Again, holding up pretty well (unanswered emails aside, I swear I'll get to them tomorrow). Big fun of the day was one of the other TAs accidentally curving our last assignment so that the average was 60%. Except that there were enough 100% submissions (we graded too kindly) which the computer wouldn't change, which meant that even if you got like a 99 it would show up as something like a 40%. Of course, there was no way to reverse this (despite the program saving the grading history!) so we had to go back and manually change each grade back to what it was supposed to be, all while answering e-mails about why the grades were wrong. Really glad I made detailed comments about why I gave each grade I did, since looking up the grading history for each individual student is a pain. Also had to answer a bunch of emails from students asking for me to regrade their assignments or for explanations for why they got what they got (see the detailed comment I made!). The answer is "all grades are final" for everyone but I did flat out tell one student that her offer to redo the assignment would be a huge waste of everyone's time since she was arguing over 7 percentage points, literally less than half a percent of the final grade. Between all of that, played games at English Corner (our weekly English practice sessions with some of the grad students who want to improve on that regard).
I read like 120 pages of Paradise Reclaimed last night and will probably finish it today. Then you will get a book review because why not. This is a hobbyist blog after all, not just a public diary and a therapy session. I just don't have hobbies other than self-therapy right now. And writing down my thoughts I guess. Still thinking about Fishing for Birds, not sure when I will get around to writing lyrics for it (again).
Oh, I listened to Camping in Alaska's please be nice again, like I do all the time (it along with Moenie and Kitchi by Gregory and the Hawk are two of my favorite short albums to revist and just listen to all the way through. Both are very comforting and I like the sincerity that bleeds through them). Though Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4 tends to be my favorite and is truly the climax of the album, c u in da ballpit hit different today.
It's funny thinking about how much the band hates please be nice. I mean yeah it's poorly recorded and cringe, but they were like 17 when they released it. It shouldn't be good but it's still part of the growing process. And like I get it. Dead Ponies in the Rain is also poorly recorded cringe (much more so than please be nice) that I released when I was 17. I dislike a lot of it and very very very rarely listen to it (not that anyone should enjoy it per se). Even as I was finishing it there's a lot of directions I wanted to move in and away from what I was doing (Hence the first song on Fishing for Birds, which is We hate our fans and all we want is your money, a song about about everyone wants me to do songs like Dead Ponies in the Rain but I want to do other stuff, while staying experimental of course). And there's other directions I want to move in for Doctrines of Annihilation, far from where Fishing for Birds is now. But there were some good ideas on there and I can occasionally see what could be brilliance in a competent musician's hand. It's okay to laugh about your past cringe.
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