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I had a mostly good day at work today! I actually was productive for almost all of it! Now I would _very much_ like to be done. Unfortunately I have a geometry team meeting and then an equity meeting.

But I am actually finished with prep for tomorrow, including slides which is something that hasn't been true in months.

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Okay, wrote the above at about 1:30. I have since done both of those meetings (both of which were good --I was actually trying to write some of these words during the geometry team meeting, but it was too engaging and useful so I focused instead. Huzzah.)

I fucked around in my classroom for about an hour afterwards, despite being totally done with everything, then set Forest going and walked home. This meant I got home and still had just heaps of time on Power Hour mode which was extremely rude of me. But between good work day and that, here are the things I have done today:

*Made many copies of many things, but critically, all the papers for tomorrow's classes, except for the midterm review packets which weren't finished until the geometry team meeting. I'll try and get to work tomorrowmorn in time to do those.

*Prepped my classes the rest of the way, by like making slides and everything.

*Graded the do nows for the one class that did them (I am back to my old way and it's so much better, note to self, change is bad)

*Put together an answer key for the performance task the ninth graders are doing

*Also ran the performance task for both classes of ninth graders, including doing interference and answering questions and sometimes very pointedly not answering questions because like, y'all. This is technically an assessment. I need to assess if you know anything.

*My reward is that one of my groups opted for a horror movie poster when they got to the part that was "make a movie poster" and it's _great_. To be clear, the theme of the first part of the task is a football player on a field being illuminated by floodlights and it's all about shadow length and stuff. You need to make a poster for "Floodlights: The Movie", so mostly like, we get football themed stuff. Last year, it was a group that made a carnivorous football out for blood. This year, the subtitle is "the last QB" and they asked if they could cut off the head of the little clipart football player they're required to incorporate and I said yes as long as it still made it onto the poster somewhere, so he's just carrying it as the ball. I love my children so much. This bullet point isn't an accomplishment or anything, but it is just like, good.

*Had aforementioned good geometry team meeting (where we sorta slightly overwhelmed my new mentee with a little bit of "it's awesome that you want to help the students study for the midterm, do it with WAY less work") and good equity team meeting (where we got to be very slightly snarky about our secret agenda of helping promote academic equity).

*Walked home, am in the middle of some wild ass-daydreams, but that's fine, it's novel at least

*Put away all the hang-up laundry, which has badly needed it (since before Arisia)

*Began loads one (and subsequently two) of running laundry. I suspect there's four loads alltogether but there might be five because...

*Stripped the bed, remade the bed, brought the old sheets down to the washer

*Did a little bit of knitting while listening to music (listening to music is acceptable during a power hour as long as there is an absolute minimum of fucking around with what music. In this case, it was "search Seeming, hit play". I'm obsessed but you know what, it's better than listening to silence.)

*Put all the clean dishes away and reloaded the dishwasher

*Ate dinner! Which brings us to now, and theoretically writing my words and I could get into a loop, but I shant.

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I'm trying to use Habitica again, after many ages, to track all my dailies and stuff. It's going pretty well! Today I only have four things left to do, and I actually might get them all done, which would be Very Impressive. We'll see how it goes.

My world is absolutely falling apart, especially on the macro level, but the good news is that everyone else around me is also living in 2026 in the united states, so they mostly get it. May we all make it through.

I love you, and hope you're doing well.

~Sor
MOOP!

It's Monday!

We had a snow day today, which was very good. I managed to mostly not just play Stardew Valley the entire day straight, and actually do some grading. By which I mean, uh, about an hours worth total. Oh well. It's a start.

(I also did some nice things in Stardew).

Honestly the hour of grading I did was maybe the second most important hour of all of it. There's one more really important hour (actually enter comments) but now I'm in a much less dire place than I was. And yeah, there are several hours in between these two hours, but if they don't happen, they don't happen and everyone will live.

It is hard to care as much about Doing Good At My Job when like, fascism. Am I being kind? Am I hopefully teaching my students to be kind? I think that's probably more important than grading everything to the absolute pinnacle of my ability. Or so I'm telling myself. :/

After some grading and Stardew happened, Austin braved the Many Snow to come visit for regular Mondate! This is good! He showed me some of the things he worked on at Mystery Hunt, and we ate ice cream, and watched an episode of Leverage. It's the Grave Danger Job, which is mostly really good but the last five minutes where the team gets revenge on the drug cartel by using Homeland Security against them.......yeahhh that hits different in 2026 than it did in 2006. Blugh.

(Both Aldis Hodge and Beth Reisgraf are really good actors and able to put it on full display here. I do really like that part, and I like how good this episode is for the OT3 of all OT3s.)

Tomorrow is also a snow day, which is a very very good thing. I might walk Austin to the work shuttle, if I'm feeling very brave --I technically haven't left the house since arriving here Friday evening and it's probably time. The backyard is excitingly drifty! I don't think we have a sled anymore --I think someone borrowed it somewhere along the way and it never returned-- but fucking around on the bike path while wearing many gear seems like a noble pursuit. Maybe I will even bring a camera?

I hope you are staying safe and being kind to your neighbors and occasionally calling your politicians to yell at them. For what little it's worth, ICE's funding is going to run out unless the senate votes to extend it, so maybe like, call your senators sometime in the next day or two and tell them to fucking not?

<3
~Sor
MOOP!