{"id":10464,"date":"2020-07-09T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=10464"},"modified":"2020-07-09T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T04:31:23","slug":"7-quick-takes-no-politics-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=10464","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: No Politics Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4th of July.<\/strong> It was a quiet 4th of July here in terms of family activity. My dad grilled hotdogs, and I got to see quite a few fireworks shows from my bedroom window&#8230; because various people on my cross-street and some of the other cul-de-sacs spent HUNDREDS of dollars on fireworks which they set off for probably 3 straight hours from 9:00 p.m. to midnight. Our poor cats were curled up in my mom&#8217;s closet because it sounded like we were being shelled. (My town does allow fireworks between certain hours on the 4th of July, but a lot of other towns don&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Back to Work.<\/strong> Summer Quarter started this week, and I&#8217;m getting to tutor for the first time ever during the summer because everything is online. I&#8217;ve met with all of my students at least once now, and the first-week stuff that always comes up is getting ironed out.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are wondering, we aren&#8217;t going to know if we&#8217;ll be back on-campus for Fall Quarter until August. I&#8217;d prefer to stay online because the COVID risk is still high here, and my family is still locked down really tightly, so I wouldn&#8217;t be able to work on campus. I also know that our college president is risk-averse, so I can&#8217;t see him putting the student body in danger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What leadership looks like.<\/strong> We have a new superintendent here in town and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goskagit.com\/news\/new-mount-vernon-superintendent-hits-the-ground-running\/article_f1a9467e-bf5e-5bb1-b585-cf59c4207e46.html\">this was what his second day on the job looked like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think he&#8217;ll be great for the district if taking food, school work, and masks to migrant students is what he does on the second day he is in charge. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bujo Instagram account.<\/strong> I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skagitbujo\/\">a new Instagram account for my bullet journal (bujo)<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t done a huge amount with it yet, but will try putting my spreads up before I fill them out. (I can&#8217;t show the filled-out ones because a few of them have student names in them, and I&#8217;m trying to keep everything <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/gen\/guid\/fpco\/ferpa\/index.html\">FERPA-compliant<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Rutter.<\/strong> If you know the music of John Rutter (English choral composer) at all, you&#8217;ll appreciate this parody of his work called &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Believe It&#8217;s Not Rutter&#8221; by Pitchcraft. The best part: THEY&#8217;RE SINGING IT TO JOHN RUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!! (He loves it.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Singing &quot;I Can&#039;t Believe It&#039;s Not Rutter&quot; to John Rutter | Pitchcraft - The Edinburgh Choir\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RO357asBTgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\/glares at Minion.<\/strong> I just went to go grab a couple of cartons of formula to feed the kid and prep tomorrow&#8217;s morning feed because doing it in the morning when I&#8217;m tired makes me want to cry. I get in the guest room (where we keep all the fun stuff) and notice a couple of cartons that had been on top of the boxes were on the floor. I picked them up and found them to be empty&#8230; WITH FANG MARKS IN THEM. My cat child had bitten them and they had leaked on the carpet.<\/p>\n<p>I was not happy. Meanwhile, Mr. Black Paws is sprawled on the guest bed letting me know that he is magnificent and soft and cute. I told him that he is none of those things and is instead a VERY BAD CAT. (He is not sorry.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommendation.<\/strong> If you are a bullet journal junkie, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/planningwithkay.com\">Planning with Kay<\/a>. She is delightful, features her house panther in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCvAiAY4gFc9_z5lhMuwGtSw\">her YouTube videos<\/a>, and the community during her livestreams is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; 4th of July. It was a quiet 4th of July here in terms of family activity. 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