Covid = bed + LOTR extended versions while revising (between naps, of course.)

That’s my friend!!! So well-deserved!

The “special guest” wasn’t one person. It was all of us. And then friends we met along the way.

The mullet of online zoom meetings. Business up top. Comfy sweats on the bottom. I’m nothing if not a professional.

That moment when your family comes home from a trip across the state and the kid discovers that the store didn’t remove the security tag from the pants she wanted to wear the first week of school. So now the pants are unwearable until we go back to the other side of the state 🤦‍♀️

Turned my revisions into my agent, which is a good thing because some personal news: I’m a professor now- teaching Eng 101&comp full-time this fall. Classes start in a couple of weeks so the mad dash is on to get everything ready. I’m just a little excited (and overwhelmed.)

National dog day, you say? Even though Whopper (front) chased a cat across the neighborhood last night, and Rollo (back) coated himself in mud, they’re still the very best of bois.

Ahhhhh!!! This is my friend and so well-deserved! So proud of you, Robyn ❤️❤️❤️

Yeah, I totally made a meme for my syllabus. Because I am a professional.

First Saturday after the first week of senior year = I’m letting the teen sleep all day if she wants.

Bi Visibility Month, you say? Well hi there. Here I am being visible and professorial while recording lessons for my Eng 101 students

That’s my friend!

so well-deserved! ❤️❤️❤️

Portrait of a high school senior girl’s bedroom. Still life. Alternatively titled, when you love the horror but you still need your stuffies. And your Miles Teller woobie, obviously.

Enough

Veteran public school teacher here. Yesterday, I walked into my new classroom at the college where I’ll be teaching undergrads, and one of the first thoughts in my head was to scan the room for window locations, doors, and hiding spots. I hate it.

That’s my friend!!

First-year professor problems: when students start emailing about the book, and you learn the bookstore forgot to order it. 🤦‍♀️😫So you give your students links to other sellers, and in the meantime, decide to just scan the first few chapters and your scanner/printer refuses 🤦‍♀️😡

TW: school shootings. Had our all-campus staff/faculty active shooter training with the local P.D. today. The worst part? This quote from the Sergeant: “I hate this, but we have to stop the killing before we can stop the dying” re: first responders not triaging victims.

Because my friend Jenn said I had to