Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Hour two and half: we met Turtleini the Turtle. His tank was a highlight of line waiting 000
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026In retrospect it is deeply funny that ten minutes into the three hour wait I talked the dude in front of me into guest speaking at my school and by hour two I was sharing the relationship between Macbeth and Lord of the Rings with my line cohort 110
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I am at the Musée Cluny and it is packed with people and absolutely nobody is noticing the cases with tiny flying penis badges but Medieval Twitter ruined me. 000
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025These devil children made my tall chair TOO TALL while I was absent so now I can’t teach anymore 150
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I was feeling decent about my general appearance today and then I was asked if I wanted the senior discount at a pizza place That is the facial expression I did in response 360
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Every year I kind of fixate on a magical thing that could happen in my garden. This year I made a magical nook with a yellow bench. You can drink tea and read books in there. Birds sing to you and sometimes there’s a little breeze that rustles the leaves. 1110
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025That’s me looking tired and disheveled, about to take an overnight train out of Union Station a few weeks ago. It was clean and nice and fine. What on earth would the Natl Guard do there? Mill around aimlessly? 050
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Okay, but here’s a photo I took for you in Mexico City 110
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Going to a high school graduation as a middle school teacher is amazing. Feels like a flex and a victory lap and a validation and all the things. Hard work in the classroom pays off!! 040
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Packing up the classroom, and kids found this old teacher picture of me from a few years ago. Eighth grader: “Wow! That’s the year I was born!!!” Evidently 2011 was a little minute ago? And I am a thousand years old 260
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025First year with ranunculus, and I’ve learned that they open and close over the course of the day 020
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025This is my post-work backyard face. I wanna hear all the birbs and smell all the flowers 1100
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I came home and more lovelies are blooming. Waited four years for that peony to bloom 2451
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025My tia’s fridge speaking the same truth every visit. Once again, I will ignore it 000
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I’m on my way to the funeral of my favorite Tio, the state leg just devastated public schools in Texas (again) and one of my peonies is starting to bloom for the first time 030
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025It’s the day after the state reading test, so I brought out *THE GOOD STUFF today *Cask of Amontillado and The Lottery 261
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I take it back. Am in my hometown of Arlington, TX, and l’ll be damned- it’s packed. This is good 1131
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I thought I had staunch bulwark of moral principle against the panopticon and blind acceptance of tech into our personal spaces but maybe I need a camera since we live in these times now. The mystery animal shredded the fringe on a canopied chair!!! 100
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Why would any creature mess with my backyard, which is a place of PEACE and SPLENDOR 100
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025I came home and my backyard pergola cushions are torn and strewed all over the dirt and now I am BEEFING with an undisclosed animal. Raccoon? Feral cats? League of evil squirrels? I don’t know but I am big, big, mad. Stay tuned 310
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Broke: at the airport to leave CDMX and go home Woke: My tía made me quesadillas with queso Oaxaca to take as a plane snack 180
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Last stop: to Ciudadela to run an errand and to have cafe de olla after seeing all those mountains of piloncillo FÍN 020
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Okay, I hope y’all enjoyed that bc by the end Tía Laura was over me taking constant pictures while she’s trying to buy groceries 140
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025I’m including my face here, so y’all can see what “pleased as punch” looks like 160
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Welp. Yesterday morning, Tía Laura took me to the Mercado de Jamaica in CDMX, which was GLORIOUS. 3825
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Horses!!! Panteón, Tía Bety’s into it now, archive for the Cineteca 120
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Mucha contaminación- lots of smog today; still a cool view! City, fashion school (Centro), panteón (cemetery) 110
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I am going on an adventure! Tia Laura: nervous but into it. Tia Bety: a skeptic 140
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025You can use normal metro card. One right is 7 pesos, which is less than a dollar. Good for a daily commute! It doesn’t come to a complete stop for you to get on or off, but it’s slow enough to get in comfortably 130
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I know I’m in hipsterville CDMX but I will never be not charmed by walking by unexpected Borges 130
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Last day before spring break, building full of wild middle schoolers? You know what, though? Sartorially armed, I am 250
Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Btw, hot tip to anyone doing a session of Mayan glyphs or any glyphic writing system with English speaking kids. Start with a rebus! Emoji generation kids get it, and syllabaries aren’t a big leap 010
