Dawson's Creek, S6 E3 & E4: Reply All and Bad Professors

Joey commits an early 00's blunder by emailing a note to Dawson to EVERYONE at her college -- but then her professor uses it as an in-class lesson. Pacey also learns a hard lesson at his stockbroker job and Audrey gets increasingly impatient with his work hours.

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Welcome Back And Housekeeping

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Hello everyone and welcome back to our Dawson's Creek rewatch. We're on the last season and we missed last week. Oh, your shoulder was off the side. I like this. Living my fossil life this morning. It's okay, guys. I just had to adjust the camera. We're good now. Um, that was a joke for all you dancers out there who are watching us on YouTube. Anyways, uh, we missed last week because we were out of time. We did. Because Jesus Lord above. This boy band series is so dense. You did good today, though. Thank you. You didn't go on like I did. There wasn't as much. I know. But next week we discussed today. We're gonna do that next week. And we did part one of InSync right before this. So that'll be coming out the same day this Dawson's Creek comes out. Fox. All right. Well, Dawson's time, season six. Okay. Episode three. Yes, episode three. So this is titled Importance of Being Too Earnest. So here's the summary. Joey accidentally sends a heartfelt email to Dawson to the entire Worthington campus. Pacey's first week at work provides a harsh lesson harsh lesson in corporate ambition and greed.

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Okay.

