who stole the cookie from the cookie jar

I know a lot of people who routinely take two weeks to get a batch of papers back to students. Usually I do it in four days. It's the first time I've taken so long with a batch...and it's not like they need them back soon, anyway. That was their last academic assignment of the semester for me. They only have creative final projects left.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

PS - Students can sometimes be so adorable I want to bottle them up and snuggle them on dreary days. These creative final projects? I set no limitations, made no restrictions--they have to pitch their idea of what is reasonable to me and whether I agree or not is determined by their ability to convince. Life skills all around, right? And this one boy--who makes "duuuuuuh"-face all the time--just pitched the 36 page spy thriller he's been writing all semester and wanted to know whether he should make it longer. I would have taken 5 pages. No joke. And another kid is writing a score to a silent film version of Sherlock Holmes from 1924. And another kid is doing a fashion shoot...and another is doing performance art. I love students today.

PPS - I will keep you appraised buuuuut....one of the students is writing a kids book about the contents of the fridge trying to figure out who will be eaten for dinner. And the ketchup bottle is the detective. I bet you love my students now, too, don't you?

[edit/PPPS - I have a rule that I can only have one burger a week. You might think that's crazy--why, you might ask, do you need to have a rule like that? Do you find it that hard not to eat more than one burger in a week? Yes, internetters, I do. I find it that hard. And the one-burger-a-week rule is a vast improvement over what the rule was when it started back in first year during the first paper/finals season...then it was no-more-than-one-burger-a-day. And that was hard at first. But YES so I have this rule. And I wasted my one burger this week on bad delivery burger because grading papers sucks my brain out through my nose--that's what it feels like, OK--and I needed comfort food STAT. But it wasn't nice. And now I am burgerless until next week. Here endeth my tale of woe.]

Christmas Prompt #1: John/Sherlock + mistletoe

Title: Under the Mistletoe
Author: ifeelbetter
Disclaimer: I own nothing of value.
Notes: I spent last night--the wee hours of the morning, really--barfing christmas joy all over my house. Now it is time to start spreading my irrepresible holiday joy all over the internet as well! These prompts are going to be short--I'm squeezing the time out of a jam-packed schedule. You could still prompt me if you feel the urge. I'm gonna have to do some creative scrambling once I run out of prompts...in eight days.

( Prompt: Sherlock 2010, mistletoe )

And that's Prompt #1! If you liked that, head over to holiday_heist for Advent Calender style Inception goodies. Mine should pop up...later. I have forgotten my day.