Jennifer Parsons @parsonsj@scholar.social

@auntiekiki @Cyborgneticz @bgcarlisle @platypus Thanks for the affirmations. I'm excited about this new house! I'm also glad my ex is now my ex, and stuff like this only proves why.

I recently have signed a seller's agreement on a house. Hooray for me!

When I informed my ex-spouse of this and that I would have keys and corrected information for him shortly, he informed me of why he thought it was a mistake (2 blocks from public housing, which is mixed around our city), and said, "If anything happens to our child in that house, you're dead to me."

My teaching partner: No, I totally won't apologize for hounding our best student, who was a woman and non-traditional, from our course.

Also my teaching partner: So you know our male bro-type student, who didn't do any of the online discussion and who handed in a profoundly unprofessional submission for his final project? Is there any way he could make that missed discussion up with you?

I am coming to the astonishing conclusion that no one under age 24 knows how to use a spreadsheet. #kidstoday #notthatiwasbornknowinghowtouseone #butimsurpriseditwasnttaughttothem

So far, only two of my five students have turned anything in that’s even remotely professional and I feel like an utter failure as an educator.

In which I am coming to the horrified conclusion that no one thinks they how to use spreadsheets.

...to be then subsumed by quiet weeping, when you see that your student has simply copypasted their sources into their text.

The joy of being able to belt out "IT'S TIME FOR CRAAP!" when evaluating your students' sources.

I'm...actually really enjoying the discussion on what priesthood would look like among my fellow Pagans. Not sure if it's my devotion to this particular goddess (we're all Brighidines), or the fact that I like so many of these people at play here.

Every time you fail to cite a source, a librarian loses one of their nine lives. #academiclibrarylife #academicwhining #butseriouslyiputCITEYOURSOURCESinbolditalicsffs

And now, mild crash, as I:
-am still smarting after a clash with the ex last night
-have someone (politely, but still) begging me for an article that's nearly impossible to get, and honestly not for my lack of trying
-the course I'm co-teaching is an utter failure, with no engagement by my students, and
-I need to look at houses today
-I have less money than I thought
-I just generally feel like a failure as a parent, ex-spouse, and educator.

Update: they had a great time! It was a little (okay, a LOT) disorganized, but they seemed to have a lot of fun. A big majority of them were awed by our makerspace: "This is a LIBRARY?! This is the best library EVAR!!"

So later today we're going to have some 4th and 5th graders in our academic library because their school doesn't have enough money for a field trip.

Wait what