I am not grading any more tests or essays.

     No. Not tonight. I know that yesterday I told my students (AND posted on my classroom website) that I would have everything from this week posted by 5 PM on Friday (that’s today, in about 23 minutes as I type these words), and I know that their parents’ tax dollars pay my generous (as [...]

panic.

Can you die from getting a splinter that you can’t get out of your left index finger? ‘Cause I’d really like to know. I have tried everything. Tweezers. A safety pin. I even dug around in my  art supplies cabinet for an x-acto knife, convinced I remember enough from high school biology class dissections to [...]