Discussions that don’t happen in other workplaces:
Them: Why do you have a bandaid?
Me: I burned myself a little cooking.
Them: Ooh! Can I see?

Because Bluesky seems like a safe place to share embarrassing obsessions: I cannot get over the moment starting about 1:30 here where a mischievous songwriter convinces KAJ that they lost to Måns, and on to the final result: youtu.be/QOTIklTwNiU?...

Going back to grad school is messing with my head. Dreamt last night that, instead of a paper, I had accidentally turned in a pile of teeth.

We’ve reached the point of the year where my students have figured out I’m a big old pushover, but at least I can still terrify the cat by standing up slightly faster than he thought I could.

i may have gotten a bit carried away. santas taking over the dining room.

Conversation at a college recruitment event tonight:
Recruiter: You son is also looking at Concordia Moorhead? But their mascot…isn’t it a corncob?
Me: Yeah, that’s actually a selling point for our kid.

Yay! Such a valuable training. Really wish I’d been taught any of it during teacher training, I wasted so many years not understanding why my kids weren’t reading or how to help them. #scienceofreading

My inaugural Bluesky post:

Interior Chinatown is a ton of fun, y’all should watch it.

Stay tuned for more deep thoughts.