painless

Hi, all!

Well, I managed to get through the day. Now an hour or so of 4N6 and then I'm off to vote. (Vote early; vote often. I cut my political teeth in Chicago.)

I'll do my best to get to more grading tonight. If the lesson did not manage to sink in today: your posting grades are going to bite you badly if you don't start doing them better. Of course, many of you are posting brilliantly, as our near-record totals attest, but come on! How can we have people with 15, 10, 5, zero posts at this stage? In this first quarter, with fewer grades to balance them, the posting grade will count as much as 1/3. Heck, it might even count more! Why are you doing this to yourself when this grade should be a "gimme" A?

Remember: this is analytical writing to learn. It doesn't even matter if ultimately you decide that your argument was incorrect, having weighed other counter-arguments. It's the participation that matters.

Tomorrow:

E2/3H: RW (but 3H should bring les objets d'art)
CW: projects and confs

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j: socrates' last words: "hemlock? what hemlaa...."
music: suicide is painless--theme from M*A*S*H
silly 70's: i think i love you--partridge family

--kt