2024 in 13 Posts

For this last Thursday of 2024, I present my recap of the year, sort of. I've gone through and meticulously selected 13 posts that represented my year...  Um, not really. It was more of a "oh, I remember that," or, "that was funny," kind of thing. 

This is a Thursday 13. (I started doing this recap in 2020, so now it's kind of a tradition.) And so, for my year in review: 

1. January 18th: Performance Review

Where a student thought I was a terrible sub and told me. Of course, the joke was on her as she ended up being a student in the long-term assignment I had starting in March.

2. February 8th: Locked In

This was the day the manual lock on my driver side door broke. I eventually got it fixed at school by their auto shop. (For the record, not the school where it broke.) There was drama, as when I went to pick up the part, I fell, landing on my face. And one of the students who worked on installing the new lock was in that long-term assignment I had that I mentioned just above in #1. (This was done in April. The lock is still working fine.)

3. February 16th: Day in the Life of a Sub

This one? Was a day. Not all my days are this all over the place. This one was notable. But, this is the job, and things can be this kind of all over the place.

4. March 11th: Two Months' Work 

This was my first major project of the year: a blanket. It was for a birthday. In January. But as I knit it in front of her (and she picked out the color and had veto power over the stitch pattern), it wasn't a surprise. 

5. April 20th: Ruined 

I did A to Z in April. And, as usual, I wrote what I normally post about, just fitting the title to the letter of the day. Then a funny thing happened, and "interesting" things happened, and I included them on Saturdays. This was the post about the fire in a neighboring building in my condo complex. (The missing cats were found alive. Currently the units are being rebuilt. It's slow going, but they're making decent progress.) 

In April

End of December

6. May 24th: The Wrong Johnson

An eighth grader used ChatGPT to help him with his work rather than his textbook. It gave him a wrong answer. He was all about how his teacher knew he did this and didn't care. Although, when I had him in class a week later, he sang a different tune (being very careful not to make my note to that teacher). 

7. June 7th: Not a Freshman, Not a Senior

From my long-term in March through May and then at the end of May comes this story. The boy claimed to be a senior. This was the day that was proven a lie.

8. July 1st: How to Crochet a Water Bottle Carrier

I added three videos to my YouTube channel this year. This was the post introducing the first one. The channel is still a work in progress, and I hope to post some new videos next year. (One is currently in production.) 

9. August 29th: Collapsing

I started this current school year in a seventh grade science class (long term). This post was where I talked about flailing as there were more schedule changes than usual.

10. September 6th: The Dog Ate My Homework

That seventh grade science class had a kiddo actually tell me he couldn't turn in an assignment due to doggie influence. (The dog peed on it.) 

11. October 14th: Eyeing the Sweater

My second major project of the year, this one was a crocheted sweater with a big eye in the center. It was for my niece's birthday (in June), but I finished it in October. Sigh. (I wrote about it sixteen times this past year as I worked on it.) 

12. November 15th: Caught in the Lie

An eighth grader lied to me (about not having a bathroom pass). Hopefully he learned not to lie to me again, as I write things down, and teachers follow up on these things.

13. December 6th: Unremarkable

I blogged about a few earthquakes that I experienced this year. (See "earthquake files" in my tags for the collection.) This was the last one for the year. (Last earthquake post. Not the last earthquake.)