Reply-All Stories From Real Life

Joey’s Email And A Creepy Professor

Lost Notes Found Cash

Book Rankings And Time Reflection

Pacey Meets Corporate Greed

Episode 4 Natasha Returns

Strip Club Pressure And Relationship Strain

Party Safety And Consent Reality

Drinking Games Then And Now

Ringtones Old Phones And Nostalgia

Jack’s Professor Crosses A Line

Journals Planners And Kids Growing Up

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So first of all, that reply all to everyone. Have you ever done that? Okay. Well, on a lower scale. I've done that with a text one time. Like, this was so embarrassing. So years ago, uh right at the end of Troy's Air Force career, I had a group text with um, like this was pandemic times with three girlfriends in the area who were all also military spouses. This was like a pivotal time because there weren't a lot of people who um in our area in rural Missouri and slash also the military who were not conservative leaning folks. So these were like my three people that they were like we were like each other's sounding boards for the bullshit that we were in the depths of, right? And this is so funny. Troy's Troy was about to retire, and he was a squadron commander at the time. For for military people out there, you'll understand the dynamics of this. For those of you who aren't, it's fine. I'm gonna explain it very briefly. So he was about to be transferring his command to somebody else, and uh usually spouses, whether you're a husband, wife, whatever, you take over like being in charge of the other partners of the active baby people. And when I say being in charge, it's a voluntary thing, but I didn't do much, I just made sure people felt taken care of. If they need something, they can come to you, you know, whatever. And so I had just met the new that was going to be the new squadron commander's spouse, and uh we had been texting back and forth, and I said if you have any questions, that she would ask me some stuff or whatever. And we had just texted about something, and then uh something happened with Caden at middle school. He got into a debate with some kids about um protesting. Oh boy, and I don't remember the details of it, and it would get Caden was in eighth grade, and uh, you know, in in our house, you know, we'd feel one way and we're discussing things. Like, I actually went to protest, like in the town. He went to school in town, in the rural small town, so he was hearing lots of opposing things, and he's not my one to stand up and say stuff mostly, but he did, and so I was rehashing the events in what I thought was a group text, and guys, it was like one of those texts that's like paragraphs, and I was popping off about the stupidity of oh, so you thought it was to this like trio of friends? Yes, okay. I thought it was to this trio of friends, okay. And I was like so proud of Caden for like standing up against what all these people are telling him, like saying to him, like he was the only one. And he was like, Mom, I just don't understand how they don't see why this is wrong. And like he was like, I was trying to tell them, I was trying to tell them. And so what I was telling my friends, like first of all, I was very proud of him. Then I was like, I kept telling him it's not these kids' fault. That's what like the same thing of information you're getting at home, they're getting opposite information, right? So yeah, yes, say the things, be the opposition, but remember, y'all are all still kids. And right, but I was like popping off about like, I'm so fucking tired of this area. And well, y'all know, if y'all be listening, y'all know how we feel about the things. And so I was like, people are so fucking stupid. I'm so proud of my kid for standing up to ignorance, blah, blah, blah. Clicked send and went, oh shit. I just sent that to the new squadron commander's spouse. I have no fucking clue where she stands, neither here nor there. And you're not supposed to talk politics. Now, I always did, but you're not quote unquote supposed to. And at that point, Trey was on the salad anyway, so I really didn't give a shit. And so, and I went, oh my god. And I she read it instantly. You know, you can see and I went see fuck. And you can't delete, you can't unsend it. And I'm sure she's like, This fucking crazy lady, like, why are you sending me all this? So immediately I text her back and I was like, Oh my god, I'm so sorry. That was supposed to go to a group of friends. My apologies. She said nothing, and so I I did text the safe friends, and I was like, Fucking hell, do y'all know what I just did? And they were thankfully, the squatter creator spouse texts me back. She's like, actually, it sounds like you're raising a really good human. Oh, and I was like, How sweet! How sweet. You probably made her day. Because she got some tea she did not sign up for. Like, fuck. She was like, What is this now? Well, now listen, not like I ever try to hide what I believe or what I would say, whoever, but I'm not trying to put somebody I just met like in in the like you, it was it was a strong. It's not like if you guys were having a conversation about it, you would say the same thing kind of way. I'm not gonna text her at 8 30 in the morning. Correct. Correct. Oh, that's so funny. That's so funny. So if you ever the worst I've ever done is one time I complained to my sister-in-law about my husband about something and sent it to him. Oh fuck. That's bad. It wasn't long, it was short. I forget what it was, but I was just like, I know it's so annoying when he does that. Why does he do that? Oh, and my husband goes, Who? I'm like, Oh shit, that was for your sister. But so like I was texting her and I was texting him. Yeah, and then and then he was like, What's wrong? And you know, so then it wasn't a huge fight, but it was an argument, but then it was fine. Now I always double check because of that incident. I'm like, Yeah, but listen, I have word vomit, as we know. I do too. I do too. I always get myself into some shit. Like, for instance, when I got a phone call, I was cast in a show, and I said, Oh, I'm so excited to be in a show with you, director. Who I who was going to be in the show pre-cast. I thought it was common knowledge. I didn't realize that it was still on the DLL. Totally on the DL. I did not know this. I'm such a moron. But it's not your fault that someone told you something. Well, I don't know. That maybe wasn't supposed to be true. I didn't know that was that's not a fault. Oh my