I have this love/hate thing with finals week going on.  On the one hand, it’s really cool.  I get to see all the ass-busting my students have been putting in come together in what usually turns out to be a really cool final project.  On the other hand, this is when all the people who haven’t been turning in assignments for one reason or another come to me with a big stack of papers expecting me to grade them all in one shot.  On the one hand I give reasonable final critiques, sometimes going into a page or more of detail on each assignment.  On the other, I sometimes only have half the students turn in their final assignments at all.  The week is somewhere between really cool and really insane, there’s no real other way to put it.

I loooooooooove real peppermint.  It’s probably not *real* real, like you might’ve got 100 years ago (if you were rich) but the peppermint-flavored bulk-candy canes.  Skittles and Jelly Belly are making fruit-flavored candy canes now.  It’s just… *wrong* somehow.  My husband and I made an agreemenet a long time ago, that we were llowed to simply have the occasional random rule, there doesn’t have to be a good reason behind it.  I think mine’s going to be “Only real peppermint” this year.