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Tom has had run of the house for a while now, but he's finally fully cleared! The vet liked how he walked in his videos and he doesn't need to go back for a traumatic visit to the vet.

He's typical crazy cat. Hooray!

I didn't sleep as much as I wanted today, but I did sleep in and knit a few rows. So yay!

I knit a row today!

So we have a $1,000,000 budget shortfall at work and we're not cutting teachers, but we're losing lots of staff. An AP, counselor, mental health, office workers, hall monitor, strategists, a tech. Lots of people who work directly with kids and who help the school run smoothly.

I'm thankful to be in my nice, boring classroom for the 24th year. Seniority is a good thing. I feel for everyone affected. They should all get jobs at other schools, but I think most schools have similar situations.

I'm so tired of everything being so wrong on purpose.

I was going to make jam. I opened my new pectin. It was weird and lumpy. So no jam.

It's Ball low sugar/no sugar pectin which I haven't seen in stores. Thankfully Amazon believed I had a defective product and refunded it. I then bought more. I've been on an English muffin bread with strawberry jam kick.

It is Friday. Weekend goal, sleep...

Halfway. Work was fine. My classes are amazingly going well.

We had a fire drill today. I told the kids and told them drills were better if they knew about them. This is true. I read about it after they wouldn't tell us when a hard lockdown drill was once. It was not long after a teacher accidentally put the school in a hard lockdown which traumatized my students. And all of us! And of course there was a school shooting today. I'm glad(?) I didn't find out until after work, and I so hope the kids will be ok.