Now that I’ve been directing instead of performing, my thoughts at musicals are entirely different. For example, in the first half of Phantom of the Opera, I have thought:

Testament spoilers Two girls kiss in the final episode and all the straights on Facebook are saying how it’s a “platonic best friend kiss” to “comfort and say goodbye”. Idk maybe I’m just super lesbian but I have never once kissed my besties on the lips.

Brain on a loop over the fact that I didn’t get the dishes done this morning and therefore am behind and since I don’t get home early today I may not catch up. When I didn’t get them done bc I had to clean up a spill. Doesn’t matter. Failed this morning.

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I hate hate hate the end of the school year. So much overwhelm. So little time left. Emotions everywhere. Schedules being off. I want to start my summer but I also want to crawl into a hole and scream.

the fuck it will

Over a decade ago, the grandfather I grew up with, who was one of my favorite people on the whole planet, died suddenly a few days before my 19th birthday. I was in the middle of Winco, buying food for college. My mom made me finish the shop. The next day I drove down for sophomore year.

I feel awful. My mom calls and tells me my grandma (her mom) has days, maybe a week left. And I just feel numb. I haven’t seen her in over a decade (she lives across the country) and she always forgets my birthday and I should feel more. But how do you process losing someone barely in your life?

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Spring cleaning mood got me so antsy. Like all I can think about is wanting to replace the desk that we can’t ever make functional with seating that can also be used for guests (like a daybed?) and has storage/the ability to store things under it and also having a small veggie and herb garden.

There hits a point in every school break where the lack of structure makes my motivation crash and I feel like I can’t do anything. And that has happened today. With plenty more to do.

I’m not cleaning, I am making pokopia habitats for my spouse and cats.

Got an incorrect birthday email for my oldest cat since for some reason the vet has her birthday listed as my middle cat’s birthday and just thinking back on the mortifying time when the vet asked about her behavior and if she’s been acting upset and I responded “well, she’s a Gemini.”

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

The other day my students told me I was “low cortisol”. Is this good??? I feel old now.

DO NOT COMPLY. DO NOT OUT PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE CHILDREN

The way there was a difference between teachers who taught pre and post-COVID lockdown, there will be a difference between who taught through Trump 2.0 and who did not.

I noticed just now that the point you made in your 300 character post wasn't inescapably all-encompassingly comprehensive in its totality, so I'm afraid it's pistols as dawn

In case anyone didn’t believe in the literacy crisis among the kids, my eighth graders loudly complained about being given a six page story and it took many of them about an hour and a half to read it. And then lots of them said they didn’t get very basic things in the story. And I’m so tired.

It’s honestly shocking how often I am just casually reading and then people eating gluten free catches a stray with some snarky comment in the narrative. If I wasn’t already invested, this celiac would dnf because WHY do we need to make fun of what people eat???

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Absolutely head over heels for episode five of Heated Rivalry. I can’t help but react as loudly and as giddily as possible to this show.

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

Cutting nearly 50 kids from the musical, some of them students I absolutely adore as people, makes my heart hurt. I should feel relieved to be done. Instead I’m just thinking of how they are going to feel and hating myself a little.

When I take Enigma to the vet she tells me she hates me. When I take Ro she screams like I’m hurting her. I don’t know which is worse.

I want to stay home so badly bc I was at work until 6:30 for auditions last night… But I keep reminding myself it’s only four more days and I don’t want to write sub plans. But oh my god I don’t want to have to go to work and then rush home to take my cat to the vet. I want to relax!!!

Two and a half hours of middle school musical auditions later, I am collapsed on my couch. And we’ll do it again on Monday.

My freshly arrived boox palma, here to help keep me reading more and on my phone less ✨

My brain rn just constantly like “you should knit a sweater”.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

“[Book banners] do not want safe children -- they want obedient children, and they think they can accomplish that by deciding what books are allowed to be on the shelf.”

I have convinced myself that if I had a boox palma I would read way more than doom scroll bc I could just carry it around everywhere. I’ve also convinced myself that if I got the color one, I’d finally actually catch up on my webtoons. Probably neither of these are true but still.

I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.

The canned curriculum we are required to implement just emailed me about their new AI tools. I’m serious that in the next couple years, we will be forced to use and teach with AI or they’ll threaten our jobs. They want to be able to replace us. And the kids will be the victims.

Just learned about Félicette the space cat and it’s unironically ruining my night bc not only did she deserve better, she also looks like my first baby. My one named after the stars.

It is completely normal to sulk because an eighth grader told you that another eighth grader said that you do too much. Very normal.

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple

one of the greatest joys in this life is to buy a piece of art from another queer

Arguing with my cat like I know, how dare I care about your health enough to take you to regular vet visits. Do you know how much these vet visits cost me? It would be so much cheaper to not care about your health. But I do. And instead of thanking me, you hiss and growl at me. Because how dare I.

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

Made this for a coworker friend’s upcoming baby. Feedback upon receipt: “I love it! I would have loved it even if it wasn’t good, but it’s actually really good.” And “I’m not sure my wife will let the baby have it. It might just be hers. Looks like her cat, you know. Did you somehow see our cat?”

the world is better because it has trans people in it

Apparently the answer to “hey, I’m suffering with what seems like a bunch of new allergies” is not “let’s refer you to the allergy department to get help” but rather “take antihistamines all the time and hope for the best”.

Come to terms with the fact that my grandmother is not calling on my birthday this year. Again.

much as i probably agree w/ what this piece probably says ... as a trans journalist, it just feels like gaslighting at this point, abusive behavior, these sorts of takes coming from the nyt itself — in light of this publication's *active and ongoing and devoted* contribution to the actual problem.