@Shamlet

We were born for the booth, but ended up in the classroom, which of course is pretty much ...

in the same ballpark ⚾️

Tigers, Tigers burning bright
Bring on Game 5 Friday night!

Pretty sure Blake would've been a ball fan ⚾️

Have never followed or even seen a single episode of any series on any streaming service

Have only seen 2 of the top 50 highest-grossing films of all time

Duncan, Donalbain, Malcolm

top third: cloudy blue fall sky middle third: city skyline, bridge, old power plant, and a ballpark bottom third: yellow-leaved trees

the city, falling gracefully into fall

will be, will be, will be, will have, will teach

A big part of the sell is presenting AI as inevitable, to induce people to fall into the fait accompli -- but all the "will"s here are hardly slam dunks

Why schools have an impostor syndrome problem Evidence shows teachers are vulnerable to persistent feelings of inadequacy, and this can have wide-ranging negative effects for schools, finds Mark Roberts

Just came across this -- quite timely!

"Evidence from the US has found that education produces an incidence rate higher than for the general population."

water crashing onto a rock ledge Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

But cruel are the times, when we are traitors / And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour / From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, / But float upon a wild and violent sea / Each way and move.

Macbeth, 4.2.22-26
#ShakespeareSunday

Stay tuned for game 2, when we'll have some quality Rime of the Ancient Mariner references

This is the way the Mariners end

This is the way the Mariners end

This is the way the Mariners end

Not with a bang but a whimper

CRUNCH ⚾️

Well we'd do better than these guys 🤣

"not a single person has left" -- why would they?? It's PLAYOFF BASEBALL and it's not even 9:00 in Seattle

Let's have a Big Crunch in the top of the inning and a not with a bang but a whimper T.S. Eliot special in the bottom

As it turns out, 9 innings were all building to ... the moment we started from

Have spent a good part of the day thinking about how true this is

YouTube video by Taylor Swift Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Visualizer)

That lost scene in Hamlet where Ophelia meets Lamond, the athletic star everyone's heard about

YouTube video by St. Vincent St. Vincent - Los Ageless (official audio)

For my money, St. Vincent still owns the best lyrical representation of Ophelia in pop music

How can anybody have you? / How can anybody have you and lose you? / How can anybody have you and lose you / And not lose their minds, too?

The biggest question is how to teach in a society that is fundamentally hostile to the deep goals of education, often without even realizing it

Before the assembled rank and file of Scottish nobility, Macbeth's hallucinatory, incoherent performance in 3.4 is simply not tolerated. It is the end of him.

Teaching has as many unique combinations of stress as the hardware store has paint colours

Stolen from the playbook of the 2024 Elks

The colours -- magnificent!

Switching back to weekends-only bluesky now that school's back in full swing.

This week's offline timeline will feature a return to full health with the help of acetaminophen, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the results of a strike vote (so perhaps an unanticipated fall break).

"gray and spent, but contain kernels of hope" is a great description of me at this stage in my career 🤣

Sounds like a great activity -- have fun!

top left diagonal: blue sky, icing sugar clouds top right diagonal: mountain range in the glow of the sun bottom third: evergreens and a few yellow-leaved trees

watercolour mountains

a waterfall, rock ledge dotted with evergreens, and a mountain in the distance

the sun poking through evergreens on the right of the frame; mountain and blue sky in the left corner

Banff, where the landscape gently but insistently slows down every part of mind and body

An unforgettable, hypnotic experience -- a much-needed reminder of beauty and possibility, times being what they are

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

Sonnet 73
#ShakespeareSunday

The cover of the Fall 2025 Calgary Philharmonic program with a picture of Lang Lang and the caption "Extraordinary Pianist Makes Calgary Debut"

A shot of the stage at Jack Singer Concert Hall

Lang Lang playing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto #5 -- going to be a most memorable Saturday night

a framed sign that says "SMILE your on CAMERA"

English teacher life: how can I smile when you're making mistakes like that 🤣