sorchasilver
@sorchasilver.bsky.social
Teacher, fangirl, fortysomething, fat, ace, cat lady. She/her. Same username here, there and everywhere.
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Anyone using Finch - my friend code is S3EED3PG6C. Please feel free to add me 🥰
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
January 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery
Marking philosophy essays from my bed by dictating voice notes on my phone on a Saturday morning. Yay teaching!
January 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Marking philosophy essays from my bed by dictating voice notes on my phone on a Saturday morning. Yay teaching!
Fire engine two doors down, looks like the roof of the flats may have come off. They’ve cordoned off the pavement around the area. #StormEowyn
January 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Fire engine two doors down, looks like the roof of the flats may have come off. They’ve cordoned off the pavement around the area. #StormEowyn
Just got jump scared by the emergency alert from the government going off on my phone!
January 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Just got jump scared by the emergency alert from the government going off on my phone!
School will be closed tomorrow due to the red weather warning, courtesy of Storm Éowyn, so I’m heading home for an unexpected long weekend!
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
School will be closed tomorrow due to the red weather warning, courtesy of Storm Éowyn, so I’m heading home for an unexpected long weekend!
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What do I do now? I run social media. Which was the most relevant major for what I do now? The religious studies, although the political science and acting both also helped.
January 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
What do I do now? I run social media. Which was the most relevant major for what I do now? The religious studies, although the political science and acting both also helped.
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. To go into teaching
2. Religious Studies
3. No change
4. I teach Religious Studies and Philosophy
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. To go into teaching
2. Religious Studies
3. No change
4. I teach Religious Studies and Philosophy
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. no idea
2. Sociology
3. Changed to computer science, and then from CS to math, and added a second major in chemistry
4. Write romance novels
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. no idea
2. Sociology
3. Changed to computer science, and then from CS to math, and added a second major in chemistry
4. Write romance novels
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. therapist in a psychiatric inpatient setting
2. Psychology
3. Psychology, plus a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies
4. went to grad school
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. therapist in a psychiatric inpatient setting
2. Psychology
3. Psychology, plus a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies
4. went to grad school
January 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you went to college
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. To go into teaching
2. Religious Studies
3. No change
4. I teach Religious Studies and Philosophy
1. career goal when you started?
2. your initial major?
3. if you changed majors, what did you change to?
4. what do you do now?
1. To go into teaching
2. Religious Studies
3. No change
4. I teach Religious Studies and Philosophy
Good morning, Bluesky! I have been awake since 3.40AM for no good reason and I have to write data-heavy reports on my exam class this morning. I can drink Coke before 8AM, right?
January 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Good morning, Bluesky! I have been awake since 3.40AM for no good reason and I have to write data-heavy reports on my exam class this morning. I can drink Coke before 8AM, right?
Ugh, this week is already too much and it’s only Tuesday. Please can tomorrow just be a quiet, simple day where I get to teach my classes and write my reports.
January 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ugh, this week is already too much and it’s only Tuesday. Please can tomorrow just be a quiet, simple day where I get to teach my classes and write my reports.
Accidentally shooting a witch in the head with a bow and arrow because I thought she was a magical deer.
January 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Accidentally shooting a witch in the head with a bow and arrow because I thought she was a magical deer.
The Niece and her fiancé brought the baby over to visit for the first time, so I got to spend the last hour cuddling a newborn. Such a tiny yet solid little bundle. He makes the best grumpy noises! 🥰
January 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Niece and her fiancé brought the baby over to visit for the first time, so I got to spend the last hour cuddling a newborn. Such a tiny yet solid little bundle. He makes the best grumpy noises! 🥰
Testing out the new facial steamer I got as a Christmas present, and I think I like this! Seems a bit extra but it’s so soothing.
January 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Testing out the new facial steamer I got as a Christmas present, and I think I like this! Seems a bit extra but it’s so soothing.
Spent the afternoon doing laundry, cleaning my room, emptying and disinfecting the litter tray, sorting and taking out the recycling, and emptying all the bins and taking the rubbish out. Not nearly as fun as last Saturday, but I do feel a definite sense of satisfaction now it’s done.
January 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Spent the afternoon doing laundry, cleaning my room, emptying and disinfecting the litter tray, sorting and taking out the recycling, and emptying all the bins and taking the rubbish out. Not nearly as fun as last Saturday, but I do feel a definite sense of satisfaction now it’s done.
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I miss the fish
January 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I miss the fish
Made it through 1st day back (no students today, just staff meetings and trainings). Sadly a colleague died on Friday so morning sessions were cancelled apart from a brief meeting to share the sad news and supports available. I didn’t know him particularly well but he was always kind and friendly.
January 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Made it through 1st day back (no students today, just staff meetings and trainings). Sadly a colleague died on Friday so morning sessions were cancelled apart from a brief meeting to share the sad news and supports available. I didn’t know him particularly well but he was always kind and friendly.
I have been to the British Library and to Hadestown and to Greenwich this weekend, and now I am relaxing in the 1st Class Lounge at King’s Cross, having said goodbye to @vae.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I have been to the British Library and to Hadestown and to Greenwich this weekend, and now I am relaxing in the 1st Class Lounge at King’s Cross, having said goodbye to @vae.bsky.social
Glimpsed from the train window while at York station
January 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Glimpsed from the train window while at York station
Got to train station early (as usual), but pleasantly surprised to get platform number almost half an hour before departure. Am on train with 20 mins to go!
January 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Got to train station early (as usual), but pleasantly surprised to get platform number almost half an hour before departure. Am on train with 20 mins to go!
Happy New Year, everyone!
January 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Happy New Year, everyone!
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
Last time it was cancelled I ended up seeing in the New Year halfway up the Radical Road, ankle deep in snow, drinking champagne from a bottle.
December 30, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Last time it was cancelled I ended up seeing in the New Year halfway up the Radical Road, ankle deep in snow, drinking champagne from a bottle.
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Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
December 30, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
This definitely feels like an omen of SOMETHING 👀 #fiveforsilver
December 27, 2024 at 1:03 PM
This definitely feels like an omen of SOMETHING 👀 #fiveforsilver