Books

[mothwing]

I hate living so far away from the university. Today, I have to return my books to the library, and that means I have to tour one hour into the city, return my books, turn round, and another hour later I'm home again.

All I want to do is curl up in my bed and wait until my cold is gone again, but nooo, I have to take the books back, plan a double period for tomorrow, find out how the dreaded camcorder works, buy a cassette, come to think of it - oh, I hate today. Oh, and I have to mark the film reviews my students handed in. Marking is so hard, I never anticipated how bad it would be.
One girl's language is far from perfect, but her content is good: 2. Another girl's language is nearly perfect, there are things missing in her content, but she does make great points I hadn't anticipated: 2. But if I give one girl a 2, can I really give the other girl a 2? And what about the guy who's got everything, but doesn't give any examples at all? His language is ok: 3. But if he's got a 3, then the other girl... Yeah. I hate marking.


9.

Shadowmancer by G.P. Taylor.
I have started it months ago and I am not that impressed, to be honest. I hate that girl and I hope she's going to die. What was her name again? Kitty? No? Something along those lines. Kate! Yeah. Whatever.

Comments

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Sick, too? *sends best wishes*

An hour? Goodness, I need half that long and find it annoying, to say the least. But I guess moving somewhere closer is out of the question for you?

Marking is horrible, it's one of the reasons I didn't want to become a teacher. Hope you're giving yourself enough time despite all the work to cure yourself properly!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *sneezes* And due to the internship I don't have any time off. Ah, well. It's life. I'd better get used to it now. It's still crap to be standing in front of a class all sneezy and headachy - and tomorrow, I'll even be standing in front of a class and a camcorder. Gah.

You're sick, too? *reads* Oh! That sucks! I hope you're feeling better already. :) Good luck!

Moving closer is indeed out of the question due to financial constraints and job-seeking constraints (due to internships, papers, fullest timetables...) because studying is my top priority. I plan go job hunting once the internship is over, though, for next semester, when (... if?) I won't have 34 SWS and seven papers.

All the best. :)

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a bit better. It's just a bad cold now. I'll probably cancel work tomorrow, although I need the money, but I so can't picture myself keeping these stupid children quiet during homework time when I feel like this... How you manage that all stays a complete mystery to me!

Good luck for now, and next semester as well!
All the best to you, too :)

[dstroyrofworlds.livejournal.com]

We always got three different marks: language, style, content.
The way they should be weighed is up to the teacher.
I guess my teacher did it 2:1:2 or something like that.
I always found this way of giving three marks the best she could have done. It shows the pupils where they stand concerning language, style and working with texts/movies/blah.
And it this way the end mark is grounded and can be explained easily.

[bilks.livejournal.com]

Shadowmancer gave ne the shits with its overt and often contradictory christian message. It was an alright story made clumsy by the need to inject some very dubious christian moralising.