Someone Touched My Copier

Someone Touched My Copier

I’ve worked in schools for seventeen years. I’ve worked with a lot of copiers in that time. The one we have at work right now? Is the worst. It won’t change drawers if it runs out of paper! It has four drawers, and if it “auto-selects” drawer three for a document and drawer three runs […]

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I’m Tired

I'm Tired

Every year. I make big but reasonable plans to get this year off to a good start. I’ll make healthy breakfast and lunch, I’ll get enough sleep, I’ll plan it all and it will be fine. Yeah. Meal-planning is much like novel research. It’s just so easy to wander off and find yourself an hour

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Tomorrow They Come

Hey, look, it hasn’t been a month since my last post! Can’t believe it’s really truly back to school already, but yesterday we had a Meet the Teacher event. Tomorrow the students come back. But I’m holding it together. I’m actually doing better than I’ve done in a long time at existing outside of work

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A Month Later…

A Month Later...

Whoops. Look, there are going to be false starts in this back-to-blogging-regularly thing. Approximately *checks notes* twenty-seven of them, if my math is correct. Some of the stuff on the list of DOOM got done, most didn’t. We did go camping. It was wonderful. The child came home, other teenagers came to live with us,

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MnotIA

Yeah, I kind of vanished there. I got annoyed by the hot water heater issue, couldn’t get it solved, got stuck on EVERYTHING because of that one thing, and now here we are, with a book edit due tomorrow and the roomie coming home Tuesday, and everything is half-done or not even begun. Blargh. So

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Today the Oops

Today the Oops

List-tackling today did not go well. As my friend Debbie pointed out, growing a list too much makes it overwhelming. Also, the things I was trying hardest to do today–drain and flush the water heater, and fix the hole in the wall–did not really want to be done. I hurt my arm trying to make

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DOOM LIST continued

I could go back and count days, but nobody really cares, do we? That’s what I thought. LIST! Which…omg, I gotta start focusing. It looks so bad because I take one thing off one section, and do half of one thing in another section… But I got this. The list goes ever on and on,

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