Circe's Sister

I am teaching the Bill of Rights tomorrow to my 9th graders, and hoo boy is this an interesting time to be doing that.

My 9 year old told me on the way home from school that today he had "a really long conversation about spiders" with a second grader in carline, and as far as I can tell, it was the two of them swapping increasingly scientifically dubious "facts" about spiders for like half an hour.

This is all perfect and adorable!!!

Also classical education people. (The venn diagram there overlaps substantially, but not completely.)

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.

That is a lot of times in one day to be eaten by a shark, let alone a kangaroo!

First day of school is tomorrow, and I have done all the things, but can't quite decide that I am ready and just go home.

I went outside for literally 45 seconds to pick some basil and now I have like 10 mosquito bites.

that famous story of St. George and the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale

Just emailed my Texas state rep to thank them for opposing the redistricting by breaking quorum. These people are doing something brave and we need to tell them we see and appreciate it.

The only Sweeney I acknowledge is Todd.

My kids are such wonderful weirdos

I love that my 14 year old daughter is just loudly declaiming the Iliad for no reason on a Tuesday night.

Just set my alarm for the first day of PD tomorrow, and let the record show that I am MAD about it.

I hate that this is a reference to the Teddy Roosevelt speech, because the speech is so good, and TR would have nothing but absolute scorn for Trump and everyone associated with him.

Bill Clinton finally being removed from public life as collateral damage for destroying Trump is like when they overthrow Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi and Boba Fett gets knocked into the Sarlacc pit by accident

Mine all got washed in the kitchen sink

Thank you! It was driving me nuts!

Younger son just walked over to the air purifier, let rip with a big old fart, and then was disappointed that it didn't register a change in air quality. Eight year old boys are so charming 😂

Can someone tell me what the fuck Glonzo is?

We did the big school supply shop today, and even getting cheaper options and using my teacher discount, it was an ungodly amount of money.

8 yo son's current musical obsession is Perry Grip, which none of the rest of us can stand. I told him he can listen as long as he wants, but he has to dance the whole time.
I figured he would be done in a song or two, but he has been going for the last 30 min, so this might have backfired on me...

Louisa May Alcott's house and the Old North Bridge in Concord are great, and Concord Center is really cute for shopping/lunch

death to tyrants! from disney’s animated robin hood

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

I will pass on the recs! I think the KPop craze is here to stay at our house, because my other daughter said at dinner that the sound track is her current favorite music 😂

Nobody in this family has ever listened to KPop until yesterday, when my kids watched KPop Demon Hunters, and now my 12 year old daughter is OBSESSED.

PBS is SO important, consider trading one of your other streaming platforms and giving that money to PBS- Hulu with ads is $9.99 and how much better for the world is PBS!

the main qualification i’m looking for in congressional leadership is “hates elected republicans so much you want to send them all to prison but will settle for driving them entirely from power for a generation”

58. Sense and Sensibility (Austen) 346 pages.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
For a long time this was my least favorite Austen novel, and now I have NO idea why. Perfect in every particular. I noticed the structure this time through, and also the absolutely savage conversations between Lucy and Elinor