getting rejected from a dream job hurts… especially when they say they “aren’t moving forward with the position” and then repost it online

i think the students (middle schoolers) successfully coup’ed me today

something i have learned from substitute teaching is how much i love the investigative and creative side of science. today i was in class where students could build anything they wanted out of legos, magnetic tiles, etc… and it was so refreshing to see joy in exploration

I can't speak for anyone else,

But a thing that I am finding is really helping me to get through all this nonsense

is helping others.

It can be something small- sharing a job ad with a fired colleague, looking over a resume- or something larger.

But helping others helps me.

One nice thing about foraging compared to other hobbies is that no one spends $10,000 on stuff for it

listening to non-fiction audiobooks at 1.5x speed makes me feel like i’m back in zoom university

saw a sticky note by a first grader that just said “ur mom” today

maybe the kids are alright

sometimes when you’re crying you lock yourself in a stairwell… and that’s okay

a lot of being a substitute teacher is just physically being present and looking serious enough students do their work but they don’t know pink pony club is playing on loop in my head

saying a virus is alive is like saying typing a bunch of code is microsoft word and calling it coding

it’s so wild trying to read scientific papers as a recently graduated person from an academic institute, i feel like a monkey looking through the glass at a zoo seeing all the papers i could read but can’t with academic credentials