It's the last day of finals week here at UMM, and lucky me, I have two exams scheduled back-to-back today…so I'm about to go into the classroom and proctor away (the most boring task in all of teaching), and I don't emerge again until at least 3:30. But then the semester is done!
Except for the grading.
The awful, horrible, daunting stacks of papers that must all be graded before I can live again.
If you don't see me again, it means the grues got me.
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