Author: noemikjames

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...

This post barely makes any sense, but there are some photos if you keep reading. You’ve been warned. It’s officially October. I like October. I like...

And… my daughter has lice. Talk about a pre-pandemic throw back! I almost forgot about lice! But lice did not forget about us. We realized around 7:30pm. ...

I’m sorry I’ve been AWOL. Things have been busy, both at work and at home, and I’ve been struggling to show up here. I feel, simultaneously, that I have too muc...

*I put OK Computer on the other day and my kids said it sounded like elevator music. I wish they played Radiohead in elevators! And I wish my kids were willing ...

I swear I was going to write this post before SHU put hers up. It does help to know I’m not the only one! I also have a couple other complications that ar...

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...