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Happy New Year's to you, friend!!

8: What was your biggest achievement of the year?

My paper "Don't Mourn--Organize": Martyrdom, Collectivism, and the Religious Impulse in the Industrial Workers of the World!!

24: What was the best book you read?

There is a Mystrade sound of music au it’s by whiskydaisy :)

anxiety-junkie replied to your post: In Which the World Needs More Sound of...

There is a Mystrade one that I just read, actually! archiveofourown.org/wor…

duchesscloverly replied to your post: In Which the World Needs More Sound of...

There actually is a SoM Mystrade fic: archiveofourown.org/wor…

Disclaimer: I am not psychic. The things that happen in this reading may be true, may not. A big part of doing tarot is knowing a person, or at least being able to know a few things about the person. You're not sitting in front of me, so it's a bit tough. And remember: tarot doesn't dictate the future. It points out things that you may want to look out for. You can always change your destiny.

Tagging: I will be tagging these posts as Tarot Wednesday, if you don't want to see them on your dash!

Hydrangea: Starbucks order?

DYNAMITE

bfab11 replied to your post “Uggggh. Guys. Don’t be teachers. The grading doldrums are hell. I just...”

Too bad you can't just like, leave kudos like on AO3. Comments "good story, more porn please."

Ugh right. I know some teachers that use a sort of auto-system where they just plug in appropriate generic comments but I can't do that so. You know. Here we are.

alyacta replied to your post “Uggggh. Guys. Don’t be teachers. The grading doldrums are hell. I just...”

Yeah, grading is the evil of evilness (I've done a year of teaching, I can sympathize). Getting to tell them things they didn't know before, though, especially if they're excited about it? That part's worth the grading doldrums, right?

I really love teaching...in person. I hate teaching online. It's a terrible job, and none of the teachers I know like it. It takes away everything about teaching that you can feel good about (the interactions between students and teachers, interactions between students and other students, answering questions organically as they come up, improvising, using fun daily assignments to help things stick...). None of that happens in an online class. I record a lecture, they do the reading (maybe), they write a paper. That's about it. It's depressing.

applerepublic replied to your post “Uggggh. Guys. Don’t be teachers. The grading doldrums are hell. I just...”

That's so interesting because as a teacher that's one of my favorite parts of the job, is helping kids get better. And ok mine are younger than yours, but, it's something I like.

Grapefruit: I don't care so much for your blog, but I'm rather interested in you as a person.

Kiwi: Love your blog, equally interested in you as a person.