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plainy.bsky.social
Ale Checka
@plainy.bsky.social
Teacher, latinx, cranky
These devil children made my tall chair TOO TALL while I was absent so now I can’t teach anymore
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This time they’ve gone Too Far

THESE KIDS
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I was feeling decent about my general appearance today and then I was asked if I wanted the senior discount at a pizza place

That is the facial expression I did in response
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every year I kind of fixate on a magical thing that could happen in my garden. This year I made a magical nook with a yellow bench. You can drink tea and read books in there. Birds sing to you and sometimes there’s a little breeze that rustles the leaves.
September 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That’s me looking tired and disheveled, about to take an overnight train out of Union Station a few weeks ago. It was clean and nice and fine. What on earth would the Natl Guard do there? Mill around aimlessly?
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Okay, but here’s a photo I took for you in Mexico City
July 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Patience finally paying off in the backyard
June 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Going to a high school graduation as a middle school teacher is amazing. Feels like a flex and a victory lap and a validation and all the things. Hard work in the classroom pays off!!
May 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Dishes are DONE, man
May 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Packing up the classroom, and kids found this old teacher picture of me from a few years ago.

Eighth grader: “Wow! That’s the year I was born!!!”

Evidently 2011 was a little minute ago? And I am a thousand years old
May 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
First year with ranunculus, and I’ve learned that they open and close over the course of the day
May 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Long day at work, happy minute in the garden
May 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This is my post-work backyard face. I wanna hear all the birbs and smell all the flowers
April 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I came home and more lovelies are blooming. Waited four years for that peony to bloom
April 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My tia’s fridge speaking the same truth every visit. Once again, I will ignore it
April 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’m on my way to the funeral of my favorite Tio, the state leg just devastated public schools in Texas (again) and one of my peonies is starting to bloom for the first time
April 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kafka’s Metamorphosis with eighth graders, Y or N?
April 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Who is THIS?
April 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A new friend in the garden today
April 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
April 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It’s the day after the state reading test, so I brought out *THE GOOD STUFF today

*Cask of Amontillado and The Lottery
April 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’ve about had it with autocorrect.
April 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I take it back. Am in my hometown of Arlington, TX, and l’ll be damned- it’s packed. This is good
April 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I thought I had staunch bulwark of moral principle against the panopticon and blind acceptance of tech into our personal spaces but maybe I need a camera since we live in these times now. The mystery animal shredded the fringe on a canopied chair!!!
April 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Why would any creature mess with my backyard, which is a place of PEACE and SPLENDOR
April 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM