Michelle Graham

writer of things and stuff, podcaster with @BeyondTheTrope, English teacher, and #PitchWars 2016 mentee

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@megfuzzle Agreed! I hate it. It’s trying too hard to be cool and falling waaayyy short

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Step #1 of editing is obviously to make a collage of the Cheese Book (WIP). It's hard work I'm doing here, folks. #amediting #amstalling

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Five years ago I wrote a short story.
Three years ago I started turning it into a novel.
Ten seconds ago I finished the first draft.
brb, just gotta go cry a little

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Crying laughing that Netflix told me, "Sorry, we don't have "The Hunger Games" right now, but here are some similar titles," and the top results were "The Giver," "Pride and Prejudice," and ... "Murder Mystery 2." 💀

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Nothing puts a stop to outdoor projects like suddenly disturbing a hidden hive of wasps 😨🙃 Guess I’m not using the backyard ever again.

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Just a pupper napping through the cacophony of new asphalt happening outside. Also using a pillow as a pillow, which never fails to kill me 😆

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Summer Break Reading Book #3 (cheated a bit bc this was my commuting audiobook started in the last weeks of school): Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. Obsessed. The tone, the writing, the 4th-wall-breaking. Read it.

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Summer Break Reading Book #2 was “Ana María and the Fox” by Liana de la Rosa! Wonderful historical romance. Adored Ana María, the way they fell for each other, + her sisters. Some historicals feel like a modern woman was shoehorned into the past but this didn’t! Exquisite.

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Summer break = summer reading!
Book #1 (finished last night) was Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Overall lovely writing, intense drama, characters I swear are real people.

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This is your friendly florist pro tip that you can be sure that the roses you just grabbed for Mother’s Day are good by gently squeezing the bottom of the flower petals—if it’s squishy, it’s a bad rose! If it’s firm, it’s good!

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Today was a tough day in Teaching Land.
But part of the toughness was being able to be the teacher I needed when I was a teen, and that was good.

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If you’re going to force us to do Daylight Savings “spring forward,” the least you could do is make it a school holiday. Even my most on-top-of-it students are dead today 🥱😴

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@westmorelandsam Obviously, since I only feed her twice a day

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The sadness of someone who wasn’t offered even a sniff of my second breakfast.

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If anyone hears quiet sobbing from very, very far away, it’s me trying to figure out why I thought it would be a great idea to have my 100 students each write two essays for their AP Lang final 😫 #didittomyself #gradesaredueFriday

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@oofanotherEmily Right??? What's next, they track down my phone number and start calling me?

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Today someone sent a podcast "follow-up" query to my school-work email...a week after emailing the podcast account. Now, I hate follow-ups in general. You emailed me, I will respond when I can.
But to hunt down my private work email? Unbelievably unprofessional.

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Today after I described a yummy pizza I had one of my juniors goes, “Damn Miss, that is the WHITEST thing I’ve ever heard.” When I held up my arm to jokingly be like “wellll” he says, “you look like a burned tortilla”
THEY ARE FRECKLES SIR
Student: 1
Me: 0

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I COULD watch the Superb Owl. BUT INSTEAD! I am polishing up the lesson plans for my Banned Books Research Project. Students get to create their own book groups this week! I’m excited to see what my little book nerds choose to read this year 😆

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WOO!