Second batch done!

When storm Darragh kept me at home, I took advantage of that by making progress on my enormous marking load. And it worked! By the evening I had done the marking, although I had not yet put the grades and feedback on the assignments. I figured I could do that the day after. 

Is that reasonable? One could argue not. What about taking the Sunday off? But what I had done after finishing that batch was check when the next pile was due. And the answer was: pretty much immediately afterwards. So I had to keep going.

That happened sooner than I intended. When I went to the kitchen to give the cat her last meal of the day, I was reminded of the fact that I had started defrosting the fridge. And it was mostly done! Just not entirely. And I didn't want to leave the fridge defrosting overnight. It would leak water everywhere. So I figured I couldn't really go to bed yet. What do you do if you can't go to bed? You go back to your marking! So I put some of the grades and feedback where it needed to go. But then I finished the defrosting I went to bed. And the next morning, before breakfast, I finished it off.

I then still had to look at the few academic integrity cases resulting from that assignment. I didn't want to give the students their grades and only afterwards raise the possibility that not all these grades were definitive. So I wanted to at least tell the people involved what was hanging over them. But when I had that ready I could ask my moderator on Monday morning to do the moderation. He had been warned it was coming! And as soon as moderation is done, it can be released to the students. And then it's properly sorted…

Picture from the field trip in October; the marking had been the field trip report