In the last five minutes before the grading deadline falls, I shall

consider the unknowability of all other humans, for what they do as students is inexplicable to me, including

• attending class right until the very end, but nonetheless not turning in the one thing that will give them a passing grade
• not dropping the course even though they have long since stopped attending
• writing beautiful work--beautiful!--then disappearing, despite my plaintive entreaties to come back, come back--

and so on.

However, what I will not do in the last five minutes before the grading deadline is grade. Because I am finished.