Lots of grading

So this week, it's the week of lots of grading. I learned something in the last few years of teaching, and during syllabus-planning for this semester, I laid out all of my due dates on a spreadsheet. For the most part, I was really able to spread things out throughout the semester. The downside of this is that I'll be grading something almost every week from now through mid-December, but I consider that to be preferable to those weeks where literally nothing other than grading can get done. However, this week, I couldn't do it. So I have papers and reports on those papers in one class today and Thursday, and I have a take-home test due Wednesday in another class. We have a faculty conference this Friday and Saturday, which means very little will get done over the weekend. So a busy week. I've just got to not get too far behind.