Lauren Deal
@lpdeal.bsky.social
📓English teacher 🎭 theatre director
🤸🏻♀️ gymnastics at all times 📚 YA reader
🏳️🌈 ally & advocate 🌊 Outer Banks = home
🇧🇿 avid traveler 👁️ monocular
(lpdeal on bird app, barefoot on WWG, flamboyancetree on gym Reddit)
🤸🏻♀️ gymnastics at all times 📚 YA reader
🏳️🌈 ally & advocate 🌊 Outer Banks = home
🇧🇿 avid traveler 👁️ monocular
(lpdeal on bird app, barefoot on WWG, flamboyancetree on gym Reddit)
I’m pretty sure that Duke MyChart is my most-visited website at this point. I must be logging in at least five times a day for one reason or another. Trying to deal with my eye right now is absolutely exhausting.
February 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I’m pretty sure that Duke MyChart is my most-visited website at this point. I must be logging in at least five times a day for one reason or another. Trying to deal with my eye right now is absolutely exhausting.
I have a new growth in my eye socket. The dr just removed one on 12/26 & this one had not started growing at that point. There’s also another strange thing that I can’t identify & my surgeon is away on a mission trip until mid-Feb. I want to scream until my lungs are numb.
January 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I have a new growth in my eye socket. The dr just removed one on 12/26 & this one had not started growing at that point. There’s also another strange thing that I can’t identify & my surgeon is away on a mission trip until mid-Feb. I want to scream until my lungs are numb.
I am struggling today. Partly because almost missed most of my teletherapy appointment this morning (my fault), partly because I ran some errands that should have been easy but were really difficult, and partly because I’m just frustrated & sad & upset. But I’m really struggling.
January 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I am struggling today. Partly because almost missed most of my teletherapy appointment this morning (my fault), partly because I ran some errands that should have been easy but were really difficult, and partly because I’m just frustrated & sad & upset. But I’m really struggling.
I appreciate BlueSky’s intentions, and I would much rather be posting here, but Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is still the best place to follow live gymnastics meets, and that makes me sad.
January 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I appreciate BlueSky’s intentions, and I would much rather be posting here, but Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is still the best place to follow live gymnastics meets, and that makes me sad.
Couldn’t find the bowls that I set out last night to make snow cream, & figured a neighbor “helpfully” picked them up. Discovered a few minutes later that my bowls were buried under 2 inches of snow. 😳 (deck is weirdly bare, but there are 5–6 inches outside my front door)
January 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Couldn’t find the bowls that I set out last night to make snow cream, & figured a neighbor “helpfully” picked them up. Discovered a few minutes later that my bowls were buried under 2 inches of snow. 😳 (deck is weirdly bare, but there are 5–6 inches outside my front door)
I went to Staples to make some Amazon returns today & the cashier was a former student. She asked about my eyepatch & I said I’d had a couple of recent surgeries. She asked what kind. I never get specific unless people ask specific questions, so I gave her a nutshell version.
January 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I went to Staples to make some Amazon returns today & the cashier was a former student. She asked about my eyepatch & I said I’d had a couple of recent surgeries. She asked what kind. I never get specific unless people ask specific questions, so I gave her a nutshell version.
Between me and my dad, we have 5 streaming services and I still can’t watch the UCLA meet tonight 😒
January 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Between me and my dad, we have 5 streaming services and I still can’t watch the UCLA meet tonight 😒
I fully admit that this is pity party weekend & I can go back to being proactive & looking for help on Tuesday, but right now I’m pretty physically and emotionally crushed over school & my eye & I’m telling myself that I should be able to have a few days to grieve & not “look on the bright side!!”
January 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I fully admit that this is pity party weekend & I can go back to being proactive & looking for help on Tuesday, but right now I’m pretty physically and emotionally crushed over school & my eye & I’m telling myself that I should be able to have a few days to grieve & not “look on the bright side!!”
Back on disability indefinitely, starting on Monday. The school year is breaking my heart in a thousand different ways.
January 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Back on disability indefinitely, starting on Monday. The school year is breaking my heart in a thousand different ways.
Mika, you are my new bars obsession
January 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Mika, you are my new bars obsession
There is nothing more beautiful in the world than Brooklyn Moors’ LOSO
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
There is nothing more beautiful in the world than Brooklyn Moors’ LOSO
Why is it so hard for ESPN to plan timing for sports 😑
January 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Why is it so hard for ESPN to plan timing for sports 😑
First day of school (… take … I forget) tomorrow. Excited to be back with students, anxious about how my eye will hold up.
January 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
First day of school (… take … I forget) tomorrow. Excited to be back with students, anxious about how my eye will hold up.
