Sigh

Also, as my district keeps publicly hounding teachers taking their contractual sick time, it really lowers morale and makes me perversely more ok with taking time off. At a PD they called out all of the (mostly male) teachers who had perfect attendance. What is that about?

Maybe also a shift in how people perceive their value. Meaning there is less compelling reason to force myself to go to work when sick once I realized, during the pandemic, that the public was fine with me sacrificing myself?

Having a teenager means looking in the pantry for the thing you want to eat and finding it completely and totally gone.

This is such a good practice. I usually do one think aloud writing on each FRQ in the fall. And I write a different essay for each class. It's humbling!

I've been watching it on my smart board via CSPAN in class.

California Public School Teachers: Did you all know that Calstrs holds 4,654,497 shares of Tesla stock? Maybe it's time our pension divests from Tesla. www.calstrs.com/portfolio-ho...

And to add…. Watching the show does make me want to have really nice knives but no crudités. Like I don’t want to hang out with Meghan but I do want her to live her very best beige life.

Watching With Love, Meghan. I'm not a Duchess of Sussex stan, but I also think the extreme racism to which she is subjected is awful. This show is a very beige, and I recognize this isn't a real critique. It's perfect to fold laundry to, to grade papers to. It fills my GBBO lane.

This was a whole (warped and disgusting) theory they had about COVID too.

Thank you for understanding

Yes

This made me smile!

Hey HS students: when talking about the 90’s calling it “the late 1900’s” and “turn of the century” are acts of violence.

New sweatshirt arrived from Canada today. Just in time to avoid massive tariffs.

No insulation in houses?

Saw Ani Difranco at the Belleweather. She’s still entrancing to see live even when I don’t know any songs post 2002. Sounds great!

Schools are gearing up for ICE raids. These were just delivered to my classroom. How is this only day 4? Why does the GOP hate so many people?

so true

2025 is too big of an ask. Survive January?

Here’s the paywall-free version: archive.is/HJtxW

The link in the first comment works not the one in the post. Altadena has a vibrant Black community that needs to be uplifted and supported.

Reply all is the gift that keeps giving.

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I love this poem so much. One of my all time faves

So gorgeous!

Pesto?

We are getting a new garage door. Neighbors have an HVAC company out

2024 First Quarter Supply Chain Risk Trends Analysis CargoNet reports 925 supply chain risk events across the United States and Canada in Q1 2024.

Or, you know, much of the retail theft that is profitable is large scale before it arrives at stores: www.cargonet.com/news-and-eve...

Thinking about John Hughes movies. Maybe the reason GenX is horrible is we were raised on the idea of countercultural outsider cool kid who was willing to give it up to be with a rich kid? The class politics were always meh. Not to mention the racism and misogyny and weird conservatism.