I'm exhausted

[cornerofmadness]

For no reason. I did grade the bone test for the class that took it. 19 students took it. 5 100% and two who got less than 20 out 86 questions right. I have one student who has a lower score than a student who stopped coming (why I don't know he did well on the first test) and has missed 2 exams. I mean let that sink in. I don't even know where to begin to help a student like this.

I was too busy to even nano at all this day. I will start in a minute but damn already behind

I got the covid booster today. So far no issues (the exhaustion was there before that)


What I Just Finished Reading:
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes which is very much a feminist history exploration of ghosts and stories of haunting via that feminist lens. Really enjoyed this

Ghost Girl Reaper vol 1 by Akissa Saiké Nope, sorry, the fan service in this is gross.

The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV I'm still salty my comic book shop didn't get this on my pull list. It's a solid horror comic

Nights with a Cat, Vol. 1 by KyuryuZ OMG so wholesome and sweet.


What I am Currently Reading:
Wildwood by Colin Meloy (STILL OMG)



Murder at Beacon Rock - historical mystery

The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito horror manga


What I Plan to Read Next: I have a John Sandford waiting for my book set in Minnesota challenge so maybe that or some more of the graphic novels I grabbed

nano snippet - Dani cracked open her eyes before clamping them shut again. Adding flicker vertigo from the blades of the life flight helicopter would worsen everything. Of all the ways she imagined ever needing a life flight, falling against her couch in the living room never even made the list. She figured that would wait until her eighties.

Morphine dulled the pain in her knee like none Dani had ever experienced and she’d broken both ankles over the years. Forcing herself to breathe in through her nose and out her mouth to help combat the pain and nausea, Dani tried not to think about the accident and what came next. She’d made a panicked phone call to her parents while waiting for the ambulance to come to her rural home. They knew she was on the way to the hospital but there hadn’t been time to let them know she was being life flighted to a trauma center in Columbus. Her phone was with her things somewhere in the helicopter along with the dachshund door draft stopper she’d used to support her obviously dislocated knee to keep it from sagging even further off the bone.

Comments

[cmk418]

I'm glad Dani's on the morphine. That sounded painful. And I like the visual of this draft stopper among her personal effects. I could see it being a touchstone for her after she's undergone treatment. Or being flung at someone's head in a moment of anger.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks so much for that idea. I forgot to add that draft stopper in later. I need to go do that. (the reality is I sent the draft stopper home with mom and it's staring at me from the corner of the room right now)

[ysilme]

I mean let that sink in. I don't even know where to begin to help a student like this.
This. Grading sounds tiring just as such - I know it always was for my father, particularly when there were students with difficulties.
I hope the NaNo writing will work better for you today!

That snippet - *shudders* I don't dare to ask how autobiographic the injury description is... *hugs* Edit to add I'm perfectly happy with describing or reading about (most) grueling injuries if it's concerning fictional people. But when it's inspired by/a retelling of real happenings.... /o\

[cornerofmadness]

The grading is exhausting because you can't imagine students doing as badly as they do. It gets worse every year. this isn't just some trick of perception either and that's the saddest part

I will make note of that(I didn't think on it since I am little bothered by graphic stuff that I forget others are). This was as close to 100% autobiographical as it comes to be honest