"Loved the opium."

21 January 2016: This post's title comes from one of my student course evaluations from last semester. Evaluations are problematic assessment tools for so many reasons, but for now, they are what we've got at Shepherd. My are never problematic (again, not patting myself on the back--they are flawed mechanisms of evaluation), but I still have some butterflies in the stomach each time they arrive in my mailbox. Silly, I know. Anyway, this time they were completely in line with what they always are, if a bit funnier than usual. My favorite line came from a student in my Victorian Lit. seminar, the line in the post's title. Lots of opium in Victorian Lit., after all. Made me laugh out loud.