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Kemi

@kemikemikemi.bsky.social
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HS Biology teacher. Mom. Bibliophile. Nature enthusiast. ExMo. Lover of naps and road trips and binge-watching shows. Oh, and diet Pepsi.

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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happiness is NOT slipping and falling down your hardwood stairs in fuzzy socks, it is not going to Instacare for X-rays, and it is DEFINITELY not throwing up from the excruciating pain. Happiness IS having a Joe who stayed by my side the entire time, then made sure my kids were taken care of, too.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Entering my Grandma era. 🥲
An ultrasound photo labeled "late autumn 2026" bordered by orange, yellow, and white flowers arranged in a heart shape.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A few weeks ago, I jokingly sent @javajoe.boo an IG Reel that said April 23 was "Book and Flowers Day" and should be celebrated accordingly. I immediately forgot all about it, but he didn't. This was the sweetest surprise! He even picked out a fancy book with sprayed edges! He's my favorite. 🥰
There are red tulips in a vase with a woven hemp base next to two books-- Starside, by Alex Aster, and Wolf Hour, by Jo Nesbø.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My kid's eSports team is competing in the state playoffs today. I was told I could attend, but given very specific guidelines about what I could and couldn't do while I was there. (Heaven forbid a parent embarrass their kid by cheering.) 🤣 I'm so excited for teams Mario Kart and Splatoon! 🖤💚🤍
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I did not make it to the liquor store today. I suspect I will regret it before the night is over.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@javajoe.boo You are mine. 🥰
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of my dad's death. My youngest asked if we could visit the cemetery tonight, and thanks to the portable book light I keep in my car (for reading emergencies, duh!), they're having storytime. 🥹 I doubt they ever read The Outsiders. Now they get to hear it.
A 7th grader sitting cross-legged on the ground in the cemetery where Grandma and Grandpa are buried, reading aloud to them from The Outsiders.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Seeing it together for the second time in four days. Could this be the best movie ever made? Possibly, yes. Am I seeing it with the best person? Absolutely, yes. Thanks, @javajoe.boo for introducing me to this story. ❤️💫
Two large sodas, a Project Hail Mary themed popcorn bucket, and a bag of peanut M&Ms.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I spent another delightful weekend in the company of @javajoe.boo. What a guy. He's the best! 😊 (And the weekend was too short!)
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Jami @imajjami.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When the world is on fire and every morning brings some new, fresh government hell, it's the sweetest thing to get a cheery "good morning" message from someone who cares about you and hopes to make you smile. Every morning, for more than two years. Lucky, lucky me. 🥰
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Last year I took a class from USBE that was all about making connections with difficult students. (Or students in difficult situations.) One of the things I learned from this class is "I wish my teacher knew..." and I decided to try it with my classes. youtu.be/8pcKbf_vpHg?...
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What kids wish their teachers knew | Kyle Schwartz | TEDxKyoto
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Look, I know school JUST started back up, but 1. I was formally evaluated on my first day back, just 5 minutes into 1st period, 2. I picked up some sort of not-Covid plague that I can't seem to shake, and 3. Current events are too much to process. I NEED a snow day tomorrow. We all do. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It seems unfair that I have to go back to school tomorrow, after having just two weeks off and spending one of them on a glorious, multi-state road trip with @javajoe.boo. If someone wanted to kidnap me before tomorrow, I would probably go willingly. 😄
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
How I'm walking out of 2025
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a man in a trench coat is walking on a soccer field in front of a stadium .
Alt: A high school student in a trench coat is walking across a sports field. It's the very last scene of The Breakfast Club.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
You guys, my daughter got married on a cruise ship yesterday, and it was the fairytale wedding she always wanted. 🥰 As she was getting off the elevator, a little girl asked her mom, "Why is she dressed like a princess?" (Her dream was to look like Giselle from 'Enchanted'.) It was a perfect day. ❤️
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. "There's no crying in baseball."
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a woman in a purple hat is standing next to a man in a white shirt holding a baseball glove ..
Alt: Geena Davis catches a baseball with one hand. "A League of Their Own"
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I played Christmas music at school today and showed my students (mostly juniors and seniors) 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' before our 5-day break, so I guess you could say I covered my holiday bases. 🎄🦃 It was fun to watch them watch it. I love it when kids can be kids. They need more of that.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
What do you call a person who agrees to attend your 12yo's middle school's musical (that they are NOT even in), then goes for boba after the show, builds crazy Jenga towers, spends an obscene amount on the claw machines so the kid can win, and makes up Thanksgiving carols to sing on the way home?
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I am teaching genetic traits and inheritance patterns in Biology. The question: "If you were a trait, would you be dominant, recessive, or heterozygous? Tell me why." One student's answer: "dominant because they give big dick energy & I want that" I have been giggling about this all day. 😂
An orange paper with silver writing that says "dominant because they give big dick energy & I want that"

