I just got back to my house after three full days of driving cross country and there’s like 50 scorpions inside and 2037490668 wasps’ nests outside. Also the AC is broken again.Fuck everything about Texas.

mylordshesacactus: pureslime: pizzaback: pureslime: pizzaback: sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A …

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Hey all, just an update that I’m not dead!I screwed myself over pretty hard by agreeing to go on vacation with a friend for a few days (she suggested the vacation months ago and I said yes at the time because I didn’t anticipate that I would be THIS overwhelmingly busy in summer, and I …

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I’m behind on everything again because I working double time to get my online summer class finished before the class needs to start in… um… four days… I’m very sorry to everyone who has messaged me lately. As soon as I get a moment, I will respond to everyone, promise!And I am working on the …

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Okay… this weekend… for real…I have like a whole day to myself before my students’ big semester papers are due. I will respond to people and actually try to write.It’s almost finals… Save me…

I’m crawling out of the grave to say that I might… might(!!) have a little bit of free time this weekend? Maybe??I’ll try to answer the built up asks and such this weekend, anyway.Also, hey, I’m getting close to 1,000 followers! I think I’ll do some kind of giveaway when I reach that point! 😀

Hi everyone,Just a quick update–I’ve officially hit the intense crunch period of the semester (faculty evaluations are happening, big midterm papers are due, my online course needs to be finished by the end of March, the curriculum committee I lead has enormous task list due this week, etc.), so I’m going to be MIA for …

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I’m in a terrible mood today because the revised creative writing course I spent multiple sleepless nights working on was rejected by the board again–not, and I quote, “because of any failing in the design of the course, which by all standards is incredibly well-developed,” but because the Texas board has decided that creative writing …

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That feeling when you hear through the grapevine that your department chair is about to foist another enormous and exceedingly important responsibility on you when you feel like you’ve already collapsed under the weight of the mountain of responsibilities you were previously given and have been only-barely-pretending to be on top of for months.Lordhalpme.