The hunt for a new job is underway in earnest. If you could spare some good luck and positive vibes, please and thank you, that would be much appreciated.

Help, please. PDPs are due tomorrow. Mine are submitted. I already make newsletters, flyers, sit in meetings then report back... I truly do not want to stay late to meet the almost inevitable request for help with the other teachers' PDPs. How do I politely say "figure it out yourself..."?

Happy birthday to my Dad, who sees this team jersey, can't read or remember it, and thinks it says Hammerducks.

They got that FRESH catnip, straight from the garden. And lost their tiny little minds.

Paw is up, treats are wanted.

Getting to the afterlife and having your heart weighed by Daniel Tiger.

It's the great time post-dentist when you realize your teeth are shit, your endocrine system is shit, your reproductive system is shit, but you have things to do and family to entertain for the next few weeks, so you'd better put that smiling face on and pretend it is ALL FINE.

Thoughts while watching a high school production of Matilda in New Jersey... Oh... this kid went for an "English" accent, huh? Interesting choice. Oh... Ohhhhh. The whole cast is doing English accents. Oh. Oh my. [Teeth gnashing] FFS SAY TO-MAH-TO! COMMIT TO THE BIT! It was... Something.

My parents arrive on Friday, and there are planes crashing, pilots dying, and ICe patrolling airports and I am worried sick.

Box AND Sunbeam? She hit the real estate jackpot.

My husband (English teacher) hates puns. (I KNOW!) And yet! When he comes home, he sings a Who parody to/for our cats. "We don't have food again..."

Give me my fucking hour back. I need it

Anyway. Here's a pretty sky.

Am I in line? Oh, no, sorry, go ahead. I'm just having an existential breakdown in Barnes and Noble. Sorry.

Grandpa: boilermaker at a sugar mill, volunteered as a surf lifesaver, dabbled (quite successfully at his club and local level) in lawn bowls. Grandad: sugar cane farmer, avid fisherman (in the river that bordered the farm, and had barramundi), and a Freemason.

I will destroy her

It is the wee one's first year in Chinese school. And I jumped way out of my comfort zone and joined the all-parent volunteer Dragon Dance group. Today we performed for the Lunar New Year celebration. It was incredibly fun, and I am now exhausted.

Botanically accurate fruit salad?

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Hey #curling people. Our club (Plainfield, New Jersey) is chasing one more team for our Jersey Curlz bonspiel. Friday 3/27 to Sunday 3/29 3 game guarantee All meals Cheese tasting $440 per team entry Want to come, curl, & eat cheese but don't have a team? Let me play matchmaker! Did I mention 🧀?

Presenting: my fave annual lesson, always on a post-snow delayed opening day. It incorporates four senses to observe snow, descriptive language, sensory play, exploration of changes in matter, reasoning, prediction, and mixing primary colors. I'm very proud of it. 🥹 #EduSky #PreK

Guess who signed up to skip at a bonspiel the weekend her parents arrive from Australia...

Why it is so hard to just "take a day" as a teacher... Spend an hour writing lesson plans, just for no sub to pick up. Need to call the district behaviorist from home because a kid is hitting everyone. Even out of the classroom you can't escape the classroom. Would have been easier to go in.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

"Everything is so political. We're athletes." Oh wah, boo pucking hoo, history would like a word with you. Peak entitled white guy 💩 right there. US Men's hockey team stays in the bin.

U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.

I can think of a really good first post...

This live NBC cross to the US hockey lads is ✨ everything ✨ Bless them, they are trying SO HARD to stay upright and coherent. I love them.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

OMG the hockey. We are trying to be VERY restrained because the wee one is in virtual Chinese school right now, but my husband is in absolute shambles. The Gaudreau jersey... The gold for the first time since he was 2... Shambles.

"Hey, what's with all of the event postponements at the Winter Olympics?" It seems there has been too much winter. At the Winter Olympics. "The conditions are making it very difficult..." Yes. The wintery conditions. At the Winter Olympics.

AI FAN: now, you can finally imagine anything you want! ME: I could already do that AI FAN: no this different ME: I'm imagining running you over with a steamroller AI FAN: don't do that ME: now I'm imagining consoling your girlfriend after AI FAN: I don't have a girlfriend ME: I know

Not me in absolute tears for the last three runs of the women's monobob final. Yeah, mums!

Oh boy, this is a live stream of robbery more than a women's curling match... USA vs ITA

Winter Olympic Hot Takes Nobody Asked For. 🥌 1. Breaking the rules ≠ cheating necessarily. But it is still breaking the rules. Either burned rock rules need to be overhauled and rewritten, or Canada need to accept it and adjust their delivery. 1b. Curling needs to have officials officiate.

Today had a lot going on. Valentine's Day parties at school. 100th Day of School. Lunar New Year Parade at kid's school. Olympic curling drama.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Ok, WAS that Pedro Pascal on the porch during the half time show, or am I going (more) insane?

Australian rage bait.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Got rid of snow. Now we need to get rid of ICE.

I'm taking a personal day on Friday (woo, curling), but I will be wearing blue all day after our game. Sending love and courage and support to Minnesota teachers.

I went and did it, and paid an exorbitant amount in ticketing fees via an agency. But we are going to Australia and Japan this year. In one trip. With a 6 year old. Thank you, Jeopardy.

Good reminder from this state highway!

Last night I fell on the curling ice, and got a tap on my head. Then had a lovely visit from the paramedics, who confirmed that yes I am fine. My pride is hurt. I was so mad that I did something so stupid that I lost it. May have chucked my broom at the boards. This thread is about teaching. 1/n

Video WHAT curling club?!?! [opens email with trepidation] Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Analysis. Perhaps we should workshop a new subject line.

Please, #curling clubs... Please. Don't use AI Slop for "try curling!" promotion graphics leading up to the Olympics. People we're trying to reach already know little enough about the sport without getting further confused by.... whatever AI thinks curling is. (Hockey with kettle bells, apparently.)

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.