So, I'm sitting in my armchair with my lapdesk across its arms, computer fired up, all ready to begin working, on essay revisions and grading.
But Youngest Cat has lain down across all my papers and gone to sleep, so I can't read anything to work on it.
I can type, though - hence the blogging.
How's everything with y'all?
I'm poking somewhat desultorily at my grading... being distracted by the web far too much. But I have to go in to campus shortly, department meeting, bleah.
Posted by: Doctor Moonbeam | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 10:56 AM
Hey, that's one of the best excuses I've heard yet.
Posted by: jo(e) | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 11:44 AM
I'm having a similar day, only my cat isn't sleeping. She wants to play fetch. Nonstop.
Posted by: Linda (FM) | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 11:50 AM
Definitely in avoidance mode. I completely forgot that I have to grade a set of comps (due tomorrow). I'm at the coffee shop and it just slipped my mind to stick them in my briefcase. Rats. You just can't imagine how upset that made me.
anbruch
Posted by: anbruch | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 11:59 AM
lol. yes, the cat is keeping you from grading.
Posted by: shadows | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 12:26 PM
Umm... well, I'm ending my sabbatical this semester, so I'm certainly not grading! But managing to avoid lots of other things, nonetheless.
Posted by: helenesch | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 12:41 PM
I think that's a perfectly good reason not to be able to grade.
Posted by: ppb | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 12:58 PM
Is this the professorial version of "the dog ate my homework?"
Yours in procrastination!
Posted by: kfluff | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 01:31 PM
I think I'll be writing a similar letter... though due to sheer laziness, not cat. Well, I guess I *could* blame it on the cat...
Posted by: amy | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 01:44 PM
So, a cat is snoozing on the paperwork and your stuck with nothing to do but blog... such a sorry state.
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Posted by: SnowWolf | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 01:49 PM
That's as good an excuse as any!
Posted by: yankee,transferred | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 02:16 PM
My grading is done, but only because it was due on Monday. Otherwise I'd be sitting on the couch, playing with the cat, avoiding things I need to do...
Oh, wait. I am sitting on the couch, playing with the cat, avoiding other things I need to do. *sigh*
Posted by: Terminal Degree | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 02:19 PM
Well, my desk is clean, and I'd like to either go to lunch or go to the gym. But seeing as how I have done no grading at all, except for the graduating seniors ...
Posted by: Another Damned Medievalist | Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 11:10 AM
So, basically, you were in a catatonic state? That seems like a good excuse to me!
Posted by: Bardiac | Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 12:36 PM
I'm staying away from the grading for today. I'm pretending that today is a writing day. Look how well I'm working on my dissertation, this very moment.
Does this comment count towards my word count for the day?
Posted by: Kate | Friday, December 15, 2006 at 09:27 AM
I think this is the most legitmate excuse I've heard in a long time.
Posted by: pi | Saturday, December 16, 2006 at 10:37 AM
Linda - Middle Cat used to fetch! She doesn't any more, because Youngest Cat gets in the middle. :-(
anbruch - yeah, you sound crushed. ;-)
Bardiac - hee hee hee hee hee hee hee. I feel like Henry VI.
Kate - I think you should definitely add the comment to your word count!
Posted by: New Kid on the Hallway | Monday, December 18, 2006 at 04:23 PM