2025 in 13 Posts

For the last Thursday of the year, I like to list 13 posts from the past year for Thursday 13. Alas, the last Thursday of 2025 was Christmas, and I kinda didn't want to do this on Christmas. So, instead I'm going to do this on the actual last day of the year (a Wednesday) and just link up with Thursday 13 tomorrow. 

1. January 24th: Scissor Emergency

About a seventh grader and the scissors he had to have. In the class I covered almost a full year ago now.

2. February 3rd: Mom

The post I wrote when my mother passed away. Suddenly. Yeah, 2025 was that year.

3. February 14th: Missed Deadline

In February, I started a long term assignment for a class that lost their teacher at the semester (she got a new job), and it was a mess. Like, missed-turning-in-grades mess. 

4. March 20th: That Day

A most unusual extra period assignment, but not in a good way. This was the period when the students were informed that one of their classmates had passed away. 

5. March 26th: Booked

Spring semester was kind of a tangle. This post kind of explains how I was in the middle of a couple longer term assignments. 

6. May 1st: Settling into the Long Term 13

And I ended the school year in an eleventh grade English class. In this post I talk about how it was going.

7. June 16th: Zombie Time

My main yarn-y work for the first half of the year was the Minecraft collection, characters from the video game that I crocheted for my nephews. This was the last one in progress. 

The Minecraft Collection with the nephews

8. July 11th: Missed Connection

The week of the 4th of July, I flew back to Ohio to visit my brother and family. On the way home, I got stuck overnight in Denver, Colorado. 

9. August 11th: Starting the Sweater

And for the second half of the year, my main yarn-y work was a knitted sweater for eldest nephew. This is the beginning of that project. 

10. August 27th: Starting from Scratch

I began the current school year in a vacant middle school art class. It was a mad scramble to get things set up. 

11. October 16th: No Return

After leaving the middle school art class, I continued to see "my" students in other classes. Somehow they were unclear on the whole they-hired-a-teacher-for-your-class bit. 

12. October 29th: Six Seven

You may have heard of this. If you don't see kiddos or teenagers regularly, you do not know my pain. It's worse than you know. Six... seven... 

13. December 3rd: A Reading Lesson

The end of the calendar year saw me back in the day-to-day subbing of it all. This day was a senior English class where they were studying a graphic novel.