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Her body being dumped in the woods was part of the lie. She hit a telephone pole, most likely her body was recovered and buried/cremated by her next of kin. I’m bummed. I thought I was getting a full Sas romance, that was barely a flirtation.

I got Sas, my favorite! And I do empathize with him, as I also use sass to conceal a tender heart that’s too romantic for my own good. And I often think I’m the smartest person in the room, and occasionally need to be knocked down a peg or two about it. My condolences to all the Virgos out there.

I bawled my eyes out. Philly won’t be the same without you, Jim. Enjoy retirement!

So, for Philadelphia area people, or anyone else interested, tomorrow (12/21) is the legendary Jim Gardner’s last ever broadcast with Action News at 6pm. He’s been a Philly institution since 1976, and so many of us have grown up hearing the news from Jim. It’s the end of an era, and he is as beloved in real life as Quinta portrays him on Abbott Elementary. He will be deeply missed.

Am I crazy or is the value of the Prohibition whiskey a bigger deal than I think? I realize that getting the news that the hooch you’ve been pouring heavily into frat bros is worth a ton isn’t great news, but they found it in a wall. It’s not like they’re out the money, they just can’t make a windfall on it now. Also, it’s ironic that they got a liquor license in the same episode that they recklessly doled out untested booze that was possibly made in an actual bathtub and stored next to at least one decomposing corpse for a century, whereas when they were unlicensed they were just serving wine pairings and cocktails whose ingredients they were sure of.

I think the point is not that the romance/mutual crush between them is about them being Black, but that no matter how familiar the beats are (Jim/Pam, Leslie/Ben, Jake/Amy, etc.), it’s very rare to see that kind of relationship play out between a Black couple on mainstream network television, and for Black viewers there is something very beautiful and special about seeing these characters have this kind of storyline.

Most elementary teachers have a K-4 certification and Gregory could absolutely teach second grade if he’d been available. I’ve been in education for over fifteen years and am in school for my bachelor’s/certificate and we are trained in SEL for the entirety of early childhood up to puberty (up to adulthood in my case, because I’m in special education). The actual academic content is a very small part of building a curriculum, it’s more about how to teach than what to teach. It’s not even a given that a teacher in any given school will be teaching the same grade year after year, some schools do looping and have students with the same teacher two years in a row, then the teacher gets a brand new class and does another two year cycle with them. But a certified elementary school teacher can adjust to any elementary level grade.

I remember that about Kenny Boy, but not that it was specifically his father.

They definitely live on a reservation. The white characters, like Kenny Boy or the basketball coach/drivers ed instructor, live on the periphery. Pretty sure the clinic where Rita works is on the reservation, but not sure if they attend a reservation school that hires white teachers or if it’s a public school.

Mostly probably because it stuck in Emily’s craw to be considered “not good enough” for Richard and the Gilmores in general, and doing the funeral right was her final Take That.

I went to a Catholic school that was 1-8, then added kindergarten when I was in fourth grade. It was a Philly school.

OMG, “fluffing his feather”! I snorted. Wake up, babes, new euphemism just dropped. I wonder how satisfying fluffing one’s feather would be. Hetty certainly seemed satisfied, but in the first season, Sas noted that when ghosts try to fluff each other’s feathers, they can’t finish. Different for boys? We need more stories on this subject!

Thank you! He seems like a curmudgeon with the other teachers, but is so polite and solicitous to Jacob. Totally thought he was flirting. Was ready to ship it. Still might. I do need him to de-grump a bit though, science is literally the MOST fun. Jacob’s claim that science is history plus math wasn’t completely incorrect, either. Theoretically, I’m with women who want to reclaim gendered pejoratives as empowering. I even was one in my younger days. But I’m at a point where I’m just irritated that everything needs to be sexualized. And I think in most respects it would be great if people restricted the types of clothes Tamika’s mom was wearing to adults-only environments.

Rewatching this episode and realized Sam’s therapist is played by Tamara Podemski, who played Elora Danan’s aunt on Reservation Dogs. Her sister Sarah plays Bear’s mom on the same show.

Rewatching Alberta’s Fan, and the B-plot is Thorfinn singing little David to sleep the way he used to Hetty, and it’s so much sadder in retrospect knowing he was a papa who was separated from his baby for an eternity.

Wasn’t it during the Halloween episode that Pete tried telling Isaac there were plenty of fish in the sea, only to conclude that Isaac’s options outside of Nigel are the fife player, possibly Thor, or eternal celibacy?

The more I think about it, the more surprising it is that Dumb Deaths was willing to portray Pete as being drunk while caring for young children. Since there’s no evidence that’s the case, and in fact they pretty easily proved it wasn’t (thanks Jennifer!), wouldn’t that open them up to a lawsuit for defamation of character? Especially since Sam made it clear that she knows Pete’s widow and isn’t happy with what they’re saying about him.

I’m actually jealous of Pete. I hope someday, hopefully as a living person and not a ghost, I get to see one of my students use something I taught them to help another person. What better way to know that the world truly is better because of you?

Goddamn Pete-centric episodes making me cry.

So Trevor had a Philly girl and he let her go. Well, now we know why he’s stuck as a ghost for all eternity.

The past two days were absolutely frigid where I live, but my desk at work gets the afternoon sun, and the windows turn the sunlight into an absolute furnace. I usually have to sit somewhere else by two. So I can buy that a shaft of sunlight in a living room is nice and warm, but outside in November in upstate New York is not.

Yes, they can. Charters are funded by both taxpayers and by others, individuals and companies who believe in the charter (mission statement) and get a nice, juicy tax write-off. Charter schools have also gotten in trouble in the past for counseling students with disabilities not to attend, because they are still subject to providing Section 504 and IEP accommodations. Counseling out is illegal, but they are very sneaky.

I don’t know, I’ve known a lot of men who weren’t worth the $5 t-shirts they were wearing, and they always seem to be in a situationship or more with a woman who’s WAAAAAAAYYYYY too good for them.

The lead anchor of the 6 o’clock Action News on ABC. He’s retiring this year, and has been a Philly institution longer than I’ve been alive.

I’m not very sympathetic to the late Mrs. Farnsby. The woman can’t call her son a pervert if she’s going to hang around to watch his orgy. Go outside, ma’am! I was hoping we’d find out more about the back rub economy. How long does a back rub have to last? Can they be cashed out all at once? How are they keeping track of their accounts? Will Hetty, hater of touching, be forced to spend an entire century massaging her fellow ghosts? I gotta know!