{"id":573898944,"date":"2026-04-29T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898944"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:14:42","slug":"assessing-what-needs-essing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/04\/29\/assessing-what-needs-essing\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing what needs essing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With classes winding down I have less prep to do tonight than I have all semester. With classes winding down, however, I have more grading to do than any mortal man or woman should be asked to deal with. <\/p>\n<p>Late in every semester I make the mistake of counting up how many things there are left to grade. At the start of this week I had 197 things ahead of me. Forty-eight of those things are extremely time-sensitive, so guess what I&#8217;ve been doing!<\/p>\n<p>Guess who has been no help! Phoebe has taken over the remote control. It&#8217;s birds and aquariums from here on in. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr26\/apr39.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Poseidon, for his part, is just sitting on papers because you don&#8217;t need all the papers to get your work done. And that&#8217;s true enough. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/apr26\/apr40.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The kitties are doing great. They just need more pets and treats.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerwildatlanticway.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living in the happy memories of our wonderful Irish vacation. So, I&#8217;m sharing extra videos that we didn&#8217;t get to at the time. It was a great vacation. I have a lot of footage. This will go on for some time. Enjoy it with me, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xaarmeu\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This footage comes from the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/03\/18\/downpatrick-head\/\">amazing, beautiful, Downpatrick Head<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With classes winding down I have less prep to do tonight than I have all semester. With classes winding down, however, I have more grading to do than any mortal man or woman should be asked to deal with. Late in every semester I make the mistake of counting up how many things there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,6,10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-memories","category-photo","category-video","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573898944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898945,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898944\/revisions\/573898945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}