Those are good!

I am seriously frustrated by this "per class" thing. I mean, I understand, but it is so opposite of the way I do things. For example, one of my tasks is to save the syllabi for all classes to a public drive once per semester. This takes about 10 minutes or less for about 40 classes. But I have to track it by class.

Yeah Sophia, definitely more time spent on tracking that task than doing it.

Sophia, I used to have to do that for things that might take a few minutes at a time but would add up over the course of the day. I'd make a guess, break it down into what I was doing for each and just ball-park it. (My sanity maintenance/enrichment time was melded in with the work time, since that was also intermittent throughout the day.)

Ugh, Sophia, I get the reasoning behind it, but when you break it down like that (15 seconds per class), it's ridiculous.

Everyone here was rooting for the Sabres to lose- because something about draft picks.

If you don't make it to the playoffs, you have better Draft Lottery odds, which basically is, "hey, maybe this is crazy, but we noticed you're terrible, would you like a star player baby?"

What is this class?

I Heart Stats: [link]

It seems I never filed my 2012 taxes. Stupidity fee of $14 to reaccess what I did online.

Work has been slow for going on 3 months, I am now using chunks of time each day to do personal stuff. Yesterday I copied a last will and typed it all up ready to sign. Today I paid bills and transferred funds around. I am making a plan to eliminate my credit card debt. Now doing this tax thing. Oh I also started tracking food intake on Fitbit since we had that discussion yesterday. Yesterday I was over 1500, but only ate 2 meals.

I've got my absolute least favorite task coming up -- end-of-semester grades. For the class I teach, there's a specific formula for calculating final grades, with a certain weight given to each midterm, the final exam, and the in-class grades (homework and quizzes.) All of these have to be entered into the university's computers. The computers already have the exam grades, because those are graded on scantrons. But for the in-class grades, I've got the grades in an online gradebook (which the university tells us to use). I've also got the exam grades in that gradebook. I can easily get the gradebook to properly weight each of the grades and calculate the final grade for each student. But the way the system is set up, I need to enter the in-class grades into the university computer separately, so that the university computer can then weight all the grades and print out a report with the final grades. The method of entering these in-class grades? Scantron. One scantron per student. I have to have each student fill in their name and ID number at the top of an individual scantron (and then I have to sort through them, figure out who's missing, and fill out the missing ones myself), and then I have to download the grades from the online gradebook, put them in a spreadsheet, get the spreadsheet to average the in-class grades separately from the midterm grades, and then code each student's in-class grade into their scantron. It is the most ridiculously pointless thing ever.

Thanks, shrift! I've registered. That class seems more manageable than the data analytics class I tried to take last Fall. Although I may go back and complete that coursework over time.

Sophia, I'm terrible and tend to guesstimate, but you could add a general category to your tracking and either say it was for all classes, or just take that amount of time and divide by 40 at the end of the day?

That's terrible, Hil. I hate stupid processes like that.