the way my philosophy teacher lowkey just... doesnāt care or think about her online students? like, i know in-person learning is easier for them because they can actually see their students and interact with them, get to know them better, make sure theyāre doing what theyāre supposed to be doing, etc, but bro? itās literally almost 10 minutes past when class started, and sheās yet to post the link to our google meet for the day. i canāt join a class i never received a link for lmao. she does this a lot, and itās just so annoying. waiting on her makes me anxious because what if she just never posts the link at all, and iām marked absent? again, i canāt attend a class i never get a link for, but still. i donāt want the school calling and my parents getting mad lmao. the fact that i still have to worry about this at
20 also bothers me.
also, i genuinely have no idea who misses more class ā me or her. sheās been gone the entire week (with the class even being cancelled twice due to staffing shortages), and is gone fairly often. i donāt know why, but the amount of times this class has been cancelled since it started in february is just... eef. iām definitely not complaining (though it does suck to wake up for something, only for that something to not take place. thatās an extra hour and 15 minutes of sleep i couldāve gotten lmao), but yikes.
its been almost 20 minutes since class started (or was supposed to start) and still no link. if thereās no link by 9am, iām going back to bed since the rest of my classes are canceled today.
also, another minor bother: why do i find it necessary to say āhappy birthdayā to everyone on here, regardless of their activity status. like, i tried early this morning to only wish the people who have logged on at least once this year a happy birthday, but i just couldnāt do it. i felt like such an ******* for āexcludingā people, even if those people havenāt logged on since last year and may never see my post. i know my daily spam of birthday wishes annoys some people, but i feel like a piece of **** if i donāt do it. you never know whether someone has people in their life that wish them a happy birthday, and even if itās a member that hasnāt logged on since 2020, i never wanna take the chance of them having no one in real life, and then logging on and having no one on here, either. itās a stupid thought process, one that likely will never happen, but itās where my mind goes and itās an unpleasant thought, so. i know how awful it is to feel forgotten about or unimportant on your birthday, and i never want anyone else to feel that way... even if itās just an inactive member on here whoāll never even see the birthday wishes.
iāve wished several inactive members a happy birthday, only for them to log back in hours, days, weeks, months, etc later and see my message. theyāre often appreciative and say that it made their day, that they had/are having a great birthday, and
thatās why i do it. even if itās a rare occurrence, how can i care if itās slightly annoying when it can, and has, made peopleās day?
iāve had someone say that my wishes are āhalf-heartedā (which, by the way, they didnāt even say to me directly. they said it on their profile like itās a blog, and i happened to stumble across it. not a great feeling reading that.
) and while they may seem that way in appearance, theyāre really not. yeah, itās always a generic āhappy birthdayā with 1-3 random emojis, but i donāt have the energy to be whipping up heartfelt paragraphs for everyone, especially people that i donāt know. everyone deserves to be wished a happy birthday, and i enjoy doing it, but not to the point where i have it in me to write everyone a personalized novel. i barely have it in me to just write āhappy birthdayā somedays. but i do it, because my fear of someone not getting acknowledged on their birthday makes me feel worse than my depression does. i donāt mind doing it, i love doing it, but i still wish my thought process was a little different.
anyways, itās 3 minutes away from 9am now, so... nighty night.