Grading in the Wee, Small Hours of the Morning

I have been up for hours, literally hours, grading. Two of my four online classes are finished, so I decided to get the grading done, since I couldn't fall back asleep after I woke up at 1:30. So, I graded the final research essays, did some checking to make sure that I hadn't overlooked anything in the gradebook, and submitted final grades. Submitting final grades isn't automatic. I have to toggle between 2 tabs and enter in each grade. But I now have submitted final grades for 2 of 4 online classes.Am I caught up with grading? Goodness gracious no. It's the time of year when I won't really be done for another week and a half. Papers are coming in, day and night. But it does feel good to make progress.Let me also remember that I continue to try to capture poem ideas. Some have been in my head for months: every time I see a tattoo, I think of a colleague who had a tattoo of a tomato plant on his arm, and I've been trying to capture that tattoo and give it a deeper meaning. One idea…