@effinbirds.com is there a ptarmigan?

There are 4 AP-medieval positions to apply to this weekend. Tomorrow and Friday are both dress-up days at the high school where I currently work. I'm trying to make this oppressive job as joyful as it can be, so I'll dress up. Exhaustion. But there are 4 positions I can apply to for next year.

Dear Internet, Does drinking fizzy water work like scrubbing bubbles in my guts? Sincerely, person who keeps burping

Hi The job market is really grim. Also it's too damn hot for October.

Murder, She Wrote

My 11th grade class is preparing to read "The Crucible" & I've had student group do background work on Arthur Miller, The Red Scare, the Witch Trials, Cancel Culture vs Backlisting & after each presentation I ask, "Does this feel relevant to our world now?" So far not a singler teenager sees it.

I got “selected” at work to be among the early adopters of an AI app for student writing & I stopped myself from saying “The house is unliveable because people have been tossing cookie dough at the walls all year. Your solution is to THROW MORE COOKIE DOUGH?! HOW IS THIS MEANT TO FIX ANYTHING? HUH?”

Lower right abdominal gnawing, ceaseless pain. Go.

@langsj.bsky.social Maybe this one is of interest?

today I applied for a job. tomorrow i have a biopsy.

I have constant left-side-of-head pain, and doctors have ignored me about it for SO LONG that I normally just go about my day with this horrible pain. I once took Tylenol or Advil to take the edge off, but it never made the pain go away. Now I'm not allowed to take NSAIDs or Tylenol, so I just HURT.

in health news: I slept 18 hours on Saturday- Sunday I graded for all my waking hours and I still have 100 essays to go I have been "urgently" referred for a temporal artery biopsy I think my job is literally killing me Necrocapitalism IS ME

I've been to urgent care and the Er twice in a week, and I have 2 biopsies forthcoming. I feel like garbage, and although I have a stack of papers to grade that could construct a lifesize papier mache Empire State Building, I am going to take a nap instead.

Whoever at Texas Tech is reading this right now: Join your #AAUP chapter: www.ttuaaup.com. WALKOUT. PROTEST. STRIKE. Whoever at any other university is reading this right now-- Join YOUR local AAUP chapter and get ready. www.aaup.org/chapters/fin... #edusky #academicsky

pain pain pain trying to fall asleep but stabbing staggering pain

spent the evening in the ER going in for a biopsy tomorrow

i'm drowning in anxiety sunday nights are so hard when the work-week is routinely absolutely brutal i wish i could drift off to an easy restful sleep but instead i'm wound-up and fidgety I already know tomorrow is going to kick my ass

Morning migraine

Please say hello to Eleanor.

I slipped going down the stairs. Again. I'm going to FEEL it tomorrow.

it is THUNDER at my house. Tomorrow I have an appointment to meet the ♥️dreamiest♥️girl.

I was on my feet all day now I have CANKLES they hurt.

saw a doc today told her that at the end of my work day i am in so much physical pain that i cant even take a shower when i get home she told me to get more exercise i'm tired of being ignored i'm fed up with "care providers" putting the blame on me for this pain do more! I have no more in me.

I also did laundry today.

I JUST SPENT 10 SOLID HOURS WORKING ON A SUNDAY AND AM HAVING CEREAL FOR DINNER BECAUSE MY LIFE IS HORRIBLE NOW.

I'm writing a graphic novel. I'm not good enough at art for this. Who wants to parter with me?

by the end of my work day (mostly on my feet) my left hip hurts so badly that I have to squeeze it with my hand as hard as I can just to keep on my feet and survive the walk to my car/home. Help!

Intelligent, amazingly talented, AND beautiful

In advanced degenerative osteoarthritis news, everything hurts. Good luck sleeping through all the everything my friends.

Name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring.

Today was the REDACTED day I’ve had in the classroom.

just took myself to Urgent Care for a headache I've had since Tuesday (Today is Friday). Got an injection & 2 oral meds. I feel as though stabbing a hatpin into my temple would be more effective.

This will be my 15th year of teaching.

I have to have something with my address on it to take to the post office to prove I live here in order to get the key to my mailbox, but because I do not have the keys to my mailbox, I have nothing with my address on it except for my lease, but I only have a digital copy of my lease... 1/2

#IMC2025 TFW you’re the first person to turn up for a session & the room is empty

Buckle UP, Leeds. Here I come! #IMC2025

UK, I am in you!

Got the job offer in Austin TX today and accepted!

The Sleestak endorsed Cuomo.

As I look ahead to #IMC2025 I want to see if any of my #MedievalSky moots might be interested in saying hello.

Spent the day volunteering with DAR and now I am 76% sweat.

RIP sweet Kitty Fantastico

I’m “sheltering in place” (sitting in my empty bathtub) because of a tornado warning. The sirens stopped a few minutes ago but I have 20 minutes til the warning is over.

With each month that passes as I still have no had a job offer, I'm feeling my worth as a human flicker out. Will someone tell me I have not earned a place-- that I have not worked hard enough? I will show my work. I can prove the effort. Even so, I become less and less a person.

I trained for 15+ years to do a specific thing which I now cannot get a position to do. I feel utterly hopeless.

On the one hand, it's quite upsetting not to have a faculty position lined up for 25-26 at this time. On the other hand, I love the idea of sitting out the AI idiocy and the academic-political landscape that the coming year will unfurl. #AcademicSky

Don’t click photo unless you’re a medical professional. My Kitty Fantastico has open wound on left knee. I was home with her all day except lunch time. There’re no other ppl or animals in my apt. Doc THINKS an abscess may have ruptured, but I had to give the okay to sedate for real exam. Now I wait.

Woke up with my left eye swollen shut this morning Delivered my paper to KZoo What a roller coaster! #MedievalSky #KzooICMS @kzooicms.bsky.social

What's your papal name? I'll be Pope Homunculus