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.

Sometimes you’re like why am I feeling so off today and then you get punched in the gut remembering that your grandfather died exactly a decade ago and then the next day you drove all the way to college and moved into your sophomore apartment and didn’t tell anyone so you never grieved.

Leafeon and Glaceon are a married couple ❤️🏳️‍🌈 (me and my spouse)

One of those days where I have things I could do on my prep, but I’m so tired that none of them are immediate enough to deal with.

Things that will be the death of me: crocheting my mom a set of coasters. I can do a stuffed animal in a couple of hours. Making four coasters? Literally feels like a never ending task.

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself."

before/after they found out the shooter was a white man, raised loving guns his entire life by mormon parents is a tone shift for the ages

Please don’t post AI shit, even if you mean it kindly. I will never be happy to see it.

No grading got done today. Low grade fever most of the day. Means I have two classes to grade tomorrow… Fingers crossed the fever stays away fully.