Author: noemikjames

Okay, let’s get this post up! I wrote most of it over 10 days ago (the Monday of my kids’ spring break), so I might as well finish it up and put it ...

Hey all. Sorry to be gone again for so long. In all honestly I am REALLY struggling to show up here right now. I’m not sure what it is. When I think about...

Conference The conference in Palm Springs was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the time with my colleagues, many of whom I didn’t know well before the trip (we teach on ...

Um, has it really been almost two weeks since I posted!? I did NOT realize it had been that long. But honestly, things have been so crazy that I’m not really su...

Two cancellations in two weeks. I mentioned in a past post (I’m not sure which one) that I was really looking forward to a Spring Break trip to LA to visi...

Three posts in three days!? I’m as shocked as you are! Expect the unexpected in the big 2-6! Now on to the third post (a monthly goal post no less! I̵...

February was kind of a rough month, but the FIGs Collective absolutely made it better. Finding my own FJIGs, and reading about other people’s FIGS, defini...

*TS PMO = this shit pisses me off. I put a space between the S and P because when my daughter says it (which is constantly) she pauses after the S and it’...

I forgot to link to the wonderful Elizabeth in last week’s FJIGS post, and she is the one who makes this happen every February so not linking to her is NO...

UESF Strike We got an email last Friday morning that the UESF union and district had reached a tentative agreement. After a week out of school, our kids were ba...