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That was a lie

I still feel like crap, and I’ve spent more time in the bathroom today than I typically do in a week. I was planning on the first day back in my classroom being tomorrow but right now I may just have to lay in bed and moan all day. We’ll see.

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Must be Saturday

I have felt like hell for something like five Saturdays in a row, and today featured yet another five-hour afternoon nap. Currently trying to figure out if I have a stomachache and shouldn’t eat or if I’m hungry; I feel like evolution should have found a way to make these two things more distinct by now. One way or another I’ll see y’all tomorrow.

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Monthly Reads: July 2025

Not as heavy as last month, but still. Damn. And I just started London: The Biography, so even if we don’t take school starting into account, that’s gonna lighten next month considerably. Book of the Month is His Face is the Sun, by Michelle Jabés Corpora.

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Unread Shelf: July 31, 2025

Did I rearrange this shelf hoping to hide the fact that there are more books on it than there were last month? …maybe. I might have done that.

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On school supplies and other annoying arguments

I feel like there’s something in the air out there this year, where the standard beginning of school arguments are just a little bit louder and angrier than they have been in previous years. So lemme match some energy here. This is showing itself in two major ways: the “I’m not buying any school supplies, or if I buy school supplies, every single thing is for my kid” crowd, and the people who…

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500

Every so often you’ll hear about some sort of writing challenge. Write every day for a month! they’ll say, sometimes with a list of suggested topics. Sometimes the challenge is just the list of topics and the idea is you’ll spend thirty days writing about your great love of, I dunno, horses or whatever. This post marks five hundred days straight of blogging, without missing a day. Nobody ever…

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I wanna play with Legooooooooooos

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One of those nights

I kind of want to solve all of the world’s problems with violence tonight, which means I probably ought not to be writing about it in public. I’m in a hell of a mood. That said, I should be seeing Fantastic Four tomorrow, so hopefully that’ll be fun.

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I'd have two nickels

I spent part of the day adulting, part of the day working on a LEGO set, and the rest of it pushing through The Eye of the World. I’m under 200 pages from the end and am hoping I can finish it before I go to bed. Also, somehow today God killed an elderly orange-skinned Florida man with shitty hair, genocidal politics and a massive racism problem, who had strong ties to reality TV and…

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In which it happened again

Logically, I was last at work just a couple of months ago, so it has to be true that I know how to exist in a world where I do not have access to a three-hour afternoon nap every single day whether I want one or not. I just don’t remember how that’s supposed to work, and I spend what feels like a huge percentage of my mental effort every day avoiding taking a nap. I succumbed today– the boy had a…

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In which shopping for clothes somehow gets even worse

Every shirt I have that is okay to wear to work is at least three years old, so I’m starting to face the uncomfortable truth that I’m going to have to do some clothes shopping before this school year starts. (Fun fact: I have two polo shirts that date back to my first teaching job. They are twenty-five years old. They still fit and they do not, in any way, look their age. I promise I’d have…

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Secret Lab Chair 2: The Relabbening

On the right, my five-year-old chair. Or the middle, if you’re counting the half of my wife’s inferior desk chair that you can see. On the left, the new hotness, ready for duty. Again, I haven’t bothered to, like, dust, or de-cat-hair or anything like that, but the old chair is still in perfect shape, after five years of daily use. I couldn’t be happier with this company’s products, y’all.

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I am in so much trouble

I put myself on an RSVP list for this enormous bastard today, which just means that they’ll let me know when it’s for sale, which will be good, because it’ll take a while to sell the house so that I can afford it. Be sure to note the tiny FF members and the Silver Surfer, for scale.

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<moaning noises>

… not the good kind. I didn’t sleep well last night, took a long nap in the afternoon, dinner was the first meal of the day and it isn’t sitting well, and I think I’m going to bed soon. Game review tomorrow.

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Down, down, to Goblin town

There’s this weird thing going on with my incoming students where a ton of them have the same last names as people I either went to high school with or was otherwise friends with as a kid. I actually have never independently known a kid’s parents, or if I did I never had to have any contact with them. Maybe? That’s true, I think. Definitely never had to talk to any of them. Maybe I had one…

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It’s not a Superman post …

… but it is a “taking the night off” post. Got a book to finish before I fall asleep in this chair. Be good to each other.