The Road to Hell....

Talk about good intentions. After my last post, I was ready to buckle down and get some serious grading done. And then life throws a curveball (I'm mixing my cliches now). Alas, I tried to grade a batch of essays this morning and it took 2 hours to grade 9 of them! Needless to say, but I'm going to say it anyway, I did not get them done before class as I had planned.

Today was a mix of catching up on smaller grading projects (blogs, discussion boards, etc), emails (200 to read, respond to, delete), and administrative tasks (order summer books, fill out requests for travel funds, submit other required paperwork). I did a lot today and yet I feel as if I accomplished little. I did enjoy reading the posts from the accelerated class again though. I feel there are some good efforts at offering some specific details in these posts, which are only required to be around 200-250 words.

Today I bought The Kite Runner DVD. I also picked up three books that caught my eye:

Best Friends
Veil of Roses
Three Cups of Tea

Then, of course, the books that I had hoped would arrive over spring break finally arrived (stupid super saver shipping--never again!):

The Road to Oxiana
Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing
Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
Salon.com's Wanderlust

Now when will I have time to read these?! Book orders for fall are due SOON!