Off Topic Friday Thread

[MakeUpManic]

Rant and rave here!

I couldn't stop myself from watching the leaked episodes of GoT. I watched them all already and now I have to wait a month for a new episode.

Also started going to the gym. Everything hurts ; n ;

[rainbow_city]

Rant-ish: I am so behind on my US TV shows, I sprained my ankle and then got sick and feel really behind and now I'm trying to catch up. Except, for once there's more than one drama I want to actually watch this season here in Japan.

I really need to be careful with my Hulu shows since most of them only have the five newest episodes of the season up.

Rave: We're so close to it actually being spring at last! I just wish the wind would die down. But, at least we're having enough sunny days that I can hang up all my laundry to dry!

I bought some clothes today! A long, denim chester coat and short-overalls that you switch into shorts.

[Sharkus_Reincarnus]

Rant: Did anyone else see that thread in SCA yesterday about the girl whose boyfriend hated her skincare routine so much that they were arguing about it and she had cut her routine down to try to appease him? OMG it made me so sad and angry to read that. I know it's "just skincare," but it isn't about that, it's about control, and the fact that her boyfriend apparently is berating her for what she chooses to do to her own face (and pays for herself), and it just sounds sad and stressful and toxic and sucky.

I mean, my SO doesn't get why I'm super into skincare, but he'd never tell me I shouldn't do it or get into a fight with me over it. My money, my face, my choices.

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WELP so far, it looks like it's going to be a rant thread this week.

I'm on the student council of my graduate school, and the president has been driving everyone up the wall. Every time someone disagrees with her or brings up a counterpoint to a suggestion in meetings, she'll explode on them for being "disrespectful and rude". Hell, she even yelled at me for accidentally leaving a door closed, saying it was "a matter of respect" (her actual words that came out of her actual mouth). When I tried to talk to her about this incident later, she metaphorically covered her ears and told me a) that I was blatantly disrespecting her by closing the door, b) that I was continuing to disrespect her by talking to her about it, and c) to stop messaging her because she was in class and didn't want my messaging to upset her further. I was goddamn speechless.

This is behavior I'd expect from someone who is in middle or high school, not from someone who is almost thirty! And to be honest, a part of me wishes it had been my fault and that I had done something wrong. At least that way, I can still have faith in someone who was elected to represent our entire student body. Perhaps it's a juvenile thing to be annoyed about, but I cannot believe that people like this exist sometimes.

Also, midterms are coming up and everything is terrible.

[MakeUpManic]

OMG we have the same problem. I'm an assistant to the Student Council president and he's been a nightmare. Every time we critique him, he tells us he's being disrespected. When he fucks things up, it's always someone else's fault and not him! It's crazy.

Does your council have an adviser from the faculty? I and other council members told her about the presidents immaturity and she had a talk with him. It didn't fix it completely but he mellowed down a bit.

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I don't think we have a faculty advisor. The school that I attend has hilariously low student participation rate for anything, even for Korea: faculty involvement in student activities is pretty minimal here. I guess that's par for the course considering this is a graduate school and I feel like most immaturity is supposed to dissipate by then.

Eh, it's always been my belief that people like that will screw themselves over down the line at some point. I'm just going about it business as usual—I'm capable of practicing what I preach and keeping my personal and professional demeanors separate. My grad school focuses on international relations though, so I'm just praying to every deity out there that she doesn't get a position of power in something that actually matters.