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So like I mentioned, Friday I was told that I was expected to submit what I’m currently calling a “teaching dossier” — I’m sure there’s another term I’m supposed to use, but I can’t remember it and I’m too tired to look. Late last night, I finalized my grades, so I had all of today to compile all of the handouts, evaluation forms, syllabi, and other materials I’ve created in the last two years, plus write up a letter describing what, besides my teaching duties, I’ve been doing to enrich the campus, so that someone somewhere will process my department’s …

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The Nightmare is Over, Well, Mostly

I’ve finished my grading. It took hours and hours, mostly because I was so busy this semester that all the grades were on scattered pages, listed in different things, and so on. Happily, I don’t need to deal with little attendance papers because attendance isn’t (really) a part of the grades — though I use it as a tie-breaker, on the basis of the notion that people who care more about their grades come to class more. And, as I’ll mention below, I also use it to track and adjust peer-evaluated class participation grades, since one cannot participate if one …

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Grading and Submitting Documents

I’m happy to report that I’ve finished the large majority of the grading work I need to do. I have some calculating of numbers, and so on, but I really only have two classes left to enter the data for — unfortunately, my largest class is one of them. I hope to finish that tonight, leaving me all of Saturday to do the calculations. But I will need to collate a bunch of grades that students assigned to one another during the peer evaluation segment of the “discussion leadership” section of my conversation class. Which is very important and useful, …

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Wanna CD?

See that new block in the sidebar? Yep, I’m flogging CDs for a now long-disbanded rock group. I figure, what the hell, someone might actually want a copy. Better than all that plastic and paper and time and music gone to waste. Not that anyone in the band has seen a red cent for it — though to be fair I don’t know if it ever earned back the studio costs, but then again we’ve never seen numbers either to the best of my knowledge — but there are still CDs of Dabang Band’s Product album available through YesAsia.com. (For …

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Um, Thanks, Guys…

I’d been having network connection problems for a week or so — the network booting me at random intervals, anywhere from ten minutes to 40 minutes — and finally, when messing around with the installation of Internet Explorer I can run under Wine on my Linux installation, I figured out that it was indeed the campus network blocking me because I hadn’t installed a virus scanner and some kind of weird Korean firewall app. Which only exists for Windows, of course, because Windows is the only OS in Korea, right? Oh, the DRM! Anyway, I had the network guys come …

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