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*goes to cabinet for pretty box*

Red cup-shaped flower with bright yellow stamen against a green background.

A shrub with strong green leaves, with multiple red, cup-shaped flower with bright yellow stamens in a pale blue-green flowerpot catches the December sunlight

🌱 paying me back for a good summer: Camellia Yuletide right on time this year after no flowers last year!

Wanna feel older than old? Teach high school freshman when it's been 6 or 7 days since Thanksgiving....

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Drawing of a Saltasaurus with its back to the viewer in three-quarter view, wearing a voluminous sash around its waist, in which is stuck a profusion of swords whose hilts are carved as the heads of various dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It also wears a tricorn hat trimmed with long feathers and carries a spear.

Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite.

Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013.

#ArtAdventCalendar

A close up of entrelac or basket-weave style knitting in variegated wool yarn, gently transitioning between various shades of green. The effect is reminiscent of a dappled forest floor

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 1: sunlight filtered through leaves in a deep forest

Entrelac knitting in variegated wool

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A Great Horned Owl with bright yellow eyes sits on the top of a tree branch and lowers its head to look towards the viewer.

Wait, what's this I see? Could it be the beginning of another year of #ArtAdventCalendar? #owls

Digital art illustration of cartoon insects partying: fireflies sit on a frame above shining light on a dancing caterpillar, ant, bumblebee, and mantis below. Text top, middle, and bottom reads "do a little dance / you're a little bug / get down tonight"

"Little Dance, Little Bugs"
2022, digital for fun & print products 🦗
#ArtAdventCalendar

Bright yellow aspen leaves against a vibrantly blue sky, their trunks bright white and the ground litter with fallen leaves.

Oh, #artadventcalendar, how I've missed you!

Here's a something for the eyes: high up in the Warner Mountains above Modoc country, northeastern California

Children pushed back on the bullies at the table and Uncle Don got mad at the teacher who taught them the pinko attitude...you're not wrong.

Id rather go for work-life balance than be "successful" by the metrics society tells me are important.
Id rather take the sick days to get my bodymind back on track (and thank heaven for sick leave).
Id rather be perceived as middling or unmemorable.
Id much rather have a lifetime of happiness.

Oh, we dare not forget the boobjobs and starvation layers plus the 5 inch heels...unless you're tall, in which case, go home.🤬

Pattern recognition has to be my least favorite part of neurodivergence. "Oh, I see where this is going. Surely everyone else sees this too? Oh. Okay. Can't wait to sit here in silent horror while that car crash slowly happens."

Ohhhh...suddenly nostalgic for teaching AP Literature. This, my favorite unintentional comedy in many a late evening paper-scoring session!

Omg! I love the jellyfish...this is great news!!!

Got to be part of a safety drill--I mean absurdly accidentally triggered at 911 level lockdown--and can now scientifically confirm: 9th graders cannot shut up to save their own lives.

Based in 3 essays in 2 hrs 55 minutes...NOT a standard university-level challenge?

Shorthanded argument first draft in about an hour?????

Because universities will give credit for English 1A level comp course (maybe) for HIGH scores? And it's a first draft?

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Why is it always "that sexual assault perpetrator is a brilliant man who has contributed so much to science so we should excuse his behavior" and not "look how many women and girls will never contribute to science because he ruined their lives".

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

Hell, yeah!

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

Immediately planning the test run...

I can Wednesday with this to run on--hell, yeah!!!

They're stupid easy to make...could use any cereal...and add cashews and fruit if you wanted.