Boring week update

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My week has improved in fits and starts. I recieved about a million-and-a-half emails from students in anticipation of passing in their second papers today and answered about a million of them. (I gave up on anything sent after noon Wed.). I did end up sending a couple of "emergency" emails about citations [not a citation emergency, OMG] after I learned that 1. they had not learned how to do footnotes in freshman english and 2. some of them didn't know that word processing programs make footnotes for you so they were doing them manually with superscript and the footer. First I sent them a link about the form and content of footnotes, and then I literally sent an email that said "go to the "insert" menu, then to "reference" then to "footnote" etc. etc." Question of the week is: when did you learn how to do footnotes? High school? Freshman english? From a cranky, clueless TA?

Good parts of my week included our department's Mid-Atlantic Symposium tryouts Wednesday night (I was not presenting, but the five grad. students who did gave excellent, interesting papers), yummy kebab lunch with Hannah, Rachel, and Chris today (needed it after painful section this morning, the students were all exhausted from paper-writing and I was irritable too, we ended early), and Thursday night curling. Yay curling! Thursday night was nice and chill, I hope to go back. I had hoped to see Danni there, but perhaps she couldn't make it out of work on time. Maybe next time Denis will come too, he had a work party (with free drinks) celebrating the end of the fiscal year. I drove out to the club myself, the car felt so empty.

Comments

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don't laugh about citation emergencies. in law school at least, a misplaced period in a footnote can knock you down half a grade, them's some serious shit.