[TEXT] It's a quarter after 1 I'm a little drunk and what were the next lyrics?

[devilsadvocato]

[Sometimes Mr. Nelson's students forget their teacher is on the network. This time Mr. Nelson forgot his students were on the network. This message brought to you by a stressed middle aged man drinking WAY TOO MANY shots late Friday night.]

Say you and the guy you have feelings for agree to stay just friends because even though he feels the same way about you he's not comfortable dating other guys yet. You two continue hanging out and get even closer and the next thing you know you're regularly meeting for movie night and having serious heart to heart conversations with each other. Best friends fuck yeah!

But then things start to get into a very very grey territory where you're doing things friends don't normally do. Like cuddling up to each other or spooning and you might have laid one on him once or twice. Also people start thinking you're not single because back in FEB your stupid heart stone convinced like half the kids you teach that you're madly in love with someone and getting married any day now- THEIR WORDS not mine. Sure you haven't said those special words directly to him but you're getting very serious about him and he keeps alluding to being very serious about you. And you don't want to force anyone to rush into something they're not ready for but you're turning down dates when others ask you out because it feels like you have a boyfriend even though you don't.

Where do you draw the line between "I'm respecting your wishes to say we're just friends because you're not comfortable with your sexual orientation yet" and "Buddy no matter how many times we call each other dude and pal it's crazy to say we're not dating at this point"????

I asked the bartender and they looked at me like I was insane.

Comments

[devilsadvocato]

Oh right
That's not a bad idea
I should go home or something
before I drink every drop at this bar
it's been a stressful couple of months
like I wish this was my one and only problem
Stupid Retropsec

[meowchanics]

Yeah, think of the poor bar. Leave some for your other problems on some other night, OK?

[That's it, he has fulfilled his civic responsibility, everything should be fine with this one embarrassing drunk dude now.]

[devilsadvocato]

YEah right can't use it all up now when there's more shit to deal with next week
Hey
What kind of doctor are you?
Is it the medical kind?
I need to learn how to save lives
My students keep on getting injured doing Retrospec's work

[meowchanics]

Kinda, but mostly engineering. Sorry. 😿
Really, I'd like to know too. One of these days, something is going to happen to one of mine that can't be explained away with a "X needs an extension on Y deadline, they were turning into a fish all week..." That's bound to be fun. By which I mean horrifying.

[devilsadvocato]

Engineering also cool

Yeah I have students showing up with missing limbs and different colored skin
Too many of them have weapons now
One of them sent me video by accident of her getting attacked by an ogre
"We're ok Mr. Nelson!" 😃
YOUR ARM IS BROKEN AND YOU WERE NEARLY EATEN ALIVE
IS YOUR HAIR SUPPOSED TO BE ON FIRE OR NOT?

[meowchanics]

Ohh jeez, that's rough...
For real, it's a difficult question. I don't know what we can do other than be there for support if they actually ask for it.
And mmmmaybe not drinking where they can see.

[devilsadvocato]

Difficult not to drink extra when worrying about them
But yeah going to to make sure it doesn't go on the network next time
Are you a professor at the university here?

[meowchanics]

Yep. With a few students on this app too. And a couple colleagues, weirdly enough.

[devilsadvocato]

[Oh right. Foggy knows Hux. Sadly. This guy seems way cooler. The standards are set extremely low though]

Can't be easy balancing university work and the things the app throws at you.

[meowchanics]

All of academia is a balancing act. In the wider scheme of things, it's just adding my sense of self to the tightrope where my sanity, dignity and livelihood already were. 👌
But yeah it kind of blows

[devilsadvocato]

Retrospec sure did a great job making us all question the laws of the universe and our identities in one blow

[meowchanics]

I know right? It's like they've been teachers before too!

[devilsadvocato]

If that's the case they seriously need to hand out class curriculum papers. This is difficult to follow and I feel like I missed the reading.