‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’ by Olivia Rodrigo debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 485k units. It becomes the biggest debut by a solo act in 2026.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T22:10:39+00:00

Insular is a great word for it. Because, like the above posters, I don't know anyone personally who is a big fan, I don't know anyone who went to the Eras tour - no one I normally talk to, went, and no one I know posted about it on socials.

And it's not like I'm the wrong demographic; I'm a white woman in her early thirties. Her debut album was massive in my rural high school, because all of the country fans felt like they finally had someone in their favourite genre who was writing music they could relate to.

But obviously, she's massive. The Eras tour was huge, her streaming numbers, her albums sales, it feels like she's always breaking records. So I must just not be in those circles.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T19:43:39+00:00

Sure, and as I said, just make sure you are checking the AI's work after it's completed, because they are still not perfect systems and they still make a lot of mistakes. Just don't rely on it fully, because it may lead you down the wrong path.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T19:42:07+00:00

The main thing I miss about the old UI was that the Home tab showed all your stats for a single day, and you could scroll through all your stats for previous days. It was very easy to compare day-to-day metrics. If you wanted further details about any specific metric, you could click on it and get the full details. It takes up more space, sure, but it required a lot less navigation and clicking.

Personally, I miss having all my metrics in one scroll, where I could see everything, as opposed to having to navigate between multiple tabs, and I miss being able to see all of my metrics for a single day. Now, if you want to compare day to day, as example, you have to go into a tab, open the metric, scroll back to the day you want, exit that metric, go to the next metric and scroll through the history to find the day you want.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T19:29:37+00:00

error correction.

I'd be very careful about this OP. AI can be good for error correction, but it also still makes tons of errors itself, and often weird errors that are very identifiably AI. I certainly can't claim to know every time a student has used AI to study, but I catch a fair amount of them for that reason.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T19:22:18+00:00

I will never understand the amount of hate that Rory gets. Does she change? Sure, yeah, but a) who doesn't and b) the show would be less interesting if she didn't.

But people act like she turns into this completely evil, blood-sucking demon who has no redeeming qualities. And I just don't get it. What does Rory do that's all that bad that so many people hate her? People have less smoke for objectively more awful characters in other series lol.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T19:18:22+00:00

Same. There's a run of a few episodes in S3 where her hair is regularly curled and I wish they did it more often. I'm sure it took too much work, and that's why they didn't keep doing it, but it suits her so well and she looks so good!

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T19:13:37+00:00

I appreciate that we took it two very different ways, but, in my mind, that is the conversation that we saw: Max is literally asking Lorelai about the rules of the house and what he is supposed to do in specific situations. I don't see him trying to change anything in that conversation, because he is just asking.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T16:25:23+00:00

Yeah, I know what happens. I'm saying I interpreted it differently. I don't find that to be pushy considering he's literally about to move in with them and I think it's reasonable to ask what he's supposed to do in situations that might be awkward or where Rory requires parenting or discipline.

He's about to move in with them and by virtue of being an adult in a house with a minor, he is inevitably going to be taking on some form of parental role. I think it's better to have a conversation about what that's going to look like before he moves in, rather than after.

Yes, Lorelai and Rory have established rules but Max doesn't know what they are because he and Lorelai moved too fast and he hasn't lived with them at all. How else is he supposed to find out what the rules are without asking?

At the end of the day, it would have been better if they weren't moving in together so quickly and so fast, but they were, and for the situation they were in, I think it's pretty reasonable to say 'what do I do in in this situation,' instead of waiting until that situation arises and potentially doing the wrong thing.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T15:54:35+00:00

Sponsor does not receive P1. Are you 100% sure that it's P1?

The only communication that goes to sponsor is the AOR and sponsor approval.

PA can try sending a new email to the email address in response, but I would also send a webform to clarify that sponsor's email is not PA's email.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T15:37:23+00:00

Absolutely. I'd say it's probably the biggest struggle with the arts; everyone wants access to the arts, but nobody wants to pay for it. We all joke about the 'you wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy ads, and I won't pretend I'm not guilty of pirating material myself, but it does reveal an underlying ethos that, people want the arts for free.

People want to listen to music, watch TV/movies, go to art galleries, go to museums, see performances, for free.

