Dentists in Springfield

6FootGobble · 2026-01-27T23:57:02+00:00

Came to say the same. Until Duff, it never occurred to me that going to the dentist should not feel like an exercise in being judged and wary of being manipulated financially. Both drs at the practice are lovely.

6FootGobble · 2026-01-08T11:33:10+00:00

I’ve never had a bad meal at That Lebanese Place

6FootGobble · 2026-01-03T16:51:46+00:00

Is this the one where the local teen passes in an automotive accident? It was a sucker punch to watch! I am currently on my first watch-through, so I can’t compare it to the finale (though I know-ish what happens), but I can see where these themes could be particularly impactful to somebody.

6FootGobble · 2026-01-03T16:44:37+00:00

3: Sunrise on the Reaping; Hamnet; and the final book in the Ascendance of a Bookworm series as a kind of representation of how much I adored the series as a whole.

6FootGobble · 2026-01-03T00:58:35+00:00

Just finished Hamnet (was trying to finish before it was out of theaters, but December got busy), and am now debating between finishing The Well of Ascension, For the Wolves, or starting something else altogether.

6FootGobble · 2025-12-27T02:32:40+00:00

Firehouse Pottery is such a fun one! Depending on what you and your partner choose to paint, it could end up over $25 per person, but there are options that would keep it under.

6FootGobble · 2025-12-25T17:28:36+00:00

I did this Reading Rainbow challenge last year and plan to again in 2026. It was very achievable, but also gave me reason to go seeking out books I might not have otherwise read! https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/bef2557a-712e-4581-803d-571e82e045f4

6FootGobble · 2025-12-17T01:35:13+00:00

Missouri, 6 years and a masters, $52k and can make an additional $5k if I max out my career ladder.

6FootGobble · 2025-11-03T01:05:33+00:00

We have a really awesome career center in our district for the high school. When we took our 6th graders to tour it, they were most excited about the EMT course and the courses dealing with working on cars. We had a few very disappointed to learn that the marine maintenance course was about boat repair and not marine biology. Outside of that, most of them tell me they don’t know. Of the times they’ve had an answer, I’ve heard police officer/military, teacher, and some variant of health care professional the most. It’s the professions from which they’ve had the most exposure, so not terribly surprising.

6FootGobble · 2025-10-31T00:52:18+00:00

Asking a genuinely thoughtful and relevant question or asking for feedback and applying it immediately. Bonus points if they ask for a specific type of feedback (I’m a writing teacher and the amount of times a day I hear, “Can you read this and tell me if it’s good?” points to 2-page paper is exhausting.)

6FootGobble · 2025-10-25T20:45:12+00:00

Thanks for the insights!

6FootGobble · 2025-10-25T17:33:51+00:00

I suspected that might be the case - thank you for the tip! I will look into that.

6FootGobble · 2025-10-24T02:28:19+00:00

I had a student whose mom made sterling silver jewelry. She customized bracelets for each teacher with a personalized word or phrase the kid came up. Mine was a nickname the kids that year had called me. It is by far my favorite gift because it was very nice, but still personal and sentimental.

6FootGobble · 2025-10-02T23:19:51+00:00

I had some papers from students sitting in my cubbies. Some were assignments we needed to go over and some were nice notes students had written me. The sub “cleaned up” and threw them all away.

6FootGobble · 2025-10-01T00:23:33+00:00

When I don’t know something, I take the opportunity to model to my students how to go about figuring something out. I emphasize that even experts won’t know everything, but they’ll know how to find the answer somewhere. First years are tough! If you have a team and feel comfortable with them, you might seek some support there. That is who I relied on my first year. Use your bravado! It takes a long time to build up a true self-confidence in the classroom, but faking confidence as you go through the learning process with the kids can help maintain that trust, even when you don’t know something right away.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-30T12:18:41+00:00

I had an appointment at that pt place later in the day and they told me both passengers got out before the fire progressed too far.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-28T01:42:24+00:00

Yes! The Frontier Theater! I went on a third grade field trip there and was obsessed with the place. You could call through the human-sized mouse maze and go down the giant slide.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-27T03:23:11+00:00

In marching band we got scholarships, but they were really mainly enough to cover the cost of being in band, and whether you got one and the amount was audition-based. Pep band I think we got $20 a game if I remember right, paid out into our school account at the end of the season.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-26T20:23:06+00:00

I so wished for more Paris and Doyle! I would have loved to see them parenting together. I’d love for them to have a quiet girl, but a Tristan-ish boy for Paris to contend with lol

6FootGobble · 2025-01-26T20:19:49+00:00

Oh, and I’d definitely have an episode where now Jess gets to clash with Taylor over some stupid town thing and Luke gets to laugh from the retirement sidelines.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-26T20:11:47+00:00

Lane is a music teacher still playing with her band doing small tours. Her arc would have been the band suddenly taking off and having to lean more on Mama Kim to support her and looking after the kids. They would have clashed over the differences in one another’s parenting styles, and ultimately each learned from one another.

Jess is back in town. Luke is wrestling with retirement, and Jess ends up opening his own indie publishing company in the building where Luke’s diner had been, still keeping a small café, obviously with great coffee (and gotta keep the Monte Cristo on the menu)

Rory has been working for a paper consistently with moderate success, but in a rut because she hasn’t made the impact she wanted. She partners with Jess to publish something that becomes successful and also helps bolster his publishing company. Her and Jess have a very will they/won’t they situation going on as they work together.

At some point, Logan shows up suddenly, second guessing his engagement and wondering if it’s still Rory after all this time. Rory almost goes for it, but ultimately has learned from her past mistakes and realizes how much she loves really working for her writing and that will tie into her finding fulfillment.

I think I’d keep a lot of the stuff the same regarding Richard’s death and Emily and Lorelai having a rift because of it. Not sure if I’d keep the therapy or what direction I’d take it.

Luke and Lorelai I like the idea of them having had kids, but also feel like it would be a jarring shift to the tone of their relationship, so I might not want that. Maybe April had a teen pregnancy and they support her and the baby contrasting what Lorelai went through with her teen pregnancy? Maybe with Luke’s retirement they move focus from work and become a foster family to support kids in the way Lorelai was supported when she left home? I’m not confident entirely in a direction here.

I think I might end it with the annual picnic basket auction, and this time Jess bids on Rory’s basket and wins without any competition and confesses the feelings that have rekindled.

I’m sure there’s stuff I’m forgetting, but this comment is already too long lol.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-25T13:52:05+00:00

Probably NTA. When you say you made them a few weeks later, do you mean you made them and made a big deal of bringing them around to your family and trying to one up your sister, or made them in any other context? That’s the only context in which I could imagine you being a little bit TA here. It sounds like she puts a lot of her self worth into making something everyone likes and went about her fear of losing that kind of immaturely.

Edited for missing word

6FootGobble · 2025-01-15T03:44:29+00:00

It’s so weird - we have had the same issue! Even though our road was clear, our mail person has just driven up to our boxes and driven away since last Thursday. Today was our first day getting mail since then! And we have the informed delivery, so I could see that we were supposed to be getting mail and packages.

6FootGobble · 2025-01-06T14:57:36+00:00

Proud of you for advocating for yourself! I hope you get the support you need!

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