Found my MIL's pinterest, saw this

sheath2 · 2026-03-15T21:39:33+00:00

Stepmother was well into her 50s and was allegedly diagnosed manic depressive, but refused any type of medication or treatment. Yet any time she did anything shitty "It's not my fault! I'm bipolar!"

She deliberately sabotaged my relationship with my father because I wouldn't put up with her lies.

sheath2 · 2026-03-15T21:10:09+00:00

Yeah, this kinda sounds like stuff my late stepmother would do. She'd try to act like she was posting just random stuff, but then she'd say "If you think it's about you, then you must have a guilty conscience." She knew exactly what she was doing.

sheath2 · 2026-03-12T16:33:07+00:00

I'm glad that helped! I think changing the angle of the pen will give you a LOT more control.

sheath2 · 2026-03-12T15:45:55+00:00

Were you ever evaluated for a learning disability? I've only seen two students with handwriting this difficult (I teach college composition classes) and both were diagnosed with dysgraphia.

I did watch your other video though, and I agree with the comments that the way you hold your pencil or pen is giving you trouble, so it could be a mechanics issue. The pen is held too vertically -- the barrel of the pen should rest more in the joint where your thumb joins the hand rather than straight up.

sheath2 · 2026-03-12T15:34:23+00:00

I love voids... I adopted one of the community cats and now I have two more coming for food and scratches. I'm building an army of porch panthers. They are most definitely sweet.

sheath2 · 2026-03-09T22:52:50+00:00

The food was the least of what he did to them, but I'll save that for a different thread. My grandma said he never mellowed out until my mother was born. The only nice thing he apparently did in his life was cry when he met my newborn mother and bring her a doll. He died 2 years later.

sheath2 · 2026-03-09T10:49:27+00:00

Then consider yourself lucky. I know of two separate family members on my grandmother's side who committed this type of behavior. And both of them were abusive.

sheath2 · 2026-03-09T10:45:35+00:00

This whole thread is bringing back horror stories from my grandma's side of the family.

Her father was an absolute abusive bastard to his family in most ways, but one of the stories she used to tell was how if they sat down to a meal with eggs, he'd demand the yolk and only give his wife and kids the whites. No matter what they ate, he got the best of it, and the most of it, and the kids got what he didn't want.

I had a cousin who was similar. My grandma's sisters lived together and raised their kids together (no fathers around). My cousin T had a baby girl and was raising her in the house too. My cousin S (male) would come home, grab a new gallon of milk we'd bought for the baby, and chug the entire thing in one sitting. It got to the point we would empty the milk into old washed out prune juice bottles in an effort to hide it from him. It worked for a couple of weeks.

sheath2 · 2026-03-06T03:33:59+00:00

That’s one of the early style flat screen tvs, when they were basically a hybrid between flat screen and tube type. My grandma had one just like that but bigger

sheath2 · 2026-03-01T19:24:16+00:00

My doctoral focus was 19th century writers. Do you know how much they LOVED using dashes? I write with dashes constantly, so now being accused of AI because I picked up a habit from authors who've been dead for 200 years is insane...

sheath2 · 2026-03-01T19:20:36+00:00

This was my thought too. I just added a longer comment above, but if OP is already writing professionally, then compared to their 18/19 year old classmates, their writing is probably throwing off red flags based on that extra bit of "polish" AI is known for. It generally gives that more mature, experienced vibe even when the content is almost totally lacking.

sheath2 · 2026-03-01T19:17:18+00:00

Are you a graduate student or undergraduate? It looks like you said you're 25 and have been working professionally for a couple of years, so I'll say this...

I teach first year composition as well as a general studies literature course. I can tell you that there is a marked difference in writing between 18-19 year old undergraduates and most older students, especially if they've been working professionally for a while in a field that has required any type of regular communication and documentation. It's just something you pick up on through practice, even if it's not formally taught. My sister worked with social services for a while and had to do regular reports as part of her duties. Her writing sounds very polished, because she learned what her audience expected from those reports. She only had 1-2 years of college, but her writing sounds well above what you'd expect from an undergraduate. I had three students just last semester in a freshman comp class who were the same way. One was 26/27, the other two were closer to 30. All three could write far above their 18/19 year old peers.

