Education, Zombies and a lazy Sunday

So I had what I guess you would call a filmic dream last night; it was all about zombies. Let me just say that I am deathly afraid of zombies, but I love zombie movies. I watch them even though I shouldn't. Anyway, we were attacked by zombies, I helped to fight, we went under ground, the world was pretty much wiped out except for a few survivors, and well, we were commissioned (by we I mean the human race) by aliens wanting us to help them fighting their zombies, also known as "the forgotten ones" and then we are wisked away on their space ship to fight the zombie epidemic. It was a very strange dream and I have no idea what it might mean. I should really stop watching those scary movies. And of course, that was the abridged version of the dream.

Anyway, today was spent sleeping in, and grading papers. It's actually quite stressful to grade papers you see, since the state of education in this state is quite upsetting. Many of my kids can't write sentences and I don't know if it's just because they're lazy or don't want to apply themselves or what; I know when I push them they are so resistant; they're completely complicent in doing the same thing over and over and never learning anything new. They just want to get a grade and move on, but they don't want to apply themselves. I'm not sure about the NC education system, but it's on my list to do research on this. I'm not sure how to remedy the situation; what am I supposed to do as an educator? How am I going to teach them all they need to know in a semester when they haven't learned how to write a paragraph? A sentence? Sadly, a verb? A noun? Ah. I'm glad I'm going into the Ph.D program at UNCG in Education b/c I'll get to study fabulous things like curriculum and policy, and perhaps I'll change the system so it's not designed to produce bored conformist drones who don't want to learn anything.

Anyway, I had to grade, and I went for a bike ride, and I love Sundays: there's something about Sundays that is relaxing and makes you just want to nap.

I should write more, but I'm being distracted by Partner watching "Family Guy" and I really should be writing up my response paper for my class; right now, there is a song describing the procedure of a vasectomy on the show. Needless to say, it's very distracting. I really should be writing more quality writing on this blog. GRrrrr, arrrrgghh.