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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 ...

I’ve started three posts this week. None of them made it past a few sentences. I feel like I can’t get my brain to stop whirring. I’m all over...

It was a loooong week. It felt even longer. The first three days with students went well, but each one required an incredible amount of effort. Just so. Much. E...

Well, I did it. I survived the first day of school. And it was fine! Imagine that. It was a short day and each period was abbreviated. 35 minutes goes by really...

{Um… I just published this on my old blog because I wasn’t looking carefully in my app when I started. For f*ck’s sake…} Getting up at 6am in rough y’all. I am ...