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187days · 2 years

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Day Forty-Six

My school has a big career-tech center with, among other things, an award-winning culinary program. The students run a cafe, under the direction of Chef A, and teachers can take food to go three days a week. Today I didn’t bring my own lunch, so I grabbed salad, homemade french onion soup, cheesy bread, and a slice of cake. All of it was delicious, and much-needed fuel for a busy day.

Note to pre-service teachers: ask about programs like those when you interview at various schools. They’re nice to have, for both students and staff.

So why was today busy?

I had a lot to cover in APGOV: Fed. 78, Marbury v. Madison and judicial review, the structure of the modern court system. Then I assigned a group project on various SCOTUS cases (I’d love to do Court Madness again, but with the course being a semester long now it’s a bit too time-consuming, so I’m doing this instead) and gave students the last half hour or so to begin working on that.

Essay rough drafts were due today in World, so I spent the bulk of both blocks proofreading, fielding questions, giving pointers. I am really pleased with how it’s going, though. It’s a challenging assignment, and I imposed a tight deadline for it because I’d noticed when they did current events write-ups that most of them finished with a lot of time to spare. I gave them two and a half blocks for this essay instead of the originally-planned three and a half, and they were able to adjust and manage their time successfully. It helps that they came in with noticeably stronger writing skills than last year’s freshman, so I didn’t have to teach as much upfront about essay writing. I do have to help individuals here and there, but overall? This is awesome.

Since the quarter’s ending, I have a bunch of students in to retake or make-up work during flex block, which kept me on my toes. I’m glad so many opted to make use of that time, though. It’s especially great to see freshmen who are close to making the high honor roll put in the effort to earn those last few points, especially if they’re students who struggled academically in the past. It’s amazing how different middle and high school can be for some kids.

I also had a handful of students stay after because they were doing things for other classes during flex. Dean 1 stopped by while one of the seniors was making up an APGOV test, and the look he gave to those FRQ questions was pretty great (I suspect my student may have been feeling the same way about them). He was there to talk about his recent visit to my class, and apologize for not having his written feedback done; long story short, there have been some Incidents that have occupied his time.

Another thing that’s happening: unusually high absence rates. There’s no one cause- like, we’re not having a Covid outbreak- but several different ones. Some families are taking trips, some kids are sick, there’ve been an odd number of injuries (broken bones, concussions, etc...) It’s bad timing since the quarter is ending on Friday, but it is what it is.

#teaching #teachblr #edublr #educhums #education #teacher #high school #social studies #day forty six #Dean 1 #holla at the career tech department

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arctic-hands · 4 months

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I have joined the society of bluetooth earphones

#refurbished for the record #i have been dragged kicking and screaming into the future #my phone doesn't have a headphone jack. my mp3 player does but it also has bluetooth capability. my ereader only has bluetooth for audio #so I figure since I'm going on the eclipse trip in a few months I should get some wireless buds for the train #went with some used skullcandy sesh because they were like twenty-two dollars had had a twenty hour battery life #I ALMOST went with some used Hesh headphones that looked really cool and had fifteen hours but were also forty-nine dollars #which combined with the other things I needed to buy would have put me thirteen dollars over my seventy-five dollar walmart giftcard #I was very tempted if just for the aesthetique~ but realized if I bought the cheaper earbuds I could have enough money for some instax film #and the cheaper earbuds and 2 pack of film plus the household objects I needed put me at a tidy seventy-four dollars and fifty-six cents #so I didn't have to spend any actual money on anything woot woot #the earbuds are blue. which is my favorite color. but they're like a pastel blue. which is like my least favorite shade of blue #ah well I'll sacrifice looks for function and affordability any day #*stares in slight dismay at hideously pink refurbished and thirty dollar instax mini 9*#what I REALLY wanted was some of those urbanista solar-powered headphones/earbuds #but even used/refurbished both were out of the total price range of the gift card(s)#I actually had two giftcards which together totaled seventy-five so that was pretty sweet

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lesmiserablol · 1 year

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i can’t believe i’m seeing les mis three times next month. insane behavior.

#28 DAYSSSSS #i haven’t listened to any les mis song in ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX DAYS. how do people live like this.#i’m on the verge of combusting #my best financial decision? no. but the best decision for my mental health? also no #jk this will absolutely fix me #also wait im seeing exr on stage during pride month….

