Rewarding rewording

In writing class this morning, we workshopped a chapter from each person's novel. That took an hour and a half. Once at work, I had an appointment with a student to check half of his final thesis that needed to be rewritten due to quotation and citation errors. That took almost three hours, with a short break in the middle. Finally, an unscheduled student came in and asked me to look at her thesis before she handed it in. That brief structural edit took half an hour. By the time I got home, my brain was off, and my eyes felt sore and probably crossed. It was all I could do to feed myself and stumble into bed (after typing this, of course). I'll sleep well tonight after such an exhausting, yet rewarding, day.