Ok. Time for bed on this Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. I feasted, etc. now I’ll say goodbye until April 5. Be good. Be excellent to each other. ✌️☮️

I got a valentines note from a student today. It made my eyes leak 🥹 This is going straight into the file of stuff to read when I’m having a hard day 🥰

Y’all I think I just passed some kind of adulting test. The gas light was on in the car today and I wanted to go home and unload the groceries. “I’ll go out and get gas later,” I said, as I’ve told myself countless times in the past. Guess who has two thumbs and a full tank of gas now.

Trying a thing where I pretend I’m a grown up adult and take care of things like a grown up adult. Today is my first quarterly “shampoo the carpet in the high traffic areas” day and it smells so nice in here 🥹

Had a dream last night that I met up with a friend* from Santa Cruz and we talked books. I admitted to not having read much since 2020, and she suggested some books* I might enjoy. We then met up with friends who were in a band* who had moderate success for coffee *none of these are from real life

In the past couple of weeks I’ve gotten so much stuff done. Like, putting up a loft bed. Purging and organizing a bunch of closets, assembling a dresser, taking box springs to be recycled, meal planned, grocery shopped and cooked, kept my apartment clean, stayed on top of work

Wish me luck next week in world history we start the interwar period where fascism and the allure of dictatorship thrived and my job hangs in the balance for teaching straight up history and the kids can draw whatever conclusions they can from the evidence presented.

12yo has moved on from calling me “bruh” to “brotato chip.” Or sometimes “brotisserie chicken.” Like, “what’s up, brotato chip, how’s it hanging? Working hard or hardly working, amirite?” —an actual thing that came out of my 7th grade son’s mouth today

12yo: don’t Amish people have to put away their phones one night a week and spend time with their family? Me: most Amish people don’t have phones. 12yo: oh. Well what about the Ammonites? Aren’t they sort of like the Amish? Me: no no, an ammonite is a prehistoric cephalopod…

Netflix is filming something at a restaurant next to my Trader Joe’s and 1) I’m curious what. The permit says “feature” 2) they better keep the big parking lot out of shot

“I can’t watch Bad Bunny’s show because I don’t understand SPANISH, so I won’t understand a word he’s saying. I’m going to instead watch the guy with that song that goes “bawidaba da dang da dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up drop the boogie”

It was also my first time at the Hollywood Walk of Fame and I… ☹️😬 I was not prepared for the names on the stars to not all be facing the same way. It made my brain cry

Made the mistake of bringing 15yo to Amoeba Music before the show (we are going to The Book of Mormon). I fear he may move in.

This is the only thing that could get me out of California. When I will be eventually priced out of the place I’ve lived - and loved - my entire life

Have I mentioned my across-the-breezeway neighbor on here? The guy living with his dad after spending some time living outside, using? Nice guy most of the time, but kind of unstable, I suspect was still using, definitely was drinking, could be physically combative with his dad sometimes

Only thing that could make this better would be if they had let me get coffee and earbuds before sitting down.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

A craft producer of varieties of ancient celebratory drinks called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Meads.

USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair. USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries. They are giving you actionable information.

“Sir, you’re holding the paper upside down.”

So in case things weren’t exciting enough I got rear ended the other day (everyone is ok). I was like 2 weeks away from trading in this car with zero accidents on its history.

Oh thank goodness

Hey. Who wants a pen pal. I have some cards and stamps. Let’s do stuff Palantir isn’t tracking

Anyway is Canada By Choice legit? I know CUIN isn’t.

Why does imposter syndrome exist, like for serious

Today they read the Willy-Nicky telegrams and they said they want to turn it into a group chat on Monday. “Ooooooh he double texted!!” “Check it out he signed off just Willy this time. He’s *mad* mad”

I bought a robo-vacuum to take another thing off of my plate and it has already provided value for money

Started WWI with my 10th graders today. They were 🤯 that the Kaiser and Tsar were cousins *and* on opposite sides in the war. Student: “oh Miss I bet that was awkward for them after the war was over!” Me: “…😳 uh…turns out it was a lot less awkward than you’d think”

Cardinal Tobin “also used stark language to describe immigration enforcement actions, saying, ‘We mourn for our world, for our country, that allows 5-year-olds to be legally kidnapped and protesters to be slaughtered.’”

Why ICE tho. Do they plan to detain immigrant medalists on the way back into the country to steal their medals and give them to Trump? “Lookie here I have a Nobel peace prize AND a gold medal in ice dance!”

Actual interaction on my way into the grocery store tonight Them: “ma’am do you have a minute to sign a petition to-“ Me: “sorry, not tod-“ Them: “-restrict ICE’s activities in CA?” Me: “…ICE? yes, ok, hand me the clipboard”

…this is the weirdest lucid dream I’ve ever had, but I bet it’s about time to wake up and get to work.

I remember the video from a couple weeks ago interviewing the older couple…the guy was talking about how wrong the feds are, the future, his grandchildren, etc, and the comments were all “let me translate from Minnesotan to English -this guy is angry enough to tear a man in half with his bare hands”

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants

Here are some perpendicular kitties in case you need them right now.

I have been thinking all day about the number of times unarmed Black people were killed by police on the pretext that their cell phone looked like a gun. And people would say “oh but you just don‘t know what the truth is.” Well here it is.

My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

A secret federal police force is abducting and brutalizing whoever they feel like—asylum seekers, refugees, migrants with or without legal residency, and US citizens alike—in broad daylight on the streets of American cities. I’m not saying it’s unprecedented. I’m saying it’s unacceptable.

A secret federal police force is abducting and brutalizing children in broad daylight on the streets of American cities. I’m not saying it’s unprecedented. I’m saying it’s unacceptable.

A secret police force is murdering people in broad daylight on the streets of American cities. I’m not saying it’s unprecedented. I’m saying it’s unacceptable.

We had 50K people downtown yesterday, no ICE and zero incidents. ICE is the fucking problem.

Husband was just asking me what to do to get his ability to make memories back. I told him for today he’s lucky he doesn’t have it. That he exists just in the now, and today that’s a blessing. Going to put on some music now.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

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15yo is doing a last minute class project for French. Brandy chocolate truffles. He says there aren’t enough for us to taste test. I, for one, give him an F. Hmmmph