Sylvie says, "Keep out! This is MY cave!" #TuxedoCats

Me, too, Bruno. Me, too. #TuxedoCats

Well, Sylvie isn't hissing and Jasper isn't glaring. This is unusual. #TuxedoCats #GingerCats

Sylvie and Bruno display my crocheted coasters. #TuxedoCats #Crochet

Today I started teaching students how to build effective AI prompts. I got to revive some ancient lore of programming: GIGO (garbage in - garbage out) 😄

Last night I enjoyed the pleasure of fresh sheets. What are some other small, everyday things that make you happy? Bruno sleeping on our newly made bed. #SmallThings #TuxedoCats

Jasper tidies up after helping me change the sheets and make the bed. Fresh sheets are a pleasure. #GingerCats #OrangeCats

Hellebores #BloomScrolling

I need to choose my clothing carefully on Fridays because chances are I'll be wearing them all weekend. No doubt this is a manifestation of some mental hiccup or other.

I feel like I need a No Vacancy sign. #TuxedoCats #Dogs

Pooka reminded me tonight of how nice it is to walk in the dark woods on a chilly night. Never mind the bears. Bears are chill.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college, assuming you went to you to college. (It's cool if you didn't.) 1. Epic poetry 2. Calculus 3. Physics 4. Philosophy of Science 5. Latin There's a mix for you. Incidentally, I was discouraged from taking 2 and 3. Wrong gender.

The end of an era. My first real job was at a Joann's. It was 1984, and I was sixteen. I bought my first sewing machine with my employee discount.

Maybe I need an anger journal. I've been trained to understand and not to be angry. Anger is framed as unhelpful to survival.

Today's #earworm

Détente has been reached in the ownership of the new bed. #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky #DogsOfBluesky

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet. Bruno (cat) and Pooka (dog) argue over the new bed.

Whose bed is it anyway? #TuxedoCats #Dogs #CatsOfBluesky #DogsOfBluesky

I always feel like somebody's watching me. 🎶👀 #GingerCats #CatsOfBluesky

Bruno is using his Vulcan mind tricks. #TuxedoCats #Crochet

How can one resist Sylvie? #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky #Caturday

“Respect for the autonomy and dignity of every person is an ethical imperative and not a favor that we can bestow on others or withhold." Paulo Freire

I had an epiphany. In years of therapy of various sorts, no one has ever suggested I recognize and delve into my anger toward my mother. Perhaps it's because mothers are widely regarded as sacrosanct. #Therapy #CPTSD

The internet has been terrible lately. Post some before and after. Sylvie and Bruno 2017: The Amazing Two-Headed Kitten 2026: Judging you

My presentation on the history of resistance in the U.S was well received, but it was a huge info dump. I think next week I'll break it into chunks and practice our recent grammar point, the third conditional. That's the unreal past: What would have happened if...? #Teaching #Grammar

My manic phase arrived just in time for me to build a 48 slide presentation deck 😲 on 150+ years of civil rights protest in the U.S. and bounce around the classroom being passionate about it. 🙃 #BPD2 #Bipolar #Teaching

I'm so scared. I have a classroom of immigrants and refugees I have to help understanding what's happening when I hardly understand it myself.

Mount Tahoma (Rainier) rising through the mist. #Tahoma #Rainier #PugetSound #PNW #WSF

It's amazing what cold weather will do. Bruno and Jasper do not like each other. #TuxedoCats #GingerCats

Sylvie is not amused. Pooka doesn't care. #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky #DogsOfBluesky

I went looking for a case for my little origami paper. I found one.

I wake up with the words, "I hate you," Ricocheting around my head. You is the operative word, Not me. Turn that outward, Not inward. I learned not to hate. Let it go. It does not become. But hate is real. It has to go somewhere. Some things cannot be understood. Some things are just hateful.

The pattern came out very nicely on this one. #OrigamiCrane

My first view of The Mountain in the new year. I have half as many opportunities this quarter because I'm teaching in-person only two days. #MountTahoma #Ranier #PugetSound #WSF

Today's #earworm, as far as I can see, is completely random. 🤔 🤷‍♀️ #SwingMusic #BoogieWoogie #AndrewsSisters #WW2

🚨POST AN EMERGENCY CAT PIC🚨 When I recovered this cat tree with scrap carpet, I wasn't expecting it to be camouflage. Sylvie approves.

Golden-crowned kinglets #Birds #BirdWatching #GardeningForWildlife #PondLife

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'" - Dr. Martin Luther King

My neighborhood.

Oh, isn't this fun. The copay on my diabetes medication has increased by a factor of seven. 🥳

Bruno says it's cuddle time. #TuxedoCats #CatsOfBluesky (That's Sylvie's butt on the right.)

I've developed a new therapy. Details in the alt text. #cptsd #therapy

Today's #earworm Continuing with the G&S theme, this lodged in my brain because my sister's choir is doing madrigals.

I've never really thought about it, but my cannabis store is right next to an adult toy store. 😂

First two #hellebore of the season opened. One has been nibbled by a gastropod of some sort. #BloomScrolling #Gardening

I guess Sylvie and Bruno were sleeping to the sound of me #teaching an online class. I guess I'm boring. 😂 #TuxedoCats

Deciding whether to lock a classroom door at all times is a heavy choice.

Today's #earworm: You know how kids will get hooked on a record and play it over and over? Pirates was one of mine. I'm pretty sure I still know the entire libretto by heart. This D'Oyley Carte recording came out the year I was born. 😅 #GilbertAndSullivan #Pirates #Penzance #Opera

I decided to play around with polymer clay, so I got a teeny-tiny toaster oven. It also has a griddle on top. No banana for scale, so I used a soup can. It comes in other colors, but only the pink was on sale. 🤷‍♀️

PTSD is just the way life is. You cope with it or die. Hard choice.