I’m just going to go ahead and apologize for what is going to seem very stream of consciousness up in here. But y’all? My head and heart are all swimming with words that I cannot pour out onto this screen for one reason or another. If I talk about the fact that my ovaries are…
being an adult sucks sometimes
Mewed up to my heaviness
There is so much I want to say here. So much I want to just pour on this page and out of my heart. So many tears that are in my throat and stuck right behind my eyes. Tears that won’t come. Tonight my mind is full. Bursting with thoughts, mostly negative. Many sad. My…
Cognitive Dissonance
cognitive dissonance –noun anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves strongly of one of his or her habits. I’ve tried for most of today to think about what to say and how to say it. To balance what I…
I can do anything as long as I know there’s an end to it
My motivation to do anything academic has taken a huge plummet and I can’t seem to recover. I’m tired of attitude from teenagers. I’m tired of eye-rolling. I’m tired of the mumbling under the breath. I’m tired of kids who think they don’t have to follow the rules. I’m tired of feeling like they hate…
Some days you feel like a…
If I’m being perfectly honest? I’m not feeling like an awesome teacher these days. In fact, I’m feeling far from it. Maybe I’m just run down because it’s the end of the year. Maybe there’s just too much talk in the news about educators and how we should be doing our jobs. Maybe there’s just…