Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 37

No Phillies game tonight, so I updated a little later 🙂 We have one more day until summer break! And I get to leave the building with the kids tomorrow, yay for me! So summer starts around 1PM for me. I have to head back for graduation, but this year they remembered to get a black graduation robe for me to wear as part of the faculty (it was a whole thing last year lol) which means I get to sit and relax during the ceremony instead of doing gate duty.

Only had 2 failures out of 104 kids, which is pretty awesome 😛 One of the kids indicated she’s signing up for summer school, but I don’t know if they’ll have the class for just one kid. I’ll find out Wednesday for sure, so I’ll let you know. It’ll definitely just be one session, so we’ll build our schedule around that.

I’m going to sit down and figure out how many updates are left for Dear Reader. If I start updating daily on June 23 (which is the plan right now), I would imagine I’d be done sometime in mid-July. I’m working out what’s next, and I have some interesting plans, so stay tuned 😛

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Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 35

Hello 🙂 Happy Tuesday! Two more full days for me, and then on Friday I’ll be released with the kids. I have to go back for graduation (though if there’s a rain out I might not have to lets cross our fingers love our seniors but I want to be DONE).

Some programming notes:

• Next week’s updates are likely Monday/Friday. I’m having my wisdom teeth out Tuesday morning, and I don’t want to promise anything earlier than Friday. If I feel better, I’ll do as many updates as I can.
• I’ll find out about summer school next week. If I had to guess, I probably won’t have it. I have no failures in French II (and I was tough on them this year, so way to go for them!) and only about 3-5 in French I. They’ll have summer school for as few as 3 kids, but I really don’t know if they’ll sign up. I mean, it’s good for me financially, but I also kind of want a break, lol.
• If I don’t have summer school, we’ll do last year’s schedule, updating daily M-F. If I have summer school, we’ll play it by ear.
• I finally have an ending in mind for Dear Reader, so I can plot the rest of the story more effectively. Definitely plan on seeing that story again in a year or so – I’m going to edit and flesh out a lot of it, I think it’s a pretty good ensemble with potential for more.
• With daily updates, Dear Reader will definitely be done sometime in July, so I’ll start thinking about what’s next. I have lots of ideas, so I’ll keep you guys in the loop.

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Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 35

Officially done with full-day classes! Next week is ALL early dismissal for the kids, AND my grades are like 95% done except for some lingering projects and tests from absences. AND NO LESSON PLANS NEXT WEEK! You have no idea how happy that makes me 🙂

So I decided to come home and update, because well, that really wasn’t a fair place to leave you 😛

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Update: Dear Reader – Part 34

Ended up being a good thing that this update got delayed because I get to celebrate with you guys about 90 minutes after the news breaks that JONATHAN JACKSON IS LEAVING!!! His final scenes air next week. I also had been guessing he’d be out by end of the year anyway just based on the writing. Never dreamed it be so fast.

ANDDDDDD the news came out about Jason not being the father of Sasha’s baby, so our boy is finally free of that ridiculous story stall. The nuMichael is very pretty, he and Sasha sparkle. All good things my loves.

And possibly an episode tag coming your way this weekend, we’ll see 😛

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Hey! I updated the Recent Updates page so it’s current again through Monday’s episode. Had some meetings at work the last two days that went longer than expected, so I’m rescheduling the update for tomorrow, Thursday, June 5.

I have two more full days of classes, and all grades will be done this Friday. Home stretch people!

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Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 33

So heyyyyyyy….how’d you like that ending? Imagine if my week doesn’t go to shit last week and that’s the Friday cliff hanger that ends the marathon and I go radio silent for three days. So in a way, the universe was on your side.

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Update: Dear Reader – Part 32

I really don’t know what happened to May. I feel like I’m at the end of every month or the beginning of the next saying I had such plans, lol. But we made it to the promised land, to JUNE. I have 9 days of school left, 4 of them are full and very nearly every grade will be done by Friday. Next week is all half days with the kiddos, with the afternoons for end of school stuff and cleaning out the room.

After we complete this marathon of Flash Fiction updates, I’m gonna redevote my energy to Book 3 of These Small Hours. I got off to a terrible start on the third book, lol. Mostly through time, energy, and illness.

I’ll see you guys again tomorrow and Tuesday!

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Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 31

Happy Saturday! Sliding this update in before heading out to late lunch/early dinner with my mom, sister, and at least 1 niece for my birthday. I am very excited to write tomorrow’s update since it’s the reason I wrote the whole story! Took forever to set up, but we’re finally here!

See you then 🙂

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Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 30

Happy Friday! It has been one of those weeks! I feel like I say that a lot, lol, but it really was. I got the mother of all colds at the beginning of the week and had to miss work, then scrambled to get back on schedule and caught up. Especially since months ago, I’d scheduled a personal day for Monday, June 2 because my birthday is tomorrow (May 31), and I reallly didn’t want to cancel it since it’s not like the days I missed this week were particularly pleasant or relaxing.

I feel terrible about promising a marathon and then missing half the days so far! So we’re kicking off a new marathon — starting today, and concluding Tuesday, June 3.

• Today (5/30) posting at 6:30 PM
• Saturday (5/31) between 2-4PM (just not sure because I’m floating a grocery store trip in my head tomorrow, but I also might not lol)
• Sunday (6/1) 11AM – 1PM (may go to my parents for the game, so it would be earlier)
• Monday (6/2) posting at 3PM
• Tuesday (6/3) posting at 6:30PM

Once I finish that marathon, we’ll go back to the Tues/Thurs schedule for a few weeks (but we have a wisdom teeth removal & curriculum writing and possibly summer school) We’ll play it by ear  🙂

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ETA Thurs 5/29: This week is conspiring against me and I’m so irritated. About ten minutes before I was supposed to start today (Thurs 5/29), my Bluetooth keyboard just stopped connecting to my computer. It took 30 minutes to fix, and I missed my window. The Phillies have a double header because a rain postponed game, and I only had a short window between games to write. (Also, it gets too much past 6:30, and I’m just too tired after going back to work today).

New schedule — updating everyday between tomorrow (5/30) and Tuesday (6/1) so you get the marathon I promised you! And you’ll probably prefer this because Monday’s update was supposed to be the weekend cliffhanger, and you’ll thank me for not waiting more than 24 hours. I think

Update Link: Dear Reader – Part 29

Ugh, I don’t know what happened, but that cold hit me like a freight train. I was struggling on Monday (and I know that update felt wonky), but yesterday, I was just down for the count. I even took another sick day today which I never do. The only time I’ve ever taken two days in a row was with Covid. I’m starting to feel better, and the head congestion has finally receded, so I’m back to work tomorrow. I’ll make up for missing Tuesday by continuing my marathon into Saturday 🙂

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