I think I've got the compputer stuff licked. I'm getting to be good friends with ITC! They fixed it so I'm not blocked out of the grade-posting program. And my new password is recorded. (It's not the default of my birth date--which is one of the things that didn't work last night.)

The world did not end because I was late posting mid-term grades. (I didn't think it would.)

I warned my students about the large number with F midterm grades--and gave them the reason (missing the exam) to use to mollify their parents.

The phone is ringing AGAIN. I've shut off the answering machine because it would be full of the "vote for me" calls coming almost non-stop, and the "reminder" beep wouldn't stop till I tended to it. The chances are extremely slim that anyone that I care to talk to would be calling on the home line. I think it's rung four times in the past hour.

Saturday is election day for state and parish offices. I have only a slight idea of how I'm going to vote--it seems that many of the candidates are either crooks or hypocrites, judging by the negative campaigning. But they have those telephone lines humming!

In class this morning I told the kids that if they put the definition for kakistocracy on their Friday vocab quizzes I'd add three points. (Actually, I let them bump me up to three points.) I need to give some thought to other (constructive, but not needing grading) ways they can boost their scores a bit.

That term came up as I was going over the various forms of government in Classical Greece.

(Incidentally, one cannot help but wonder if the term might apply to the current government.)

Anyway--since I needed gas I came home via the Twin Span bridges, because it is a more direct route to WalMart. It is really interesting to see the work on the new bridges. I think it will take three or four years till both spans are completed, but the construction process is fascinating (at least to me.) The new ones will be higher and wider than the current ones. And the westbound bridge won't have to be bolted back together on a regular basis. Actually, it gets inspected--traffic down to one lane--two or three times a week. I think it's Sunday nights when it is totally closed for repair work.

The above is why I take the 79 year old two lane with no shoulders bridge when I am westbound.

Satsumas are in season! And I bought a sack on the way home this afternoon. I will be eating one or two this evening. (They're like tangerines, but easier to peel.)

Enough blithering--time for some mind-candy reading.