#ms. b

[187days]

Day One

Well. It's my twentieth year of teaching. And I started it majestically... by tripping over my own two feet on my way to my classroom because my sneakers and the freshly waxed hallways didn't get along.

(I tripped like three more times throughout the day, twice in front of other people).

Buuuuut anyways.

In-service started with coffee, and The Principal's welcome back/welcome new people remarks. After that, we had four gloriously uninterrupted hours to set up our classrooms, but, if you've been following along at home, you know I did a lot of my set up when I was in for LT meetings last week- and I'm notoriously quick at doing many things anyhow- so I went and checked in with the teachers in my department. Then I started tackling the mess that is the English/Social Studies staff room. I didn't get very far on that, but progress is progress.

Lunch was pizza from one of the local restaurants. I introduced Ms. B and Mr. X to my Cacophonous friends, and they fit right in, which was awesome. A cacophony ought to expand and grow, after all!

After lunch, The Principal went over policies and procedures, new or continuing initiatives, and expectations for tomorrow's freshman orientation. He'd given himself an hour and a half, probably anticipating more questions than there were (I'd anticipated more), but only took maybe forty minutes. So everyone was free to wrap up the day however they needed to. I went over how to use PowerSchool and Smartpass with Ms. B and Mr. X, then went back to my classroom to fill out all the beginning-of-the-year paperwork I had to fill out.

I did text Mrs. T, too, to tell her it was weird to do this without her, but we're both in good places and doing what we want to do, so it's all good.

And that was that! Day one, in the books!

[mogai-headcanons]

Theo from Here For Sweethearts is a gay queer genderqueer genderpunk transfeminine man with PTSD and depression who uses he/him, they/them, and she/her pronouns, and he's dating Crowven!

Crowven Corvusson is a bisexual trans mallgothix genderpunk emogender crowgender emox bigender guy with ADHD who uses he/him and crow/crows pronouns, and he's dating Theo and Vasilis!

Ms. B is a thistle femme pinkgender trans bi lesbian with chronic fatigue and depression who uses she/her pronouns!

Mitzi Tetra is an autistic lesbian demigirl with BPD who uses she/her and they/them pronouns, and they're dating Ollie!

Ollie is an ambiamorous bisexual sleepygender nonbinary person with narcolepsy and anxiety who uses they/them pronouns, and they're dating Mitzi!

Vasilis Deerlington is an autistic biromantic asexual agendeer agender bluegender deergender person who uses they/them and it/its pronouns, and they're dating Crowven!

Twyla Sophio is an autistic hypoempathetic unlabeled trans woman who uses she/her pronouns!

Gunter is an autistic pinkgender rosboy gay bear who uses he/him pronouns!

Mary Anta is an autistic selectively mute biromantic asexual deathcute kenochoric genderplush dolllikic dollcreepycute crackedollic dollwife cemeteryaesic lovesickian froggender trans girl with social anxiety and PTSD who uses she/her pronouns, and she's dating Reginald and primarily communicates through signing and writing!

Reginald Tetra is an autistic biromantic asexual lovesickian aceknight darkacademic transmasculine agender sweatertix girlboy with PTSD who uses he/him pronouns and occasionally uses she/her with those close to him, mainly Mary! He's dating Mary and is Mitzi's brother!

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[chaos0pikachu]

sorry but I so don't care that venom might not be in the mcu cause where the fuck would he and eddie even fit in the mcu? there's no chaotic sexy energy in the mcu i'm so sorry like the mcu's idea of sex is two dry pumps on a beach with ppl so pretty they might as well be ai generated the horniest thing they've done in their films is had steve rogers in a boob shirt and then they finished his story by becoming joe biden Venom would eat some cop's skull and the avengers would literally shit themselves they'd be like "OMG EDDIE YOU CAN'T GO AROUND EATING COPS" and Eddie would be like "I didn't that was my husband" and then John Watson would show up and be like "I'm an ally so I totally understand but also we don't allow the eating of law enforcement here" and Venom would try to eat John Watson while eddie calls the avengers neolibs in his head like THEY DON'T FIT IN THE MCU

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

while we wait.

may i offer you all a pubby?? lil bby barns?

[kesopan]

no thinking over the weekend

[drewseph]

THE CAST OF OBX + Cosmopolitan Magazine

[bmj-arts]

birthday boy 🎂

idk if its official but whatever, I wanna do something wholesome

[reluctantjoe]

Welcome back, Mark S. Been a minute.

SEVERANCE | S2 — Official Trailer

[dannidorina]

In my mind, it is canon.

[187days]

Bonus Day

The leadership team decided to meet one last time before the school year starts, so I went into work this morning. The Principal started the meeting with welcomes, and thanks, and then gave an update on the situation we're in because of the teacher shortage: having to cancel some courses or offer them online-only, having to increase enrollment in other courses... It's a tough situation to be in, and it's going to be challenging for all of us. But he's an optimistic guy, so he also expressed hope that we'll be able to hire teachers in the future, and then he went over the things we've got going for us: new courses, new supplies and technology, various awesome events and opportunities.

He also asked what we're looking forward to, and I obviously said, "Teaching APGOV during this election season!" Cue much banter about divisiveness and bounty money.

I should note that this was the first meeting our new Dean 2 was at, so that was her introduction to me.

We took one final look at the policies we'd drafted to present to the staff, made our last revisions, and adjourned. I had another meeting scheduled in the afternoon, so I spent the time I had in between getting my classroom set up. That afternoon meeting was a curriculum work meeting with Mr. I and our two new hires, Mr. X and Ms. B, who are all teaching American Studies. I helped them revise the unit calendar, and get started on detailed planning for the first unit, then I had to head to a dentist appointment.

It all starts for real on Monday!

[fevekko]

yaya sketch from a few days ago

[bondilluns]

gaze into her killing jar i'd sometimes stare for hours, she even poked the holes so i can breath

here's revenge ray as a little mouse for an art trade with @omtai !!! ^^ here's their half of the trade, it's the cutest thing i've ever seen!! >u<

[ID: A digital drawing of Ray Toro as a cartoon mouse playing guitar. He's wearing a bulletproof vest with a red shirt underneath, and striped pants. His eyes are closed, he is smiling and poking his tongue out. End ID.]

[toasted-melow]

Mama and her son 🐔🐶

I really enjoyed drawing ms. Beagle and barnaby as small puppy djenjekwI also enjoyed trying a new style in coloring which I'm so proud of how this comes out 😌👌✨️

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im a simple guy! i think about puppy Barnaby. i promptly explode into bloody heart-shaped confetti

[krasytoonz]

King Wally’s favoritism is a little bit obvious to a certain pooch (and his mom)

[drewseph]

the boys of obx for cosmopolitan magazine 2024