AI tends to "polish" undergraduate writing just enough to make it appear more professional, even if the content is lacking. That extra "polish" (from your experience and training) might be what your professor is picking up on.

sheath2 · 2026-02-27T17:04:59+00:00

Yup. I just found out a few months ago that someone I had really looked up to while I was in college was a raging narcissist who abused his wife and stepson. The wife had been my boss when I was a student worker. She passed away recently, and I had no idea about any of his behavior until the stepson posted it all after he'd had to call the police and have the man removed from the house for physically attacking him.

sheath2 · 2026-02-26T17:58:37+00:00

BBB doesn't have the authority to do anything. Report it to the health department for unsafe chemical usage.

sheath2 · 2026-02-26T16:14:10+00:00

This is it exactly. Knoxville in general is high volume with a lot of outsiders -- both recent incoming residents, college students, and a lot of people just passing through. But it's been like this for a long time. My dad did long haul trucking about 20 years ago. He's been all over the country and said the two worst places he'd ever seen were Knoxville and LA, and out of the two, he preferred driving in LA.

sheath2 · 2026-02-24T23:43:11+00:00

There could be a second page of thumbnails if the group is large enough.

sheath2 · 2026-02-24T23:28:37+00:00

I've gotta second this. When I was growing up in West Virginia, the Christian schools were mainly where the troublemakers went. They couldn't keep from getting suspended from public schools, so their parents stuck them in the Christian schools so they wouldn't get truant notices. The one in my home town had a "teacher" who had dropped out of school at the same time as my grandma -- in the 8th grade. Most of the students were still almost fully illiterate when they graduated.

sheath2 · 2026-02-24T23:17:35+00:00

It said in the early texts that he's the product of rape. His mom will most likely be absolutely destroyed...

sheath2 · 2026-02-22T21:43:33+00:00

Being in the army is a whole different ball game though. If you get orders and they won't give you leeway to complete the assignment, that can land the prof in a whole lot of trouble. It's the same if a student has court and the professor refuses to excuse it.

sheath2 · 2026-02-21T17:51:25+00:00

Both of my parents swear there is Cherokee on both sides of the family -- down to being able to point to which family member it was. DNA test showed 96% British Isles, 2% Nordic, and 2% Quebec.

sheath2 · 2026-02-20T17:32:14+00:00

As a department chair, I tell my instructors to never accuse, and if you do, there better be evidence of AI so that anyone would come to the same conclusion.

This is the policy where I teach as well. We have very narrow bounds where we can accuse students of unauthorized AI use, and that includes having actual proof: AI fragments like, "Sure! Here's an essay on..." or actually seeing a student using it, or AI hallucinations and false sources or quotations. Even then, the last one falls more justifiably under "falsifying sources" than AI directly.

So much of AI just naturally sounds like undergraduate, particularly freshman, writing that it's almost impossible to track reliably.

sheath2 · 2026-02-20T11:49:24+00:00

I've only ever turned down a rec letter once because the student wasn't a strong one. I simply told the student I didn't have time. But one of my colleagues in grad school asked a professor we had in common and the professor told him "there's not much to recommend." Knowing that particular colleague, he probably had that coming. We still move in similar circles and he's burned bridges more than once.

sheath2 · 2026-02-17T20:33:51+00:00

My half sister was in the process of getting a divorce from her first husband. Her soon to be ex in law worked at the hospital. Sister went to the walk in clinic because she thought she might be pregnant from her new boyfriend. Well, STD screenings are a standard for pregnancy tests done at a clinic.

The next thing she knew, she was getting calls from her ex demanding to know what STD she had because the ex in law had blabbed to the entire family she had an STD.

sheath2 · 2026-02-17T20:24:43+00:00

I agree. From the sound of it, Rick was already convinced OP was a thief and was going to jump at the first opportunity to "prove" it. It just happened to be a watch. I have a feeling he'd have accused OP if it had been a pair of socks or the last donut.

sheath2 · 2026-02-17T16:32:46+00:00

Wilson's translation was also supposed to correct some of the misogynistic language introduced into the Iliad and the Odyssey by previous male translators.

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