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animefan-2013 · 4 months

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I am like....so fuckin dead inside......I wish I could just stop working & stop worrying about things.......

#dark thoughts #empty #dead inside #gloomy #dark #darkness #gloomy aesthetic #traumacore #depression #anime #school days #katsura kotonoha #instupendo #six forty seven

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 1 year

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i think it would be nice to, just once, have the luxury of saying “nope! going back to bed now!” and simply not dealing with anything

#tire’s completely flat!#medication that used to cost six dollars now costs forty nine!#i have to wash every dish in my house bc my sister and i have radically different ideas of what is a clean dish!#i have four days of regular life shit to catch up on!#and if i don’t do these things they will not get done!!!#also still in a significant amount of pain but out #out of Percocet!#will i be washing every dish in my house today? no #but it is infuriating to have to wash something before i use it esp when im still very wobbly #not doing well folks!!!!!!

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july-19th-club · 1 year

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the last book grandma ever read was agatha christie's "murder on the orient express," which was also the first book my mother remembers getting from her as a gift and not a hand-me-down from her siblings.

one of her favorite 'isms' was 'all things in moderation,' but she also had a plaque in the kitchen when my aunts were growing up that read "you have to kiss a lot of horny toads before you find a prince" and another tchotchke that featured a cherub swinging on a length of twine that said "when you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and HANG ON." like every nonna on earth before her, she ushered us to dinner with a "mangia" - which was also what it said on her favorite apron.

the last picture taken of her was her first picture with her great-granddaughter ellie, who's two months old and named after her. it was the first and only time they met.

#talked to mom for the first time since #i guess she was going to get the mail (she was ALWAYS going to get the mail even when there was no mail. bc dementia)#and everyone always figured that was her best way to get a little exercise #but she fell on the sidewalk. broke an arm and had a lot of injuries to her face . and probably chest? i dont know #but she just. it happened on tuesday and forty-eight hours later she was dead #and this is the first time i realized how bad pappy's dementia is because apparently. he keeps forgetting it happened #and assumes she's coming back to the house. calling hours and wake are monday funeral's tuesday #and my aunt still wants to celebrate pappy's birthday (wednesday) and a couple other birthdays on saturday #because she figures we'll all need a celebration #but i have no idea how we're gonna do ALL that and not lose our minds/get sick/something #still. we Always celebrate pappy and colleen and emmett's birthdays that week #just like we celebrate the december birthdays the day after christmas. which was grandma's #and we celebrate the july birthdays the week of mine because there's like six birthdays then #so . here we fuckin go i guess

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unproduciblesmackdown · 1 year

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i went through this account’s handful of videos from this show, and i’m pretty confident that’s will roland, next to harrison chad as quince, despite the view being mostly obstructed from the angle this whole time. he’s Most Visible for a moment at the very end lol. since the costuming is just a buttonup and tie w/no especial “it’s This character, or Any character” cues, i’ll guess he’s “will roland” at this point, though that doesn’t mean he wasn’t appearing in some other capacity earlier. every pre-2018 xmas wrole cited in that tweet has been accounted for, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been some of those characters more than once, as is definitely true for uncle peenie appearances

#the sixth annual show....twenty thirteen....don't know of any more specific info abt this one. like ''oh xyz pic is from then''#i think the third annual show in twenty ten was Probably his first one / the year of peter the coffee kid but that's still technically #an informed guess as it were lol....and evidently he was in the next yr's show as the christmas burgler / also just [ensemble]#but atm so far as i know regarding definite Dates / the Year; there's only this b/w that & the twenty fifteen 8th annual show there #wherein he was uncle peenie / virgin mary dancer / belly button puppet show puppeteer / will roland At Least #was like hmm twenty twelve/thirteen was The Black Suits times; would he have been able to make it...#but the fact that harrison chad does appear to be there suggests it was entirely plausible for anyone else in the cast to be #what with him playing brandon....and lo & behold does seem to be william next to him there #but yeah can't even speculate ''is This the show in which he played [role listed as having been played but hasn't been seen elsewhere]??''#b/c they've all been seen elsewhere at least the once #the other videos are mostly like twenty or thirty or six second increments of mostly the mister chestnut number & like one other full song #but there was like a forty second recording of Virgin Mary Ft. Her Dancers & i was like god can you imagine. i'll lose it.#by which one means be Head In Hands like keeling over a bit. but none of them was him lmao so [oh lord. imagine] averted beyond that #joe iconis christmas extravaganza #will roland #glad there's a more visible glimpse right at the end but my watching it all prior like Okay Come On Now lmfao #i mean at least it was evident most of the way that there was even a person there to go ''oh huh that could be him'' about #just still thinking about the ''mike wazowski'd but for the viewer / listener looking / listening for him'' experience from the other day #npr affiliate station ep abt gtm:pota that at least cited every oscr cast member by name w/the sole exception of will lmao. cmon #billions wide group shot showing everyone's face except whoops winston in the corner blocked by the group of extras. pointing #but w/these glimpses it's like; hey; it's Anything which is impressive; it's identifiable Enough; also hardly guaranteed. i'll take it

