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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Little Things

I have blogged before about the little things that make working at the Big J exciting; things like the construction (oy, the construction), the students, the occasional free food leftovers, and Fridays off.

Well, gang, yesterday's excitement was the installation of not one, but two shiny new vending machines. The first was a massive Pepsi machine with more than the usual five selections of Pepsi, Aquafina, and some flavored orange popdrink. Goodbye limited Pepsi choices. Hello, way too many Pepsi choices, plus Gatorade, juices, and iced coffee drinks from the EvilStirredbuks. (Good thing I'm a die-hard Diet Coke girl!)

The second shiny new vending machine replaced the old M&M vending machine. Initially we were all saddened when it disappeared. Though extremely overpriced for the size of the bag distributed, just knowing it was down the hall gave us much relief in times of extreme chocolatatist-craving-maximus.

You'd think that in a school with dancers and actors, you would replace the M&M machine with one distributing fruit, or granola, or Kashi products.

Oh no.

We have a freaking Good Humor-esque Ice Cream Bar vending machine!

That's just EVIL! Can't wait until it's filled up!