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[Not too spoilery, all happens in the first few minutes—]

Protagonist is, let’s say, underemployed.

Ex girlfriend. Has a cat. Really her only defining quality.

Also she’s pregnant! Maybe she’s getting an abortion. But also, maybe not. But still, maybe.

Protagonist is trapped in a liminal dream space.

Anyone else see it? Did you draw any other parallels? Do you think I’m reaching? These all happened in such quick succession it felt almost purposeful! An ode.

Basically, that. Sorry I’m gonna ramble a little but I’d really appreciate some feedback. I read all your posts and this is a great sub full of great people, I trust you.

A little back story, I have 4 year old twins who attend an early education center (public preschool, part of the school district)

In October of last year one of my twins (twin A let’s say) somehow got hold of a pair of scissors and cut herself a micro bang. At pick up that day the staff asked me if I took her to get a haircut over the weekend…. I saw her and let’s just say no haircut has ever looked like that. It was jagged, piecey, super short but also a little long on one side only. I said no, I did not take her for a hair cut. No one took responsibility. They implied I took my daughter for a hair cut and forgot. But I did not. She simply did not have bangs when I dropped her off that morning! The teacher got involved the following day, did a report. Somehow my daughter got scissors, cut her hair, and then threw the hair away and put the scissors back without anyone noticing. We left it at that, also she looked pretty cool once I cleaned up the fringe.

Fast forward to the end of May, I get a report sent home that the school failed to properly supervise the children resulting in an injury. A student was playing outside and slipped, busted their lip, got stitches. No teacher or aide saw what happened. The teachers/aides were all told to watch a 6 minute long YouTube video about supervision.

Now today, two weeks to the day after that form was sent home. I’m picking up the kids and after we’re out the door twin A says she has to tell me… she ate candy off the floor. It was outside the yard, through a chain link fence, in the dirt. (The other side of the fence is the elementary school yard but there’s a large dirt patch with trees before the yard starts) I go investigate, there are skittles on the ground. I go inside where I get pawned off from teacher to aide, another aide. They were all dismissive and borderline hostile. One of them says “I was going to tell you, you need to tell them not to eat things off the floor, what if you were at the park” I said, “I’d be there!”

Anyway so now the one who allegedly saw it happen comes and says she saw TWIN B with the candy in HER mouth but made her spit it out. No one swallowed any candy.

But, now get this, twin A tells me she ate 3 PIECES before her sister ever put one in her mouth. NO ONE SAW!!

I’m furious. They literally got in trouble 2 weeks ago for not watching! And that 6 minute video explicitly says they need to have eyes on all kids, and be close enough to intervene at a moments notice. My daughters were with a group of kids at the fence. Ratio-wise there was no shortage of teachers/aides available for those 4/5 kids at the fence.

Drugs look like candy. I know it’s a school on the other side of the fence but I can’t get that thought out of my head. Also I have never giver my kids skittles once in their lives. I’m not thatt crunchy but I do think skittles are really bad.

I’m going to talk to the principal in the morning. I think I’m going to pull the kids out.

Their graduation is on Friday but they were supposed to stay until the end of July on an extension.

First the bangs, now this, should I file a complaint? This is 2 weeks after the report about negligence resulting in injury. I feel like the district should know nothing has changed?

Help! What do you think??

Hey everyone, sorry we all have to gather like this. But thanks for being here.

I have been taking 10 mg generic xr for a few months no issue, and I suspect this batch is just not agreeing with me. It’s the same manufacturer I’ve been taking and was curious if you guys could help me understand… does the quality of the same dose same manufacturer vary from batch to batch?

I’m super anxious, my vision is weird, I’m tired, brain fog feels like it’s going to swallow me alive. I’m angry. Headaches. It’s pretty much not helping at all and just making me miserable.

I want to talk to my doctor about getting switched to a brand name prescription, just curious if anyone else has similar experience/advice.

Thanks all!!

I was listening to the radio a while back and a song came on that filled me with SO MUCH JOY! I cannot for the life of me figure out what it was.

-Genre was disco/dance, à la “Rhythm of the Night” or “Higher Love” (but unfortunately it isn’t either)

-I’m pretty sure it had the words “dance” and/or “night” (sorry that’s not much)

I don’t think it was a remix, it was the type of song you just want to dance to because it’s that good. Definitely upbeat. Totally fun. I’ve scoured Spotify disco/dance playlists but cannot figure it out for the life of me.

Please Reddit, help me?! (Also so excited to hear all of the song recs… DANCE PARTY)

EDIT: Forgot to mention it has a ~female vocalist!~

Second edit to clarify: It sounds *like* “Rhythm of the Night” and “Higher Love,” not just the same genre, melodically similar.