[A Comprehensive Guide to 250+ of Apple Music’s New Mood and Activity Playlists](A Comprehensive Guide to 250+ of Apple Music’s New Mood and Activity Playlists) - Crikey.
[A Comprehensive Guide to 250+ of Apple Music’s New Mood and Activity Playlists](A Comprehensive Guide to 250+ of Apple Music’s New Mood and Activity Playlists) - Crikey.
Day 58
The guilt is toxic
Never enough, never good
Scalds, poisons everything
Trying to do the best for my family and the kids in my class and also myself feels like an impossible task.
The guilt from feeling like I’m failing both is often too much.
Has anyone used https://boardgamearena.com to play board games online? Any good?
Yumo has just lost self-serving tomato sauce privileges. No single person needs that much tomato sauce.
Also, is it ok to just eat tomato sauce?
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
Source: James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom – The Marginalian
It’s 7am
Snacks, Switch behind the sofa
At least it’s quiet
day 53
high speeds, high spirits
screaming, laughing and crying
one more day at soft play
I know that smells evoke certain memories but I find certain songs evoke strong memories of the books I was reading at that time too.
So happy to see Dune at an IMAX.
In a related post was this one about how what multitasking does to our brains and how as teachers we are constantly trying to do that. Juggling a multitude things that need to be picked up and dropped, at well the drop of the hat.
When we as a society begin to explore the rationality of the amount of work output we expect from different employee groups of people AND expect it to be done consistently well, it is important to consider all the factors.Source: Flight Traffic Controllers & Teachers.
Love bombing.
I love by Alex Dimitro and then inspired I love by Courtney Martin who writes
Write one, too? Or even just a few lines?
I guess that’s tomorrow’s task now. Maybe you could do it too, just a few lines?
The board is finished. Long live the board.
Lo-ghost – Fetch Me In The Morning - YouTube
This track showed up on a playlist recently but somehow only has less than a 100 views on Youtube. STUCK in my head.
Elise and I discuss it briefly!
Don’t mind me, I’m over there, at 9am, crying at my desk.
Garlic with aubergine. Definitely not aubergine with garlic!
My migrations between other people’s classrooms in different schools reminds me to see our teachers as complete and complex human beings; sometimes tough and confident sometimes fragile and vulnerable. Sometimes walking through a private personal hell and sometimes joyfully living the best years of their lives.Source: Always Moving | Ben Newmark
Records
Just write up my haikus that I’ve mostly just been posting on WeChat.
And my exercise for the last two months recorded on a giant whiteboard. I think we’ll clean it and start again on Monday.


Sure, Elise is learning to read and that’s amazing. But, I think I’m more impressed by how she can do an awesome job of the Beyoncé part of Telephone by Lady Gaga!
Only half watching the story. I miss the UK countryside something rotten.