早饭：油茶
午餐： 面条
晚饭：火锅
Breakfast: Spicy porridge
Lunch: Spicy noodles
Dinner: Spicy hot pot
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早饭：油茶
午餐： 面条
晚饭：火锅
Breakfast: Spicy porridge
Lunch: Spicy noodles
Dinner: Spicy hot pot
🌶️
Playing Set. All 4 features must be different or only one. Such a lot to process, which means it must be good?!
Book of Life 🎥 Went in knowing nothing about it. Kids loved this.
So good.
Today our teaching team have 24 15minute meetings from 8am to 4pm. ☕️
Forever patience
Impossibility
Life swirls and time flies
Workout
Trying to write a cover letter after a busy day and with my kids being themselves… Not. Fun.
My co-teacher read this last year but I don’t remember the story but I still have the book around and have been reading it with Elise. We are trying to read a chapter at a time but tonight we read a chapter and a half. OMG. Two things about it. First is that I am grateful for making the time to read with her. Two, it’s strange to have moved on from picture books. Which we obviously haven’t done completely!
Lots of interesting people here.
The Makers + Mavericks List 2023. | by Hiut Denim Co | Jan, 2024
Technically it’s meat* and vegetables.
*Some spam but you can’t have it all.
I like some of these.
Elise and Yumo go through some Little Talk conversation cards with their grandparents.
The world hangs heavy
Don’t carry your burdens love
You can be weightless
I wrote this yesterday. Then thought that perhaps my word for the coming year could be the opposite, that it could be light. The opposite of things, so many things, hanging heavy. That the thought could be of not holding onto things and of letting them weigh me down.
But also, of being a light. For my own family. For the students I work with. To do the best that I can be. To set an example. To be a light for others to follow.
Noticed that Apple Music doesn’t show how many songs are in a playlist and how long the playlist lasts. Which is information that I’ve never needed for anything but was nice to know!
As I started to read Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean Michaels last night, I realised that. Sometimes. It’s not the story I love but the writing. That it doesn’t happen that often. Doesn’t need to happen that often, maybe? That, sometimes the story is enough of course. But sometimes being absorbed by the words. Wrapped up in them, is a glorious thing.
But the great truth about work that doesn’t make it is that it’s just as important as the stuff that does. You need bad, not quite right, awkward, under inspired or overly complicated to have good, inspired, sustainable or even brilliant. The beauty of mediocrity is that we need it.
Always enjoy Beau Miles' videos. Just his enthusiasm.
I enjoyed these lists a lot.
52 things I learned in 2023 - Kent Hendricks
Here’s another by Jason Kottke who was inspired by this one
Really enjoyed Season 3 of Slow Horses. I think I’m going to read the book Season 4 is based on now, though from the trailer I think I already have.
The tick-tock of time trips on and here we are again, old friends. Said the Gramophone. Best songs. By now I hope you know the drill. This world needs some kindnesses–it wants more peace, liberation, and music shared between strangers. So here’s a pistachio, a ripe pear. Here are my 100 favourite songs of the year 2023; songs I love much more than doomed submarines (or basketball).
You’ve got too much to read, too much to watch and now here’s too much to listen to…
Watching Mission Impossible. Which was apparently released in 1996. 1996! 🍿
A reminder of some the great shows that I haven’t seen. Too much amazing tv (and books and blogs and and) around!
Man was charging people to look at the full moon with his telescope. Totally worth it. Though not sure Elise saw the American flag as she claimed.
