Grading the paper of someone who has told you "Writing is kind of, you know, my THING" and finding that that paper is not what you had hoped it would be (based on the above statement) is not a happy way to begin one's Saturday.

Somewhere I read a faculty member quoted as saying: "I teach for free. They pay me to grade."

I think that's the truth.

I think this afternoon I will have to drown my sorrows in knitting and House, MD re-runs.