I finally got around to putting that Kerry/Edwards bumpersticker on my car.

Here are some things that I may or may not have written on students' papers:

1) "I googled your paper. Take it as a compliment."

2) "Good job. Talk in class. Also, change your major to Literature and apply to graduate school."

3) "Your paper does not exactly reek of effort."

4) "Yeah, when it gets right down to it, basically all of literature is about sex and death. The best lit is about both."

5) "Not only is this in poor taste, it doesn't even make sense."



Oh man, I really want to get these papers back before Thanksgiving break, which means, by tomorrow at 8am. And I have 7 left, a freakin' all-star lineup of kids who have gotten As on basically all of their papers so far. (Actually, it's more than that, but I'm rationalizing not handing back several papers on time as they were not handed in on time. So fuck 'em.) But the question is, does my desire to get rid of all these papers outweigh the desire to not fucking be grading papers anymore? And to spend time instead reading in passing?