Today is the last day of marking for the government. Since July 5th, I’ve been on a team of 160ish teachers responsible (by choice) for marking the provincial grade 9 writing exams. There are over 43,000 exams to be marked, and each exam has two parts: an essay or narrative and a business letter. As…
Author: Kay at Blue Speckled Pup
I spend my weekdays days teaching junior high fashion and fitness courses. I spend the rest of my life making up recipes and ignoring my measuring cups, singing, dancing, writing, and making dinosaur noises.
I'm clumsy, passionate, spontaneous, and rather ridiculous. Luckily for me, I am married to a wonderful man who balances me perfectly. We live in Alberta, Canada, with two lovely dogs and one dumb cat.
Murder in Cold Blood, if Spiders Actually Had Blood
Did you know spiders have no muscles? Instead, their limbs function on a system of arachnid hydraulics, or something close to that. The complicated locomotion of spiders, though, doesn’t stop them from being utterly disgusting. I’m not going to pretend to tolerate spiders. I hate the nasty things. When I went downstairs the other night to…
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