Perhaps my worstest post ever

I hate the word (???) "worser." I've seen it twice on papers I've received on my students' current assignment.

None of them -- well, maybe 5 of my 85 or so students -- could write their way out of (some metaphorical place).

(INCREDIBLE thunder outside!!! I guess maybe I should turn off this computer. But I won't.)

They can't write. They can't follow the simplest and most often repeated (and, of course, written in the syllabus) instructions. They don't seem to care, even having been reminded several times over several days, that attendance -- or the lack thereof -- is going to have a direct bearing on their grades. I'm sure I will get lots of complaints and tons of whining when grade time comes around, but that always happens. They'll beg for "extra credit," since they will have earned very little credit in the normal course of the semester. Sorry, bub (and bubette).

Oh, well. Back to it, I guess. But if one more of them says "worser" I'm going to explode!

Oh.... One more thing. If my students are any indication, Hillary -- we're on a 1st name basis, you understand ;-) -- is toast. My students are convinced that it's Barack/John, with Barack winning a very close election. I'm not quite ready to go there, though. I'll wait until after March 4. And then reassess.