I see you. I hear you. I believe you.

I was going to try to keep this light, but more than one woman I know left work early today because they were so upset by the Kavanaugh hearing, and more and more of my friends and people I love have posted their stories of surviving sexual abuse.

Everything I have tried to type here seems insufficient, so I will just say to anyone reading who has survived a sexual assault: I see you. I hear you. I believe you.

If you can, consider donating to RAINN.

Don’t read the comments. Take care of yourselves. ❤️

#SummerSoLit Book Challenge Wrap-Up

So how did we do with #SummerSoLit? Did you make a bingo? As a reminder here’s the bingo board:

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I have cleared many squares but not any in order to make a bingo 😩. Here are the categories I cleared along with the books (keeping in mind that I made NO BINGO–not even one line, let alone the two required for the challenge).

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TV! Music! Books!

Ugh, allergies are kicking my butt. But I will not let them keep me from writing this post.

First, I am writing this while I attempt to make waffles on my new waffle maker. I am not off to a good start as I misread the waffle directions because the numbers were blurry. (I though it said 1 1/2 cups for both the mix and the milk, but it said 1 1/3 cup and 1 1/4 cup, respectively.) Does this mean I have to start wearing reading glasses? I think this is definitely a writing on the wall situation.

Okay, maybe not Pacey’s writing on the wall to Joey situation, but still.

Second, TV has been very good to me this past few weeks.

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Weekly Update: Back to School Edition

I did my speedy quick update two weeks ago and feel like I have been rushing ever since. Blergh. But even though this weekend was book club and I had a work/writing date with a colleague, I finally feel a little more settled and calm.

So, obviously, the big news is that the fall semester started. Things have been going well so far minus the extra exhaustion I felt the past two weeks because, whew, that was a lot. I mean, when I got home this past Thursday at 5 p.m., I fell asleep and didn’t wake up until around 7 a.m. Did I mention I was exhausted? Just exhausted.

Two big adventures happened. The first is that I forgot my flash drive in my office for the first day of my short story class, so only had the poorly formatted Google Drive backup of my first day slides. None of my memes showed up properly and everything was just a mess. But I got through it.

The other is that I forgot to publish my students’ readings and assignments that were due last Tuesday, so they were in a panic and I had to completely readjust what we did in class that day. I also made this meme to apologize for my screw up:

welp