@elchandler it all depends. I mainly use mine for fandoms, books, and help with my mental disorders. Guess I'll just wait to see what happens and how bad it gets.
@CaitTheSloth totally go for it. sometimes we need this extra help. if others can't deal okay, it's your page. you don't owe anyone anything. good luck.
with everything going on regarding this place now, I only have two purposes for my page.
Reading and the #bipolarclub .
You guys have helped me so much. It would be lonely without it and harder too.
@jodyjsperling I'm always trying to get current baby name books. although some from the past wouldn't hurt either.
last names are slightly more tricky.
ugh for the past couple of weeks I've been waking up in the middle of the night again. Don't know why this is happening. I'd been fine for a while.
#bipolarclub
dang, even more books for my literature classes!
upside, I did the math and all of the ones I've been getting and are the equivalent of at least 2 textbooks so it works out.
Today 100% of my students in one of my classes said they have never had a Black male english professor.
As corny as it may sound--this is why many of us do this work. Sometimes simply being in the room is a form of activism. Our presence matters. Our existence is resistance.
A note about averaging grades when 0s are present:
If a student receives one 0, they must then get 85% on 16 subsequent assignments before their grade will reach a B.
Another example: if a student gets 95% 33 times but has two 0s, they'd only get an A if you round up.
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"I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?"
― Laurie Halse Anderson (@halseanderson) (born this day, October 23, 1961), Speak
Nothing like listening to Indigenous music, rain, and hot chocolate on a cold day.
It's a comfort/soothing thing I do. There's something calming about it.
Who remembers those awful Taks & Taas tests in schools? And the Star tests too?
I once went to the hospital in the 3rd grade because of the stress those things were causing me. I broke pencils in class because I couldn't understand the material.
those things were the worst.
“how can you celebrate Hallowe’en when the world is on fire?” because fantasy is good, because stories are good, because celebrating the imagination is an act of resistance in a joyless world.
Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), aka Tekahionwake a poet, author and performer of Mowhawk and English heritage. A feminist who was an integral figure of Indigenous women's writing and performance #WomensArt