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Also, and I can’t believe this is controversial: immigration is good actually and is what if anything made America great.

The school year has been over for 27 hours and I’ve already taken two naps 🤣

School ends tomorrow and I keep thinking about what my students could have done, could have learned, could have accomplished, if they’d had a regular year where their teacher wasn’t out sick for four months.

Awwww

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend but both of them are miserable right now and I am not above reveling in that a bit. But also, this 👇🏼

I’ve been teaching a long time. There’s been lots of kids who touched my heart in one way or another but I’ve had one kid the last two years who just…I guess the best way to put it is that I get them, they get me, and we just vibe in a way that’s special.

Thomas Guides FTW. But I do have to smile because my grandpa helped develop the very early iterations of gps tech.

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.

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.

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.

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. 🎉

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

That cameo though ❤️❤️ #DoctorWho

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

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

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

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

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.)

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.)

*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.

Correct answer number two.

Correct answer number one.

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.