I have sat here before computer monitors all day, checking student references for instances of borderline plagiarism. Once in a while, the writing is too good, the voice too smooth, the thinking too precise, and the "damn-I-wish-I-thoughta-that" reflex becomes too active in me -- those are the signals to me that I should be checking closely. But I am burning out. These few remaining papers might unfairly receive more of the benefit of the doubt than they deserve. So be it.

Students are finishing finals at KSU and departing for the Christmas holiday. The streets are nearly empty again.

I drove slowly past the Optimist Club Christmas tree lot today, and noticed that the inventory is down this year. Or maybe purchasing and forecasted sales have been better aligned this year.

And here we are without a tree yet.

Catherine of Naked Eye once again provides links I would like to read. One is local, so local I could walk to it in fifteen minutes. The Writer's Bi-Monthly contains an article entitled "Understanding What A Story Is" by Bill Johnson.

The second link that caught my eye in her weblog today is writing about Kansas. I'm not sure its writer is currently in Kansas, but I'll check the journal on another day. The Naked Eye link singles out this entry in the journal Perspective

More meta than Bob-a today, I think.