So. Much. Grading.

I just learned that Bexar is not pronounced at all the way I thought it was. 😂

I've got to say, I'm not loving the buy now button on Amazon ads. It feels dystopian to me.

So my next week is basically going to be one stressful thing after another for a full week and I'm already having horrible stress nightmares. Just need to get through the week. Wish me luck, peeps. I need it.

Okay, I keep seeing comments that One Battle After Another is so great, but the advertising makes it just look so...meh? Is it really good? Right now it just looks like the fifty-seventh Taken sequel and I wonder why it exists lol.

My husband just got invited to be a keynote speaker at an academic conference which is just pretty damn awesome.

battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: 1. Baby laughs 2. That time of day when it's not quite dark, the trees are black, and the sky is glowing 3. Rocking chairs on rainy days 4. Puppy kisses 5. Talking to my kids about the stories they're excited about

I've officially reached an age where I feel like my generation of names sound like old people names. 😆

Had one of those days where I spent the whole day cleaning and you can barely tell I did anything. Blargh.

Sent the nudge last night, so now I get the fun nerve wracking waiting game where I question my life choices. 😂

I just gotta say, if my child was a vampire living in a world of vampire hunters who wanted nothing but to kill her, I'd probably not name her Vampirina. I'd be like, "What's the most human name I can possibly come up with?"

I spent a lot of time crocheting today and I'm so close that I could finish this blanket within an hour, but also literally seeing double now from eye strain, so I'm being an adult and waiting until tomorrow. But man do I want to finish it now!

Any advice on nudging for a full? The query was sent over a year ago, but the full is about 10 months. It's an agency I really would love to work with, so I'm nervous to do it at all, but it specializes in my genre so I could send to someone else if it's a no.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

Watching Forensics Files and they had a suspect who looked "virtually identical" to the composite drawing and I'm realizing that I have a very different standard of "virtually identical" than other people do. 😂 Like...it wasn't even close.

I can't express how frustrated I am seeing the option for "AI writing tools" to provide feedback on my student assignments. I'm sorry, but providing feedback myself is my job. Besides, I can write a response in the amount of time it would take to write a prompt.

I feel like I should get a new phone even though I don't need one because I have a feeling I'm not going to be able to get one that doesn't have built in AI everywhere if I wait much longer.

Puppy wakes up over an hour before I want to wake up and refuses to go back to sleep. Instead wants out three times, tries to get the other dogs to play by barking at them, whines because he wants to wake up the rest of the family. I give in and get up, and he climbs on my lap and goes to sleep. 🤦‍♀️

I'm watching Alchemy of Souls with my daughter and it's so fun to be able to watch something like this with her. Also, I really really really really love this show.

My son has a friend who says "that's coo-coo banana pants" instead of "that's crazy" and I kind of love it.

I would like my search engines to give me an option to prioritize websites from 2022 and earlier so that I could easily filter out the kind of insane amount of just straight Chat GPT results I get when I search for anything these days. I swear I just found three with the same (wrong) information.

Husband had a grant they've been preparing for weeks. Just got the notice that the government will no longer offer it at all.

Ouch…

One of my family members just lost his well-paying job because of AI, along with thousands of other people at his company. This is going swimmingly.

Slavery is bad. Anything--literally anything--suggesting that this is not the case is not only suspect, but should be viewed with disdain and immediately rejected.

It’s the guns period.

I'm going to be honest, I'm struggling today. I want to live in a country where I can send my kids to school without worrying about them being murdered and I hate that I don't.

I am sitting at home with two dogs laying on me and I need to get up and eat lunch but there are two dogs laying on me and I feel bad making them move. But also hungry.

My kids are the same age as the ones who were killed today and I can't even imagine what those parents are going through right now. We should be able to send our kids to school without risking their lives. This should be basic. Nowhere else lives like this.

My daughter just said, "Love you more than books," which is basically the best thing she can say to a person.

Does anyone have advice on stores that have New Balance running shoes in stock that are good for foot pain? I've been recommended them several times, but when I look up the ones good for foot pain, I can't find any store in town that actually carries them. My feet are so finicky I have to try on.

The Halloween Kpop Demon Hunters costumes have evolved from my daughter and her friends to my son (Derpy) and my husband and I (time permitting) as Saja Boys (in the traditional Saja costume with the hat). I have to say I'm insanely excited about this even though it'll be a lot of work.

Anyone have recommendations for fabric buying since Joann's is gone? The other store I know of was a little locally owned place and the owner retired a couple of years ago. I'd rather not have to just buy online, but Halloween is coming up and I need to make costumes.

I needed this in my life so I'm sharing in case you did, too.

I just had the mango sticky rice from Costco and it's like magic. You microwave it, but the mango stays cold and the rice is warm and it's pure wizardry.

Went running my new running shoes and my toe is KILLING me and my heel hurts again. 😭 I even got the same pair I had time before last so it shouldn't hurt!

I got told by a student that my class helped them know what they wanted to do with their lives, and I have to say that it means a hell of a lot to know it means something to people.

Pretty sure my kid and a couple of her friends are going as Huntrix for Halloween and I honestly can't wait to make these costumes because it's going to be a BLAST.

My son has officially reached "bruh" years old, and TBH I kind of love it.

K-Pop Demon Hunters very much lives up to the hype.

We have officially had respect for diversity statements and (interestingly) disability services statements removed from the syllabus template. It has been replaced with a generic "we will not discriminate" statement instead.

Does anyone have tips for a puppy that goes absolutely insane if everyone leaves and destroys things? He's almost 8 months old, and every now and then he's okay, but generally if we leave it's a question of what will be destroyed when we get back. He's big enough to reach countertops...

Write a Strongly Worded Letter Against the Machine

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

When your tea bag breaks and you don't realize it until you get to the bottom of the cup and get a mouthful of leaves.

Accidentally sent an email query to someone who was closed. 🤦‍♀️

I'm going to be really honest here and admit I don't understand what "upmarket" means. I've read definitions, but I'm just not sure I get it. I think I might write upmarket, but I'm not sure. Anyone able to explain it beyond vibes?

I wish we spent less time talking about how we’ll survive the apocalyptic collapse of society and more time talking about how to build safe, thriving communities that are resistant to collapse.

Okay, frankly I can't believe I haven't read Brandon Sanderson before now and I kind of want to binge read everything he's ever written.