Well it's particularly irksome because this is the second teacher who has done it this week. These are district mandated assessments and I'm in charge of making sure they are administered and sent to be scored. But there is a 6 pt written response that teachers are supposed to grade.

I'm tempted to just send them without those 6 points which will push all of those kids out of proficiency. Grrr....

What I will do is grade them and bundle them and mail them.

I am a sick and twisted individual for finding humor in this terrifying incident:

Pilot 'breakdown' diverts flight

An Air Canada flight made an emergency landing in the Irish Republic after a pilot apparently suffered a breakdown.

A passenger said the pilot was carried from the plane shouting and swearing, saying he wanted to talk "to God".

The flight from Toronto to Heathrow landed at Shannon airport after its crew declared a medical emergency. Passengers flew on to London later.

Air Canada has confirmed that a crew member was unwell, but did not confirm he was suffering mental problems.

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One of the passengers, Sean Finucane, said he saw the co-pilot being carried into the cabin in restraints.

"He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly at times," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"He was swearing and asking for God and very distressed. He basically said he wanted to talk to God."

What I will do is grade them and bundle them and mail them.

That's not fair. Is there any way to not grade and have it not mess up the students?

And now the president is fucking up my commute.

I wonder if people in areas that don't suffer presidential visits have any clue how it screws our traffic. I've never heard it mentioned on news reports when they cover visits. It screws the airport traffic too when they fly in as no planes can be near the runway or airspace used for AF1.

Annoyed us just as much for presidents we liked.

That's not fair. Is there any way to not grade and have it not mess up the students?

Nope. Oh well. I'm not busy. It's more that I left the classroom because I hated grading.

Reagan's death managed to fuck my commute up at least three different times.

I'll always remember being stuck for 10 minutes on a corner above Dupont Circle to let Reagan's limo pass--when he went by, he waved to us like we were adoring crowds lined up to see him, when in reality all we wanted to do was cross the damn street.

But the fact that Ralph doesn't know that makes him the Michael Scott of ex-progressives.

bwah. he totally is.

Nader is obviously an utter down-to-the-marrow asshat, but does he even have more than eight or nine loyalists anywhere in the US? Isn't he too much of a bitter joke to be a spoiler anymore?

Well...if we're any indication, he's doing a great job of uniting the Democratic party. I mean, here we were this morning, some for Obama, some for Hillary, some ready to write in Al Gore, but we ALL feel the same about Nader.

Hee, the great uniter.

So then instead of working, I just spent like 20 minutes dithering about whether I should buy a $75 r/t ticket to see my friend in Michigan. ISTG.