is always good for a few laughs, especially when I get stuck on ridiculous examples like "Panda bears and sunshine are the most important things in a girl's life." and use them to illustrate every concept that I am attempting to teach. For example, when talking about major versus minor details I might say "Discuss three reasons why panda bears and sunshine are the most important things in a girl's life." Or when I am explaining the concept of just stating the main idea of a paragraph instead of over-telling me, I will probably say "Don't write 'I am going to discuss three reasons why panda bears and sunshine are the most important things in a girl's life.' Write 'Panda bears and sunshine are the most important things in a girl's life because they are warm, cuddly, and bright.'"

My afternoon class enjoys these examples. My morning class does not stop speaking Hindi long enough to let me make funny examples. Ah, the trials and tribulations of a part-time adjunct professor at a local community college.

I am taking note of the fact that I am writing exactly the opposite way I am teaching my students to write. My excuse for this is that I am teaching them academic writing, and I am merely blogging at the moment. So there.

Ignorance is your new best friend.

I never could explain why it is that I tend to want to blog after typing a ridiculous amount of school work.

Perhaps I never will.

And now I don't feel like it anymore, haha. I think I'll just go to bed.

I think I'll bring my laptop with me to campus tomorrow. I hide out in the library a lot, and I always seem to run out of things to do on my break. Laptop time should fix that.