This is it.

The beginning of the end of semester.  Twelve or thirteen out of forty students have turned in their papers so far (due at midnight tonight), and I've granted one extension for excruciatingly embarrassing extenuating circumstances.  So, I'm getting started with grading now.  Hopefully, I can be done with all but the one to whom I granted an extension by Wednesday, so that I can be able to turn in grades by Monday.