I did an entire paper between Friday and Saturday night while also being at the vet for 3 hours finding out one of my best friends is probably dying and has a huge mass/likely tumor and my boyfriend and I are devastated. Writing about organizational change while taking cry breaks felt impossible.

Hey #MightyMustangs and #edusky if you're in Lansing Illinois on Tuesday from 4-7 pm swing by McTeacher Night to help MJHS reach our fundraising goal of $2000! See you there!!!

#edusky I am tired. I'm hitting a wall in this PhD coursework. It's just getting tough and I'm tired and need a break that's not coming until Xmas. The pace of this program is punishing. Back to back to back semesters with 3 weeks off at Xmas for 4.5 years straight and this is year 3.3

#edusky today was hard. Had a discipline situation to deal w that had no good solution. 1 dad asked the dreaded 'do you have kids?' that always makes me feel like crap because I wanted kids& didn't get any. then he noticed me get sad & rebounded w 'thats not fair you care for kids you understand' 💔

I got to feed a giraffe today.

As of today I have completed 42 credit hours of my PhD program. I am starting to see glimmers of light at the end of this dark tunnel.

Best staff ever starting off strong. #MightyMustangs

My sunflowers didn't do as well as usual this year but I do have one 16 footer with multiple heads but many of the rest only got half as tall as usual.

My boyfriend has an elaborate DJ set up he hasn't used since moving in which I found out was due to his receiver not working. His bday is the 29th& his gift came today. I love making him happy. I've never taken a bath w the floor shaking from Percolator being played 2 floors down. I love this man❤️

As a society are we ever going to put words to how annoying it is to answer no to like 7 slow loading questions before we pump gas?

I interviewed from 8 am to 4 pm almost straight and still need 4 paraprofessional a special Ed teacher and an ELA teacher. And there are not nearly enough applicants.

@edusky.bsky.social @teachbetterteam.bsky.social I need an amazing Middle School ELA teacher in Chicagos South Suburbs. If you know someone looking please share and send them my way! www.applitrack.com/lansing/onli...

I don't talk about my marriage/divorce often but no matter how happy I am now the weirdest things can hit hard. Was asked to write someone a letter of recommendation and pulled up an old one I'd written for inspiration and it was signed Mrs Jennifer Hartmann-Gilbert. Only time I ever wrote that.

Poor Jack has been feeling lonely and vulnerable and left out now that there are 4 girl kitties in the house and wanted some one one one cuddle time today

No matter if it's 5 names or 500 being the one calling the names at a Graduation is tons of pressure. We make it look easy! #edusky #bossladies

Trying my best this year but the weather is not cooperating much

It was a professionally and emotionally intense week. So I bought myself diamond earrings because why the heck not and I deserve it. Pictures don't do justice.

#edusky there something wrong with me? I keep getting asked to be on educational podcasts then get cancelled on the day of after rearranging my life to be available. Literally 4 times in a row this has occurred now. Starting to think there's something wrong with me.

Got to see works from one of my personal heros #FridaKhalo today at the #ArtInstituteChicago and as a bonus got to see an actual handwritten letter she wrote in 1939 in her own penmanship. Moving! Not Fragile like a flower fragile like a bomb. Bonus that Man Ray had a photo in the exhibit.

Lol the text my man sent me regarding #wheeloftime. A show that we watched out of obligation once we started and never once understood the plot of but continued to torment ourselves anyways.

Summer semester course 1 is finished. Course 2 week 2 starts tomorrow. Let's get through these research courses expeditiously so we can just get this dissertation over with. I'm officially at the 'getting real tired of school' phase of this program with 28 credit hours still to go.

Well looks like these 2 babies we saved are staying for good. They definitely don't seem to mind. Marigold is getting fixed on Monday which should stop her constant sexual harassment of Jack who is wildly disinterested in her shenanigans #caturday

The 2nd course of summer semester started yesterday. So that means I only have 7 courses to go before that big ole dissertation.

