Hey. How is it only Wednesday? Tuesday was a whole week unto itself. I’m pretty sure I aged yesterday. The teaching part of the day was not the issue; the breaking-up-a-fight part of the day really threw me. No adult assistance until I’d managed the whole shitshow. Sigh. And they you go right back to teaching, even though your adrenaline is through the roof. Meanwhile, in response, my blood sugar is crashing all over the place. Pretty sure that’s abnormal. So it’s a good thing I wear this sensor that wakes me up three times in the night to tell me things are low. I’m so exhausted. We’re so close to the end. Egg drop is tomorrow. Today I need to get them through design and then not burning the place down. And try to finish grades. I’m getting there. Really. Just all the absent kids make it hard. Parents are already pulling kids…suspect they’ll all show up on promotion day after missing two weeks of school and wondering why they now have an F. Crazy parenting y’all. Anyway, six days. Only two with teaching. I can do it. So can they. No more fights. Please.
I did start ironing Monday night, finally.
It’s been a slow start…finished (mostly) the first 100 pieces last night…
I had to find three runs of five fabrics for three different flesh tones.
Crazy. But it’s a solid start and hopefully I’ll get a chunk done this weekend and then bang it out quickly after (oh wait, I’m buried in doctors’ appointments and then going to San Francisco right after we get out of school). It’ll be fine. I need this piece significantly completed (not done, but getting there) by the time I leave. Which I don’t think I’ll be able to do. We’ll see.
This is a kid who uses Google Translate a lot due to limited English skills, but has obviously transitioned into AI…and I don’t even know what he copied in, because this should be about space…and it’s most definitely not.
Also totally didn’t look at the resources. They were about space. I swear. Sometimes I wonder about these kids.
This is shit. Absolute hateful shit.
Deny their existence? I’d like to deny the existence of a few white males. Maybe more than a few.
You know, Merlin didn’t exist when I was in my 30s or I would have totally used it then. I definitely use it now.
Today. Sigh. It has to be chill. I need them to just design and chill. Let’s hope. Then pilates. Then more grade stuff. Maybe. I’m at this point where I can’t quite finish them until Thursday but they have to be done Friday. So I just need everything done before that. Then ironing. I’m looking forward to being done with grades and fully into ironing. Coming home and just making art.
Kathy Nida 