Lentil Wedding

People are glowing. GLOWING.

Humid? I just checked the weather app and we have 28% humidity in the North bay. It IS definitely blazing hot, but supposed to cool off tomorrow.

5 kids attempted suicide at my middle school this year! All of them were 8th graders and 4 of the students were girls. Thank god no one succeeded. One of the students was in my 8th language arts class. The administration and counseling team keeps us teachers on a need-to-know basis to protect privacy, so I don't know…

Madam, how dare you even ask!

Lentils, y'all.

Awwww, thanks. I actually seriously considered wearing my mom's dress for my own wedding, but I am about 4 inches taller and wear a dd to her 1970's era b cup. So after attempting to zip the dress over my boobs, I knew it would never work.

Behold: a wedding dress and bridesmaid dress from 1972. My mom and grandmother made my mom's dress AND all the bridesmaid dresses. It was a different time.

We don't claim him. He might live here but he's originally from Ohio and group up in Ferndale of all places. Yuck. Any time an out of town relative visits and insists on going to Johnny Garlic's or Tex Wasabi's, I die a little inside.

Try trail running. Much fewer people around and the mountain bikers are too busy trying not to face plant.

That is the theory of the Fug Girls, and I am inclined to believe it. It's pretty sad, as she was a great dancer.

I had never heard of Slender Man until one of my 6th graders wrote about him in his spooky story (it was a short fiction unit close to Halloween. We teach suspense and figurative language then). However, the story was pretty benign, so I am not concerned. Days before the Wisconsin attack, the student was at open house…

Absolutely True Diary is so fucking good. My 8th grade students just made an incredible book trailer on iMovie for it.

I feel so guilty. I teach 6th grade and I have such a hard time getting into YA. I try to read the lit circle books (although I didn't get to all of them this year), and I always read the class novels, but there are so many grown-up books I want to read that they seem to take precedent. (For those wondering, lit…

Gah! That's my MIL, too. :(

It can be really difficult to walk the line of exposing kids to challenging material and keeping adults happy. I teach 6th and 8th grade and just had my 8th graders read books for a Challenged/Banned Books unit. I made the decision to include <i>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian</i> by Sherman Alexie,…

I don't know all the details, but according to my MIL, my cousin (in-law, but we have a close family) works at a very high end resort in Park City. She is somewhat of a dilettante, and her Instagram account is filled with parties and skiing/snowboarding and other beautiful people. Her brother is a working writer/PA in…

Her hair looks like a Debbie Harry knock-off. I'm thumbs-down just because she is a person who strives for edginess. It feels like she's trying to hard. Especially combined with menswear.

I dunno, but CMM really is a douche. He followed my admittedly drop dead gorgeous cousin all around Sundance and then again in LA this winter and apparently was not good at taking the "Let's just be friends" hint. So weird. Especially to hear my MIL and aunt recount the story.

You mean Occidental and Camp Meeker? Pshaw... It's just really damp, with big trees. There's far more nefarious places in NorCal. What about all the illegal grows in the Mendocino National Forest? It's the perfect mix of biker, illegal drugs and wilderness.