I'm on the right track to get a good grade

That does seem to be the vw bug track, so I'd say it's a good plan.

I will just proceed and hope it means I'm on the right track to get a good grade.

It does. Asking for an outline is pretty much a disaster aversion/reality check move, with an extra dose of "make them start sometime before the day of the deadline". It's not so much a chance to give the good students a lot of really detailed feedback (because, honestly, it wouldn't even be fair to do so before they've actually fleshed out their arguments), as a chance to say "holy shit, no, you can't possibly do this!" before it's too late. You're doing fine.

Weather report from Western Fairfax County, VA: About 2 inches of snow with a thin icy overlay. Feds are excusing late arrivals of up to 2 hours.

Cheese omelet:

And, just FTR, I got to the office about 8:20.

(showing hand for Angels In America) And to think I was ticked when it wasn't Sopranos/The Wire. I had never heard of it except a synopsis in the paper a few days before, but I was very impressed.

Clear Skies and 1˚F here.

Dusting of snow yesterday, on top of snow a few days ago that's not gone.

Minnesota in January, basically.

Where'd December go?

t Smooches sleeping WindSparrow

I'm off to work. good luck with the weather, storm affected people.

I didn't measure, but I think, based on what I slogged through, we got about 8 inches or so. I only had 2 hours of work today, and one of the hours said she wasn't going to come in anyway, so all work was cancelled. I did clean off the car enough to prove I could probably get to the street without landlady having to snowblow the pea gravel driveway b/c asphalt driveways are too expensive to put in and snowblowers work SO well with the little gravel, but I'm now back in my room and thrilled to have the day off.

Sorry you got to work early, though.

I don't know what the weather is doing right now, but y'all'd probably laugh...it's kind of cold for us, though.It's warm here, but not quite shorts-all-year-tropical...cold stuff comes down from the mountains sometimes.Hec, I just remembered: Tony Kushner likes The Wire enough that he gave The Truth Be Told, the Wire companion, a blurb. When HBO-verses collide...

Oh. Dear.

I just got an e-mail from one of the students I'm tutoring. Her big final paper is due on Monday. She's only read 1.5 of the four articles she needs to talk about in her paper...and actually, she only has three articles. She hasn't found the fourth yet.

She better not think I'm writing this paper for her!!! She e-mailed me yesterday asking if I'd found the articles and read them yet. I was going to do that in preparation to help her, but now I'm not so sure I'm going to take the time. She needs to do this. And I know I need to help her, but...there is a limit.

Also, she asked me to call her on her cell phone to set up a meeting time, because she doesn't have "enternet."

Dear god, please help me.

Dear god, please help me.

You misspelled "her".