Laboratory Practical Exam For Students & For Me?

Yesterday was the last Laboratory Practical Exam of my course this semester.  It was composed of 100 questions of anatomical structures of tissues, models, histology, specimens, etc of the human body for systems covered in this second half of the semester. It focused primarily on anatomy of the cardiovascular, vascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary and reproductive architecture.  Students had to sit at a seat in the 25 seat laboratory, and answer their station's 4 questions by writing out the PRECISE anatomical structures shown within a 2 minute time frame.  Then everyone enmasse would move to the next station to their left and answer another 4 questions in a 2 minute time frame.  This continued until each student was able to view each of the 25 stations one time and write out their responses in the 100 line answer sheet I provided to them for this purpose. 

Now, I will grade these exams today.

Tomorrow will be their 100 question, comprehensive Lecture Final Examination from across all subjects we talked about this semester.  

I will hopefully grade the comprehensive final examination on Friday.  

I will likely take my research lab's laptop computer home this weekend so I can "number crunch" with hope of finalizing grades perhaps on Saturday.  I hope to submit final course grades on Monday.

I need to take the research lab's laptop home, because setting up my new computer system is still a work in progress.  I have made SOME progress..... I have cleaned my desk, cleaned much of my den..... spending perhaps more time than necessary tidying up and organizing pouches of pipe tobacco, and dusting off and polishing the pipe racks in there.  The den DOES look wonderfully clean and tidy at the moment.  I also have ALL the components of the new system in place..... I am a little concerned that I still will not LIKE having two seperate monitors (my wife insisted I get them and insists I WILL like them)....... but the two smallest monitors I could get still take up an awful damn lot of real estate on my desk..... and seem.... I do not know how else to describe it.... other than...... "distracting".  The printer is in place, the big computer "box" is in place, the keyboard and mouse are in place.  

BUT.... THREE horrible things remain:

1.  Hooking up all the damn wires to all the gizmos.  I am bound and determined that THIS TIME, I will be very cognizant of trying to the very best of my ability to organize all these damn squiggly, wormy wires into something that looks at least a bit more tidy with ample use of "Zip ties".

2.  Turning ON the beast, and downloading all the damn programs into its guts.... and then adding all the appropriate passwords and other bullsh*t that I likely will have to either a) create, b) remember from before, or c) locate in some book I recorded (some) into long, long ago.... that I hope I can find.

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3.  What I have also convinced myself I MUST (SHOULD) do..... is to REWRITE each and every damnable password for each and every damable program, Wifi connection, etc into a NEW BOOK and then putting that book somewhere logical.

I am a bit fearful that I will get frustrated as hell at #1 above.... and be in a crabby mood all day.  Or.....I am also a bit fearful that I will get frustrated as hell at #2 above...... and be in a crabby mood all day.  Or..... I will get frustrated as hell at #3 above..... and be in a crabby mood all day.  

If past experiences are any indication of future events, I suspect there is roughly a ~90% chance that one, two, or all three of the preceding paragraph's worries may happen.  That is why I have progressed with the speed of pouring of frozen molasses on the computer situation.  I really am not wanting to feel that almost inevitable frustration.  I believe I will feel I am taking my own form of Laboratory Practical Exam setting up the damn electronica.

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