Duke appointment didn’t go well yesterday. There is a new growth in my eye socket that required immediate outpatient (in-office) surgery, & the “undissolved stitches” I saw last week are actually hair. Growing hair.
December 27, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Duke appointment didn’t go well yesterday. There is a new growth in my eye socket that required immediate outpatient (in-office) surgery, & the “undissolved stitches” I saw last week are actually hair. Growing hair.
Eye emergency & resulting fallout is not how I expected to spend the beginning of Christmas at home. (Emergency handled at home & not ER or anything. Lots of ice. Stronger pain meds. Worries aplenty. Thought I had a strand of cat hair in my eye somehow. Wasn’t cat hair. Vein or undissolved stitch.)
December 22, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Eye emergency & resulting fallout is not how I expected to spend the beginning of Christmas at home. (Emergency handled at home & not ER or anything. Lots of ice. Stronger pain meds. Worries aplenty. Thought I had a strand of cat hair in my eye somehow. Wasn’t cat hair. Vein or undissolved stitch.)
On one hand, I’m beyond ready for NCAA gymnastics to start. On the other hand, I’m throwing hands if my eye still isn’t up to watching TV long enough for a meet or two by then.
December 17, 2024 at 7:07 PM
On one hand, I’m beyond ready for NCAA gymnastics to start. On the other hand, I’m throwing hands if my eye still isn’t up to watching TV long enough for a meet or two by then.
Almost 1am and here I am monologuing to my living room about what I am and am not willing to watch on Netflix. My tiny ugly Christmas tree is the only one here to listen.
This is a low place.
This is a low place.
December 15, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Almost 1am and here I am monologuing to my living room about what I am and am not willing to watch on Netflix. My tiny ugly Christmas tree is the only one here to listen.
This is a low place.
This is a low place.
I asked Alexa what the 7 stages of grief are. Yeah, I’m not doing to manage all of those.
December 9, 2024 at 9:11 PM
I asked Alexa what the 7 stages of grief are. Yeah, I’m not doing to manage all of those.
Today is one of the days that the side effects are harsh and I should not be driving, but I wish so much that I could just go to the beach and scream at the ocean. Today is just not a good day and I am so angry and frustrated and tired of dealing with all of it.
December 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Today is one of the days that the side effects are harsh and I should not be driving, but I wish so much that I could just go to the beach and scream at the ocean. Today is just not a good day and I am so angry and frustrated and tired of dealing with all of it.
Sometimes I really wish this app had the option to make my tweets (or whatever they’re called here) private.
December 6, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Sometimes I really wish this app had the option to make my tweets (or whatever they’re called here) private.
I’ll be returning to school on 1/3 & classes begin on 1/6. I’m trying to accomplish at least 1 major-ish task daily from now till then to be as ready as possible. Successful with that so far this week.
December 5, 2024 at 9:51 PM
I’ll be returning to school on 1/3 & classes begin on 1/6. I’m trying to accomplish at least 1 major-ish task daily from now till then to be as ready as possible. Successful with that so far this week.
Ask anyone I’ve ever taught if my clumsy self should ever be trusted with anything more dangerous than a plastic fork.
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December 3, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Ask anyone I’ve ever taught if my clumsy self should ever be trusted with anything more dangerous than a plastic fork.
Amazon where my parents live in Winston-Salem: IT WILL ARRIVE TOMORROW OR A LOCKER TONIGHT OK WE’RE 3 STOPS AWAY OK HERE’S A PIC OF IT ON YOUR PORCH
Amazon on the Outer Banks where I live: We can do 4 days, a week, whatever, sometime. Hey, it’s here in your mailbox or doorstep or somewhere, idk
Amazon on the Outer Banks where I live: We can do 4 days, a week, whatever, sometime. Hey, it’s here in your mailbox or doorstep or somewhere, idk
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Amazon where my parents live in Winston-Salem: IT WILL ARRIVE TOMORROW OR A LOCKER TONIGHT OK WE’RE 3 STOPS AWAY OK HERE’S A PIC OF IT ON YOUR PORCH
Amazon on the Outer Banks where I live: We can do 4 days, a week, whatever, sometime. Hey, it’s here in your mailbox or doorstep or somewhere, idk
Amazon on the Outer Banks where I live: We can do 4 days, a week, whatever, sometime. Hey, it’s here in your mailbox or doorstep or somewhere, idk
I don’t care if Stephen doesn’t win the mirrorball, that last freestyle won it all for me
November 27, 2024 at 3:35 AM
I don’t care if Stephen doesn’t win the mirrorball, that last freestyle won it all for me
Just now calming down from the synchronized flares in Stephen’s freestyle 😍😍😍
November 27, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Just now calming down from the synchronized flares in Stephen’s freestyle 😍😍😍