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Almost Caught Up!

I forced myself to grade nearly everything today - the stuff that is just a check off I left for tomorrow morning. I'll get up early and head it to put it in the gradebook. It's electronic and I don't keep a transportable copy - too easy to loose information. If I kept a paper copy I'd have to spend waste time entering it into the computer since we are required to do that. I have hard enough time remembering to record the attendance in two different places.

After two full weeks of sleeping in until 9am, my internal clock has reset to that... I'll have to dig out the alarm clock and set it for the first in over a year. I do not do well with alarms.

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