GRADING, HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING

Following Greg Goelzhauser's advice:

I have not just finished writing exams that will be taken tomorrow, and I am not now sitting here thinking about the somewhat daunting task of grading all of them in the hypothetically not-so-distant future.

But if I were, I would most assuredly not be seeing ghostly images of stacks of blue books and scantron sheets, towering over me, clutching at my arms as I flee my now-quite-starkly-furnished office. Nor would I have a feeling of bittersweet joy that my teaching at Oswego has come to an end and that I am now moving into the occupational unknown, pregnant with possibility. Nor sadness that tomorrow is likely the last time I will see most of my students.

None of this is -- or would be -- true. Believe me.