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Doing My volleyball rec league started back up!

Doing Working on getting off big corporate social media, still.

Doing School is officially back in session, so my free time is much more limited now.

Doing I re-did my website!

Automattic recently launched their Write Brief AI assistant for folks using Jetpack with WordPress.[1] It is automatically available to anyone using wordpress.com, which I verified by logging into my 14-year-old account.

Welcome to cassie.ink, the new home of my blog and web stuff.

Doing I was at school one day this week for an orientation for some student leaders.

Doing This week I learned that I’m allergic to yellowjacket stings in the worst way possible (not that there’s a good way).

Spoilers to follow.

Doing Joe and I went to the lake with two friends.

Write a blog post about words of wisdom your younger self would have appreciated hearing.

Doing I was in school for a few days this week: one for a school improvement team meeting, where we made plans for the upcoming school year that have me really excited; another DEI committee meeting; and an English curriculum planning day.

I wrote a post a few months ago cataloguing moving my home server from the old NZXT case I had leftover from my old PC into a Rosewill chassis that would let me, eventually, move to a proper rack setup.

I’m continuing to try out doing Week Notes instead of monthly wrap ups.

I tried out doing monthly media logs and found it difficult to stick to; it became daunting to log everything, and I put the unnecessary onus on myself to also write down detailed thoughts on everything.

Last time I updated this blog, I wrote about silences in my professional career.

I’ve talked before on this blog about being a teacher and how passionate I am about my work; the time I spend with my students — which should be paramount and where all my energy goes — comes naturally.

I have a home server (running Unraid) that I use to backup computers, as media storage, and to run various apps.

@jamesmckz shared the following challenge on X earlier this month: No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by.

I read a thread online recently about bisexuality: folks were discussing use of the label compared to something like pansexual.

I downloaded Pokémon: Unbound the other day to play alongside my partner.

TV One Tree Hill, season six and seven - I’ve been marathoning One Tree Hill on a friend’s recommendation.

I was born and raised on Long Island in a hamlet that rests along the Great South Bay.[1] Known to most as a ferry town, this charming suburb lives and breathes the ocean.

I’m not a New Years Resolution person; listening to a lot of “My Year in Lists” by Los Campesinos!

A friend of mine is a big fan of Florence + the Machine.

The lives of many literary greats remain a relative mystery; literary critics and historians are often left to piece together details from letters, documentation, and, sometimes controversially, the author’s work read for repeated motifs.

In the beginning of Chapter VIII in the third section of To the Lighthouse, pages 186-187, Virginia Woolf’s unique approach to perspective and introspection create a subjective presentation of reality and relationships, supported by extended metaphors of…

Movies Barbie - I was underwhelmed.

This September marks the start of my fourth year teaching.

Stage 1: Denial & Naivety I don’t have that much stuff.

I recently listened to an episode of Never Been a Better Podcast in which Austin Walker, referencing a Twitter thread by @v21, posited that we are moving into a new era of the internet where content is generated by machines rather than people; where once…

Part of my resolution to blog more is to start a media consumption log for the year where I record what I’m reading, watching, and listening to.

Well, I have another blog.

This past year has emphasized to me the impermanence of online platforms.

It feels like most of my blog posts end up being about music.

That I’m a big ol’ music weirdo should come as no surprise to anyone who has read some of my previous writing about it.

Another decade in the book, another opportunity to represent my life in lists and data.

Recently, my boyfriend and I decided to revisit a childhood classic: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the film that jump-started what would prove to be an extremely lucrative and much beloved franchise for Disney.

As the year closes, naturally I must compile experiences and interests from the period into data and statistics.

Let’s start by making something perfectly clear: I love Star Wars.

The harrowing process of puberty hit me in 2005, around the midpoint between my 10th and 11th birthday.

Set in the fictional town of Arcadia Bay, Life is Strange follows Max, the recently minted 18-year-old photography nerd, attending the elite Blackwall Academy.

I’ve picked up House of Leaves again, Mark Z.

In the music industry, and in the folk genre particular, breakup songs are not exactly uncommon, and for every chart-topping artist crooning over the radio about the throes of love, there are thousands of disconsolate teens pouring over their guitars.

It’s only natural that the first post on my shiny new blog should be about these two, isn’t it?