I have greatly underestimated the amount of times I was going to hear "6-7" in my classroom this year...

It's hard not to think you're getting old when you have three former middle school students sitting next to you at a professional development session. Great humans. Incredible teachers.

I finally did it! I made it on ESPN!

Once upon a time, I would've hoped it would've been for some athletic feat (unofficially Nebraska high school football's all-time leading Asian-born rusher or best looking triple jumper), but I'll take what I can get. ☺️

Great Nebraska basketball team or greatest Nebraska basketball team??

We think it’s a rite of passage to one day reminisce about all the things we’ve accumulated over the years.

Back home, going through my old stuff. My son doesn’t understand how awesome he’d be if he brought this back to the city.

A student made these cutting boards "with your name in Ariel font." Another student said, "No! Use comic sans!" My hatred for comic sans is well documented. While this is one of the coolest student Xmas gifts and objectively hilarious, a burning white hatred will seethe through me when I use it.

Finishing up the semester, but still doing activities relevant to the curriculum. Students describe how to draw an object to their partner without the partner seeing the drawing. They also can’t watch what the other is drawing. Love the conversations after the reveal.

A haiku:

My wife wants a cat.
I’m against the idea.
But it won’t matter…

Today in class, we were talking about movies.
Student: "What about Clue?"
Me: *eyes widen "You know Clue?!"
Five friends all light up: "We watched it this weekend at her birthday. We love it!"

There might be hope for this generation after all.

Looks like a Telestrations kinda night.

There's new Google Slide themes!

...that's what I have to be excited about nowadays...