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Month: October 2022

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Why am I so fixated on keeping things “fair” in my marriage?

Posted on October 31, 2022 by noemikjames / 10 Comments

I’ve been struggling to show up at martial arts lately. Part of the reason is that really I should be training for my next test, but when I think of how m...

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Friday, again

Posted on October 28, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

Well, it’s Friday. Again. I have an okay day planned at work. The stations I had planned actually went well and most of the kids got the two big things done, so...

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An okay day

Posted on October 26, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

Yesterday was a weird day. My mom responded to an announcement with totally unexpected vitriol. I wasn’t sure if I should be upset at how much my feelings were ...

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Ready to put October behind me

Posted on October 24, 2022 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

October 2022 has not been my month. The first week was the roughest parent conference role out my school has seen. The next week I was grieving the cat I’ve had...

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Why is everything so hard right now?

Posted on October 17, 2022 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

This fall has been a tough one. Everything feels really hard. At the very least, everything is taking a lot of time. I’m bringing work home now, almost ev...

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Not doing well

Posted on October 15, 2022 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

I was already in a pretty deep hole after Conferences week, and then my cat died. Now I’m pretty much buried in this hole. The next couple of weeks are no...

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Devastated

Posted on October 11, 2022 by noemikjames / 5 Comments

We had to put down our cat yesterday. It felt sudden, though in retrospect it shouldn’t have been. Looking back the signs were all there, I guess we just didn’t...

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Stress Hangover

Posted on October 8, 2022 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Thank god it’s the weekend. I finished conferences at 3:30pm yesterday, then assisted at the dojo, and finally graded two class’s worth of projects ...

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This week has sucked

Posted on October 7, 2022 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

You know when you are sure something is going to be unpleasant, but you try to talk yourself into a better attitude about it, and then it comes and it’s e...

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When sleep is elusive

Posted on October 4, 2022 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

I couldn’t sleep last night. I went to bed at 10:30 and read until 11pm, but at 1am I was still up. I feel sleep at some point in the next hour I think, but ref...

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