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What does love smell like, to you? LOL Excellent answer, JS!

[sarahseeandersen]

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by Sarah Andersen

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Totally the same here.

[yrbff]

we made your positive thoughts into the happiest confetti ever for when you really just need a ton of good vibes to rain down all around you 🎉 🎉 🎉

[buzzfeed]

<3

[sandandglass]

The Nightly Show, April 28, 2015

Larry Wilmore criticizes Fox News’ coverage of the Baltimore protests

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Old & Fat

Today my Wii Fit told me I was 12 years older than I really am, and it told me I was overweight. I don’t trust the machine because my PANTS tell me something different. 5′6″ in a size 10 from Banana Republic isn’t fat. I’ve got more weight than I NEED, but I’m not fat, jerk Wii.

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#CSET Study Thoughts

The word unconstitutional is fun to write neatly in proper cursive.

The Louisiana Purchase only cost the US $15 million. FIFTEEN MILLION. Inflation says that’s still a steal at $223 million dollars now. I’m boggled by how cheaply France let us go. I mean, it is just the Plains states ... maybe we could have done without ‘em. ;)

California history, phonemic and phonological awareness, and now a basic US History timeline. My #CSET study topics should be further tracked.

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Families are complicated

Growing up, I never wanted my own kids.

I met a man almost four years ago who felt the same way.

We broke up.

He hooked up.

She made a baby.

We got back together. Forever. Forever ever ever.

I’m a step-mom and I adore my kiddo like none other.

I knew he had fathered a child ten years before we met, and that he wasn’t part of his life.

I’m now a step-mom to two as she asked to come back into his life. 

I refuse to deny a child, any child, love; it’s in my being to love the kids I come into contact with. I’ve yet to have any contact with this second daughter of mine, but she’s mine as much as my first is. 

Families are complicated. Lives are weird. Kids just need love and guidance.

Thanks for letting me vent.

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You can count on the test questions to ask about things you should know

Postman, Robert D. "CSET Preparation and Test-Taking Strategies." CSET: California Subject Matter Examinations for Teachers, Multiple Subjects. 3rd ed. Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2010. 16. Print.

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CSET Struggles

I’ve got to take this CSET Multiple Subject course for my teaching credential. I hate taking test-study courses, but I’m going to go into it with the mindset that I will get SOMETHING out of it. I am going to make a friend, or find a study buddy, or learn some new test-taking strategy (are there any?), and I’m going to pass this damned test the first time so I never have to take it again. (Though once I pass the multiple subject CSET I have to prepare for the dreaded English CSET.)

Have you taken the CSET?

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The fact that we differentiate school from “the real world” shows us why our school system is failing.

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THIS.

OH this.

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by A Zillion Dollars Comics

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Becoming a teacher is NOT an easy path. I only have to know a little bit of EVERYTHING to succeed.

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(photo via @j1m0thy)

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My child will likely never know the reflex when a song ends to automatically ‘hear’ the next song start playing in his head… some people reading this here probably don’t even know what I’m talking about.

[diamondsinthelibrary]

New blog post on DiamondsintheLibrary.com! The lovely jewels of Lori McLean. http://ift.tt/1HbbA1m

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Video: Tonight Show Hashtags: #MyCrazyFamily

[obamawhitehouse]

Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let’s say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he’s held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it’s time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us—on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

President Obama Have questions about the steps the President has taken to expand opportunity for the LGBT community? Ask in the White House Ask Box by 2pm, then follow along when senior officials take your questions right here on Tumblr. (via whitehouse)