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Look it’s only eight episodes and I find something new every time I watch 😆 by new, I don’t mean like I wasn’t aware it happened. I just never quite noticed certain nuances or maybe I was feeling a little bit of distraction because I just wanted to see another scene with Hawk and Tim 😅

One that stood out to me a little bit this time was listening to Hawk and Marcus at the night club shootin the breeze. It kind of felt like it was the only time Hawk was completely disarmed. He absolutely felt safe around Tim, but there was still a level of performance-a persona he felt he had to keep. With Marcus, he just acts like one of the guys.

I’m not too sure I want advice, but I didn’t know which flare to choose.

Admin was pretty cruel yesterday and I know why I really wish I could say what it is, but it would identify me instantly. It is something that was beyond my control that I needed support with.

I breathe the wrong way and some people just have a permanent chip on their shoulder. I say things as nice as possible and they say things however they want to. I’m not allowed to ever feel frustrated and holding kids responsible even firmly without yelling for things like deciding they don’t wanna come to class. Other adults will laugh like it’s so cute that they have their own vibe.

I tried to tell them one simple message and they ignored me and talked to this kid about what their favorite dessert is at length while they saw me waiting so I had to jump in and say just so and so had to go to the clinic.

To top it all off every day I leave earlier and every day there’s a bigger crash on the way to the school. First, it’s just gridlock on the highway the next day it’s backed up all the way to the ramp.

I don’t wanna hear anything about toughening up. It’s making me cry today. before anyone assumes, no, it’s not in front of kids.

Before reading, yes I have experienced therapy abuse several times and been harmed further mentally by therapist .

He was referencing people who have been driven because certain harmful bots have simply agreed with everything they said or convince them that they should do things that are actually harmful. This is absolutely a concern, though I didn’t bother pointing out the fact that certain forms of AI actually have pretty good guardrails already, and are not designed to just agree with you, but are also not designed to talk over you or patronize.

I may very well get slaughtered in the comments, but I said even though these are valid concerns, people need to take a step back and think about why this is happening. The mental health system is extremely flawed (my own therapist allowed me to say it sucks and she agreed) and people are not as kind as sometimes we would like to believe. People turning the AI are not always out of touch with reality or avoiding “reaching out” or talking to a real therapist. Frankly, this giant rant about AI proves how out of touch with reality people who think therapy is the answer for everything.

Is everyone pretty much passed out from partying and recuperating until the next one? Frank n Furter basically furiously working in the lab all day? Magenta not cleaning? Are they out and about looking for their next party guests? Maybe all the above?

I’m a general music teacher, and no matter how much experience I have I am just not a kindergarten/ first grade teacher. I get by and some people might even watch and think the lessons look great, but I am counting the minutes until I get them out the door. I feel like nowadays they are especially needy, even if they are little and they make me extremely anxious.

Kindergarten also does but also the assistants at our school think they own the building and admin kind of lets them think that. They couldn’t believe I dared to ever ask them to help me pass out materials.

This is year 15 for me and I think it gets a little bit worse every year. I know kindergarteners are little, but they really should be past the screaming the way toddlers do for a really long time. I just had hall duty and legitimately it sounded like we had an infant in the cafeteria. I’m not referring to a child with special needs either.

Also children who refused to walk and adults resort to carrying them around again, not special needs.

And it’s not as though it stops at kindergarten for some of them. Two years ago, a third grader who is the same height as me (I know height doesn’t mean maturity, but it made the whole thing even more astounding) she was screaming exactly the same way. I had been teaching for 13 years at that time and that was a first.

I’m simply venting. But for so many of these kids, besides the poor regulation, they’ve just never been told no before, and they don’t know what to do with that.

And I remember two times where she is: when that awful guy was dating her and whenever she was with her sister. When her eyes soften, they’re so engaging and her smile can really light up a room.

Just an observation because I don’t think I really saw it when I was watching it 15-16 years ago.

Some of my favorite scenes were with her sister.

I take responsibility for my title . I realize it’s not actually a question. Just something that has been bothering me that I feel like is never allowed to be said. I have tried to more than once. Last time I tried to it was a different job outside of teaching that ended up, causing me more problems than teaching ever could have. Horrible placed to work with corrupt people. That’s a long story but all that aside… I have had plenty of panic attacks and I’ve needed medicine just to sleep (prescribed before anyone thinks anything plus I have a neurological condition). And I’ve come in bone tired and with mental health not doing well. I don’t feel as though I did a disservice to myself and the kids. I feel as though I was doing the best I could with what I had. Because you know what? We don’t get paid enough. But never have I been in a position financially where I could risk not getting any income, even if it will were for a short while.

