Coffee Grounds and Diet Coke
Does anyone remember that scene from one of the Nightmare on Elm Street sequels where one of the poor terrified teenagers swills coffee grounds with a Diet Coke chaser in order to stay awake? Anyone?
It's very possible that I might follow her example this evening. You know that grading I spent the day doing? Well, for the record, I'm not even procrastinating a lot--very unusual for me!!!--and yet I'm still at it. I have three left. The problem, of course, is that I've also promised class #2 that they can have their evaluations for a project, much overdue, tomorrow. And there are six of those. Did I mention tomorrow is the last day of teaching content? And they should get something out of it?
Tell me this, blogademe, has anyone ever pulled an all-nighter to finish grading? Has anyone ever done it successfully, meaning that they were still conscious and able to function the next day?
And is this the point where I just throw my hands up in the air and say "I'm a loser and I couldn't finish. Put it all in the course evaluations. Thank you sir, may I have another"?
I'm going back to grading now. Bring on the caffeine.
It's very possible that I might follow her example this evening. You know that grading I spent the day doing? Well, for the record, I'm not even procrastinating a lot--very unusual for me!!!--and yet I'm still at it. I have three left. The problem, of course, is that I've also promised class #2 that they can have their evaluations for a project, much overdue, tomorrow. And there are six of those. Did I mention tomorrow is the last day of teaching content? And they should get something out of it?
Tell me this, blogademe, has anyone ever pulled an all-nighter to finish grading? Has anyone ever done it successfully, meaning that they were still conscious and able to function the next day?
And is this the point where I just throw my hands up in the air and say "I'm a loser and I couldn't finish. Put it all in the course evaluations. Thank you sir, may I have another"?
I'm going back to grading now. Bring on the caffeine.
posted by kfluff at 9:47 PM
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You know, I came really close to pulling an all-nighter to grade once (got something like three hours of sleep), and no, I was not remotely coherent enough to teach the next day. In fact, I went to campus, put the papers (or whatever they were) in the box on my office door for students to pick up, came home, sent an e-mail canceling class (and telling them about the papers), and crashed for a few hours. It was an exercise in madness, really. So now I just accept my grading-slackerdom and figure that the students will just have to deal (and ream me in the evals, should they so choose!). Good luck finishing!
Well, I did end up getting about 6 hours, so I was *partially* coherent. I think I got through my first class on adrenaline (giving back failing project grades can do that to you), but the last one sucked for sure. I should have gone home to bed.
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