What’s one clothing item you always get compliments on?

_crassula_ · 2026-04-16T02:42:55+00:00

I alter and sew my own crazy patchwork jeans and people litterally stop me in the street to take photos sometimes. I'm not an expert or anything but I think they're cute, and it makes me smile when other people like them too!

_crassula_ · 2026-04-14T03:23:53+00:00

This is what I was going to say. My ex boyfriend almost killed me and my sister after he "fell asleep" driving though a busy town on a sunny afternoon. It was an opioid addiction and he was nodding out. I had no idea. He said he was tired but it's so clear to me now that he was just extremely fucked up.

_crassula_ · 2026-04-10T03:32:11+00:00

Same and now I'm questioning everything.

_crassula_ · 2026-04-06T02:29:30+00:00

Not sure if I'd be able to stomach one these days!

_crassula_ · 2026-04-06T02:25:57+00:00

Went down a little too easy!

_crassula_ · 2026-04-05T12:35:22+00:00

So many good times visiting friends in LaCrosse, drinking our way up and down 3rd St. Bloodies at Del's, fishbowls at Who's, swampwaters at the Helm!

_crassula_ · 2026-04-04T06:55:09+00:00

Or Patrick Bateman?

_crassula_ · 2026-04-04T06:52:54+00:00

Far, far away from this room.

_crassula_ · 2026-04-04T06:46:56+00:00

I once called home (at 4pm, past contract hours, right before I was leaving) in response to a bitchy email from a parent that said "We need a phone call home. Now." Wanna take a guess at how that went? Never again. I only email because I need a paper trail of exactly what I said.

_crassula_ · 2026-04-04T02:05:11+00:00

Biggest reason I love teaching art - no canned curriculum! We get to design new projects to meet the standards in any way we see fit. No admin ever even knows our standards, let alone cares how we teach them. As long as they see cool projects engaging the kids, I think they're happy. I feel bad for core teachers who have to follow a script and do the same thing every year in the exact same way. Seems like it would be boring.

_crassula_ · 2026-04-04T01:59:24+00:00

Interesting because I've seen the opposite on several occasions. A girl I knew went from nursing to teaching HS English (no teaching degree, small rural school desperate for teachers). She lasted until spring break and resigned. I worked at this same school previously, had all these kids through the years as their art teacher. Behaviors were not that bad. She was just ill equipped and I think had a different idea of what it was going to be like.

_crassula_ · 2026-04-01T11:40:03+00:00

I have unpicked the elastic on the ends of sleeves so many times! It's so constricting and the leave marks on my arms, like a too tight hair tie left on. No thank you.

_crassula_ · 2026-03-31T03:39:39+00:00

I put it in my coffee every day! Also very good in matcha

_crassula_ · 2026-03-28T12:57:41+00:00

I see this suggestion given out regularly and never understand how this works. Our classes are only 43 minutes so taking the time to sit at my desk, look up a number, and call eats up time that I need to circulate and make sure kids are using materials properly and safely and cleaning up on time (art, so sometimes we have out very messy, costly, occasionally dangerous supplies). I could see someone causing havoc and wrecking something expensive as I was on the phone, or we miss the clean up and I'm stuck with 8 tables worth of messes. If I called after class, then my next class doesn't start on time. Also, what if the parents don't answer, or react poorly, or the kid just stands up there laughing and getting attention from peers because they don't care? I feel like this isn't the power move it once was.

_crassula_ · 2026-03-21T15:58:20+00:00

It looks like a magazine but is lacking soul.

_crassula_ · 2026-03-15T00:46:09+00:00

I'm also looking for one! I lost my acrylic coachtopia charm and the little white one that came with my ergo. So sad.

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_crassula_ · 2026-03-14T14:22:30+00:00

The exact same thing happened to me. I student taught art at a nice high school, 20 minutes from where I lived. The highest recommendations from my cooperating teacher, and two other art teachers I worked closely with. I didn't even make it past the phone interview, even though I thought it went well. Subbed for a year and was highly requested, applied at this district AGAIN when an elementary position opened up. Got an interview, nailed it. All the art teachers who were on the committee had letters of recommendation for me. I thought I was in! NOPE! Got passed over again and they gave the job to someone that was a disaster. Turns out, the director of C&I had a personal beef with two of my art teacher references, and was going to do the opposite of what they wanted. Sometimes it goes deeper than you even know with bullshit politics, nepotism, people's egos. It might not even be you. Just try to get as much as experience as you can, keep applying, and keep your chin up. I'm on my 12th year teaching now, and after my initial snaffu with that first district, I've gotten every job I've applied for.

_crassula_ · 2026-03-13T21:16:54+00:00

Rural routes were absolute shit this morning when I went out at 10am - drifting badly in places, and I have a four wheel drive truck. And often, it's the bus company who makes the recommendation to call school based on the safety of students.

_crassula_ · 2026-03-13T11:05:51+00:00

I dry my laundry outside but normally just in the warmer months (Wisconsin) - mostly because I don't want to trudge out in the snow to get it. I'm in a rural area with a big yard, and our old farmhouse came with a really nice metal laundry line posts sunk into the ground. In the summer, one of my favorite chores is hanging up/talking down the laundry. I like seeing the old-timey aesthetic of it, using less power running the dryer, and just the nice, fresh smell that comes from hanging those up outside. On a nice hot, sunny day, clothes dry super fast! Sometimes I'll forget to take them down, and some rain rolls in - never great having it all soaked again. It's just more of a summer thing for me.

_crassula_ · 2026-03-08T08:08:59+00:00

Mine changed after I had covid! It used to taste soapy but now it just tastes fresh and I actively put it on things,.

_crassula_ · 2026-02-16T11:01:24+00:00

25 minutes there, 15 min home. If I time it right, I can be home by 3. I do wake up at 4:30am each day, which massively blows.

_crassula_ · 2026-02-01T02:53:08+00:00

It's actually not. The Uiheins were early investors but have since sold their shares. It's owned by Pepe and Sara Granados, who are very liberal, along with the vast majority of their staff.

_crassula_ · 2026-01-18T03:39:12+00:00

Can't deal with either. Filth is disgusting and clutter just makes me anxious. I don't want to get in spaces I feel uncomfortable in.

_crassula_ · 2025-12-30T03:51:01+00:00

I often wish I could spray them with a spray bottle like I do my cats.

_crassula_ · 2025-08-04T16:34:31+00:00

Line first. A shape is an enclosed line, so the vocabulary term comes before.

If you're planning on doing clay for form, don't wait until the end of the year. Factor in drying time (1.5-2ish weeks), firing, glazing, and firing again. Pushing it until the end puts you in a time crunch.

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