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Phoenix
I love my job. I am so very glad I made the decision I made. I feel so much lighter and free...like I can grow again and work towards who I want to be. I just have had such an awesome experience this year, in this district, with this staff... I am really busy, thus the reduced entries, but I'm busy figuring out how to make learning fun and ( Read more... ) -
Legacy
So today was the first day with students at my new position. I also had a former student ask me to stop by as she had just had her first child. On the way home I was pondering these thoughts ( Read more... ) -
DDLC
So. I played Doki Doki Literature Club last night ( Read more... ) -
Metalinguistics
So I have nearly completed my work for the first year of graduate school. It was intense, immersive, and fascinating. It has been without a doubt one of the most positive experiences of my life, which is such a nice change after the last two years. I will put all that into a different post though as I want to talk about recent research before I ( Read more... ) -
Kuroshitsuji Manga
Cutting for ( Major spoilers for Chapter 129. ) -
Gratitude
I was talking to another teacher today and she was commenting on how a class she is taking is very racially divided and that it makes her sad to see that. I agreed and we started talking about what teachers bring to the classroom and the biases we have that we don't even realize ( Read more... ) -
Grief
One of the hardest things I've had to do in my life is silently mourn the loss of a child I will never have while hiding behind my excitement for all of the recent new mothers around me ( Read more... ) -
New Year
2016 was a bad year for a lot of people. Someone told me today, in regards to a mutual friend, that she lives in the grief. She commented that she doesn't express it but lets it marinate. I asked what I do and she said it consumes me and will come in a wave and then it's over ( Read more... ) -
My Power, My Success
What is more important: the destination or the journey? At what point does destination matter more than the path you take to get there? Or when the destination ceases to be achieved because the path went so far astray? Maybe when it comes down to it, there are only three types of people; those who ultimately value the destination, those who ( Read more... ) -
Grief's Touch
Sometimes the human heart amazes me. It seems capable of so holding so much without breaking and even then, it finds ways to move forward ( Read more... )