with my response in dark blue:
"I am CRYING at my desk. Everyone in 3rd period wants to know what I'm laughing at. Thanks for ruining my mascara. HA HA HA HA HA  
I'm dead. BDE. I can't."
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
My principal just called to let me know the victims of Friday's Halloween party shooting were ours. One died instantly after the car that was driving them to the hospital crashed. One is on life support. They were 17. Seniors. Taught 'em both. Tomorrow's gonna be a rough day for our school fam. 😭💔
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Halloween on a Friday is a teacher's dream come true! 😂 WHAT A WEEK! The theme was 80s icons. (Nailed it!) The candlelight concert was Halloween-themed. The kids spent Halloween with friends, so I passed out candy and went to see a smoke-breathing dragon. Thanks for the memories, October! 🎃👻🍁
A woman dressed as Rick Astley, or, as my students said, "The meme guy. Rickroll!" 🙄The faculty at Kemi's school dressed as 80s icons. An elevated platform with a string quartet surrounded by candles, cobwebs, and pumpkins. Joe estimated there were about 2000 candles in total. A yard-sized, animatronic, smoke-breathing dragon on Halloween night.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
This is fun! (I'm sorry if it's annoying for you.) 😄
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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
They are pointing out another Trump lie.
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NM delegation calls on USDA to use contingency funds to pay for SNAP in November — Source New Mexico
The USDA has $5 billion in SNAP contingency funds it should use to keep people fed through November, according to members of New Mexico's delegation.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My very favorite person in the whole world is having a birthday today. (10/20) Can you do me a favor and wish @javajoe.boo a Happy Birthday? And if you know him IRL, please be sure to include something you admire about him.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I have to take a physics class through SUU in order to finish my secondary ed endorsement. I spent 4 1/2 hours struggling through my assignments tonight, and when @javajoe.boo found out, he called me right away to offer tutoring and moral support. I don't like physics, but I sure like him. 🥰
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
La la la la la la la, life is wonderful. ~Jason Mraz 🥰🥰
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
A little love from my students on a Monday. 🥰 (And it's a SUCH a Monday... ugh.)
The corner of a classroom whiteboard. In turquoise, a student wrote, "You're my favorite teacher Kemi! ❤️" 

In dark blue, another student wrote, "We love you Kemi!! ❤️"A cartoon strawberry captioned, "Boi you awesome!"
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Earlier today, I finished the second in a duo of disappointing books (my fault for reading #2 in spite of #1), so I am extra delighted that my new book is so whimsical and fun. I mean, who wouldn't love a pair of naughty senior citizens who are determined to age as disgracefully as possible? 😂
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I stopped at the gas station on my way home from trivia, and the minute I stepped out of the van, I heard my name. It was too dark to see across the parking lot, but they unrolled their windows and waved frantically. It was two of my students. 😄 Have I mentioned that I love my job? BECAUSE I DO.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The kids are with their dad tonight, so I ordered Doordash and I'm bouncing between physics homework- it's as bad as it sounds- and reading. The quiet is blissful, and I am determined to get through this college class without relying (too much) on @javajoe.boo, who is a physics genius. (I am not.)
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We are studying cellular energy in biology, and a big part of that is photosynthesis. Yesterday, we did stomata peels, which my kids dubbed "Leaf Manicures" and... well... I tried to make my stomata look less... female ...so I gave the guard cells hats, and- oops!- turned them into penises. 🤦🏼
A "ghost print" of a leaf, made from clear nail polish and packing tape, stuck to a microscope slide.Many visible stomata from my ghost peel, at 10x magnification.My illustrations of guard cells when they're open and closed. I was trying so hard to make them NOT look vaginal that I accidentally made them penile.

