Category: Teacher News

  • Happy Groundhog Day

    Happy Groundhog Day

    By Andrea Menzies

    Happy Groundhog Day To All!

  • Reading Delay

    Reading Delay

    By Andrea Menzies

    This week’s podcast may be delayed as I am registering for night school to get certifications I need for more work hours in teaching jobs. My book recommendations may go from fun weekend fiction to University textbook commentary this month. Entertainment reading will take a backseat to night school class reading as I start new online classes. I have been working for years to get into the program so it should be interesting. In addition I needed many shots for COVID at Walgreens. I always reacted badly to shots in the past. After this hassle my posts will be on schedule once more.

  • Resolution Update

    Resolution Update

    By Andrea Menzies

    Woot I got the 30 day streak badge on the Sunny Heath and Fitness app. You can use their equipment for extra points, or use it for free with other equipment you own already. It is thousands cheaper than Peleton. My mom and daughter ate dinner with me around Christmas time, and they made what seemed like one million cakes and pies. I am trying not to let the calories do what they want to do on my thighs. In addition this is my last post on social media for a while. The other day one of my students quoted a social media post I made back to me from weeks ago. I never try to add students to my accounts, and it is against school policy. A few of my student friends from High School and University are all I want to see viewing my posts. Unfortunately students have older friends, older family members, and make fake accounts for Internet stalking. Your life is pretty pathetic if stalking a single mom teacher online is the one way you can feel excitement in your life. So I am taking a break from social media on the Internet, as it seems nice educated student people never communicate with me on social media anymore and trolls, scammers, and haters have become the entire population of the Internet. I blame Internet phones greatly because when a $2000 desktop PC was the one way to go online nice and fun student people were 99% of the Internet. I couldn’t wait to open my e-mails to see all the party and concert invitations near campus that were not fake scams. Once prepaid Internet phones started to be sold next to pawn shops in strip malls the Internet was almost all trolls, con-artists, and porn spam overnight. Fitness apps are the only good thing left online, and my latest New Year’s Resolution is to only post family or fitness app related content if I ever post again. People who are depressed cannot get out of bed much less do many workouts, and I am showing off my positive view on life.

  • Check In

    Check In

    By Andrea Menzies

    Dear New Orleans friends please check in on blogs or social media. Let me know if you are okay. I am working teaching jobs right now because I graduated University with a bachelor’s in New Orleans before hurricane Katrina, and my completed high school diploma party was in Austin, TX. I still visit friends every year or two in these areas for birthdays, baby showers, concerts, and anniversary parties. I was scheduled to go to New Orleans for New Year’s this year, and would have been right next to Bourbon Street on New Year’s Eve. I was in a pretty dark mood when my car broke down, and I had to cancel all my December plans, and missed friend time. It seemed like random horrible luck. Now I know someone must have been praying for me pretty hard, and the bad luck was good. There was a horrible bombing on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Eve, and now I live in fear that people I know may have been sitting right there in areas I recognize on TV news. I have gotten some texts, but some more messages would be appreciated.

  • New Years Past

    New Years Past

    By Andrea Menzies

    It was New Year’s Eve years ago that I gave life to my daughter in Texas surrounded by a boyfriend, friends, clubs, concerts, and parties. Without my dating and friends my honors student daughter would not be alive. I hate my sister Lily Duran forever for dragging me to the toilet hole called Virginia where I have no boyfriend, no dating, no friends, and no parties. I have no real joy in the sewer of agony and crime that is Virginia. All my doctors tests showed me healthy, virus free, and clean at this month’s doctor testing, but that is not good enough here. People in Virginia have been blocking me from dating fearing I will get attacked again. If men attack women it is the attackers that are garbage NOT the woman. The horror is the clearest of all on this New Year’s Eve the worst I have had in years which used to be the best night of all. At least with a new year I have hope to get back to the fun places, people, and times.

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  • Game Ring

    Game Ring

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am going to ring in the New Year playing PC video games. I have reactivated some PC games on Adventure Quest 3D (user Poedaughterz Blue Dragon server free on Steam games), Genshin Impact (user UID 683053596 Poedaughterz), Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2 (Poedaughterz on Steam), Pokemon Go (user ID 942584611615), Rec Room (@poedaughter7 free on Steam), and Tarisland (Eu-1 Poedaughterz free on Steam games) to chat with friends. If you know me online please add me to friends. My vehicle is not working well enough this month to drive to my favorite nearby towns in freezing rain. Downtown Virginia has no other thing to socialize with, but criminal human sewage I have fled in terror from years ago. Every Virginia dance club is a disgusting liar pit I NEVER want to see again in my nightmares. The great thing about online chat parties is the game provides hot looking battle clothes, music, hairstyles, and digital taverns for drinks, and you don’t have to spend a million dollars on Lyft and Uber when you have a mount in the game. Game parties are the obvious wave of the future.

  • Hog Holidays

    Hog Holidays

    By Andrea Menzies

    How did I not know “Hogfather” the British holiday comedy has moved from Netflix to Amazon Prime? Santa gets kidnapped by ghosts and the Grim Reaper has to save Christmas. It sounds scary but it is way more PG Monty Python than scary. I watched it on Netflix as I have been a fan of Terry Pratchett since I was a kid, but it shot over to Amazon when they made the “Good Omens” book into a TV movie. I am rereading the books on Kindle this holiday for certain my review is the book is amazing.

  • Discount Day

    Discount Day

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am thankful for my Amazon discount this year as my holiday shopping budget is tight.

  • Not A Luxury

    Not A Luxury

    By Andrea Menzies

    In the early 2000s I tried to join the Army to get full time work and healthcare. A year and a half later I had not finished basic training due to asthma attacks, never got benefits or healthcare, and had to go to rape counseling for years due to extreme military abuse causing depression. I graduated high school on the honors program, and completed my University degree as I had no depression before then. Lack of healthcare began horrific pain in my life lasting years. Our healthcare system doesn’t sometimes blame the victims; it always blames the victims. I still don’t have healthcare from my job. Bernie Sanders did not win the presidential election, and a man was elected that has tried to destroy what few advances Obamacare was able to make. He also destroyed funding to female rape programs as he has been accused of rape 13 times. People are shot every day, but the CEO killer is making the news due to the fear that he may be the first killer in mass waves of violence against the government unless real changes happen. #CEOkiller #2024HealthNews #LuigiQuotes

  • Cyber Moment

    Cyber Moment

    By Andrea Menzies

    If Bernie Sanders healthcare ideas were taken more seriously people would not feel so much empathy with the recent CEO killer.