Five on Friday: Life Updates Edition
WORK. My hard class is driving me crazy. My new favorite phrase is, I’m not going to work harder than you are, and it really sums up how I’m feeling...
Category: Work/Teaching
So close!
Just one more work day until the break. I keep catching myself thinking it’s the winter break. That is how late this feels for me. (Did you know 11/28 is ...
Trimester 1 Reflection
Tomorrow is the last day of the first trimester. My 8th graders have been struggling this year. I’m not sure if it’s because I have two classes, whi...
Five on Friday: Progress made
Conversation with husband We never did actually write out our ideal weeks, but we thought about them enough to have a productive conversation about what we each...
Seven on Sunday: Struggle Bug Edition
Well, the first week of October was not at all what I was hoping for. I wanted October to be chill and it was the opposite of that, both literally and metaphori...
Six on Saturday
Home: House is a mess again. I feel like, superficially, I’ve undone all the work I put in for our trip last February. I know that’s not true because the drawer...
Five on Friday: Nothing after the colon edition ;)
Has it really been a week? I guess it has. And I am struggling to get words down on this screen right now. That is probably why I haven’t come here in so ...
Ups and downs of late
Lots of ups and downs lately. Here are a few. Moving our old fridge downstairs to the unit’s kitchen was a massive pain in the ass. It was a disaster. I c...
How it went (work + refrigerator)
The first two days back at work, while managing the new fridge, have been… well you’ll see if you keep reading. Thursday On Thursday, I woke up before my first ...
June Decompression
Well it’s June. The month of May absolutely steam rolled me, and now I’m in that weird place where work isn’t so hard, but I still have to do ...