I try to take care of my health and I double down in response to what this job can do. I’ve even needed accommodations when my condition got to be worse and it made a difference. I’m not about to say those who quit were right or wrong. But I am going to say it’s very hard to listen to people screaming at people to quit when it’s the one thing that could make life exponentially worse.

I feel like for just a moment it was exactly what that core group needed to hear and kind of the only time they all got called out at once.

This is the first time I have chosen a piece where I literally do not have a spot where I can cut it off clean at 32 bars without it being awkward. It’s I Have Confidence from Sound of Music and it’s FAST. It seems to take at least 50ish bars to land on the end of a musical phrase. I thought I had the perfect cut because it was like a minute long and then I counted the bars and it was almost 60.

If anybody wants to know which part I really was hoping to feature:

It’s the part from “ the courage to serve them with reliance” to “ I have confidence the world will all be mine. They’ll have to agree,I have confidence in me.”

You know how a narcissist acts so terrible that even the cancer is no excuse?

On Instagram, I saw this picture that is supposed to make everyone feel so good inside. A teacher entering grades literally on his deathbed. He did that as a final act of love, and I’m not going to criticize him for that. But the way it’s going viral, as someone with a chronic condition who does not want to die for the job, I am extremely concerned. Supervisors in schools have become completely unhinged with their expectations and I don’t think this is going to help.

I required FMLA last year for a medical reason. Yes, it is linked to my disability this is not an ongoing issue, it was circumstances that came up in my life that I needed to step back and address before my health took a turn for the worse. A coworker impressed upon me that I need to make sure I don’t say it’s me. It’s for a family member otherwise they can retaliate.

As long as we do this, we are basically throwing any disabled teachers under the bus. It is gross the preachiness about inclusion and understanding and telling disabled adults they can pound sand.

Bui Doi from Miss Saigon. There’s a lot of tearjerker songs in the musical theater world, but this one makes me cry in a different way. Part of it’s the fact that the history isn’t that long ago, and a part of it is because they chose not to make it feel good. It’s American soldiers saying “ their lives are hell, we are to blame and we need to fix this.”

Do you think Carla had medical insurance? Yes I know it’s random and not relevant to the show, but she had been there forever and besides the fact that she loves Sammy I know with all the kids she has she can’t get by on just a paycheck.

Songs for Guinevere?

I can’t cope with not seeing Hawk and Tim spending Tim’s final days together. Hell, I’d feel better if Lucy came through for him. I don’t know if it’ll be the whole series this time but I’ve gotta at least watch some of my favorite episode.

*Hawk

I really hope this doesn’t get removed because it’s a basic question but I’ve watched almost 2 times through and I didn’t catch the year he was born, if they ever mentioned it.

OK, I was in utter shock last night when I posted that so therefore I shared no thoughts except for the fact that I was devastated. Be nice if you reply. I am raw.

Ok: I have so many. Looking at Tim when he first introduced is like looking in a freaking mirror for me except when I was in my early or mid 20s. Everything from the awkwardness, to the naivety, to clinging on to my Catholic faith, to extending kindness where it wasn’t deserved.

I thought I was going to hate Hawk with every fiber of my being and by the time I saw them in bed together for the first time, I wanted absolutely nothing more at that moment, then for them to stay together and to be endgame. And I knew without a doubt that is not what was going to happen. But I did not expect the writers to rip them apart so quickly. Would’ve given anything for just one or two more episodes where they are in that honeymoon phase and they pretty much never got to go past it.

In 2026, I would have thought Hawk an absolute dog for what he did to Lucy, but during the red scare? 100% understandable. It shocked me how the series caused me to see things from an entirely different angle, and not in the cliché way or the way that other shows or movies have made too obvious.

Jackson as the black sheep of the family: also could relate to that. My heart could not handle hawk sobbing over him in the middle of the threesome and begging Tim to let him die.

I never really could warm up to Lucy. Yes, she was put in a shit situation, but I didn’t get a ton of warmth from her even when she was addressing her son.

I think I will get so much hate for this, but I hated her for leaving Hawk right when Tim was dying, and immediately after she saw him in the hospital.

And, could not stand that Tim didn’t spend his last days with Hawk.

I was so mad about it in fact that I wasn’t even crying at the end as I expected. I was in shock. It was incredibly moving and the perfect final line to have Hawk say he was the man I loved.

I actually did cry a lot once I watched the credits role (all the way to the end) and was met with silence.

I feel validated that I am reading so many posts here that people say it is probably never going to be the same after watching that. I don’t think I can say that about any other series or movie. I used to say it about the musical Rent. That did shape me, but it doesn’t even hold a candle to Fellow Travelers.