Rebecca R

Student told me I'm the only adult they've ever met who likes Takis

"When thinking of emperors that fought a killer whale with his bare hands, you can only think of Claudius" is perhaps my favorite 8th grade opening sentence I have ever read

every day I think about the student feedback I receive that said "I think it's weird how much she wants us to learn Greek" (this was from my Greek 2 class)

If you're looking for Athens Apodosis, however...

Email screenshot with subject "Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors"

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I don't have a diagnosis but yesterday I was working on wedding stuff and before I knew it a half hour had gone by and I had 6 Wikipedia tabs open on Sinitic languages

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

Higher ups at my job suggest we embrace AI for kids because "they'll need it in the workplace" as though the rest of us adults haven't just been asked to use it with no training or critical thought.

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

At the point in my week where we're identifying grammatical constructions in the New Yorker review of the Minecraft movie

I'm looking for long-form journalistic pieces about Jar Jar Binks. I know I'm 25 years late but I need to know how all of this happened. Thanks

Why does Jar Jar Binks and every Gungan wear boot cut jeans

Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy “In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...

"Yes, there’s danger in opening our gates to this statue. But there’s also danger in keeping it out… the danger of eroding the sanctity of the gift-giving process."

Ceramic fairy house nestled in mini daffodils

Back view of the details of the house- it is made to look like a wood and stone house

Life's bad I made a tiny house out of clay

Doctor Worm is not a real doctor, but is a real worm. His friend, Rabbi Vole is:
A) a real vole, but not a real rabbi
B) neither a real vole or a real rabbi
C) both a real vole and a real rabbi
D) not enough information

Three handmade buttons- one collage with the words "read, Greek words, Kai, lesbian, AMAZON, hippopotamus, xiphias", another with the words "The writings of Herodotus, who" covering a female statue's face, and the third of a lamassunhead

Very pleased with the classically themed buttons I made today at a friend's!

Sometimes you just gotta spend an hour adding a beetle to a lid

Θανξ, it means a lot!

My students were confused how some gladiators lost more than once. I suggested they were good athletes, so they were spared and could fight another day... we wouldn't just kill Patrick Mahomes.

They said we should! Go birds

After writing a whole quiz on the Aquilae for my Philadelphian students, I'm left wondering how to translate "Buffalo Bills" into Latin.

But don't worry I bought it as a joke too

I am sorry I can't read!

Did you make this somewhere, can I order it

What an awesome thing the LGI is, run by people who really give their heart and soul to helping people achieve ancient language proficiency no matter where they're coming from.

What the intervocalic sigma?

Today's mood is teaching eighth graders to say intervocalic in front of sigma for my own amusement

Social Media must be overthrown and replaced by Social Persia, which will in turn be conquered by Social Macedonia.

for those wondering

Learned today that grampus is an outdated term for a mammal, which, yeah sure, that makes sense, BUT BOY it was not the mammal I would have expected