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princeofyorkshire · 2 years

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currently watching an almost 9 hour video by some guy explaining the entire term which is basically +100 years of argentinian history. if i don’t pass this exam i will be joining all these dead dudes i’m learning about <3

#i’ve already watched six hours ☠️☠️ two hours forty five minutes to go!#it’s next friday so i have time but it’s too much info + i have another final that day girlies idk if i’ll make it this time 😍#god i just wanna do Nothing for 3 weeks i can’t wait till july 22nd at like 2 pm when i’ll finally be Free no matter how i did on my exams #well that’s a lie cause i really don’t wanna know what i’ll do if i don’t pass 💋#effie’s journal

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artisticdivasworld · 1 day

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Rollin’ Down the Highway: The Ultimate Trucking Playlist

We all know that long hauls can get pretty monotonous, and sometimes you need a little pick-me-up to keep those wheels turning and your spirits high. That’s where a killer playlist comes in handy. Let’s see what some of the top trucking tunes are a “must-have” for any trucker’s playlist. These songs aren’t just about the open road; they’re about the heart and soul of the trucking life. 1. “On…

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alana-celeste-luna · 4 days

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30 days music challenge: DAY 3

30 days music challenge

- Day 3: SIX FORTY SEVEN - INSTUPENDO youtube.com/watch?v=YHlcmmkiwbU

#six forty seven #its 4am #after hours #liminal #dreamcore #liminalcore #liminal aesthetic #liminal spaces #oddcore #insomnia #30 days music challenge #its a cool forest and i didnt made this at 4am actually

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johnnysuhbmarine · 2 months

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Thinking about how if I just suck it up and finish writing my fifteen-page research paper on music in the Roman Republic and Empire, I can basically coast through the rest of the semester and instead turn all my attention to my Haechan enemies to lovers wip 🤩

…anything for motivation at this point

#I’m dying #please #I’ve spent all day writing this paper and im still not done #my fault for procrastinating #but it’s never not worked out before so surely I’ll be fine #just incredibly bored and tired #but im almost done #seriously #so close to being done #forget the fact that I have to edit it after #but after this piece of work #it’s Haechan time baby #don’t question why I can’t write these fifteen pages to save my life but already have forty-six pages of my Haechan fic written #that’s not for you to be concerned about #Isa-rants

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187days · 7 months

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Day Forty-Six

Something that makes me laugh on the regular: telling ninth graders to take their airpods out, them responding "HUH?!" because they can't hear me, and their friends yanking the airpods out for them and saying stuff like, "Bruh, way to make her point."

Gotta have a sense of humor about this kind of thing.

The airpods weren't the only thing making it difficult to teach today. I also had to contend with the post-Halloween squirreliness, which was a lot, but I managed. We read an article about Islamic traditions and customs out loud, and then students did some research and citation practice about the Five Pillars of Islam. I definitely had to project my voice more than usual to get their attention and keep it, and my throat is sore now, but it's alright.

I spent the first half of APGOV discussing the last test with students. That's longer than I was expecting to spend on that, but that's fine because it was a good conversation. We went over the questions they'd found challenging, they reflected on their test preparation, I talked about test-taking strategies and study strategies, and I explained my plans to do more SCOTUS comparison and argument FRQ practice before their next test because I can see the need for it. I sent them off to lunch, and started teaching about the judicial branch when they came back. They're reading Fed. 78 for homework, so we'll pick up with that tomorrow.

