Just a teacher Looking for a tutor Because teaching your own kids is a completely different, clawed, 3-headed animal.

What stage of burnout is it when you start referring to yourself in the third person because Steph is there

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to bring this bag of leftover Halloween candy to my office for a class that doesn't meet until 2:30. But the good news is I don't need lunch.

Like a spelling bee, but it's pronouncing dinosaur names. The three-year-olds would steamroll us.

Parenting is hard because it's illogical. Someone *should* not be sick this frequently. So many checkups in a month is coo coo. But school aged children...

I feel like you don't see the word "mushy" that often, and then Thanksgiving comes and Boom---everything is on the brink of mush. Mac and cheese, stuffing, black eyed peas, apple pie filling--It's a mushy minefield.

Because of all the logistics, I always host a Thanksgiving lunch. Dinner would be so much more relaxing. With the lunch time crunch I always end up yelling at my rolls to rise faster.

That mac and cheese recipe that calls for 1 pound of pasta and 3 pounds of cheese. That's the right one. The rightest.

I used to think that anyone who followed me who only had reposted content was a bot. But I just read some stats about how the vast majority of internet users just browse and rarely, if ever, create their own content. Wowza.

J opened a bag of marshmallows for cocoa, and everyone in the family stopped what they were doing to scoop because we're all heartfelt believers that they are at their best when you *just* opened the bag, they'll never be as good as right now clock is ticking this is not a drill

Just read a scholarly article that claimed it was time to move on from education's "obsession" with reading and writing in the wake of A.I. and new media. I don't smoke, but this calls for the big pack of little Debbie Christmas tree cakes.

I teach research and APA formatting is a big part of that. I've been submitting my own assignments in a program, and the facilitator keeps commenting that I got everything perfect except the APA. "Work on APA." LIKE DUDE

I know many teachers don't take late work, but when you do, you get to see this adrenaline rush, werewolf-esque transformation where even the most behind student is suddenly--

Our end of semester class debate challenge is a school board meeting setup. A million dollar project for a sport complex or the same for an arts complex. They have a team, but they don't know which side they are on until debate day. And I love it.

Every year I have to give a zero in my research class because, after a whole semester going over research, someone turns in a final project with no research in it.

"How do you know it's A.I.?" If you read the same magazine for 20 years and suddenly a 13 year old with a thesaurus took over the publication, don't you think you'd notice?

A learning system that automatically (without me having to drag and download everything) compares changes made between essay drafts would be worth a couple of giant pirate treasure chests.

I can't grade personal narratives. Some cold-blooded vampire out there is reading about someone's childhood hell story and writing "C-, work on paragraph breaks and proofreading." Some things just get complete sentences of considerate feedback. No grade scale.

Hi. So, if someone is struggling to write coherently, encouraging them to use A.I. ensures that they will *never* write coherently. Outsourcing thinking is not education.

Essays have me reacting like the potluck lady. "But did you write it? 10 years in Azkaban, no parole" (Getting a research paper with no research in it) "DEATH ROW!" "Is that a human misspelling? The knighthood!"