The End of the Semester: A Numerical Journey

June 20th to July 4th: the last two weeks of second semester two thousand eight

Final exams supervised: 3
Number of students caught cheating: 0
Number of students actually cheating: I will seriously pay you like fifty bucks to find out.
Number of words graded: 67,850
Average grade: Not high enough to make grading sixty-eight thousand words fun
Number of colleagues who helped grade multiple choice questions: 4
Amount of gratitude felt: 6x10^17
Number of wooden models of the Eiffel Tower given to us by students as parting gifts: 1

Birthday parties attended: 3
Weight of gourmet teppanyaki eaten at Matt's second birthday party (including reindeer and amphibian): 1.22 metric tonnes
Tab for said birthday party: A very large amount of RMB
Amount we paid: 0 RMB, thanks to Awesome Stephen The Awesome Guy of Awesomeness
Number of times I won Stephen's weird German boardgame: 1. I'm the king of the WORLD!
Number of times Matt was wrongfully executed during Mafia because of the prophetic indications of flourescent lighting: 1

Suitcases carried: 11
Hugs given: 6
Weepy moments: almost 1
Hours spent moping around in an empty dormitory building: 6
Colleagues who permanently left for the U.S.: 3
Large pairs of shoes that that the new people will have to fill: 3

Eras ended: 1

Dave