I ended up staying for a while after school to clean my classroom, do some grading, and prepare for tomorrow. Plus, Mrs. T came by to ask my opinion about some upcoming stuff, and we got to talking. Then I remembered that tomorrow is Thursday, and I had to send out the PLC meeting agenda. Mrs. T headed back to her office, I did that, and then I headed home.

#teaching #teachblr #teacher #edublr #education #high school #social studies #mrs. t #dean 2 #day forty six

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rainybraindays · 2 months

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I've been thinking and dreaming so much about death its mildly concerning

#rainy talks #rainy vents #my cousin should be 29 instead we're fast approaching the 14 year anniversary of her death #my moms been dead fo 15 she died in her forties and I know circumstances are different because she had like #8 kids + several miscarriages and her dad also died relatively young #my grandma[the one I liked] died with 2 different types of cancers in her body #and all my dreams lately involve people dying #not anyone I know but like randos #and I wonder if thats because of semi guy #qnd then i always worry about my siblings between the alcoholism and the surgeries and the traveling all the time #i don't want to one day say “yeah I have six living siblings and one dead”#i don't want to be the one that they say that about #i don't want my dad to die or my grandpa or even my cousins that I hate #I'm so tired of thinking about people dying

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sophiagrimes · 7 months

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my cat peed on my pillow. while i was asleep using it. hows yalls day going

#i woke up at SIX FORTY FIVE #on my day that i was supposed to sleep in 😭😭😭#txt

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becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys · 8 months

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My sister rang me today.

Ever since she was six, she's had pain in her legs, which turns into pain in her hips and back for stretches of time. She's tried for years to get a diagnosis, with absolutely no joy. As a kid they thought she had collapsed arches in her feet; then it became clear her feet were fine, but something was wrong with her tendons; and then in her 20s they just shrugged it off with a "We'll never know probably" and that was that. She keeps on top of it with daily yoga, generally, though flare ups happen periodically. If she has to pause the yoga for some reason, she fairly rapidly regresses. Currently she has plantar fascitis again, which has halted everything once more, so right now she's back into a pain slump.

Anyway, she called me today while going from Doctors to pharmacy to get the codeine they've prescribed her for it.

"I think one of my yoga moves to help the fascitis might have exacerbated the legs," she said. "Trouble is, there's never been a diagnosis. I just have to trial and error what might help."

... And I had one of those lightbulb moments, you know? My brain suddenly went "Wait hang on, this is very familiar isn't it?" and rang the bells of memory.

"Did they ever test you for fibromyalgia?" I said.

They had not. It's never been suggested, even. My sister said she'd look up the symptoms and see if it chimed, and rang off.

Fifteen minutes later, she calls back.

Turns out she got to the pharmacy and gave them the prescription. While waiting, she googled fibromyalgia symptoms and found the NHS website.

"It was like someone had written a profile of me," she tells me on the phone. "Like, spookily, scarily accurate to me, right down to the temperature regulation bit. It felt like a practical joke."

And of course, as she stood there in the pharmacy, suddenly staring at the age of forty at the apparent answer she's been trying to get since she was six years old, she burst into tears.

"Oh no!" Said the pharmacist, hurdling the counter in a single leap and scattering the queue (I am exaggerating for humorous affectation.) "Quickly! Come into our little exam room, we'll get you tissues and water!"

My sister was duly ensconced into a Safe Place, and encouraged to cry it out. It took several hiccuping minutes, but finally, she managed to calm down and get back to an Extremely Watery Smile.

"Do you want to talk about it?" the pharmacist asked sympathetically.

"It's just..." my sister said, overwhelmed and searching for words. "My whole life I've been in pain, and they've never found why..."

"Ah," said the pharmacist thoughtfully. "Have you explored fibromyalgia?"

...

"TWICE IN ONE DAY," my sister yells on the phone to me later. "HOW THE HELL HAVE TWO SEPARATE PEOPLE ON THE SAME DAY FINALLY GIVEN ME THE ANSWER, AND NEITHER OF YOU IS A DOCTOR"

Anyway she has a doctor's appointment for tomorrow to discuss it, so we'll see

#health care

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ms-demeanor · 7 months

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I think the eight alarms thing is usually a maladaptation. You've trained your brain to ignore the eight alarms because you kept avoiding the training of willpower following the first alarm would require. I think some sleep therapy might help?

