12/11: reading

I often do a little grading while I'm proctoring students' final exams, but it can make me (more than usually) self-conscious to be sitting at the front of the class with my marking pen while students are taking a test that will soon be meeting said marking pen.  So after a bit of grading during today's Greek exam I decided to read a novel--John Green's new Turtles All the Way Down--on my iPad instead.  And it was good to be thinking a bit about metaphor and the body and the self.