Today kind of sucked. So here's some long-overdue picspam on a subject dear to my heart: people giving me stuff!

From September: my mom visited, suitcases laden with goodies for me. Here's just a fraction of what she brought me:

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Long day: I had training from 9:00am to 3:00pm, then I taught two classes including the quiz lesson from hell. Whose genius idea was it to include a quiz and a super complicated writing activity in the same lesson? Clearly someone who's never actually tried it. The students needed at least twice the time they were allotted to finish the quiz, which ( Read more... )