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My Time At Sandrock (2023)

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Literally my Bible thumping, Trump loving Father-in-law is going to be completely bamboozled when he finds out that I will not be giving him grandchildren because of who he voted for.

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Can we appreciate Gallowglass a bit more?

Gallowglass turned wide blue eyes on Matthew. The younger man was wearing a black T-shirt adorned with a skull and crossbones. Something had slashed the back, rending it from left shoulder to right hip. The holes in his nephew's jeans looked to be the result of wear, not war, and his hair was shaggy even by Gallowglassian standards.

(-Chapter 2, The book of life, All souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness)

He is basically described as a harsh looking blue eyed man, with metal shirts and ripped jeans, which is not just his 'personal sense of style' since all the tears are from wear. And yet, despite his appearance, he has the personality of an angel. Think of how he picked on the wax residue on the kitchen table when he was nervous. He honestly seems like a gentle giant. Please romanticise him with me.

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A Discovery of Witches is not very good, but hot DAMN is Gallowglass hot AF 🥵

Like, give me an ENTIRE show about him and I'd watch it in a heartbeat. Too bad he's obsessed with Diana and not me 😭

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Things that make me feel good about my career as a teacher:

- when kids seek me out for help outside of the academic sense. Girl needs feminine supplies? I got you girl. Someone is in tears and needs a hug? Come here sweetheart. Need life advice? I will do my best. Knowing kids trust me to help them makes me feel like I'm at least an okay teacher.

- remembering that I am licensed to teach in two states. If my current school district pisses me off enough, I'm gone. They can threaten me for breaking contract and try to take my teaching license, but idgaf. They can have it. I have another one that they can't touch 😜

- In eight years of teaching, I've only ever had one actual parent complaint. Parents be cray cray, and this one was the queen of crazy. If you have to scream at a 2nd year teacher to feel like you're superior as a human and a parent, then you have issues you need to deal with, babe. I ended up 'winning' the conflict with this parent, soooo 💅🏻

Today was a hard day, so I needed to write down some things to remind me that it's not all awful.

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Dear parents,

Could y'all consider NOT screaming at your kids before sending them to school? Tell me why the SWEETEST boy came to me this morning before school SOBBING because his mother screamed at him over opening a bottle of syrup for his pancakes??? When he calmed down, he told me she had never yelled at him like that before. That she was so mean to him but he didn't understand what he did wrong.

Could there be more to the story? Absolutely. Parents are human. Children are human. Everyone has a bad day. But how dare you put your child in such a state of distress and send them off to school.

Be nicer to your kids!

- a grumpy teacher that wants her kids to be okay

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This is something I *intentionally* model in my classroom! It pisses me off that adults think they don't have to apologize to children! Children are people too and deserve to be treated as such!

APOLOGIZE TO THE CHILDREN

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