the calm before the storm...

So I'm at my office earlier than usual this morning. I have a couple of papers to grade but plenty of time to grade them. All in all, I really don't have anything that pressing to do (or at least that I could do here since there's laundry and dishes galore at home that I could be working on). It is the calm before the storm. This afternoon I'll lug home around 110 exams which I hope to have completely graded by Friday afternoon. We'll see if I really get them finished or not but I'd like to since we have a family Christmas gathering this weekend and I don't even want to think about them during that!

I had a fantastic weekend this past weekend with several friends from college. They traveled to town so we could all go to the Indiana State Museum and visit its LOTR exhibit. After that we headed to the theater to see Narnia, which was fantastic. I was amazed at how deeply Narnia touched me. I really expected it to be just another kids' fantasy sort of movie but felt it to be much more profound. I'll definitely go and see it again.

Well, I guess the two or three papers in my bag aren't going to grade themselves. I just thought I would post a little something in the few fleeting moments of calm that I have.