Way behind

Just a quickie because I'm avoiding work right now (aka, paper grading - I've got 16 more before I'm done)...

I have a ton of stuff I need to post on from my reading before I forget it, like tons of Chaucer and a random Ben Jonson play that I think we read in AP English in high school (Ash, did we read Volpone in Dr. Wilson's class, or am I making that up and did I read it as a sophomore in college? I can't remember anymore).

Tony's presenting at the Early Modern conference in Chicago this week, so we're flying out (YAY!!!! - last time we drove there we got caught in a traffic jam on the Dan Ryun for 4 hours - talk about needing to pee!!!) on Wednesday and leaving early Sunday morning, which pending no huge nasty flight delays means we should get into Allentown just about in time for the Oscars. I just found out that Sarah busted her kneecap and that we probably won't be running around as much as we were hoping. I still don't know our schedule - my birthday is Thursday and we're hoping to get together w/Sarah, etc., and Nate and David (the one prof from my school also heading out that direction) that night for deep dish, but that's also the night of the big "conference social event" (read: group of alcoholic humanities geeks/professors getting together to get relatively schnockered, from what I've heard), and those usually aren't missable (I know the one at Kalamazoo isn't - last year my former medieval French professor was drunk and dancing (including laying herself down on the floor briefly) to the B-52's 'Rock Lobster'), so I guess we'll be doing that and perhaps pizza on Friday. Pending Sarah can walk/drive/move at all and isn't completely out of her mind on painkillers.

So off to watch clips to talk about in class tomorrow from when they completely didn't work at all on Friday (nothing like getting farther along in one's education only to realize that the sort of technological incompetancy experienced by all of one's professors in college is actually a sort of badge that goes along with teaching at a college and not really that they in particular are technologically incompetant per se...) so that I can pop a quiz on them to make sure that people are doing their work. And grade 16 more papers before I go to bed tonight, unless I don't get them finished, at which point I'll make sure they're done before Nunk goes to the vet on Tuesday.

I think Nunks has some kind of parasite or something. She's acting fine but grooming too much and she has this funky little sore on her. It's awful and I'm distraught, mostly because we're leaving on Wednesday and I won' t be able to take care of her. Sad.

Must work. There are a lot of days I wish I had a normal 8-5 job where weekends didn't mean YAY EXTRA WORK TIME all the time - I get tired.