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So ,I’m a music teacher and every year we have what are called “walk through observations”. Basically, this means that 4 times a year the principal or vice principal comes into my class to assess my teaching. Fine. Sure. No problem. Well, today I was doing an activity with my 1st graders called “Musical Groceries”. Basically, they make up a fake shopping list and then together we figure out what the rhythm of the words on the list is. To do that, a small group of students plays the beat on the conga drum while the rest of the students move around the room while chanting the word. It sounds weird but it’s a great way for the kids to figure out the relationship between syllables and rhythm. They quickly get bored of walking the rhythm so I let them come up with their own ways of moving around the room.( skipping, hopping, etc) One student suggested they hop around the room like frogs, way down low to the ground. Okay fine. Or it was fine until my vice principal walked in to do my observation only to find 20 seven year olds hopping around the room like a hoard of little hob-goblins, rhythmically chanting “BREAD! BREAD! BREAD!” while five other kids played ominous beats in a drum circle. I have never seen anyone look so confused in my life and I really don’t want to know the rating I got on my observation.

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Idea for Monday

If I ever become a history teacher, I’m going to write “gullible” on the ceiling. Then in the middle of class, I’ll announce, “There’s ‘gullible’ written on the ceiling.” After the whole look vs. not look shenanigan occurs, I shall then slam my books on my desk, prop myself up, lean forward and say, “Welcome to history. Your first lesson? Check your facts for yourself.”

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hufflepuff/slytherin friendships are the best and most terrifying thing ever because i am positive that if 2 people were two take over the world it would be a slytherin and a hufflepuff

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has this been done yet?

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Mirai Nagasu: Team USA 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Portraits (x)

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forest spirits

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I installed a ‘Relationship Saving Station’ at Ikea to help keep couples from fighting.

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One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts, has accused the ABC of colluding with ISIS.

“The ABC has for a long time been harbingers of terror apologists. This proves their Jihad sympathy,” is a thing he actually said. That’s a direct quote. He said that. “The ABC have declared Jihad on Aussie diggers. They have a fatwa on Pauline Hanson.” Again: his own words.

The ABC has first had to remind everyone that Malcolm Roberts is in fact a real person and this is really happening before then issuing a statement that is simply a harsh intake of breath followed by a sigh that goes on for an impossibly long amount of time.

“So anyway, we’re not going to vote for government bills in the Senate unless the ABC funding is cut by $600 million,” Roberts then demanded.

This is keeping in line with One Nation’s track history of making things up to demonize a group they wish to cut funding from, like Pauline Hanson claiming Indigenous Australians cannibalised their children in the past and thus are undeserving of welfare.

Pauline Hanson has stated she will no longer accept interviews by the ABC. The ABC has said all statements regarding Pauline Hanson will be issued in long dejected sighs and uncomfortable groans.

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The economic realities of Baby boomers versus Millennials 

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At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

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oh my God

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has this been done yet?

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People need to realize that there’s a difference between straight people and Straight People™

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Mood today

Unsolicited advice.

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I'm at that point of drunk we're im all like 'I can do shit' but I really can't Like yeah I had a shower, but there's water all over the floor and no cleaning happened Like yeah I can do my bed routine, but I feel like I should rub the mosisutewier in and I did briefly use the toothbrush upside down Like yeah I can take my meds, but instead I'm going to stare at them for ten minutes and decide it's a problem for sober me Like yeah I can post this status, but oops I'm on my Tumblr not Facebook. Which actually is probably better so good going drunk me. Let's keep the stupid away from people I actually know Thank f for autocorrect

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2017 AFLW Leading Goalkicker - Darcy Vescio (Carlton) Following consistent performances throughout the competition’s inaugural year, Vescio managed 14 goals over the seven-week season, finishing ahead of Adelaide’s Sarah Perkins and Erin Phillips. The 23-year-old’s dominance on the field was eminent from the very first round when she scored four goals in the side’s historic victory over arch-rival Collingwood. A grateful Vescio thanked her teammates for all of their support; “I’m so thankful to have the opportunity to thank those who have been part of the journey […] As for the award itself, most of my goals are the result of the team working extremely hard, so for me I’ll be looking forward to celebrating it with them.“ 2017 AFLW Mark of The Year - Darcy Vescio (Carlton) Vescio’s award-winning night didn’t stop with just one accolade; she was also named on the forward line of the inaugural AFLW All Australian team and took home the fan-voted Mark of The Year award. You can view her memorable goal-line mark against the Bulldogs here!

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Presenting your first-ever AFLW Premiers; the Adelaide Crows!