my boring can beat up your boring

My life used to be kind of exciting. Now I'm a teacher in Northern Canada.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

It's 4 months until my wedding! I am not sure how to deal with this information, except by freaking out. Well, and also by buying a bunch of stuff I've been putting off now that there are BF sales.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I have not been here in ages because I became obsessed with doing crosswords for a while and spent all my free time working on crosswords, which was cool and I will definitely pick it up again. But then I became obsessed with gay hockey romance books and I read some that kind of emotionally wrecked me so now I feel super adrift.

And I'm so behind on my school work (for the course I'm taking, I've kept on top of doing my job) but I just don't want to do anything right now!

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I bought some things from an online thrift store and somehow they got sent to the house I lived in 7 years ago? I don't remember entering my address and I had never shopped there before so I have no idea how it happened.

Anyways, I wrote a letter and put it in the house's mailbox asking them to refuse the delivery (which would let me change the delivery address) or to please tell me when it comes and I'll go pick it up.

I'm going to be so mad at myself if I don't get my parcel!

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I got a notification that it was delivered today and didn't hear anything and I'm also out of town at a conference, which is annoying!

But I asked my partner to go to the house and ask about it and he got the parcel!

Thank goodness.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I bought some things from an online thrift store and somehow they got sent to the house I lived in 7 years ago? I don't remember entering my address and I had never shopped there before so I have no idea how it happened.

Anyways, I wrote a letter and put it in the house's mailbox asking them to refuse the delivery (which would let me change the delivery address) or to please tell me when it comes and I'll go pick it up.

I'm going to be so mad at myself if I don't get my parcel!

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

Work stuff

My class composition this year is pretty awful. It's a slog every single day. That being said, I'm way happier this year than last year. Moving schools was absolutely the right choice.

I have stress dreams every night about deadnaming one of my students because all the official school docs have their deadname so whenever I'm doing attendance, etc I have to take a beat to sub it. I know this will get easier as the year goes on but it takes a moment and if I'm even a bit distracted I almost flub it. I guess that's a sign that I need to just take my time and concentrate on one thing at a time.

Right wing crazies are here, obviously but I'm so glad to be at the school I'm at now. The parents here are progressive, supportive, and just so great.

I was open with my students about my ADHD diagnosis. I remember as a kid feeling like an absolutely hopeless fuckup and I want to show kids that folks with ADHD can be successful and productive and do well. (Even if this all feels imposter-syndrome-y)

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I sent an email out to families today and a few hours later got an email from a parent that they'd accidentally deleted it and can I resend it?

I'm officially at the point where I'm older than most of the parents of my students so this is wild to me. You can't figure out how to recover a deleted email?

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

Ugh, currently dealing with IT to get them to let me access some of the settings on my computer and also to make it so that Adobe doesn't crash everytime I open a PDF. I'm also not getting paid yet so am very annoyed.

[tvventystitches]

best midnights 3am track?

the great war

bigger than the whole sky

paris

high infidelity

glitch

would’ve, could’ve, should’ve

dear reader

Voting ended onAug 27, 2023

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

It's always so weird to me to be at home without the dog. She's at the groomer right now but earlier this summer she was out of town with my partner when we had slightly overlapping trips and I was going to say it was so quiet but it's more like it's so still. She is pretty lazy but she'll move positions during the day or follow you around and not having that is kind of unsettling.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I'm planning a hiking trip through Scotland next year and I got an email from my old bougie/culty gym that they'll match my previous rate so I signed up. I like the workouts, I was going regularly, I quit when there was an intense covid wave. I'm excited to go back!

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I went to the library to get a bunch of books to complete a school assignment but made the mistake of also getting a bunch of travel guides for Scotland and I have 8 more books I need to read for an annotated bibliography that's due today but I just want to plan next summer's trip to Scotland!!!

[disgustinggf]

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I'm sitting in the airport lounge ready to go home. It was a good but hectic weekend. Carly Rae Jepsen, boygenius, the barbie movie, a (kind of disappointing) dinner out downtown, and helping friends pack up and get organized to move.

I'm going to the Okanagan with friends and family on Friday, which should be a ton of fun. We've got two nights at Sparkling Hills as part of it.

And I got Eras tour tickets for London in July 2024.

[doublism]

do you guys have song lyrics like that i mean ones that make you soso angry because of how stupid they are. i'm curious to know because for me i don't think anything tops "tropical contact high" every time i think about it i feel prepared to kill mike love. but do let me know what yours are

[doublism]

my other personal contenders off the top of my head are that arctic monkeys song where he says "like the beginning of mean streets you could be my baby" and taylor swift's "salute to me i'm your american queen" which imo is one of the worst lines of her entire career

[blueandbluer]

“And she’s loving him with that body I just know it” -Rick Springfield, “Jesse’s Girl”

[stuft]

off the top of my head

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier

is so fucking stupid it's embarrassing

[reelaroundthedavekan]

Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" starts with the line "Steve walks warily down the street" and it is so unnecessary for there to be a specific name used.

[hieronymus-bush]

“God-damn you half-Japanese girls” from Weezer’s El Scorcho.

In fact I hate every lyric in that song pretty much.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I love Taylor but "Cat eye sharp enough to kill a man" in the year 2022 was and is super cringey.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

Do I listen to the new Carly Rae Jepsen album today or do I wait until after I see her in concert tonight?

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

Went through airport security just now and the lady said "Now you, you've done this before" so I'm very pleased to announce that I got an A+ in airport security.

[m0na-lisa-saperstein]

I’ve been on ADHD meds for the last two weeks and today I started doing school work and actually turned off the TV to focus on my work and was able to sit down and finish my assignment in one uninterrupted session??

I was diagnosed with ADD in elementary school by a school psychologist but my parents were against medicating me and it never got entered into my medical records. I pursued a private assessment earlier this month.

I have a feeling that as I continue taking meds and seeing improvements I’m going to have a lot of resentment towards my parents to work through. Yes, I have been successful, but at what cost to my mental health?