A partial repost, because I’d forgotten about this paradigm I spontaneously invented a couple of years ago until Saturday just past, when I managed to – such fun – lock myself out of my house. Harrumph. $160 for a locksmith is NOT how I wanted to spend money right now, thanks very much. I could […]
On Processing Mistakes Healthily: 3, 2, 1 Read More »
There’s this glorious big dogwood tree outside my office, and right now it’s in full and glorious bloom. Honestly, it’s stunning. I want to spend half an hour comprehensively photographing it every time I walk past. On my way out to the carpark yesterday, I overheard one of the head gardeners chatting with a woman
Reposting this because: topical. My friend’s daughter was told in class last week that she would never be successful because she didn’t speak ‘proper’ English. I got a story rejection recently with personal feedback (which is so nice to have!) that mentioned that the story was a strange combination of British and American English. Spoiler:
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Real’ English (Repost) Read More »
Today, random sketching. Finally finished reading Macbeth with my class and we had ten minutes left of class. They’d come in the day before from art all keen and drawing-y, so I was like, cool, let’s illustrate! As some of you will remember, Macbeth is described at the end of the play as the ‘dead
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My Nana passed away in the night. I wasn’t extremely close to her, so I’m more grieving for my mum’s sake, but regardless, I am sad. On the way in to drop my son off to school this morning, it was raining. The ground was wet. On the way back out, I noticed a set
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Ermagersh you guys. A friend sent me this the other week and I was just like. 7 seconds in, I was sold, and it only got better from there. This plus Malinda’s Fearless from the other week are my new “play them till the record breaks” song for the rest of the term. Yay! Aladdin
Speechless: Your Friday Musical Interlude, Courtesy of Aladdin <3 Read More »
A repost, because apparently I needed it this week. Thanks, Past!Amy. Thanks. From 16 March 2015. There are days when you just want to wash your hands and quit humanity. You know the kind. Maybe someone (or a whole host of someones) was rude to you; maybe people were petty or spiteful or jealous or
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So, I’ve been exploring Malinda’s two YouTube channels after finding those fab videos from last week and the week before, and a few days ago, I came across this: Malinda challenged herself to not look at herself/use a mirror for 5 days. The results are… Look, you just really need to watch the video, okay?
“In Summation, Please Take Care Of Yourselves”. Read More »
Behold, readers, a perfect combination of some of my favourite things in the world: Talented people Doing talented things Together, as a team While having a blast… …Oh, and it’s the song This Is Me from The Greatest Showman, which helps a lot :’D ENJOY. What are your favourite talented-people-doing-talented-things-with-gleeful-abandon moments? Do share! :3 <3
Intense Musical Skillz Read More »
In sharp contrast to our man Draco of the last two days, I present to you one of the many, many reasons that Snape is a jerk: See, unlike Draco, Snape is now what we call a ‘legal adult’. Yes, Draco is approaching maturity in the later books. He’s not unproblematic. Acknowledged. But Snape has
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