My Cardboard Balcony

Why is the first deadline for my Yearbook class approaching so damn fast?! Jesus, two weeks away, and I don't know if we can get the stuff we want done! Phew. Okay. Mini freak-out's now out of the way. Moving on. So...yeah! After a short week of work due to the fires, I felt like I returned to a sense of normalcy at my school. My English students are doing what I believe is a fun and creative rhetoric assignment focused on advertising. My Yearbook staff is designing pages for the yearbook, and they'll hopefully be all done and look great by the first out of six deadlines. I've been able to tend to self-care a bit more, which is always a plus. Autumn weather is finally kicking in, so I'm enjoying the chillier weather a lot. Definitely makes my hot chocolate obsession a bit more rational! I mean, the world's still insane, and the orange man still needs to be locked away in a padded room, but hey, I'm still alive and kicking, aren't I? And so are my f

Eradication by Belinda Roddie If this is love, then zap it from my system.

There is where we stay tonight; this is where we lodge. No bunk beds, no couches, no cellar or garage. No tables and no chandeliers; no desks and, yes, no chairs. No furniture in here at all - just carpet and some stairs. Let's pitch a blanket, settle down, tell stories through the night. I'm sorry if you wake up and your back isn't set right.