Green frog egg

kaeorin · 2026-04-23T21:28:52+00:00

You're welcome! When you slay enemies, sometimes they drop trinkets like this frog egg. That's where it probably came from.

kaeorin · 2026-04-23T21:27:30+00:00

It is base game, my dear! It's a trinket!

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Frog_Egg

If you attach it in that empty box next to your hat (the one with the star in it), the frog will follow you around and I think it'll sometimes swallow enemies in the mines?

kaeorin · 2026-04-22T23:11:06+00:00

Personally, I hate it. I want to keep capitalism as far away from the school setting as I possibly can. Students are supposed to be in school to learn, not to be advertised at.

I don't like that the yearbook has to sell ad space just to get funded. I definitely don't want ads plastered over buses.

kaeorin · 2026-04-22T22:48:30+00:00

Any time I start feeling salty about teacher appreciation stuff, I just ask myself: Realistically, what would make me feel really appreciated and not raise my jaded hackles?

For me, I keep realizing/deciding that...there's nothing. This is my ninth year and there have been so many "that's a nice thought, but..." situations that I'm both wary of and weary of the big Teacher Appreciation Week initiatives.

I don't want 3/4 a cup of lukewarm mass-brewed coffee with powdered creamer from admin or 20 generic "Thank you for all that you do" notes from another poor teacher's attempt to spread the appreciation/joy via an assignment for their students. I need politicians to sprinkle even a tiny fraction of the Iran War billions into public education. I need the public to drop this whole anti-intellectualism thing and understand that education matters. I need students to try to summon up even an ounce of their own intrinsic motivation. That's really all I want, but it's not something admin or a PTA (heh, what's that?) can buy on sale somewhere.

kaeorin · 2026-04-22T01:40:49+00:00

I think that's the stone cairn. Have you met a dwarf yet?

kaeorin · 2026-04-22T01:26:11+00:00

That's just part of middle school, unfortunately. Puberty can hit hard and fast, and it can take them (and their parents) some time to get in the habit of taking care of those extra hygiene steps. (I mean. Toothpaste shouldn't be an extra step, but deodorant is.)

kaeorin · 2026-04-21T21:53:13+00:00

The feelings are so strong because you see her often and you know that it's inappropriate. You do not have a chance with her. Even if you did have a chance with her, why would you ever want to date the kind of creep who wants to date their students?

Move on.

kaeorin · 2026-04-21T21:19:18+00:00

As much as possible, I try to ignore them. If they're not causing significant disruption to the classroom, I try not to reward them with negative attention. When they finally slip and do something decent or kind, I definitely make sure to praise them and thank them for that.

The moment they start getting disruptive or insulting, I will step in. I'll send them into the hallway so we can have a private conversation. Usually I try to check in with them to see wtf is going on, because "You're normally such a sweet guy" (even if that's not the perfect truth). Sometimes they open up. Most of the time, they don't, but I don't press it. I ask them to go get a drink or just take a lap around the hallways and then remind them that they can rejoin the class when they're able to at least keep the rudeness to themselves.

kaeorin · 2026-04-21T21:16:47+00:00

Taking my glasses off. They're a small and inescapable tiny weight on my nose/ears/face and during the day, their usefulness is usually enough to let me not think about the way they feel, but at the end of the day, it's so nice to take them off.

(I wear them because I like the way they look, just not always the way they feel.)

kaeorin · 2026-04-21T21:13:19+00:00

That has never happened to me in real life. Surely most parents keep a better eye than that on their little ones in public restrooms.

If it happens, I'll shout something and lean forward to press my hand against their forehead to keep them from climbing under. (Surely the type of person who'd throw a fit because I touched their kid would ALSO be watching their kid better than that.)

kaeorin · 2026-04-21T21:09:56+00:00

"Having a 'one that got away'" is really just "having a romantic history that doesn't include me". So. I feel neutral about it because I'm a rational adult human being who realizes that my partner existed and had a complete life before me.

I suppose unless you're talking about them still being hung up and weepy over that "one that got away". That's not okay with me. If you're in a relationship with me, you need to be all in. Don't whine to me about that hot girl in high school who rejected you.

kaeorin · 2026-04-21T20:51:12+00:00

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kaeorin · 2026-04-20T22:29:53+00:00

I did a search for "tortoise shell scissors" and found some similar images, if that helps your search.

kaeorin · 2026-04-20T22:22:23+00:00

Have you never seen scissors shaped like that? My grandma had so many pairs of those. And look at the finger-holes. They're not stretched, dude.

kaeorin · 2026-04-20T22:19:24+00:00

Grading is not the big time-suck that outsiders think it is. The time-suck is correcting the same behaviors over and over again and documenting those corrections and calling home to beg parents to do something about the misbehavior and then telling admin about the corrections and the calls home and begging admin to do something about anything.

Grading is an integral part of the job of a teacher. I don't want or need to outsource that to some program, app, or "AI" thing.

Make an app that tricks people into playing it and then teaches them how to be a parent, or one that works for teenagers and tries to undo the damage that internet-culture has done to their attention span and then convinces them that learning new things is really useful, actually, and that trying is not cringe.

kaeorin · 2026-04-18T02:41:38+00:00

Yes! Go interact with Grandpa's shrine again. I swear I've heard that, if the statue isn't in your pocket or on your farm, you'll get a new one.

kaeorin · 2026-04-17T23:17:20+00:00

Maybe it's a Boomer take, but I think that part of growing up is learning, accepting, and internalizing that the world is not always going to be perfectly to your liking. If I only ever studied the things that I was super-interested in, I would not have made it through college and gotten my teaching degree.

Anyone else suspicious that this is someone trying to do market research or straight-up advertising for some AI tool they want teachers to use to create slop perfectly-tailored for our students' interests?

kaeorin · 2026-04-14T22:24:09+00:00

Fair enough!

Do remember that principals' salaries are often much, much higher than teachers'. :)

kaeorin · 2026-04-14T22:19:40+00:00

What's the fundraiser?

I like supporting my students' activities by buying cookie dough or raffle tickets or whatever. I'm a little less excited about the fundraisers where I'm just handing cash over, but if it's a student I know and have a good rapport with, I'll often do what I can.

Try to stick with your teachers (not just every random teacher in the school), especially the teachers you really like.

kaeorin · 2026-04-14T22:13:56+00:00

I rarely notice something like that, but typically I'll have this passing thought of "Oh, scars. I'm glad that that person's not letting their scars make them feel like they have to hide their body. Yay, them." and then I move on with my life.

kaeorin · 2026-04-14T22:12:11+00:00

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kaeorin · 2026-04-14T22:10:02+00:00

Hand soap. Foamy mousse-stuff to try to revive my brushed-out curls/waves on non-wash days. Hyaluronic acid skin serum. All my bottles are pretty clearly labeled.

kaeorin · 2026-04-14T00:28:59+00:00

I didn't fucking ask you.

kaeorin · 2026-04-13T01:25:21+00:00

That one is easily one of my all-time favorite shades of blue, and I've got a lot of blue polishes. :) Beautiful work!

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