what a week

it's 2am

i just finished entering calc exam grades into my gradebook.... one of my sections is getting increasingly bipolar. there's a really good number of kids acing stuff, or at least doing reasonable well, a fair number whose scores keep going down, and not a lot in the middle. so the average is still respectable, but i don't know how to better encourage the lower score group. i want them ALL to do well, but i can't make them come in for help... oi. grading in the other sections is a bit different. sure scores are scattered... but they're not quite so distributed in two relatively disjoint groups. oi...

my brother is asleep on the couch. he got here well after midnight, closer to 12:30/1am. he's changed shape a lot in the past 6 months. more buff in the shoulders and arms from the work he does, but more of a gut too. it's just funny because i'm used to thinking of him as "baby brother" even though he's very much not a baby anymore and is much bigger than me anymore.

now that exam mania is done, tomorrow i'm free to have some fun. brother and i are thinking to go to the aquarium in newark. i've never been there. it was remodled and reopened under new management just earlier this year. we'll see how good it is and report back tomorrow. :P

now, to finally crash.

later dudes.