Cathey

21 days until Spring Break

i've been working on a story about sxsw that dives deep into the sort of hopeful things the festival programmed from like 1995-2019, and contrasting that with this year's schedule, which is all panels with names like "when ai kills your job" and "does anybody know what is happening anywhere anymore"

Gonna try to make a hair appointment on Monday. I definitely need a trim, but I'm on the fence about what color I want to make it. The purple I did the last time was phenomenal, and it's definitely not purple anymore, but maybe I'll try throwing in some pink or copper this time.

I'm only at work right now because I was too tired last night to concentrate on making sub plans.

I wish people understood how much work goes into teachers taking days off, even when they're hacking up a lung and exhausted sick.

Ye gads, yes they are.

*hugs*

I wrote words today for the first time since September. I guess all it takes is realizing I'm trapped in my own life and need to quit my job but have nowhere to go to really get those creative juices going.

Oh, that was a nice lil breakdown I had while getting dressed today.

I've toughed out this sinus infection for a week, have I earned some fucking antibiotics now?

You would think that, basically a full decade later, these people would've shut their traps by now, but nah. That'd be too easy.

Lmao, it's just like old times. Show on TV, blocking hateful shits on twitter.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Call me crazy, but I just think I shouldn't end every work week feeling like death warmed over the way I have so far this semester.

I try to only have alcohol on the weekends now, but after this week so far, the shit moods the kids have been in, having to cancel my debit card and get my online access reinstated as a result, I broke my own rule.

Worth it.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

I can tell we're going to have some kind of weather soon, because I woke up feeling like my head is in a vice.

Can't wait to drive to work and then stand in front of a bunch of yapping teenagers who want to argue basic arithmetic with me. Yay.

Is there a name for the mood when you just wanna listen to Hozier's Work Song on repeat? Because I'm in that mood.

Carrying out violence against a targeted group with the goal of affecting political outcomes is how this country defines terrorism and I am struggling to come up with a clear reason why the federal rampage on Minneapolis shouldn’t be thought of that way

Sadly, I'm not even sure this is price gouging because of the weather. It might just be the result of Temu Tangerine Palpatine's terrible decisions.

I spent over 100 bucks earlier on 2 4-packs of beer and a bag of dog food. But, y'know, everything's fine.

We had endless articles and TV clips about Biden's mental capacity but silence about Trump's obvious unfitness when he says he's going to start a war with Denmark over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

a man in a suit and tie is screaming with his mouth open and the words `` loud noises '' written on his face . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is screaming with his mouth open and the words `` loud noises '' written on his face .

(Everyone here would've been disappointed if nobody said it)

I tipsy!bought a couch for my new classroom last night. It'll come with me after this semester to a new office space if I get it, but I'm still shaking my head at myself.

Cue nothing but screeches until June or later.

Contemplating making pterodactyl screeches any time someone says or does something to inconvenience me for the next little while.

A teacher/school trend I hate: lunch and learns.

Just let me fucking eat my lunch in peace. It's 30 minutes at most in my day where someone isn't saying my name, making stupid hand gestures and chanting two numbers repeatedly, and i'm not expected to be grading something or speaking.

And so much of it could be avoided if they'd just STOP LETTING PEOPLE JOIN THE QUEUE WITHOUT PRESALE CODES.

for fuck's sake, make people enter the bloody code FIRST!

I honestly don't understand how they manage to get WORSE all the time.

Each big presale/sale I've joined is consistently more fucked up than the last.

Fucking ticketmaster.