Weather: Cloudy, occasional raindrops

Reading: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson

Knitting: a baby blanket. Remind me that I'm tired of these and don't want to do another one any time soon.

Hubby sent me a link to an article on cheating that I liked. There are a lot of comments on it, too. I mean, a LOT. I didn't add one, but I suppose that I could have. It's about academic plagiarism. I have a few things to say about that, not opinions, just personal notes. One, that I never was tempted in the slightest to cheat in school. Pretty much everyone was at least as ignorant as I was, and mostly no one studied. Another note, I had one high school teacher who maintained that two people would be getting zeroes if cheating happened on a test -- the person doing the cheating, and the person whose test was copied. I told him that this was mainifestly unfair to me, because I had consistently the highest scores in the class and so was a cheating target. I could hardly be responsible for others leaning over my shoulder copying, could I? And I was not going to sit in the back row because I was hard of hearing (yes, even then, dearly beloved) (and I did not capitalize "dearly beloved," so that was not a Kipling plagiarism), so I had to sit near the front, thereby preventing me from preventing anyone from sitting behind me. A final thing about cheating I ssaw in the workplace, not in school. I had appllied for a job at a city library, and mailed in the application. On the day of my interview, I was asked to sit and fill out a few essay questions. When I puzzled over what that was about, the director told me that they had a lot of applicants who didn't do their own applications, but had a friend or relative who had decent grammar and spelling do them for them. I was amazed.