Jio De La Rosa 🥀

I’m watching The Wedding Planner and I thought back to when I first watched it…on my Gateway desktop bc we didn’t have a DVD player. One of my brother’s girlfriends had it on DVD and we all watched it in my room while sitting on the floor in front of my desk 😂

Grading research papers. One student wrote on censorship. Her title?:

[Redacted]

A+ just for that, I swear. 😂

This is Catt Murdock. He’s a 3 month old blind baby boy that has been through so much in her short life, yet he keeps on with the sass and WILL steal your girl. 🥹😂

I’ve lived in Texas my whole life (😩), but as a kid always wanted to live in NYC. Watching a doc atm and realizing- now at 39- that it’s due to the whole “hustle & bustle” of it all. Anxiety keeps me moving. NYC moves quickly. My brain: “I belong there.” 🙃

Texas screwed up Texas Week. Now there are 2 different weeks that don’t line up for most. 🙃 My husband, a hs teacher, is off next week (which is Texas week). Our kiddo and I are off the week after🙃🙃

This is at hs/college/uni level. Talk about a fumble🥃

Supposed to fly out early tomorrow morning. There’s a winter weather warning out of DFW (where I need to get my connecting flight) and another plane crashed yesterday. Upon landing.

It’s fine. I’m fine. 🙃

🙃🥃🙃

Henry, channeling Smaug with my kid’s Valentine’s loot

I make the effort and bought frames for my diplomas. They had been sitting in their tubes since 2014 and 2018. Now, hey have frames and are displayed in my office on campus. Didn’t expect to feel a little giddy about it, ngl 😅

Henry, hoping his humans give him a little snacky snack from the fridge 😂

Explaining to my students that databases don’t work like Google search bars is…humbling.

Me: I’m of the Ask Jeeves generation. Y’all are of the ask AI generation. It’s not the same.
Students: Ms…are you one of those people that looks younger than they are?
Me: an elder millennial, yes.

🦖🦕🦖

I kinda miss having FB rn. I can only imagine the absolute meltdown going on since last night’s halftime show. Cause I remember people being upset about Shakira and JLo, and that was hilarious in and of itself.

I don’t know much about Kendrick Lamar, but holy hell, what a show 🖤

I nvr liked Drake

We got a roomba and named him Anakin. My daughter, Leia, was following him around as he mapped the house.

Me: you look really stressed
Leia: yeah, well, I’m worried about him
Me: he’ll be okay
Leia: yeah, maybe…but I don’t think I’m the right person for this, mom. I’m so worried about him

🥹🖤

How often do you wake up in the morning, groggy as all hell just wanting to stay in bed, and rouse yourself by saying, “For Frodo”?

Bc, ngl, I do that often.

Me: I don’t victim blame.

Also me: *while watching The Return of the King, battle at Pelennor Fields* All those damn people in the way. What a way to lack self-preservation. Help yourselves at least a little! You have eyes! You can see the literal army before you! GET OUT THE WAY!

Every time. 🥃

This semester, I’m teach 6 English rhetoric classes. It is by and large a research class. Not only am I teaching my students the importance of citing their sources, but I’m hammering in on, “you need to keep asking questions. Who gains from your quiet compliance?”

We may make tinfoil hats 😂

But that one guy’s hair shows he knows what he’s talking about, whereas you obviously don’t bc you don’t look like you live in your parents basement 😂😂

I’ve noticed a fair amount of tailgating in a town with the WORST roads I have ever seen. Like seriously, some potholes are akin to sinkholes! And even like that, I can’t roll a few feet without someone trying to climb up my throat through my ass 🙃 I’m sorry your city sucks, but get off my ass.

I laughed, but also, 🙃

Getting my students to get comfortable questioning EVERYTHING when family and high school culture dictates they question nothing, is fun 😂 the wide-eye states I get when I say, “what does your compliance allow?”

I have hope that we can still get young people to think

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

I was eating and Henry was pretending he wasn’t interested 😂

Me: let’s get into groups to do some group research and writing.
Students: *no one moves*
Me: 🙃
Students: we have to move?
Me: do you have telepathy?
Students: 🦗🦗🦗
Me: *sigh* yes. You need to physically move and look at each other so you can work together.

Not all hs kids should be dual credit.

Thought I had posted this here as well as on other platforms 😂 Henry likes to attack his dad. Then he makes this face when he’s subsided 😂🖤

Another rage as resistance shitty first draft poem I wrote this morning. My daughter is brilliant and will be 6 this month. I can’t believe I get to be her mom. 🖤 While the world burns around us, she is number 1. She will always know we love her and support her. Always.

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I will never understand why the people in Minas Tirith WHO CAN SEE THEYRE BEING INVADED just stand around and don’t hide/go inside/fight and are just in the way when the Orcs overrun the city. I know Denthor is insane, but self-preservation is a thing!

Immediately went to look this up 😂 Okay…but why though? 😂 2025 is fkn trip, I swear

Legolas one arm jumping onto the horse behind Gimli in the 2 towers is the same energy that Bucky brings in civil war when he takes the motorcycle from the one guy on the highway, and I love it 😍

Henry, wanting my chair, again.