cassie ink

everyone is disguised just a little bit (WN39)

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Doing

I added a “bookshelf” (reading tracker) to this site! It’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time,1 but I finally felt I had the time, understanding of Hugo templates, and workflow with Obsidian to make it happen. It’s pretty empty right now and therefore I appear as a rube who has read only one and half books, but luckily I was able to add a miniscule disclaimer to the bottom of the page that defends my reputation (reproduced below).2

it's so hard to stay when all you wanna do is ride (WN38)

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This week was nuts. Oh, and I’m sick again (still?).

My birthday was Monday; I went right from teaching middle school to teaching my college course in the evening. I got home around 7:00pm, showered, ate dinner, and felt down — not because I had a particularly bad day, but it just felt like a bunch of stress came crashing upon me and like there was no way out. I guess I hoped something completely arbitrary like a birthday would wash away the weeks of discontent, but alas.

hang up and run to me (WN37)

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Doing

I’m doing better this week than last. I finally feel like I’m getting above water on my work, so I’ve been coming home at better times.1 Part of it is that I’ve accepted that my students this year are incredibly behind in their reading and writing skills and I have slowed my instruction way down as a result — not to “dumb it down” but to build good, strong foundations for them. I can’t just pass the problem along to the next grade. This probably means that we’re not going to get through the same amount of content as I usually do in an instructional year, but I’m lucky in that I teach a skills subject, not a content subject.2

no more conversations about what breakfast club character you'd be (WN36)

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Doing

I’m sick again (still?). As I wrote last week, I’ve had a lingering cough for going on two weeks. I visited urgent care and received a non-specific diagnosis, but they gave me an inhaler and said to come back if I wasn’t better in a week or two. On Wednesday or Thursday, I came down with a regular cold. It’s manageable, and I’m hoping it knocks whatever the cough was out of my system, but it feels like I can’t catch a break. Joe has been sick too, so we’ve been barely making it by; the house is messy and there are a lot of projects that I’d like to get to, but neither of us have felt up it.

just some other shit i've been dealing with (WN35)

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week notes more like month notes am i right