I am in the tail end of marking hell. I have 65 more essays to mark and then I can take a breather for a few days before launching into all the other stuff I have to do.

I just finished an essay that felt like the movie Groundhog Day. It would start “There are two theories that can explain about bipedalism…” and then go on to garbledly try and explain two separate theories. The problem was that it kept repeating itself over and over in the body of the essay. I got a few paragraphs in and then see “There are two theories that can explain about bipedalism…” and then a garbled explanation of the two theories.

I am tired, so it is taking me longer to process the essays, so I didn’t pick up the similarities until the third time it happened in the essay. It felt like the student tried fresh three times to write the same little 4-5 page essay.

And then at the very end, nestled in the middle of the final paragraph, “I am a loser. I really have no idea what I am talking about.”

Awwwww.

22 more bipedalism essays until I can get to the fun topics I have saved for last. Needless to say, there will not be a bipedalism question next year, as I count marking these as cruel and unusual punishment.

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