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Flu season is like the Super Bowl for attendance clerks.
The last two days have been insane. You would think having so many students absent would make my job easier, but it does not. So many phone calls, all day long! Staff are dropping like flies! And this is not an easy week to get substitutes in the door. I am drinking massive amounts of
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Work is getting both easier and harder
Work is getting harder, but not in the way I expected. As far as the actual workload and my flow, things are going pretty well. I am still learning (I think I will say that phrase every day until I retire), but things are running smoothly. Working at a school is so much easier when
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When there’s nobody left to do the invisible labor of family life.
I try to not spend too much time on Facebook, but when I do make my way over there I am inevitably pulled in by the Reels. Facebook Reels are terrible, but so interesting. I get a lot of cat content tossed at me (A+) and recently a lot of piano content (also A+, I
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December Update
We are four days into December and my de-Grinch-ification efforts are going well. Presents have been purchased, although not wrapped. We have a tree with ornaments. We have candles, Advent and non-Advent. I signed up for the gift exchange at work. ME! The Grinch! Signing up for an extra gift purchase! Am I having a
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Casey, the Anti-Grinch
My blog is fixed! It was broken for weeks, and I could not bring myself to even begin investigating the situation. I have this blog because I want to write, not because I care about encryption protocols! A ten-minute chat with Bluehost tech support solved the issue. If only I had done this weeks ago.
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Checkmate
I am still luxuriating in all the space we suddenly have here in this new house. Do you know how many times I used to have to clear the dining room table at our last house? When the kids were home full-time I remember clearing art projects in the morning for lunch, and then clearing
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Home
For most of my life, home was my mom’s house in my hometown. We moved there right after I turned four. My sister and I spent the next several years building elaborate My Little Pony villages in the basement playroom. I spent hours on my pogo stick in the driveway where my dad parked until
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Like Molasses
I feel like I am moving in slow motion when it comes to house projects. An example. One of the things that most excited us about the new house was the finished attic space. There is a legitimate bedroom up there, and right next to it there’s a funky, finished room with a skylight. We
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Piano, Resurrected
I started piano lessons this week. I’ve been wanting to get back to lessons for several years but have hesitated for various reasons. One reason is that for the past several years I’ve also been applying for jobs, and it’s hard to commit to lessons when you have no idea what your life is going
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You can never go back.
We sold our old house this week. I drove by it on the way to work on Thursday morning–staring at the orange door, knowing it was no longer mine to unlock. I know that house will start showing up in my dreams soon. And it will probably make me dream-cry. Does anyone else cry in