If I had an out of office reply, it would say this: “Mandy cannot grade papers today because it is sunny, her bike needs riding, and doughnuts are back in season.”

 

Instead, however, I am obliged to put up an out of blog reply.  See those papers up there?  Not the ones with the sticky notes on them, to the left…further left…just out of the sun…ah yes, there.  Those big stacks.  Yep, those are student research papers.  

Mandy cannot blog today because she’s got seventy student research papers to read–oh and forty British lit papers, sixty one-page Google Groups posts, and an incomplete final exam to prepare.

 

But I’m not one to turn down a seasonal treat…