Month: September 2022

And… my daughter has lice. Talk about a pre-pandemic throw back! I almost forgot about lice! But lice did not forget about us. We realized around 7:30pm. ...

I’m sorry I’ve been AWOL. Things have been busy, both at work and at home, and I’ve been struggling to show up here. I feel, simultaneously, that I have too muc...

*I put OK Computer on the other day and my kids said it sounded like elevator music. I wish they played Radiohead in elevators! And I wish my kids were willing ...

I swear I was going to write this post before SHU put hers up. It does help to know I’m not the only one! I also have a couple other complications that ar...

I didn’t mean to be gone for a week! Shit got busy! Remember how I was so happy to have nothing to do last weekend? Well, I invited my friends and their d...

I’m thankful that today is supposed to be “much cooler” than yesterday, when it again hit 101* at work and 92* in my classroom. They keep sayi...

It wasn’t so hot yesterday. And it was a minimum day so I didn’t have students during the hottest hours. It all offered a little relief, which I wel...

It was 106* when I left work yesterday. 96* in my classroom. The two classes after lunch were rough. I have 33 kids in my 6th period. We were packed in like sar...

Oh boy was it hot yesterday! So, so hot! And we were in the city, where it was less hot than ANYWHERE else in the Bay Area. We are very lucky that we have a dow...

It’s been a really good weekend. Just what I needed. Saturday I took the kids to the water park at Great America. It was definitely crowded, but they got ...