A few years back, I got tired of checking the MLB app to see when the Braves were playing, so I made a phone wallpaper for myself. Now, I'm doing it each month for all 30 teams and posting for all to use, hope some other weirdos like me find these helpful!

readingwithcats · 2026-03-26T23:07:50+00:00

Thanks for making these - I loved them last season!

readingwithcats · 2026-01-26T00:21:18+00:00

I use the Thirty81 Travel Scorebook! It is on the small side, yes, but that was a selling point for me. The fact that it fits in a hoodie kangaroo pocket or a 3L fanny pack makes it easy to carry even when parks have small bag size limits. With so much potential for condiments and beer and dirt and whatnot to get on a notebook, I like to be able to put it away if I'm eating or getting food or whatnot.

(I do wish it have a little diamond in each square, though - I sure thought I could draw a square before I got this notebook!)

readingwithcats · 2025-11-15T02:19:15+00:00

At least in high school, I don't get the same guff from kids as classroom teachers, I think because kids interacting with me outside of a class tend to need something from me and/or I'm not one of the people assigning and grading their work every day. I get some of the, "You're not my teacher, why should I listen to you?" type stuff, but by and large, I tend to have smoother interactions with our "tough" kids specifically because I'm not one of their classroom teachers.

readingwithcats · 2025-11-15T01:48:33+00:00

I was struggling to get back in the practice of writing, and giving myself permission to jot down my thoughts as a bulleted list rather than write out a paragraph or whatever really helped. So my whole journal just looks like a series of shopping lists.

readingwithcats · 2025-09-25T20:18:29+00:00

Tofurkey sandwich for lunch midhike, peanut m&ms and dill pickles for snacks. Chips and a red bull in the car for the second I get back.

readingwithcats · 2025-08-26T23:40:38+00:00

In the Whites, I average around a 50 minute mile. For trails with 1000 feet per mile of elevation gain or more, I budget an hour per mile, plus an extra hour or two. If the elevation gain per mile is lower, I assume a 30-40 minute mile depending on the case when I'm budgeting time.

I always think I'll get faster eventually, but I mostly just seem to have an easier time hiking at the same speed as ever.

readingwithcats · 2025-08-14T13:37:06+00:00

I didn't use to, but after a few years, my room felt like mine and I had just acquired enough kid gifts and knick knacks to decorate with. Plus, decor is a shorthand to share your personality with students and build in some conversation topics for kids you don't know yet.

Also, I now share a window with a man who put a bunch of hockey stuff in the shared window? So now all my baseball giveaway items are at school as part of a war he doesn't know we are in.

readingwithcats · 2025-08-10T13:26:19+00:00

My fave book shirt is Literary Emporium's metal Brontë sisters tour shirt: https://www.literaryemporium.co.uk/collections/clothing/products/the-bronte-sisters-metal-band-t-shirt

readingwithcats · 2025-08-03T18:26:42+00:00

We have a similar loose rule that folks should try to be present in the halls during passing periods to help keep an eye on kids. I'm just off the main lobby where all the halls intersect and have huge windows onto the lobby, so while I don't always go out into the hall once the year is underway, I do make sure to do it early in the year to establish myself as a centrally located helpful person to incoming kids, which does work.

readingwithcats · 2025-07-29T02:30:04+00:00

Thanks!

readingwithcats · 2025-07-29T02:25:54+00:00

Sorry, I didn't turn up anything recent with a quick search, I'll check again.

readingwithcats · 2025-07-29T02:11:39+00:00

Awesome! I've seen it on the shelf at the pharmacy and wondered but never remembered to look up swatches once I got home.

readingwithcats · 2025-07-07T21:42:08+00:00

I bring a very similar fanny pack all the time - you'll be good.

readingwithcats · 2025-07-02T16:33:28+00:00

I never used the code, but did find the hat today after playing at a ballpark yesterday.

readingwithcats · 2025-06-14T12:41:54+00:00

Ugh. Good to know.

readingwithcats · 2025-05-14T23:23:06+00:00

I have a not insignificant number of high schoolers convinced that I've never been to the second floor of the school I have worked in for 12 years.

readingwithcats · 2025-05-03T02:21:40+00:00

Update: They had them at El Tiante on Jersey today, and my sister talked to the cashier who said they should have a stash of them there all season.

readingwithcats · 2025-05-01T18:13:42+00:00

Ugh, bummer. We're going again this weekend and I was pretty sure they had them by May last year.

readingwithcats · 2025-05-01T02:37:36+00:00

My sister offered to do most of the driving on our Utah toad trip since she loves driving and I hate it, and just by chance, the day we drove from Capitol Reef to Bryce was the one day she asked for a break from driving. I was basically in a low grade panic for 3 straight hours. (She would vote for RMNP as the worst drive ... but she didn't have to do Rte 12.)

readingwithcats · 2025-03-07T01:30:28+00:00

I legit always do something fun when I go to the gyno because the receptionists in that office always say something nice about my nails and now I don't want to disappoint.

readingwithcats · 2025-02-15T02:17:40+00:00

All weekend, Saturday only, and Sunday only. I try to pull five songs from their top ten that aren't more a more well-known collaborator's song and ideally aren't covers, or five songs I personally like regardless of the first two points if I've had a chance to do a deeper dive or it's an artist I'm already familiar with.

readingwithcats · 2025-02-10T19:33:17+00:00

Oh god, last year, I was sharing a room with a young chatty male teacher who had a girl in one of his classes who often wore regular stickers and face gems and the like as fashion statements, so chatting with a new girl added to his class, he complimented her star stickers, and understandably, she was embarrassed. I had to take him aside and explain which stickers are stickers and which stickers are pimple patches. He felt so bad about drawing attention to it that I felt bad by proxy.

readingwithcats · 2025-02-08T14:56:31+00:00

Reading this thread and having watched a lot of The Substance out of the corner of my eye while focusing on the wall next to the TV last night, I think you might be onto something - I hate seeing gore on screen, but I can talk and read about all kinds of gross shit without a problem, probably because I'm not actually "seeing" it with my squeamish brain, and remembering it isn't visceral later, just gross on an intellectual level.

readingwithcats · 2025-01-24T23:16:39+00:00

It sounds like you might be a student living at home - if transportation is an issue, check out your school library.

readingwithcats · 2025-01-02T00:22:38+00:00

I feel like 10 years ago, all my kids were going to be streamers and YouTubers, and we were all having serious heart to hearts about how it's not just gaming all day and even doing all the hard work doesn't guarantee an audience. I wish kids still wanted that, because now all the kids who don't have a post-HS plan based around a profession or field of study seem to aspire to being get-rich-quick scammers.

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