{"id":477,"date":"2006-10-31T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2006\/10\/31\/virtual_finger_tapping\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T20:00:18","slug":"virtual_finger_tapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/10\/31\/virtual_finger_tapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual finger tapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>If you don&#8217;t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.<\/i><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sitting in class while my students write their mid-term test.<br \/>\nI had an annotated bibliography to submit today for the Performa course I&#8217;m taking. The bibliography is supposed to be based on ten of the articles I&#8217;ve collected so far for the literature review at the end of the course. So I have lovingly prepared a binder filled with articles (well over the required ten), and I figured I would get started on the bibliography and finish it this evening, while I waited.<br \/>\nThen I turned around and the bibliography had somehow finished itself by mid-afternoon.<br \/>\n<i>A plateau is a high form of flattery.<\/i><br \/>\nSo I turned my attention to preparing a PowerPoint presentation for a workshop I&#8217;ve been asked to give tomorrow on the English Exit Exam (a provincial exam that all students must pass in order to graduate from Cegep). I have a short presentation already in the can that I&#8217;ve used in my classes before, but I needed to incorporate more information on the requirements of the exam. Again, I figured I could work on perfecting the presentation this evening.<br \/>\nExcept that it&#8217;s done.<br \/>\n<i>A backward poet writes inverse.<\/i><br \/>\nOf course, I have marking &#8211; leftover rewrites, a few late submissions, and the rest of the short-answer tests my star pupils wrote last Friday.<br \/>\nNow, in an ideal world, this line would read &#8220;but that&#8217;s done too!&#8221;<br \/>\nWell, it isn&#8217;t, because in a moment of sheer brilliance this morning, I left all my marking piled neatly on my desk.<br \/>\nAt home.<br \/>\n<i>Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.<\/i><br \/>\nSo here I sit, with nothing to do but clean up the comment spam and peruse the jokes sent to me by well-intentioned friends:<br \/>\n<i>A grenade that fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed. I&#8217;m sitting in class while my students write their mid-term test. I had an annotated bibliography to submit today for the Performa course I&#8217;m taking. The bibliography is supposed to be based on ten of the articles I&#8217;ve collected so far for the literature review &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/10\/31\/virtual_finger_tapping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virtual finger tapping&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}