Things to do

Tomorrow is my last day of school for a while. See, one thing I neglected to mention in my last post is that I'm heading down to Alabama on Wednesday morning --ridiculously early Wednesday morning-- for my father's official inauguration as the President of the University of Alabama at Huntsville. This is a Good Thing for many reasons. One, the fam is getting together in force: BrynJoe's in from Africa, Art-History is heading down from Baltimore, and a whole crew of aunts and cousins will be traipsing in from across the Pond. Two, pursuant to point one, there will be much rejoicing/drinking to commemorate the occasion. Since it's a classy affair, the drink is likely to be of a high quality. Since it's my family, the drink is likely to be of a high quantity. Three, SecondLaw is coming down from Philly to meet the whole fam. It's not that she hasn't met them before, it's just that this is her first time meeting them in the context of being my girlfriend. Fourth, and most importantly, I won't be seeing my students for four days straight right before the college trip, which is just the sort of break I need from the little buggers.

However, this upcoming break does mean that I need to get all my grades done before leaving work tomorrow. There's a high probability that I won't leave work until 6:30 PM or later. I've still got quizzes and notebook grades to enter in to my spreadsheet, and I haven't even begun writing my evaluations. For some reason, the more work I have to do, the more I feel like procrastinating. I even took an online test to see how much of a procrastinator I am...while procrastinating. Remarkably, I only scored in the 50th percentile. There must be some crazy-ass procrastinators out there. I think that the more I have to do, the less I want to do it. Or maybe it's because I've been looking at papers since I got home at 6 and I can feel my eyes slowly glazing over. Either way, I got the sudden urge to type stuff.

OK, actually working now, I swear.