angrily flossing at my desk to be SOMEHOW productive while my brain screams

When you start thinking so hard about whether academia is made for students with disabilities that it wakes you up

(i have multiple students with disabilities this semester but it was still not a great time to be woken up by it)

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as an example of where i am emotionally, the night before teaching i suddenly awoke at 5 AM stressing about the accessibility concerns of the classroom

The new literal grey hairs i appear to be rapidly developing this year are going to make me so attractive.

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i'll be fine and everything will get accomplished i'm just really like wow i can't trust my own ability to estimate workloads

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last night i really struggled to sleep due to feeling like i've got too many things going on so it was real whiplash waking up to an email confirming the deadline for an additional thing i forgot about

RT @rafkhach@twitter.com

There is a one letter difference between the Russian words for cat (кот) and whale (кит). A Soviet children's book from the '80s imagined what it would be like if they switched places:

🐦🔗: twitter.com/rafkhach/status/14

RT @lhkuroda@twitter.com

I teach Japanese (language) and one thing I often hear students say is that they want to become “fluent” in Japanese. I don’t think this is a reasonable goal. Instead I ask: what do you want to talk about fluently? Who do you want to talk fluently with?

🐦🔗: twitter.com/lhkuroda/status/15

RT @NZGreens@twitter.com

We said the inquiry into Student Wellbeing would give us irrefutable evidence of the systemic barriers and challenges facing 400k students in NZ.

It has.

Student poverty has become normalised and entrenched. This wasn’t an accident, but a political decision. It can be fixed.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/NZGreens/status/15

I didn't even take my mask off to drink water. I went outside for that like it was a smoke break. There were people in the university cafe coughing opened mouthed.

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bo and i are both really experiencing the joy of teaching (talking nonstop) 9-5 and then having a sore throat and being worried it's COVID

I felt like we covered 200x more stuff in the python class and that it was harder but i taught it better so the kids understood more 😥 it's fine, we'll get into python flask stuff in the web dev class and then I'll be feeling better about it

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First day of teaching these classes went fine but I'm so much better at teaching python than html and css omfg

RT @melancholynsex@twitter.com

Dear @Walgreens@twitter.com I received this package today a week after purchasing a pregnancy test at your store. I was asked to take the test by my doctor despite having no Fallopian tubes. 1/X

🐦🔗: twitter.com/melancholynsex/sta

RT @KiwiCave@twitter.com

@tenderhooves@twitter.com my son sloptop, who has every disease and also Logitech Options, Logitech Unifying Software and Logitech Setpoint

🐦🔗: twitter.com/KiwiCave/status/15

also this show continues to be cartoonish and evil about russia and how it portrays russian life

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AHHHHH i watched the episode of For All Mankind where gay stuff starts hitting the fan and it was really challenging. i can handle a bit of home o' phobia in media but it was extremely about attitudes towards HIV and nothing makes me more upset than people crap about that

RT @jellyneo@twitter.com

UPDATE: The official @NeopetsMeta@twitter.com ambassador in question has been removed.

Read more about this update and the announcement from the Metaverse team here: bit.ly/3aIYlxb twitter.com/jellyneo/status/15

🐦🔗: twitter.com/jellyneo/status/15

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