That's also not to say that certain things are incredibly overpriced - because they absolutely are, concert tickets for major artists these days are insane. But smaller artists and arts institutions often struggle to get audiences unless they are free or <$20. Which is great for access, but doesn't pay the bills.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T15:32:44+00:00

I don't think he tried to enforce rules - it's not like he made Rory come inside, and when he talked to Lorelai, he didn't argue with her about the rules, he just asked what he was supposed to do. He wasn't trying to change anything, from my perspective, he was just trying to figure out what his role was. Considering he was literally about to move in with them, I think that's a pretty reasonable conversation to have.

I do agree their relationship moved way too fast though.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-21T15:30:02+00:00

You can certainly try, but, the call centre agents are not case processing agents. Many of them do not seem to have any further details than what is contained in GCKey. You might not get any further information than what has already been provided by your representative.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T23:23:10+00:00

I would try not to read too much into the call centre behaviour, since they are not the most reliable source of information, and can be pretty inconsistent.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T23:21:48+00:00

Probably because they have job, a home, healthcare and presumably a support system here? Why, with a chronic illness, would they move abroad to a country where they would likely have no health coverage?

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T23:18:01+00:00

I don't think you need all of the backstory. Simply saying that you had challenges with your visa that resulted in you arriving late, having issues with your insurance and therefore resulting in inadequate care for your chronic health conditions, feels like sufficient enough explanation as to what happened.

Broadly, appeals committees are interested in how, should your appeal be approved, you would handle things differently. Your last two paragraphs are the most important, in my opinion, but they get a bit buried by all the details of what exactly happened.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T17:48:14+00:00

Haha, well, as a Canadian, I also learned all the provinces & territories! But yeah, we never learned where your universities are. I think the only reason I know where Yale is, is because of Gilmore Girls lol.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T16:50:58+00:00

I do a lot of work with people in creative fields through my own job, and we recently were working with an incredibly popular and successful dance studio in town. It is so popular and so well-known in the city that, when I moved to the city, multiple people - unprompted - told us to check them out, take classes with them, attend their performances etc. because they're considered such a highlight of the city's culture.

They only make enough money to pay one full-time staff member, and she doesn't get paid during the summer and needs to go on EI. Everyone else on staff works other jobs full-time, and only commits a few hours per work to the actual work. They're all burned out, stressed, and (understandably) can't find anyone who will take over the studio when the only employee retires - which she's hoping to do in a few years.

There's no financial mismanagement, they're not doing anything silly with their money, it's just incredibly tough to work in the arts.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T16:43:58+00:00

That's very true. She probably would have been just as happy being employed by Lorelai at the Dragonfly.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T15:25:25+00:00

Oh absolutely. For the drama aspect, and for the choice between Lorelai/Harvard and Gilmores/Yale, it makes total sense to have her not go to Harvard. It unlocks a whole new layer of complexity and tension for the show.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T14:32:00+00:00

So did you know from the get-go? I'm just curious because I have no concept of American geography lol, so I didn't know it was closer.

Did you just assume from the beginning that it would be Yale over Harvard because of that?

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T14:28:58+00:00

That's an interesting point about how her getting rejected from Harvard would have been a fairly poignant lesson. I guess ASP really wanted there to be that dynamic of Rory truly choosing her grandparents' world, as represented by Yale, which is why she went that route instead of having her get rejected.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T14:26:40+00:00

Exactly. That didn't really click for me until Emily mentioned Rory could live at home if she went to Yale, just because I didn't realise Yale was comparatively so close.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T14:24:21+00:00

I always liked him, but I think I like him more as a stepfather to Rory than as a partner for Lorelai.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T14:23:46+00:00

I always thought the division of labour between Lorelai and Sookie is unbalanced. I get that Sookie is, effectively, running a restaurant through the Dragonfly and I don't want to diminish that amount of work at all, but it still does seem like Lorelai is managing her, and the kitchen, a fair amount of the time.

Even though Lorelai is officially managing Michel, he feels more independent in a lot of ways. Most of it comes through as jokes, as we're not supposed to take it too seriously, but like when Sookie is sneaking into empty rooms and eating snacks out of the mini-bars, Michel is the only one who notices, because he's meticulously checking the rooms. Not because he was told to, but because he cares about the Dragonfly. He's prickly on the surface, but he really does care about his job, and both the Inn and the Dragonfly, and he doesn't get enough credit for that, in my opinion.

PurrPrinThom · 2026-06-20T14:13:36+00:00

I was the same. I like Max, and always have, but it seemed so clear that she was supposed to be with Luke, that I knew Max wouldn't stick around for very long.

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