Biology is already scandalous enough without any help from me. 😅
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Say you teach at a high school without saying you teach at a high school. (And now tell me what this means, because if I have to hear it 12,000 times a day, I want to at least know why it's so funny.) (Is it because they're dumb? It's probably because they're dumb... BLESS THEIR HEARTS.)
In the top right corner of a bulletin board are the numbers 67.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy to report that I have spent my PT Conf comp day reading, and I will most certainly finish a *checks notes* FULL BOOK before the day is over. RIF* *For those of you who didn't attend school in the early 80s, that stands for 'Reading Is Fundamental'.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
After 2 nights of Parent-Teacher Conferences (and 12-hour work days), and 4 more conferences this afternoon, I am finding it extremely difficult to leave my comfy bed and face the day. I now have 15 minutes to shower and get ready for school. Someone is going to be late today. 🤷🏼
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I was at the Oddities and Curiosities Expo this afternoon, when someone came up behind me and asked, "Are you Kemi_Kemi_Kemi?" It was SO fun to meet you, @cloves.bsky.social! I'm really glad you stopped me to say hello! ❤️
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Ever since I saw one in the movie Tangled, I have wanted to experience a lantern festival. I FINALLY got a chance, and it was every bit as magical as I had hoped. 🥰✨ Thank you, @javajoe.boo, for joining me on another adventure. My life is better because I get to do it with you. ❤️
Paper lanterns floating in the sky.A crowd of people letting their lanterns go at the Night Lights event in Stansbury Park.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
We said goodbye to my parents' house today. 🥲 The grandkids wanted to have one final Easter egg hunt in the backyard, so we spent the morning hiding and seeking, sharing childhood memories, and gorging on pizza. Then we took one last picture on the front step. I'm going to miss that house. 😭
Five kids standing/sitting on the front step of their grandparents' house. Four of them are in the other photo, but the one in black hadn't been born yet.Five kids sitting on the front step of their grandparents' house on July 4, 2012. The one in red is missing in the updated photo.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Happiness is having a Joe in your life. 🥰 That's it-- that's the whole Skeet.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Today's questionable student interaction: T: A lot of your clothes have patterns on them. Why is that? Me: ...What? Um, because I'm not boring? T: It's a lot of patterns, Kemi. Not gonna lie. Me: Well, they are adult clothes. T: SO... MANY... PATTERNS... The shirt being scrutinized:
A woman wearing a swirly red and blue paisley-patterned shirt.
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I decorated for fall (my favorite season) before I left school on Friday, and one of my students walked into class today and said, "It's decorated like White Lady Autumn™️ in here!" and I wasn't sure how to respond, so I just lifted my iced pumpkin chai from Dutch Bros in salute and smiled. 🍂❤️🍁❤️🍂
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@javajoe.boo and I had lunch at a cozy little Chinese place today. He didn't grab a fortune cookie on the way out, so I offered to share my fortune with him. He laughed and said, "I'll only claim it if it's good. If it's bad, it can be all yours." (Gee, thanks.) 😄 Turns out, it was perfect. 🥰
A fortune cookie strip that says, "Your future is a book waiting to be filled with your story."
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Fun night with @javajoe.boo celebrating a friend's birthday. He bought me a fancy rocking camp chair and we enjoyed a bonfire, bat-watching, stargazing, and the end of Derry Girls/beginning of Wednesday, Season 2. Everyone should have a Joe. ❤️(But I call dibs on this specific one.)
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Day 2 of the long weekend included the final day of Mom and Dad's house clean-out (you guys, we have been working on this for OVER A YEAR!!!), a meeting with the realtor, a nap, dinner with @javajoe.boo, and a Derry Girls marathon. What a wonderful life. 🥰
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
There is no better way to kick off a long weekend than by taking a drive through the canyon (the leaves are starting to change colors!), eating dinner at a fancy restaurant in Park City, and seeing the collection of a new (to us) artist in a bougie Main Street gallery. Thank you, @javajoe.boo. ❤️
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I love it when students leave notes on my board. 🥰
A photo of a high school classroom whiteboard with a portion of the daily schedule and two messages at the bottom. 

The red one says "Kemi is the best ❤️" and the green one says "FR!!!" (for real)
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
When she was no longer able to read herself, I read to my mom, right up until she died. We probably read 2-3 dozen books together. We were about 40 pages away from finishing our last book when she died, and I have had it in my van for nearly a year, waiting for the opportunity to finish it
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I was an active church member for 48 years, and only stopped going about 3 years ago. Can anyone explain how I am caught SO off guard when I see the parking lot full of cars on a Sunday morning? Why do I ask myself, "Now what's happening there?" as if that wasn't also what I did for 5 decades. 🙄🤦🏼
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
In staff meeting this morning, our principal brought us treats to celebrate a wildly successful first week of school. Did I really eat ice cream at 10:15 AM? YOU BETCHA! I love my job. 🥰
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Kemi @kemikemikemi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
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a group of girls in school uniforms are walking down a hallway and one girl is wearing a headband with the letter s on it
Alt: a group of girls in school uniforms are walking down a hallway and one girl is wearing a headband with the letter s on it
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