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Funny Teacher Moments
Boy 1: Was Edison the president? Boy 2: No, he built the lightbulb. Boy 3: You’re thinking about Ben Franklin! Boy 2: No… Boy 1: Ben Franklin was president? Boy 3: Yeah, and learned about electricity and lightning. Me: This level of confusion is above my pay grade.
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Funny Teacher Moments Cont’d…
Boy 1: Why is Kansas called a crossroads? Is it because we have a lot of train tracks? Boy 2: We’re the center of the country… Boy 1: So? Boy 2: … Boy 1: So why is Kan… Class: BECAUSE PEOPLE TRAVEL THROUGH A LOT! I understand there are cases where people have IEPs or…
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Funny Teacher Moments
Today I heard a seventh grade boy say, “I thought Mr. S was 20… but he’s like… 50!” This made me laugh, because when I was in 5th grade Mr. S had his first teaching job at the elementary school I attended and he made quite the splash. He is super handsome and all the…
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Travel Through Costco
Did you know you can book lavish vacations for EXTREMELY reasonable prices through Costco? Read Choi made a video about this on IG and I thought it was a farce, but I looked it up. You can go to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Tropics… it’s wild! I think the cheapest thing I saw was…
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First Substitute Teaching Assignment of the New Year
I am teaching seventh grade social studies this morning. So far the kids have asked The day is still young, but I am quite tired already. 2 hours and 18 minutes to go.
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Feeling Inexplicably Down
My shrink says I am experiencing a depressive episode. I have been since the holidays. All of my siblings were home and together and it was great. But when my sister and her husband left I got really sad. Since then I have just been sitting in my feelings. I am tired. I don’t want…
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Things I Want to Learn
I want to learn how to do makeup. Lately I have been watching a lot of videos by this woman named Selena. (@selenamup on social media) She is stunning, she is close to my age and she has the best tutorials. I have so far learned how to use color corrector and concealer more effectively.…
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Happy New Year
Happy year of the horse! I have lacked inspiration and things to write about lately. Life has been going on, the limbo between Christmas and New Year was pretty brutal. Now to survive until Spring when I can return to the lake… I am not usually one to wish winter away… but this winter things…
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Mean Bus Drivers
If you are a kid who rode the bust to/from school you either had or knew of someone who had a mean bus driver. Even if you weren’t a problem child, even if you flew under the radar, you still quaked in fear when they yelled or raised their voice or threatened you with assigned…
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Getting Stressed by Blessings
I was complaining to myself the other day about how tired I was and how many people were reaching out to me asking me to do things or participate in things. I was like, “Dadgum! I am exhausted, I want to hibernate, I don’t feel like socializing or burning what’s left of my social battery.”…
Redheaded Jill 