Emily Butterworth

Have courage and be kind ✨ (she/her)

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“what is wrong with this author?!?” -one of my 7th grade students today when they read yet another plot twist in our class novel (they love the book)

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nothing hits like a post trip debrief in a booth at Chili’s with your best friend about the trip you planned together to talk about the experiences you both experienced at the same time

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the saga continues, but this time I’m driving a bus

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teaching drama really has me experiencing things I never thought I would. today’s example? driving a truck.

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bought oven cleaner this morning so naturally this has been stuck in my head all day

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just chaperoned a middle school dance where the kids screamed along to “Stick Season” and “You Belong With Me” at the top of their lungs and it genuinely made my heart happy

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been dodging COVID for 4 years only to get hit now

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one of my students told me I make Dante’s Inferno interesting so I might be living off of that compliment for the next week

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conversation awareness on my AirPods automatically turns the volume down every time I sneeze and I’m kind of offended that Apple thinks my sneezes are that obnoxious

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gotten the Globle in 1 guess twice in the past few weeks and I don’t know if this makes me psychic or really lucky

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listening to The Backyardigans songs might be the cheat code to finishing grading faster

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emergen-C and the new Stray Kids album are quite literally carrying me through this week

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the other day, one of my students said “rare Miss Butterworth L” and I am still feeling that ego boost

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in one of those moods where I just listen to the same song on repeat all day, knowing full well it’s going to mess up the delicate equilibrium of my Spotify Wrapped

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(Heartstopper tweet) not to be dramatic but Nick holding Tara’s case while she puts her clarinet together is one of the purest moments I’ve ever seen in a TV show

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back to school means my camera roll gets overtaken by pictures of my classroom’s white board

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if teleportation machines existed, would motion sickness be eliminated or would it be worse because you’d feel all the motion at the same time?

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teaching drama really has me experiencing things I never thought I would. today’s example? driving a truck.

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“it’s the green version of lavender” -my brother trying to describe pastel green

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Thanksgiving dinner conversation:
Me: Who voices Thomas O’Malley in Aristocats?
Brother: Little John
Me: *cries laughing imagining Lil John the rapper saying “Yeah!” as the cat*
Brother: I mean the actor that voices Little John in the animated Robin Hood…

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you can tell what kind of college student I was by how stressed I get when characters in FAKE TV SHOWS skip classes