Hey so first of all fuck you, thanks.

Second: I love it when you read literature on sleep disorders, especially if it's on sleep disorders among folks with ADHD, and you see time and time again "when allowed to sleep on their preferred schedule subjects maintained healthy, normal, restorative sleep cycles" and "effects were not lasting without ongoing intervention; resetting the sleep schedule is a permanent effort."

Like, if I sleep *great* from 6am to 2pm and I wake up feeling rested and alert with no special help but I need to turn off the lights in my house and shut down all electronics at 8pm and beam a spotlight into my face starting at 5am to wake up at seven and feel exhausted all day, I think perhaps it is not actually my sleep cycle that is wrong it is perhaps society that is wrong.

BELIEVE ME, when I find the job that pays well and has decent insurance that lets me exist as a cheerful nighttime ghoul I am jumping on that with both feet. But until then I literally feel better getting six hours of sleep and occasionally sleeping so hard that i can't hear my alarms because of chronic sleep deprivation than I do turning off all the lights in my house and ceasing all activity two and a half hours after I get off of work.

Also: the eight alarms aren't all there to wake me up, it's just that sometimes I *also* sleep through the ones that are supposed to remind me to go sit at my desk and start work. One of the first three usually gets me up, but on a day when I sleep through all three of those I will be sleeping through all eight of them and usually a phone call and someone trying to shake me awake to.

ANYWAY after being treated with melatonin and light therapy and staring listlessly at the ceiling in the dark bored out of my skull with racing thoughts for sleep disorders that I didn't have for like twenty years the single most effective intervention that allowed me to get more sleep as someone with both ADHD and DSPD was to start hanging out and being active in places where it would be easy to fall asleep if the sleep caught me there instead of turning my bedroom into a dark, silent shrine of snoozing. Giving myself permission to fall asleep late instead of laying awake chewing myself up with guilt for not being asleep helped too.

Actually here's some tips for the sleepy bitches in the crowd:

1 - If you're laying down and not falling asleep in half an hour, you're not actually sleepy; read something or get up and do something because you're more likely to get sleepy faster that way than you are staring at the clock going "if I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and forty five minutes of rest when I have to go to work; If I fall asleep now I'll have three hours and twenty minutes of sleep when I have to get up, etc. etc."

2 - Allow yourself to be ambushed by sleep. Fall asleep on your cozy couch. Fall asleep in the comfy chair. Let yourself sleep where you fall asleep instead of dragging yourself to where you're 'supposed' to sleep if doing so will wake you up.

3 - The mythbusters thing. If you just lay down and close your eyes and pretend to rest you will feel more rested when you get up than when you laid down. Laying down to rest is better than nothing, it literally causes cognitive improvements similar to sleep in tests, and knowing that can help take off some of the pressure of not being able to fall asleep and can thus help you fall asleep.

4 - It's okay to "hang out" in the area where you're going to sleep. Read in bed. Play games on your cellphone in bed. If you want to go to sleep put on comfy clothes and bring a chill activity and hang out in your bed to do it so that all you have to do when you start getting sleepy is close your eyes.

5 - It's better to get some sleep than no sleep. Sometimes you look at the clock and it's six AM and whoops, fuck it. Okay, time for bed, don't stress that you're only going to get a few hours, a few hours is better than nothing. Lay down to pretend to rest at least and you'll probably feel okay.

6 - This one sounds silly and might not work for a bunch of people for a bunch of reasons but apparently there's some research suggesting that "well-rested" is a state of mind? I've had a reasonable amount of success with just telling myself "Yeah, I actually feel pretty good," and pushing through the day on a couple of hours of sleep. I don't *recommend* that and you should try to get as much sleep as possible, but yeah the next time you're low on sleep see what happens if you just try to decide to not be tired. It sounded like bullshit to me when I first heard it but I've found some success with it.

7 - This shit is cumulative. If you're doing a couple nights a week on low sleep that's not ideal but you're probably going to be pretty functional and you can work on it. If you overbook and overextend yourself for too long - I'm looking at you college students and new parents - it's going to add up. Try as much as possible to at least keep your sleep deficit nights spread out. (This message brought to you by writing 60k words of fiction in october and completely frying my brain because i wasn't getting enough sleep).

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