Currently TMNT By Patrick Stewart, Mako, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurence Fishburne see related

Wednesday was the final Final.  Just another turn-in, but the deadline needed to be met.  Once the final paper came in, I sat in my office until the early evening grading.  Grading and grading and grading until it was done, and I was finished.  Ah, it felt good.

Then the complaints of the semester grades started pouring in.  I agree you shouldn't have made a B; you shouldn't have turned in bad papers all semester and tried to patch everything together in the last two weeks.  You tried really hard... since the fifth of May.

I treated Thursday as an experimental "Day Off", not doing anything of too great merit.  It seems those days are good for purchases, but little else, so I don't think they're for me.  Instead, I'm going to watch more cartoons.  Anyway, John and I hit the Diner again (mmmmmm!), soaked up some Harvey Birdman, and I bought me a new digital camera, as my old one is approaching six years old.  The newbie is five times more powerful and much more pocketable.

When the sun set, I figured my day off needed to end, so I went to campus and cleaned out my office.  They're making us move out, so all that work stealing a desk may be for naught.  Eh, maybe I'll end up with something even better.  I also sorted through the semester's worth of papers that I'd stacked rather than filed.  Filing until one in the morning is strangely satisfying.  It makes my OCD tingle.

Even more satisfying was finishing up Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.  By the end, they were throwing galaxies at each other.  Whole galaxies!  Now that's a mecha.  Even beyond the fight scenes (which my comp couldn't even run, just froze, so I had to resort to streaming online), the show made me think about sheer human will.  If you really, truly set yourself to something, something beyond all else, just how much you can accomplish.  Further, the enemies brought up good points.  Peace vs. growth is a major question.  Growth is harder, but easiest is rarely best.

Friday I had one last meeting for Freshman Seminars, and then the semester was over.  As with my tradition since 2002, I listened to Alice Cooper's "School's Out for Summer" on repeat and decompressed.  Good times.  I watched the season finales of Earl and Office, and Spring was officially done for me.  Time for summer, time for a change, so I'm out of here.  First up, road trip to California.  Next up, sci-fi con and history lessons.  Then, a few months in Europe.  Can't argue with that.

So, last night was a good late night hanging out in Norman for the final bit in a while.  We ate at Cheddar's (remarkably inexpensive, but best of all was the vertically rotating ceiling fan), goofed around the Triangle House, and watched the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.  It was very cool, even though they made April anorexic.  Mako was and is awesome.

Now, time to hit the road.