Month: October 2022

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...