Tuesday, 18 November 2003
happiness is...
- An “imperial latte”—with beautiful foamed milk swirling around on the top of the mug, just like in the picture.
- A double chocolate chip muffin
- Sunshine (!) streaming through the windows of the coffeeshop
- Free wifi
- The end of grading in sight.
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Update, 1:28pm
Grading done. (Well, except for participation grades, which require a spreadsheet that hasn’t been delivered to me yet. But the part that requires thinking is done.) Woohoo! Too tired to celebrate properly, so will instead sit here savoring the coffee for a little while, and looking out the window at the traffic on Park Avenue.
I must say, Spin Caffé gets high marks for service and quality, as well as their brilliant decision to provide free Wifi. I will most definitely be back. Perhaps if enough people vote with their feet—and wallets—more places will realize that wifi is a valuable thing to provide to their customers, and that it shoudl be thought of as an amenity, not a marketable commodity.
"I teach for free; they pay me to do the grading."
What a great quote.
Found in the comments of an Invisible Adjunct post on grading; attributed to someone’s “senior colleague.”
(IA, you need permalinks for your comments. I’m going to post a tutorial on that this week, since it’s easy to do in MT if you know which tags to put into the templates.)
