Yes, I should be sleeping. Had a pretty good day, marked a late paper (awful one too), collated my grades, posted them. Cleared away most of the papers and school stuff that have accumulated on our "dining room table" Ha! over the last 6 weeks. Worked on that until dinner, which CJ very kindly prepared.
Watched some surgery shows during and after dinner (maybe I should have been a physician, nothing grosses me out). Then I had the bright idea to check my e-mail.
Well, I got a scathing message from a disgruntled student who accused me of not caring about my students and just trying to trick them with my exam questions.
I was floored! I've NEVER once had such a complaint in 14 years of teaching. OF COURSE I couldn't just let it go.
I e-mailed her back with some stats to back me up. For example she scored 55% on her essay questions, while the class AVERAGE on them was 80%! (I gave them a week to prepare!)
Heck I even remarked her essays and gave the ungrateful b!tch 3 bonus marks (out of 20) for additional material that wasn't asked for in the question!
Oh but that wasn't enough for 'ol anxious shiny here, I then proceded to spend 3 hours writing up a 7-page summary of each multiple choice item she got wrong, with the correct answer AND the % of the rest of the class who DID get each one right. OY! I'm crazy for sure!
I haven't sent it to her yet, and might not. When in doubt, do nothing, right? Still it made me feel better to know that A LOT of the questions she got wrong were ones that 70-100% of the rest of the class answered correctly , clearly vindicating me of those "deliberate trickery" charges.
Oh, Geez SAM, can you imagine what kind of basket case I'd be if I were in your shoes right now? I'm really hopeless when it comes to criticism or accusations. I'm saying a little prayer for YOU right now, because this is NOTHING compared to your sitch.
Heck it's nothing compared to most people's problems.....
and just trying to trick them with my exam questions. 
