Last day, hooray!

So, last Saturdy was my last day at the worst place I ever taught. I will no longer be signing up to teach their classes. I did not get fired. In fact, they do not know that last Saturday was my last day. It doesn't really matter though; as far as I can figure, the person who was my boss left (stories vary as to causes and culpability) leaving a vaccuum so deep that it took my two emails to establish my next level up, and this person has had little to nothing to do with the program since its inception. It's like when a nuclear strike knocks out the entire chain of command and you have to answer questions like, "well what if the secretary of agriculture is dead too?"

In any case, my job did not immediately end. I still had to grade final papers. Some of which were okay, but a few of which had margins that were...hillarious. One person had a 3" margin at the bottom of her page, and a 2" margin at the top. One moron sent me her stuff electronically so that I could reformat it to the proper font size/margin size. Her paper turned out to be more than a page short. Mind you, this was the five page term paper for the class. Can you imagine the level of incompetence that you have to have to short change the only paper you have to write.

I tell you, theories about universal constants are becoming more and more appealing to me. Statements like, "there's only so much love in the world," etc.. In a very practical way, once you've decided that everyone deserves an education, you have to accept that what you, at least partially saying, is that illiterate moron con artists should get college degrees just like everyone else. There's only so much education in this country. That last job was evidence of what happens when you spread it a bit too thin.