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Ahh the dichotomy of sending “omg congrats on the promotion!!” in the work group chat and “wtf this sucks so bad” privately to your work bestie

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Who would have thought that when I was in my 1st year of teaching and felt incredibly lonely and isolated because none of my colleagues seemed to care to get to know me that 2 years later at a new school my best work friends would be a guy my age I regularly work gossip with and a 60 year old man who all play board games together?

We’ve got a group chat and everything 😂

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It’s one of those days where I’m really in love with my life and I want to document it because it doesn’t happen often enough.

Lazy Fall Sunday, record playing, candle burning, cookies in the oven, a nice workless day after a fun Saturday game night with my boyfriend and coworker friends… maybe it’s cheesy and ✨romanticizing✨ but what’s the fun in life if I didn’t do that every once in a while?

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I don’t think I could handle having a pet because today my coworker friend texted me in the middle of class because their cat might likely have a fatal illness and immediately I felt my heart drop and had to pause class for a minute to collect myself (and respond to them)

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Update: their cat is doing a lot better!!! Not fully out of the woods but also hopefully not as bad as they first thought

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I don’t think I could handle having a pet because today my coworker friend texted me in the middle of class because their cat might likely have a fatal illness and immediately I felt my heart drop and had to pause class for a minute to collect myself (and respond to them)

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Almost accidentally sent a gossipy text about our boss to my entire department group chat instead of the one coworker I was having a gossip text session with and that was almost devastating for me 💀

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A new philosophy of life that was accidentally uncovered at this weekend’s game night:

“Everything in the world can be split 50/50: Taylor Swift or not Taylor Swift”

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Conversations with a student:

Me: [teacher friend] is out sick today and I’m surprised I didn’t get asked to sub for them like usual… It’s not covid though at least!

Student, thinking they were giving me new tea: yeah, they just had covid at the end of summer

Me: I know, I gave it to them!!

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Sometimes your teachers don’t care about your budding high school romance, and sometimes when they’re hanging out on a Friday night they discuss how to arrange their seating charts so someone’s crush will sit next to them

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Last year’s syllabus: “please bring your charged chromebook to class every day”

This year’s syllabus: “bring your charged chromebook to class every day”

Is this growth?

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Felt awful for hanging out with a friend and then testing positive for covid the next day AND THEN they tested positive the day after but then we realized the incubation period to have infected them seemed too short so it’s likely we got covid separately from each other

If ever there was a time to hang out with someone while you have covid, it may as well be when you both have covid but don’t know it yet 🙃

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In case you’ve ever wondered what your teachers do over summer break, it’s entirely possible that they have game nights with each other where they discuss bridget mendler’s career and the rise of minions as propaganda

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Today as I was saying goodbye to my sophomores after their final I told them “you might have me again next year so you can’t get rid of me that easily” (because I also teach juniors) and immediately their reaction was “wait are you gonna fail us???” Poor babies no not unless you deserve it 😅😅

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Things overheard in my classroom today at lunch:

“I’ve never been heartbroken before. Usually I’m the one breaking up with girls”

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“We weren’t really dating, we were more friends with benefits”

“Dude, I don’t think that means what you think it means”

“I don’t know I was just saying it”

“I think you meant acquaintances”

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“She’s with [other kid] now”

“I can tell she really likes him because she has [other kid]’s face ID on her phone”

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I got (jokingly) accused TWICE by students today of copying my final project assignment from my coworker even though I made the final instructions and sent it to them. All because they teach the class earlier in the day than I do 🙃

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A question I’ve gotten multiple times about this from students who are in my coworker’s class: So if we go for option 3 does Mr. X want us to present it?

I don’t know?? I’m not him maybe go ask your actual teacher?? 😅 I think they were hoping I’d go ask for them

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I got (jokingly) accused TWICE by students today of copying my final project assignment from my coworker even though I made the final instructions and sent it to them. All because they teach the class earlier in the day than I do 🙃

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Coworkers who have the same secret work opinions as you >>>