#TeacherRant #Xenophobia
This week, some sophomores made fun of me for having an accent. In my gd homeroom. In a school where the official staff directory has my name misspelled to make it look like I am a member of a local Conservative powerhouse family who sells fireworks, and where hardly any person knows how to say my name. WTF did I get myself into???? Next week I teach about 19th c immigration 😭

Performance at a dance recital tomorrow, hard week in the rearview, and I am about to have dinner with my love. Ergo:

When I got to the living room this morning to briefly sit and drink my #coffee, #Balazs was already sitting on the arm of my chair, as if he had been waiting for me 💖

Angles of a woodland creature: A photo essay
@LnzyHou we tried for 'rough' today 😜
#Neville #DogsOfCoSo

#CoSoMusic without too much explanation: We Will Meet in a Hurricane by Bedouin Soundclash

https://open.spotify.com/track/0ptgwpIUXqm43ZXyJQHOd1

Our day started early at the hospital (testing stuff for @junation and thankfully no longer scary), then we got donuts, and then off to the courthouse we went for in-person absentee voting (as early voting is known around here). We did our part.
#Elections #VoteBlue #Harris2024

Teacher workday today. All alone in my classroom. I see movement, turn to look: there is a spider, on my desk, the sun falling brightly on it, and I saw its eyes. It was looking at me. The Universe shifted, I dumped binder clips out of their glass container and trapped the spider rather than kill it. No scream. Then I went to find someone to help, we slid paper under the glass container and released the spider outside. Eye contact makes me unable to kill. Have to train as a sniper. Splendid.

Paging @LnzyHou : I have a day off from school and I am working both on grades and on some costume embellishments and I need supervision. #Neville #DogsOfCoSo

New week, new giggle
#CoSoHumor

#TeacherRant
On Monday, a student brought a plushie to add to my collection that I keep for students. Today, another student used some of my sticky notes on my laptop stand. I am getting somewhere with some of them.

Goodnight CoSo! Here is #Bridget putting her head on #Milo to keep him company/ keep him calm. May the world be like Bridget to each of us.

Goodnight CoSo! I will leave you with what will look like an image of #Neville - but in fact, this is an image of a shaggy baby powder fragrance diffuser: I only had time to trim his beard, not his entire body before his bath. #DogsOfCoSo

That damn Cat Distribution System is up to something: orange boy, not neutered, been hanging around our yard for a couple of weeks. @junation is posting him in the local lost and found pet group.

It is #Caturday night. I got both a flu shot and a Covid shot yesterday. I am right fucked up from them (which is highly preferable to having either the flu or Covid) but #Bridget is looking after me. #CatsOfCoSo

#TeacherRant
I am convinced that anyone saying they didn't hate any of their high school teachers is lying. Still, trying to physically harm them is next level. Yesterday I was shot in the eye with a rubber band. There was some pain but no eye emergency.
Nobody would admit to it, so a VP hauled seven students to the office where apparently one confessed - after being given detention, that student will be in class again this morning. As will I 😞