Set an alarm for 4 a.m….

Set an alarm for 4 a.m. so I could finish grading papers before class today; I'd promised the students they'd have them back. Don't have too much sympathy for me; I could've finished the papers after putting the kids down last night, but somehow I got obsessed with cleaning out my disaster of a mudroom (stacked waist high with cardboard boxes needing recycling and almost impassable) instead. Ah, grading. The key to a clean house.