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June 09, 2003

Looking at my website, I’ve

Looking at my website, I’ve been a bit remiss in updating it recently. There is, however, a semi-good reason for this—with only three regular days of class left (one of which is a minimum day), and only eight days left if one includes finals, it can safely be called crunch time.

Speaking of which, my seniors have an essay due on Wednesday and Thursday. I grade my class on a weighted scale of five categories—quizzes, essays, homework, tests (finals) and participation—so for many of them, unless their final product on this paper is somehow different than their usual essay (in either a positive or negative way), it won’t change their grade much. I assigned it more out of the assertion that they needed to have one last academic essay in my class, a culmination of the quarter they’ve spent reading 100 Years of Solitude, than out of the expectation that it was going to do wonders to everybody’s grade.

I’m not looking forward to having to grade them so quickly, but I think I’ve figured out a system by which just about everybody will be able to have their essay graded and their grade completely up-to-date by the time they come in for their final. If I grade period 05’s essays first, that gives me two days to plow through roughly 25 essays. Then I have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to get through however many of the remaining essays as I can, starting with period 08, then 01, and finishing off with 04. If I can polish off 08 and 01’s approximately 40 essays over that three-day period, that gives me Monday and Tuesday to knock off the last 30 or so essays from period 04.

In other news, we had our first read-through for “Wit” the day before yesterday, and it went well. I have a good feeling about the cast and the director. Thankfully, our rehearsal schedule has been set up in such a way that, if you’re called to be there for a certain chunk of time, you’re actually needed for that chunk of time. There’s nothing worse as an actor than to be called for an entire four or five-hour rehearsal, and then only be used for about fifteen or twenty minutes. I’m not talking about run-throughs or tech week; by then, the amount of action you’ll see is dictated by too many outside factors to find fault if you’re sitting more than acting.

If you’ve got absolutely nothing else to do, check out the barter/swap/free listings on craigslist.org. I’m intrigued by the things people are looking for, willing to trade for said things, or looking to jettison. I came across one listing yesterday where a person was willing to trade tattoo work for home repair work. Odd, no?

Posted by patrick at June 9, 2003 08:36 AM

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