grsharky

Teacher here, so more shows and movies than I could list. Most are grossly inaccurate for any number of reasons. I've never taught in an inner city school, but I'd say season 4 of The Wire when Prez becomes a teacher is pretty accurate. Lots of frustrated, burned out people navigating a broken system that only cares about test scores and keeping the higher ups off their back.

Most overly inspirational films are pretty much fiction. With that being said, I do like being a teacher but it's like any other profession in many respects.

Funny, it’s kind of the opposite in our district.
Elementary pretty much gets what they want, high school gets a bit less, and middle school is allocated the scraps. I teach 7th and 8th grade history so they barely know I’m alive. I kind of like it that way though, I do my own thing and admin leaves me alone.

Some teachers go way overboard on their rooms, and honestly the kids get distracted by it all. I keep my room pretty basic.

The first time it was, but others it was pretty smooth.

We just had to replace my wife's car, she was driving a 2013 Rav4 but it finally was reaching the end of the road. She didn't want to get rid of it, it was her first adult purchase coming out of pharmacy school back in 13, but it was going to need a lot of work to pass inspection. We ended up getting a 2024 Rav because she hated the new ones and they were crazy expensive.

I bought a new 4runner in 21 and got it paid off by 24. We've been plowing a lot into retirement accounts, so we did get a note on this new car (4 years). I plan on getting it paid off pretty quick though, the interest rate on used cars is nuts, even with excellent credit.

I guess it's for real this time, there was a rumor a few years back that he had passed but it was quickly debunked. Ned was great, but man he seemed old back in 93 when he made the first Dale and Dale call. He lived a long life.

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The biggest challenge I think is how antisocial and busy everyone is. That's the thing I've noticed as I've gotten older, before 2 of my best friends and I could meet up with a day or two notice. Now it's like at least a week if not 2 weeks notice to put aside time to meet up. Another one of my friends is even worse. They put stuff in their calendar on their iPhone. I feel like a lot of the time I need to give them like 2-3 weeks notice to hang out and do something.

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This. I'm 42, married with two kids. I've noticed as I've gotten older that having a social life has become harder and harder. Everyone is busy, things never line up, and it becomes easier to just skip things. I've mentioned to my wife that our lives are hectic with work and kids and we're constantly on the go, but I've never felt lonelier from a friends perspective. We text and have group chats, talk sports and send dumb memes still. But actually getting together is almost impossible it seems.

I saw Ziregolf that Rahm had an albatross on Sunday yet it was never mentioned on the broadcast. They had a fan video of it.

The ladder at Fenway that’s in play, balls take some weird bounces on that thing.

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Excel. Once a month I put all my account totals in it (Fidelity, bank, other IRAs, etc) and minus my loans. Let’s me see my net worth and I have a little graph. It’s like a snapshot of the 16th of the month. I don’t track individual purchases or anything.

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Same here, how much do we have, how much do we owe?

I saw him almost get in a fight with a fan during a US Open practice round at Oakmont back in 2016. Bubba Watson duck hooked a drive and a fan next to the tee box yelled, “look out Ted, Bubba will throw you under the bus for that!”. He came right up to the rope and got in the guys face and had to be pulled away.

I was doing a WVU baseball game on student radio during that WVU/Louisville game. They were watching it back in the studio and we could hear the reactions in our ear pieces and give updates (like anyone was listening to us). When we were up big it was bedlam in our ears and then it got quiet as the lead slipped away.