I decided to wear the new cardigan today - it's cool and rainy, the high today is only supposed to be in the 70s.

I'm wearing it over a black Empire waist jumper and white t-shirt (I couldn't get much more creative than that color-wise at 6 am; it was a bad night of sleeping for some reason). It still looks "bulky" on me, but whatever. I'm not going to worry about it. I'm just a "bulky" person by nature and I can't quickly or easily (or perhaps, even possibly, given my bone structure - I have a really wide rib cage and broad shoulders and it is NOT all fat and muscle) change that.

Still, I think in the future, all sweaters will be either shorter or longer than this one. I think the length (well, as well as the fluffiness of the yarn) contribute to the appearance of bulk.

I'm putting grades on an exam I gave. I saw one of my students yesterday at the wal-mart (she was cashier; that's one of the perhaps unfortunate bits of living in a smaller place; you tend to run into students at times when you'd rather not think about school). She asked me if I had graded the exams and if they were "terrible." (I had graded them but not totaled the grades).

I hate it when people say that before I've totaled up the grades.

And the exams are not GREAT. there are going to be some pretty disappointed people. But then again, there are a number of scores in the 80 percents and one 94, so it wasn't an impossible exam.

(I am still undecided on to what would be worse for one's evaluations: to give ridiculously easy exams and have the students score high, but think they are being patronized, or to give really tough exams that they don't do very well on (but hopefully some realize that the prof's high standards means that they think the students can do well on the tough exams)).

I tend to err on the side of toughness even though it makes grading somewhat painful.