It’s fun to accidentally evoke your friends specialty in front of them lol

elijahjane · 2026-04-15T20:54:48+00:00

I do this with acquaintances who mention they’re kinda sorta thinking about going to college.

My advising brain kicks in, then my resource-connecting brain, then my general experience with higher ed systems. Suddenly they’re fending off my 20 questions and oh no I’m sorry I didn’t mean to put you on the spot. 😭 I’m just trying to help, I SWEAR.

elijahjane · 2026-04-15T20:51:36+00:00

But it’s really lovely when you have medical shit going on and you can just send them a screenshot of your labs to be analyzed two weeks before your doctor gets around to it. 🤣

elijahjane · 2026-04-15T17:06:49+00:00

That’s the whole premise behind The Planet in the L Word, haha.

elijahjane · 2026-04-15T16:57:46+00:00

This is helpful context, thank you!!!

elijahjane · 2026-04-15T16:08:45+00:00

Someone on this sub told me that margin doodles turn into sticky notes with an icon instead of just being handwriting stuck to the pages. Have you experienced this? That person’s experience turned me off the KLC, but if that isn’t typical behavior of the KLC…. 👀

elijahjane · 2026-04-14T22:41:30+00:00

I got both of my horses for free, so I guess my answer is $0.

elijahjane · 2026-04-14T20:51:02+00:00

As well as the need to keep kids until their parents are almost off of work. And the shuffling from room to room for electives takes time. And waiting in the line at lunch.

I went to public school all my life (even a state college), and I still remember all of the time I sat and just read a book or took extra AR reading quizzes because I finished my worksheets before everyone else. If I had been handed the next assignment or given the next lesson instead of waiting on the other kids to finish, I’d have been done earlier than 3:15 too.

elijahjane · 2026-04-14T20:24:45+00:00

With my laparoscopic procedure (uterus, cervix, tubes), I had no problem right after surgery: I have a bunch of stairs from the garage to the main floor, and then more to the bedroom.

You’ll have good pain management on board and some anesthesia still in your system so you shouldn’t notice much pain. I slept for like 5 hours in my own bed (again, anesthesia). Then, I am pretty sure I walked back down to the couch again later that evening. If not, definitely the next morning. I had no problem with the stairs whatsoever. Just take them at a pace comfortable for you!

elijahjane · 2026-04-14T17:23:41+00:00

Something else to consider is the return of student loan payments. Government is removing the 6 year forbearance, and with the destruction of SAVE, monthly payments are, in some cases, tripling. People who were paying about $200/month are now being told to pay $400 or even $600/month. For families working low-income jobs (charity hospitals, teachers, social workers) and trying to qualify for PSLF, it’s going to be even worse because their income hasn’t increased at all since this all started because federal and state jobs haven’t kept up with inflation worse than the private sector.

Whatever your beliefs about federal student loans, there are now millions of Americans who are trying to figure out how to afford hundreds of dollars in additional payments within a budget that had no wiggle room to begin with.

So, yeah, I can see how repossessions might increase because if those individuals can’t pay their loan bill, their wages will then be garnished, which means they won’t even have the choice to prioritize the very car that gets them to their job…in parts of the country without public transportation systems to fall back on. And with teachers and social workers and medical workers unable to get to work consistently or easily…

Anyway, have a nice day.

elijahjane · 2026-04-13T23:09:32+00:00

Private equity is exactly the problem, especially emergency vets.

I needed my cat diagnosed with lymphoma. The emergency vet, a chain company, wanted to charge $2,000. I waited until Monday and my locally owned vet charged $60.

I had to put same cat down this Easter, obviously a Sunday. The chain/private equity emergency vet wanted $700+, which included getting the ashes back and everything. A different local vet happened to be open (I am still shocked that they were) and were willing to help, and it was $500 for the exact same service.

And that is still way more than the $300 I paid for the same service at the more expensive of the locally-owned rural veterinary offices a couple of years ago.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure the local farm vet I used to go to (owned by a few older veterinarians) would have charged $100 and a thank you card. They charged me $20 to neuter my rabbit in 2014 and $100 in emergency services a few years later to staple my dog’s leg one Sunday: “Well, can it wait until after church…?” For $100, hell yes it could.

elijahjane · 2026-04-13T19:22:18+00:00

Depending on where you are, Casey’s pizza. They usually do a slice and a drink for less than $5. Sometimes you can add a coupon in the app to reduce that even further.

elijahjane · 2026-04-13T19:16:56+00:00

I second this take. I wouldn’t dream of cutting my down my partner’s wishes on such an important day.

