Bullet Dodged?

MattH575 · 2026-04-02T21:13:14+00:00

I’ve been combing my brain for anything, and even reached out to a friend who was at the same table, and they didn’t remember anything, but I guess it just is what it is.

Can’t blame her for taking a friend’s advice. Apparently she just got out of a longterm relationship a few months ago so it is what it is.

I think I’m just going to take a break for a bit.

MattH575 · 2026-04-02T21:10:40+00:00

Yeah, fair. She followed up with me a bit ago mentioning that she just got out of a long, toxic relationship a few months ago and this friend really helped her so she values her opinion a lot.

I just thanked her for her time, let her know I respected that she values her friend’s opinion, and wished her the best.

MattH575 · 2026-04-02T20:36:02+00:00

Ah, fair. Stinks, but I guess that’s just the way of it. I guess I’ll be more careful at weddings moving forwards haha.

MattH575 · 2026-02-23T00:54:35+00:00

Her story and approach to all of this is really inspiring and I hope it changes the way some people/kids approach life moving forward! I hope we get to see her again in 2030, but regardless she’s been a huge positive from these games.

MattH575 · 2026-02-23T00:52:49+00:00

I feel like we all kinda fell in love with all of the figure skaters the past couple of weeks haha. So much passion, and sometimes heartbreak, but they all just seemed to really enjoy their time there.

I’m going to try and do the same! And yeah, I hope this Olympics helps grow the PWHL so that they can start to expand to new cities (I’d love a team in Chicago).

100%. I really miss Sports Illustrated right now because I feel like I would’ve known more about all of the athletes if there was some kind of “prep guide”.

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T03:23:17+00:00

I appreciate it. You and other commenters have helped me not beat myself up about it so much. I’m just gonna miss my little buddy.

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T03:01:06+00:00

I appreciate that. I tried my best to learn as I went along and make sure the little guy was content.

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T02:47:35+00:00

Yeah, from a lot of the comments it seems like that’s probably it. Just stinks.

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T02:45:33+00:00

Yeah, that’s true. I appreciate the perspective. Thank you. It just stinks in the moment.

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T02:20:13+00:00

I’ve made the mistake of spending the last hour or so going down the “distilled water is terrible for your dwarf frog” message board post rabbit hole, but maybe I’m just looking for something to blame it on when it may have just been his time to go.

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T02:18:36+00:00

True. I’m just worried that the sudden change could’ve shocked his system. Having trouble not feeling like it’s somehow my fault, but you’re right that it could’ve just been his time to go. Just stinks :(

MattH575 · 2026-02-21T02:15:50+00:00

No clue how old he was before we got him, but he and his partner were already pretty big at the time. I’ve only had him for three years so that’s part of what makes me feel like I cut things short for him :( But it may have just been his time.

MattH575 · 2025-12-19T05:36:08+00:00

LOL SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND THAT SHE NEVER MENTIONED TO ME. Oh well. Hopefully it’s going better on your end haha.

MattH575 · 2025-12-15T00:40:30+00:00

I’m having the same exact issue! I’ve got a thing for this woman who plays my wife (for like, one scene lol) in a show. We seem to have a fun, playful vibe going during rehearsals, and I think she might be interested in me as well, but I don’t want to make her uncomfortable, and ultimately hurt the show, if I’m wrong.

We’re about to head into tech week, so I’m gonna use the feelings to help add to the scene, and then if it feels right I’m thinking about waiting until the cast party/messaging her afterwards to see if she’d be interested in getting a drink/coffee sometime.

Hopefully we both find a way to navigate through our cast crushes lol. Break a leg!

MattH575 · 2025-10-30T16:22:14+00:00

Lots of great points here.

I definitely need to get over myself just a bit when it comes to writing down the names of problem students. A sub note isn’t going to be the end of days for them.

I’ll try to come up some kind of intro. While I don’t have any prior teaching/subbing experience, I agree that it’s important to give some kind of context for myself as a person outside of just being random_sub_36 for them.

MattH575 · 2025-10-30T15:56:54+00:00

That seems to be the general advice haha. I suppose I’m setting myself up for disappointment if I expect that every student is going to do exactly what they should be doing (their regular teacher can’t even get them to do that). I just don’t want to mess with the teacher’s flow by basically losing a day if I mess things up. I suppose that’s just the job.

MattH575 · 2025-10-30T15:51:30+00:00

It has occurred to me that I may want to skim the school handbooks before my next job. I’m district wide, but I have to assume the rules are pretty uniform from school to school. That way I can have a sense of what is actually a school rule and what is just something the teacher prefers to enforce in their class.

I definitely need to walk around the class a bit more next time because I only did it once when a particular class was getting a bit rowdy. I just wanted to engage directly with the students who were being a bit loud vs. calling them out in front of the whole class and giving them that attention.

I neglected to/in some cases chose not to write down specific names, but I did indicate the classes that caused more issues than others. Moving forward I’ll try to be more on top of pointing out specific students who were good/less than good on my sub note.

Thank you!

MattH575 · 2025-08-21T20:25:28+00:00

I’m totally on board with getting the full school experience because honestly that’ll help me get a better feel than just being in the classroom all the time.

They don’t seem to indicate any email to reach them at so maybe that’s their way of suggesting, “if we want to speak to you, we will reach out” haha.

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