Final count down until the end of the school year; teachers tell me your ritual because I just upgraded mine to two cups of coffee and then an on the drive to work Celsius
Surviving the horrors (barely) with multiple rewatches of Off Campus, string cheese, and pitching the kind of books that would have teen me kicking her feet and squealing
One big difference between teaching middle school and high school is that I wear sneakers ALL the time to middle school out of sheer necessity; excited to return to cute little flats in the fall
one thing is for sure: if you try to talk to me about AI, you're getting a lecture about not only the beauty of thinking critically for yourself instead of letting a few ultra rich people design "thinking" for you, but also the ethical & environmental damage of data centers
Noah Kahan really nailed a specific type of betrayal when he wrote Dashboard, like โleave the pain you canโt solve with the folks you let downโ AND โtell yourself lies and disguise them as factsโ damn he gets what it is to be let down hard
happy teacher appreciation week; what we want most is autonomy in our classrooms, liberation for all in our curriculums, respect in our communities and from politicians, and a competitive salary
Yesterday I bought myself the flowers that someone should have bought me in September when my book launched. It took me nine months to get that when a person betrays you, that says more about who they are than who you are.
So buy yourself the damn flowers you deserve today.
MEAN GIRLS was released 22 years ago today.
Rachel McAdams was nearly denied the role because she was 8 years older than Lindsay Lohan and Amy Poehler, playing her mom, was only 7 years older than her, but she completely sold the high school queen vibe.