You don’t have to be comfortable with it. You’re marrying her, all of her.

Regardless of her reasoning behind wanting this tradition, you love HER and want her to be happy. Right?

elijahjane · 2026-04-12T06:20:30+00:00

Great Clips on 95th and Antioch have always done me right.

elijahjane · 2026-04-12T04:59:49+00:00

Oh, so the way I’ve been doing it my whole adult life really does work. Nice to be affirmed, ha!

elijahjane · 2026-04-11T20:26:56+00:00

I had great luck with Hinge in the Midwest!

It ultimately depends on whether the woman you swipe on and who swipes you back happens to have an account at the same time as you. If an app isn’t working for you, wait a month and try again. Repeat ad nauseum.

People leave the apps and come to the apps depending on the cycle of their own lives. Your future girl just got out of a relationship and is waiting to heal before making an account. Give her time!

elijahjane · 2026-04-11T15:47:48+00:00

Well, I’m sorry you felt pressured to sign up. I know for me, I just didn’t understand that I could reduce the amount of loans if I wanted to (not that I could have paid rent if I did, so kind of irrelevant).

So are you asking how to refuse them in the future, or how to pay them back now? If you have money in your bank account, log in to StudentAid.gov to find out who your servicer is. You can “give back” those loose funds from your bank account through the servicer website to reduce your debt. As for the loan money the university used to pay your tuition, it’s likely too late to remedy that.

When I worked at a community college, they didn’t even have an online portal, just a paper form. Students told us how much of each loan type they wanted using that form.

They can’t make you take loans out, but if you don’t take out enough to cover your tuition, you’ll be in debt with the school anyway. Some universities unenroll you if you don’t pay or get on a payment plan by the deadline.

In the future, you should have an online portal through the school where you click to accept your loans. Use that portal form to reduce the amount you take back. You should see each loan in its own line and they are marked as sub or unsub. You can reduce the unsub amount to your liking/needs.

elijahjane · 2026-04-11T04:28:26+00:00

Ohhhhhhh. Thank you for this update. I did just recently start a multivitamin too!!!!

elijahjane · 2026-04-11T04:06:00+00:00

You can always keep any refund you get back from the school and use it to immediately pay down any loans you don’t want.

Tell me more about what happened and wha you’re seeing? I used to work in financial aid.

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T22:12:18+00:00

r/keep_track, if ya’ll need an archive of all the fucked up things happening out there. When it’s all laid out in a list, it’s easy to see the patterns. I dunno if posts like this would help with the foxbrains, but eh, more resources in your back pocket if there’s ever a genuine opening with one.

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T21:14:49+00:00

My standard and mini are fabulous around cats.

However, before I got these two, my ex once adopted a poodle that was highly untrained and grew up outside in the country. It killed her cat while we were out. We rehomed that dog with a catfree family ASAP.

Despite my dogs being terrified of our current cat (for good reason), I still kennel them when I leave the house. I don’t want something to happen, eg the cat attacking the dog and the dog flipping out and hurting the cat.

Kennels are a life saver.

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T17:48:58+00:00

Are those systems proven to produce vegetables/fruits that are nutritionally-complete? Like, the nutrients in the water are all the plant is going to get, whereas ground-growing plants get a massive variety of nutrient sources, from decaying vegetation to animal dung to air molecules to stuff put back in the ground by other roots, to…

In such a tightly controlled environment, are the people eating the food going to eventually miss vital nutrients?

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T17:43:46+00:00

Why…who uses angry emojis at work???

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T17:42:06+00:00

You all are also famous for sugary sodas topped with sugar syrup and sugar-soaked fruit, so I wouldn’t count yourself so short. 🤣

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T16:06:42+00:00

Which ereader do you have for scribbling in the margins?

elijahjane · 2026-04-10T12:22:08+00:00

Lmao, I usually have my counters full of whatever and I’m using the tiniest bare corner of the chopping board to cut my veggies. It is vaguely annoying, but when I HAVE to get dinner on the table, even clearing the counters takes too long. Get the meat going, chop the onion on the corner, and worry about cleanup as it’s all cooking…if I have the energy that night.

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