music, therapy, and me

So, I went to pick up my car from the emergency room parking lot where it had remained since Wednesday evening when I had to go to the emergency room until the day that I could get a taxi and brake without significant amounts of pain. Then, I found this... Doesn't look like much, does it? This little tear in the back of my car sent me into full hysterics for quite some time. Someone decided to back into my car and not leave any information about insurance and the such. I now have scrapes, a dent, and this tear in the back of my car - one that I am going to be trading in in a couple of weeks, of course! The new car has been ordered and is on its way from its country of origin as we speak. The police officer who took my report stated that the damage was a crime since the person responsible didn't try to contact me about the incident. We have about five days of security footage to look through - if the cameras even worked - to see if there is any sort of identifying informa...

NOTE: this is another rant where I tell you just what I'm thinking. I have not named any names, but you may be able to tell who the parties are based on contextual clues and access to the same social media feeds that I access. I will NOT publish any comments left on this post, so please feel free to comment below. There is a trend happening on one of my social media groups that is really angering me. It is a trend of shaming. There are a couple of people who consistently get onto other posts and engage in language that is often irrelevant to the post and shame the original poster into doing something that is completely different from the first post. I am torn about what to do about it all. I think that the motivation behind the several other people is a genuine effort to promote a specific point of view into our profession. I believe that they have decided that this is the way to go forward but do not have the experience or ability to moderate their responses to the conve...