My current grading pen has run out of ink. It hasn’t lasted very long, but it’s the price I pay for liking the liquidy ink kind of pen. They never last very long. I think I started using this current pen shortly after Christmas. I was excited because I got it on sale: twenty multi-colored pens for $10. I don’t mind that it’s gone dry. It gives me a reason to break into the multi-pack and start using a new color.
I don’t really have a signature grading color, so I have a rainbow of colors to choose from. The pen that I’m retiring is orange. As I looked at possible replacements, it became obvious which color I should choose: pink. I don’t know why, but I really like pink and orange together. I almost seem to get physical pleasure out of seeing the two colors side-by-side. So now I’ll really enjoy the paper I record grades on. The first half of fourth quarter is in orange, and the second half will be in pink.
Mmmm…. throw in some yellow and red and it looks like you just broke into a package of Starbursts. (Only keep the yellows, because I don’t care for those.)
You should write one letter in pink and the next in orange (and so forth). That would really make you happy. Maybe you could get some mad scientist to make a pen that switches between pink and orange as you move from letter to letter?
I like the mad scientist idea. Too bad Leo only does computer-sciencey stuff.
Why don’t you make your students do their work in organge & pink ink…then you’d look forward to grading!!!
This color scheme makes me wonder if in a previous life you worked in the original Denny’s restaurants (before they became the diners, which are far inferior IMHO)…or perhaps a House of Pies – does Nebraska have those? I think they became Baker’s Square or were replaced by them, but they too used to have booths, etc., in the oh-so-appealing (?) orange-pink theme. Apparently, you’d have been tremendously happy eating or working there, Brad!
–she who is tremendously happy because she is typing this from home again at last. The great god, Verizon, has seen fit to grant us at least a few seconds of dial tone phone line service this evening. Oh, happy day!