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laura, 26. high school teacher. self-taught coffee enthusiast. a heck of a procrastinator, but a bit of a dreamer. trying to find the mundane intriguing once again. navigation for mobile users.

[ambitionsncoffee]

Re-introductory post

I have no idea if anybody's going to read this or is even remotely interested, but the last time I actively used this tumblr I was 21 and in college studying Clinical Psychology.

Time moves in the blink of an eye and life changes drastically, so let me introduce myself again.

Hello! My name's Laura, I'm 26, born and raised in the Dominican Republic and I've been a teacher for 5 years. My last year I was a 5th grade homeroom teacher, and starting this year I'll be a high school Social Studies teacher.

I'm trying to find my passion for reading and drawing again, as algorithms have stolen my hobbies like it's done for many other people, and I plan on using the rest of this year to prepare myself for my upcoming move (I'm moving to the UK!) and apply to masters. If you're interested in how this journey's going to go don't hesitate to follow along. :)

[academicfever]

55/100

October is coming to an end... this month have been a recovery month after all the shit I've been thru... This month I slowly started to come back to myself! still on that journey!

[escapismsworld]

"Reflections on the Thames, Westminster"

1880

John Atkinson Grimshaw (English, 1836–1893)

[fruitysalamander1398]

i just don't think that people should have to disclose their deepest and most life-ruining traumas as a requirement to write about sensitive topics

[galina]

New year, new book

[hobbit-studies]

• 18. August 2025 •

I‘m back for day 3 of paper writing diaries. Sunday has sort of slipped away from me (though very pleasantly, as demonstrated by the pictures), but now i‘m back in the dungeon library!

Goals for today:

Finish chapter 4.2

Write chapter 4.3

Outline chapter 5

Write at least 2 pages

Currently on page 10/20ish, 13 days until the deadline.

[ambitionsncoffee]

08/25 🩵

It’s been so long since I attempted a bullet journal spread! I know the rest of the days are empty but my present day depends a lot on how the previous one go, so I can’t plan that far ahead.

Decided to go with this “tile” style for my last spread og August/start of September. Kinda crazy what you can achieve out of pure desire to not do what you actually need to do.

[loneberry]

Alice Notley

[boykeats]

[ID: text reading,

"Poetry outlasts everything. It's a primeval spirit. It's probably the firs speech. It comes with speech. It's what children do, when they play first with their words. And it comes from nowhere, and it always goes on. And there's no way to lose it, but people don't know how to find it. People think they don't know how to read it, and that they don't have any need for it. Maybe they don't have any need for it. I don't know. The world has poetry inside it anyway."

/end ID]

[illuminated-pages]

Planner season is rapidly approaching and I’m jumping around a lot in efforts to figure out what my next system will be. For now, I’m landing firmly on the weeks mega, day free and a5 commonplace book.

[ambitionsncoffee]

bear with me, i'm still trying to get back into the mindset of trying to make every single picture aesthetic and pleasing to look at- however, school starts next week, and i'm behind on my planning (as per usual, my mind always gets blocked when i have to turn my ideas into words and charts).

currently expanding on the first unit for my 9th grade kiddos. i already planned three days worth of ice breakers and get to know me dynamics, trying to make it as fun and laid back as possible as i know a lot of students hate them (and to be honest, so do i). will definitely have to keep working on this month's unit over the weekend, but i'm finally getting back into the groove of teacher life, which is sooo hard after summer.

[juliaxyn]

My brain: we studied this.

Me: did we? Really?

[graveyardpages]

law studies 🕯️📚✍️

[finisconoratopus]

plato-ing

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[lemarechaldefer-deactivated2015]

People with books in 18th-19th century art (details of portraits).

[fluencylevelfrench]

7-day-langblr challenge!

Just thought of some prompts to practice your target language. Start with this 7-day challenge anytime you want. Please tag the challenge as "7daylangblrchallenge". Also tag your target language and add if you want to get corrections! Have fun!

Go on a book review website and read a review in your target language. Write a response to that review. Do you agree with it? Explain.

Choose a picture and describe the picture in detail. You can take a picture from the internet or a personal one. Bonus: write down the vocabulary to describe a picture.

Write your opinion on the following topic: Staying in your own country during the holidays or going far away? What is better?

What is your ideal day like? Describe it in your TL.

Find 5 words that you didn’t know before and explain them.

Go to Wikipedia, choose a category and read an article in your TL. Then summarize the article. Bonus point: write down the vocabulary you didn’t know before.

Search for any fandom that you’re part of/ any book/ film/ any person/ current event on tumblr. Read one of the first posts that come up. Then explain (write down or tell yourself/ record it) what the post was about. Give your opinion about it.

(If people like this challenge, I might do another one with 7 more prompts)

[ebb-is-learning]

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?