Thanks BOW HNT, but I'll correct the "are" to "were", if you don't mind!

Teaching composition is a very time-consuming and mentally draining profession -- albeit rewarding. Outside of class time, I bet I put in another three or four hours every night reading students' writings -- and that didn't include prep time for the next time my students and I met. Most good comp teachers today also conference one-on-one a extensively (I set aside a week per semester to do it), and will make more annotative and marginal comments than the students will write in the body of their text.

And, to top it all off, every semester our composition department would have to deal with an influx of papers about people having "out-of-body experiences," where they were connected by a "thin, silvery thread" while in dream mode or some hogwash like that. Talk about being hard not to remain biased! Can you imagine writing, "How did you FEEL when you floated up above your body and looked down at it?"

Discipline -- not desire -- determines destiny.