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1. I have never in my life by half felt as consistently exhausted as I have the last two weeks. Packing the classroom is physically draining; supporting a very anxious fifth grader who REALLY doesn’t want to leave for middle school is mentally draining. But.

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Why, yes, I do make sure my students have the quintessential kid experience of signing each others' yearbooks (or the autograph books I make for the kids who don't buy yearbooks). I project these options for them to copy, and have cut-and-paste ones for my kids who don't write.

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First movie I saw in the theater in our local mall. The area where the theater used to be has changed several times since. Last I noticed, I think it was an Old Navy and a couple smaller stores. I forget what took that area upstairs.

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Usual disclaimer: all mobility is good and valid mobility and I am simply using this as a measure of my own physical recovery. I have waited in line for a Disneyland attraction without a mobility device of any kind for the first time since September. 🎉

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“But only the old favorites, eh?” #DoctorWho

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That cameo though ❤️❤️ #DoctorWho

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“I should say that to {spoiler}.” And the reply, which is also spoilery. Oh my GOD. 😭😭 #DoctorWho

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I have many, many Quakers in my family tree. Proud about that today.

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See a Doc, post a Doc (literally in this case 🤣)

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Aaah, that amazing moment when you finally sneeze the sneeze that’s been threatening since like 10 am 🤣

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Last full IEP of the year: done. I have one more short one tomorrow for reasons beyond my control and then I can actually do progress reports and report cards and cumulative files and finish packing and . . . . (School ends a week from Friday.)

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Current status: (Be kind to teachers always. But especially at the end of the year. Especially when they also have to pack up their whole room for the second year in a row so they can get new furniture and new walls a year after getting new floors.)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

*whispers* I usually just…don’t. If one side of my potatoes are crispier than the others, so be it. And I’m the gal who made homemade granola bars and homemade hard candy lozenges this weekend.

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Correct answer number two.

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Correct answer number one.

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I was too naive a 14-year-old to really envision, shall we say, what he was getting at, but I still found that joke funny.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Speaking of Peter David, his two “Babylon 5” episodes were stellar (though I’m not a HUGE fan of the closing joke in “Soul Mates,” I get it was laying the groundwork for something else being possible in the future). Ivanova’s rant about the B5 merchandise is a thing of beauty.

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Will and Deanna were my first ‘ship (though that wouldn’t become a verb until the X-Files days) from the moment I first saw them interact in Encounter at Farpoint when I was 9. I waited extremely impatiently for “Imzadi’ to come out. I’d already read “A Rock and a Hard Place” and really enjoyed it.

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Finished listening to “Cuckoo’s Egg” by CJ Cherryh and, dang, I always forget how darn good she is at crafting alien psychologies. She wrote it in 1985 but darned if I don’t want to know what happened when that message was received.

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Beyond his impressive run in the #StarTrek comics world, Peter David authored of some of the most memorable #StarTrek tie-in novels — the legendary IMZADI, the extraordinary Q-SQUARED, plus VENDETTA, Q-IN-LAW, and the entire NEW FRONTIER series. A great loss - RIP indeed.

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*sigh* May his memory be a blessing.

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