#The custodian

[lynx-jinx]

loved the custodian. shame he's a building now. fs in the chat 😔

[nightmaresyrup]

Currently playing: I forget I'm in the same game: THE GAME 2! I'm so tempted to raise the difficulty after finding a ton of cool stuff!

I kinda like this guy.... but can I trust? Item desc says his calculations are weird, other item desc says accusers did drugs 🤯

[reluctanttree]

I love the Custodian, he's like 'at the end of the day its just a job yknow, u gotta do what you gotta do, i got pills to pay here pal, the jobs the job. you know what I'm saying? If Joshua Gillespie can do it, so can I, nah im fine - yeah, im turning into stone, but what can you do-'

[cinnabean3]

RIP Koncrete King

[kingsdodecahedron]

third dlc is so good

[patdevilles]

Essie Davis as Jilly in The Custodian (1993)

“This is how all the hard decisions are made. Heads you stay, tails you don’t.”

[187days]

Day Seventeen

The ninth grade English teachers recently had students choose an image of themselves and write one-page personal narrative about it. They made a display out of string and clothespins, printed everyone's pieces in color, and hung them on the display. It's SO cool, and so much better than white walls. I took a "five minute field trip" with my second section of Global Studies so we could look at their work. They were all talking about wanting to find theirs when they came into class, so I figured we should just do that to start with.

Then they- and the students in my other two sections- used today's class to finish putting together their geography projects and practice presenting them. The practice went the best in my third section; groups actually made notecards, went out into the hall to practice (I stood in the doorway so I could see them). and so on. In the other two sections, it was less extensive and far more reluctantly done, but I was able to show a few students that it was beneficial because they were able to correct their pronunciation, get comfortable reading some of the larger numbers that might've tripped them up, and things like that.

Whether they practiced or not, though, I'm looking forward to their presentations. It's been a while since I've done a group project like this with freshmen, so it's been a learning experience for me as well as for them, and I think it's been a good one.

In APGOV, I was back at the front of the room- after days of project work, presentations, and guests- to begin the first unit of the actual AP curriculum: foundations of American democracy. I called students' attention back to the lessons we'd done on in the first couple days of school about the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. Then I showed a Crash Course episode on the subject, asked questions to review their knowledge of the Declaration of Independence, and lectured on the task our Founders had to form a government once the Declaration had been signed. They're supposed to read the Articles of Confederation and US Constitution by Monday (we have a guest speaker tomorrow), so this lesson is segueing into the next one really obviously.

What else?

I screwed up a bit, but it's not totally my fault. I've always moved the tables in my room around for various activities, but their default layout is rows. A teacher trick I learned years ago to ensure they got put back into those rows correctly was to mark their placement on the floor with a sharpie. I've done it for years, but we've got a new Head of Maintenance this year, and he came in to fix a busted lightbulb, saw the marks, and made the custodian assigned to my hallway clean them. I found out and apologized immediately; it had just never been an issue before! The custodian told me not to worry about it because he's super nice, but still.

I also had a couple meetings today, and I think I handled those well. It's Thursday, so, of course, we had a PLC meeting in the morning; we spent it discussing some upcoming events and directives from the leadership team, then filling out the professional goals paperwork we're required to do each year. And, during my prep, I had a less formal meeting with Dean 1 about the challenges the new teachers are facing. There's nothing extraordinary, it's all typical new teacher stuff, but he wanted my thoughts on what would be most helpful.

And, as longtime readers know, one thing I'm rarely shy about is giving my thoughts. It's good to have admins who appreciate that trait!

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Custodian design here we fkcin GO!

Not at all what I was expecting. Like. At all. But it's canon now so. Guess I have to just adapt. Where's the old~ though? :(( I want old~ you know?....... :( They're the Custodian, but a few thousand years ago maybe.

That's basically the only criticism I have though, great job.

[ashes-in-a-jar]

No but did the Archivist literally stop for a snack on the way to its most important quarry??

Like, we did learn from Jon that if the Archivist gets too deep into the role they lose themselves and their ability to resist any statement in their vicinity but gurl you have way bigger fish to fry right now and that's just a poor custodian who kept his head down and just wanted to do his job that you concrete-ified because the train ride here made you peckish ffs

[raavenb2619]

I’m not sure when exactly this happened, but I think it’s clear that the aro community really is a community, now.

For the longest time I’ve felt like we were still in stasis, not quite there; a proto-community, yes, but not quite a community. But we have more history now to lean back on, more of each other to talk to and laugh with and cry with and learn from. More people that’ll go forward and make a part of modern aro history. More people that believe us, believe in us, will stand with us if we ask them.

I wouldn’t consider myself an aro elder yet, though each year I’m surprised at how long aromanticism has been a part of my life, how long I’ve been free of doubt or insecurity about my aromanticism, how far we’ve come since I was questioning. Then again, when I was questioning, some of the people I looked up to for guidance were probably close to the age I am now, so I might be there sooner than I think.

And, I’m so so hopeful for all aros, young or old, new or not, because we’ve come so far. Day by day, progress is slow (and yes, it’s unfair, it should be so much faster), but looking back it feels fast. We are our own role models, the people we look up to for guidance. We carve our own path through life, making things up as we go. I used to find that terrifying, because I had no idea what the future would bring. But it’s actually amazing, because I can ignore all these silly “rules” and guidelines about what my life should be, and instead ask, “what do I want my life to be?”

Younger me, you have no idea how awesome your future is gonna be. I’m sorry about the pain and hardship you’ll go through first; it won’t be fair and you shouldn’t have to deal with it. But you’ll make it through, and one day you’ll be me. I can’t wait for you to get here.

[despazito]

plenty of stuff thats really bad about the japanese school system and its attitudes but one thing we should bring over here is kids cleaning up their own classrooms at the end of the day. we need kids to shame other kids into not littering and some personal stakes in not leaving a fucking mess

[whore-man]

in the hilltop centre straight 'cleaning it' and by 'it' well haha lets justr say We are the hilltop. It is me and I am it and we are. We are.

[nightmaresyrup]

What happened to you buddy?!

[thegodemperorsmycopilot]

The Ultimate Game by Vir Landil

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Horus Heresy Sketchbook - Emperor's Custodian Guard Concept Art by John Blanche

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x8- "The Boiler Room Job"