Sweet kitty made it through her spay abort ok & since every shelter is overcrowded & wouldn't take her I guess she's ours now. Welcome home sweet Miss Daisy. Once your baby sister Marigold is fixed she'll turn us into a family of 2 people & 5 kitties. My bleeding ❤️ just can't let a baby suffer

I have been off of work for 2 full weeks and am still completely drained. I didn't even get out of my PJs until 3 pm today. And I get to go back in on Monday already. #edusky #admindontgetsummersoff

Garden view to relax me before tomorrow's stressful vet appointment.

The stray cat that walked into my house a few days ago is pregnant and we can't do anything about it until Tuesday. Please Lord let her not go into labor before Tuesday morning. #caturday

Say what you will but one of the best things about my boyfriend is how well he cracks my back. Didn't know he knew how to when I swiped right but if I had I would've definitely swiped even faster.

There's no such thing as more tired than PhD student middle school admin at the end of the school year tired. None. I literally need to sleep for a week and the kids aren't even done yet.

#edusky I am so relieved graduation is over. Being the person calling the names is so ridiculously stressful. Just so much pressure is now off my shoulders.

Passed my superintendent exam!

#edusky this week was so hard. So many awful behaviors and so many awful conversations held with parents. Sometimes it feels so crappy.

I don't know how I will re-survive a Statistics class. I thought once was enough but then decided to get my doctorate.

Biopsy clear. Such a sigh of relief today to start the weekend. This was a critical juncture as the 2 year mark of my surgery is in July. Most recurrences happen in the first 5 years with the vast majority by 2 years. 🤞 This was an important bridge to cross.

I am so incredibly tired and just want to lay down and sleep for a month. Instead I just started a new semesters of course work, am trying to build a new middle school master schedule, and there's late events every night at school now until June.

#edusky the #MightyMustangs admin team, staff, band, dance team, and students did NOT disappoint today at the #Lansing Good Neighbor Day Parade! Theme was rock and hip hop through the years and the band played Living on A Prayer.

Turned in my final assignment of the semester and omg this semester was a struggle. I can't believe I have 4 semesters and a whole dissertation to go. I could really use some rest.

I have the most insane painful tight knots in my calves. Not even the heated vibrating foam roller is touching them at all.

I am deeply embroiled in my final big assignment of the semester for this course and I am so very overwhelmed between school and work. It's technically due on Tuesday but the professor gave us until Saturday since we're all crazy busy but mannn even Saturday feels insurmountable right now.

The baby went to her home today and I am heartbroken. If it doesn't work out for her over there she's coming back but then we'd have to start all over with the process of introducing her to the others again, etc. I hope everything works but I do so miss her sweet face.

Last night the baby #kitty #kitten violently attacked 2 of the 3 older #cats unlrovoked & I am traumatized & feel like crap. Now I dunno what to do. She was supposed to go to my sis-in-laws to be her kids' kitten today now that she's mostly healed from her spay & now I just don't know what to do. 💔

She looks like a French clown and I feel so bad lol

It's a really rambunctious spring break 25 over here tonight lol. 4 cats and my man are asleep at 830. At least the kitten has the excuse of having had surgery.

Took the 7ish month old kitten we rescued from the streets 2 weeks ago in to get her fixed today. Only to get told she's already pregnant. Soo yeah I wasn't gonna let the baby be a baby mama but ughhhh I knew she looked round yesterday.

It's Easter Sunday and I just did a discussion post and 2 replies.

I just love them. #cats #kitten #cuddles

I just wrote a whole paper from start to finish in one day. Whew. This course does not let up & tomorrow will be 2 discussion posts and 2 replies(yes on Easter Sunday). So I can have a focused 11 days to complete the final project before the end of the semester. The intensity is building for sure

Tomorrow is the first day of my spring break. 3 months ago me made the terrible decision to make a 730 mammogram appointment and an 1130 am grad school exam. I know I did it so I'd have all of next week blissfully to myself but I do so very badly need to sleep in

#edusky my spring break is finally beginning and those middle schoolers sure made me work for an instants leave today as they truly cut up in new levels...I wish I hadn't scheduled my superintendency certification test for tomorrow but after tomorrow I won't think about work or grad school for days