My goodness, it was such a busy day at school today. Despite the fact that I have no classes to teach on schedule today, the amount of admin work I had to do kept me on my toes from 7 am to 2 pm! I didn't even have any time to drink or eat anything from how completely preoccupied I was. This is what happens when you teach classes and work as assistant headmaster at the same time...I'm proud of the fact I got this position at a relatively young age, but, boy, is it ever exhausting. And yet I wouldn't trade it for anything, because by nature, I like keeping an eye on everything and making sure all is as well as can be. And I get to know virtually every student in school by name, which is an impressive feat.



We got a shipment of textbooks (finally) so the 1st and 2nd graders received all their school books successfully. I'll be handing over the textbooks to the high school division tomorrow, hopefully, but I need to double-check the numbers and make sure there's enough books for every student. Otherwise, I'll have to delay it until we have enough. I like being thorough and organized with this stuff, but I have co-workers and teachers who unfortunately don't and end up making my job harder than needed. Oh, well.



Around 12:40pm, during last period, a bunch of the 9th grader boys came rushing in through the main door and I was confused because they were supposed to be outside on the soccer pitch for PE. I could tell they were running away, so I chased after them yelling "come back here, ya lil rats!" which was said completely affectionately, and they knew that because I was laughing my butt off. In reality, they knew I wasn't coming after them to punish them, but rather to help them escape the cruel fate of last period PE in the scorching 32 degree North African sun. I sneaked them into their classroom, a refuge of air conditioning, and they insisted I stay and play UNO with them (today was my first time playing UNO ever) so that was a lot of fun. We played until the bell rang for the end of the day. They thanked me for helping them hide, and I was like, are you kidding me? I should be thanking you guys for giving me a chance to take a break and breathe today!



I told them as we were leaving, that they reminded me of the days when I would run away from my own PE classes in high school, hiding in the bathroom then sneaking back into the classroom for a nice long nap. They laughed and said they couldn't possibly imagine me as a bad student playing hooky. I wonder if I really do give off that "good stude

Imagine being so bitter & unhappy with your own life that you have to rain on other's parades...it's not commendable nor is it even heatlhy.



You're not cooler, wiser, or more sophisticated for looking down on others because of how they choose to live their lives, what they work as, their hobbies and interests, etc...if anything, it simply makes you look like a major stinky butthole. And I don't think that's an impression anyone would purposely wanna give. Unless you're the descendant of Gargamel or something.



Frankly, I think that the notion of someone wasting their time and breath to rant about how much they hate the fact that someone likes something, is pathetic. And I'm not talking about stating how much YOU directly dislike a certain subject, I'm talking about being a party pooper to those who like it. There's a very clear difference between the two; one is having your own opinion and the other is flat-out harassment.



Honestly, life is much, much too short to a) concern yourself with what others enjoy and berate them for it, and b) not enjoy things in general. Have fun with life while being a decent, civil human being. And if you don't want to do that, then at the very least don't ruin it for others. Just some food for thought.

i'm the type of person that is always late to the party. literally and figuratively. in terms of individual fandoms, i'm rarely ever in there at the time of its actually "hype"; i can confidently say that every single fandom i've newly joined in the past five or so years, is objectively considered a dead fandom online. like i'm talkin' 10, 15, 20-year-old fandoms at this point. now, this is not something i set out to do purposely, like at all. it's pure coincidence that this keeps happening. i just find things, or at the very least give a hoot about them, after everyone's seemingly moved on and grown out of it. and, see, that's the interesting part about it to me.



i'm gonna give a few examples to put it into perspective. in 2021, i watched + read hetalia for the first time. i fell in love with it. sought out the manga and bought the entire series physically. read a whole bunch of doujin and fic. and i consider myself a huge fan of it. also in 2021, i read the Kyo Kara Maoh! novels + manga, and watched the anime for the first time. again, fell in love, bought the manga physicals, all that good stuff. earlier this year i listened to the AM album by arctic monkeys, which was the pinnacle of tumblr girl culture some 12 years ago, for the very first time. bear in mind i'd never listened to them before, ever. i knew of them, but never bothered. but when i heard AM now, once again, i just fell in love instantly! i think it's one of my favourite albums ever now. and just as recently as the beginning of this summer, i fell into the fall out boy rabbit hole for the first time. yes, that's right, i became an fob fan in the ripe year of 2025. hooooly cow lol.



the common denominator between all of these, if not apparent already, is that they had super prominent online fandoms--way more than a decade ago. and they were popular amongst, you guessed it, teenagers in the late 2000s-early 2010s. whereas i got into all of them AFTER i hit my 20s. yep.



and here's the thing, like, i WAS a teenager during the early 2010s (turned 13 early 2012) so like, why DIDN'T i get into this stuff at their so-called prime?? i kinda have no clue myself lmao. i was on tumblr religiously from 2011-2018, i am prone to getting obsessed with the slightest shiny thing that catches my eye, so how i didn't get swept in those waves beforehand is quite funny. well, now that i think about it, i actually might know why...i got into k-pop around 2014 and it was all i could think about up until maybe 2018-19. i don't like talking about it too

my back has been killing me for the past two weeks, but today it just got to a whole new level. anytime i so much as sit a certain way or stand up too fast, i get the most insane rush of pain in my lower back. my dad says it's probably because of sitting a certain way in my computer chair, and poor posture. i fear he may be spot on...



i wheeze and ache a lot lately, and it's not just because of my asthma. i think i'm becoming a granny sooner than i thought. a senior citizen, and i just made it past my mid-20s. amazing.



although when i think about it, in the eyes of the younger children i teach, like the first & second graders, i really am an old lady. so i guess it's just inevitable, eh?



but then on the other hand you have people around my age, teenagers, and older folks constantly mistaking me for a kid whenever i'm outside...so which is it exactly?! gahh...it's confuzzles me to no end.



i remember when i was 5 or 6, i said that when i turn into a wrinky old lady, like at 77, i'd cut my hair super short and dye it a crazy colour, maybe neon pink. i think i'll end up doing that sooner than i thought lol.

I woke up at 12:30 pm. I was supposed to go to school to get some admin work done but alas, my brain has not switched to teacher mode just yet. Maybe when September begins, it'll automatically toggle that lol?? I have no idea.



I was hungry and the first thing I could think about was cereal. I feel like cereal should be demoted from being strictly a breakfast food, it really is a whenever-goes if you think about it. I can't even remember the last time I ate cereal in the morning, as "breakfast." For the past however long, I've been eating cereal after 12 pm. And it's very nourishing. I can run on a single bowl of choco puffs for an entire day, easy peasy. Probably not the *healthiest* choice, but hey, it gets the job done!



I really, REALLY need a new screen protector for my phone. I've been asking my family to grab one for me on their outings this past week but they kept forgetting T T I just can't stand the nicks and cracks in the screen, they're so distracting! I'll probably have to go out myself later, but my car is running low on gas, and there's been a severe shortage of fuel here in my city and the average waiting time at any gas station is an hour, if not more (the car lines can get up to 50+ it's insane!) so I'll have to make my trip quick.



It's such a pain living in North Africa, between constant long-term power outages, fuel and water shortage epidemics, and of course, sweltering heat than can go up to more than 45 degrees celsius...I really am not cut out for this at all lol (Have I been "westernized" like my relatives claim?? I wonder...OTL)



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i found the online emulator website i used a while ago but forgot to bookmark and now i’d like to try my hand at the original smash bros! my controller is a dinky generic usb ps2-knockoff controller, but it gets the job done lol. for 20 dinars, i can’t really complain ;;

i loooove the way this site looks!!!