god. And Tori was like, well, why did you even say that? I was like, because I was excited. I I would have said the same thing. I don't, I was. I was like, I've only worked with him. And you know what? I bet you weren't the only one. Oh, I'm pretty sure it was. You think pretty sure I was. Anyway, I'm just saying, word Vama B saying. The one thing is though, I am not a fake person. I will always tell you what I think. So I'm never gonna be like, now, now, granted, I will hold my tongue and sometimes I mink it on the inside. But if I have a serious thing, I will address it. Like, and uh, Katie will know this. I will tell her sometimes, like whatever, but uh there are times you really shouldn't say thanks to certain people. Look, I've done it too. I've done it too so many times, but you've never sent an email. Not that I remember. I mean, I've I've maybe accidentally replied all to something, but it was never anything. It was like, sure, I'll be there. And I was like, oops, I sent that to 50 people instead of the team. You know, like I've done that. So for that time, I almost sent my audition headshot as a picture of our wigs. And I was like, you just really should. You really should. Literally, almost it. I've done that. Usually I catch myself where I I attach the wrong picture. Yeah. Because I'll send like screenshots of like families from the studio, like they're like, oh, I need to make sure I paid for this thing or that thing. So I'm like, oh, here you go. And like I'll look and I'll go to hit send, and it's like a picture of my dog. I'm like, that's not the screenshot. You know those pictures you take of your face? Like, not you specifically, I mean all of this. Like, I'll take pictures of my face sometimes to see. Like, yeah, like for instance, yeah, I felt like I'm getting a zit. So I'm like, take a picture so I can look at it. And then you look at your phone, you're like, Jesus. Yeah, gross. I will try sometimes. I don't do it as much now, but my kids, if they'll like grab my phone for something, they laugh because I'll try to take like a selfie specifically at the beach. This happens to me, and I will take 25. So if you're scrolling looking for something, it's like a block of me, the same picture, basically. And they'll be like, What are you doing? And then they'll start like clicking on them and they look so stupid. Like, one like my shoulders cover, and then my eyes are open wide, and then my hand is covering my eyes because the sun. And they're like, Which one did you pick? I'm like, they're not a single one because they're so young and it's not hard to get a good picture. But they just they're like, Mom, why do you have so many pictures of yourself? I'm like, because I couldn't get one. I do that too, where I'm like, I have to see how an outfit looks, yeah, not in a mirror because mirrors lie to you. It's like uh Cher says on Clueless. Mm-hmm. Cameras, like, like, I mean, mirrors lie, so you gotta have a picture. Yeah. And then I'm like, and I don't smile, and then my face is like, like, because you're looking for like how it looks on you, not your face. Anyway, so yeah, so she replied all, and it was like this very heartfelt took her forever to write love note. And did she end up not even sending it to Dawson? Right, right. So then he doesn't even get it. I know, and everyone on campus is talking about it, which I kinda get. But like, what the fuck is wrong with that professor? He's just getting class and so yeah, so then her professor reads it as like an exercise for class. I mean, you could take it one of two ways. One, he's just an asshole, and he's trying to be um oh hip and cool with this lesson because we're talking about this email. Or he like he like he has a crush on Joey, and he's like somehow it's a power move. Somehow challenged, feels challenged that she wrote this to another guy. He it's a power move. It's weird here nor there. I take this and he's an asshole. Yeah, I agree. I didn't like that. I don't like it. And that and like I yeah, I know. I feel for Joey, and like, and then yeah, it's all but like her struggle of spending hours and hours and hours on about like a message. I do that with text sometimes. Like, you know, if you have to send a like mostly with like family, like, yeah, I used to have to go with my mom a lot. Like, think how am I gonna say this? Like, and you like reword it and reword it, or like if you're telling somebody no for like something, you may have to do that as a director or like with your studio stuff if there's a problem with a kid. Sure. Like, you really want to make sure. Or an adult. Well, right, or an adult, yeah. Like, you know that just making sure you say it in the exact right way, and then you delete it, and then you go again, and then you delete it, and then you go again. Yeah, that's it's so hard, and then you accidentally send it to everyone. Oh, yeah. Oh then that teacher. Ugh. Anyway, yes, I know, yes. The only other I didn't write much for this episode. The only other thing I wrote was Jen calling Jack a swim fan when he went to talk to that professor. Oh, yeah. You remember that movie? Yes, such a crazy ass movie. So what is all these storylines with adults? Like teachers. I never fucking knew my professor outside of the lab. Right. I know it is a little odd, right? And now this teacher is especially yeah, it's it's weird. And yeah, I don't like it. I had a comment in my notes, which by the way, I don't have guys because I can't find it. Let's talk about that for a second. Okay, and then I'll tell you what I think I put in there. Okay, well, let's talk about well. First, Katie was like, I I have to tell you the process that happened while she was looking for notes. What? When the money fell out. Okay. So I'm always giggling because Katie comes with just random pieces of paper because she just writes on whatever, and that's fine. The hilarious thing to me is she is a writer and has eight in journals all the time. Oh, so many notebooks, guys. She has so many notes. One of which we had at her first book book event last weekend. Amazing. She actually had a a lot, substantial amount of cash sales. And I said, Hey, did you bring an envelope or something? And she's like, No, because I mean, you don't expect cash these days. It's just a thing, yeah. And I said, Okay, well, I'm gonna put it in the cover. She had brought a little notebook, and so I'm gonna put it in the cover of this little notebook. And I said, three times, this is where I'm putting your cash. This is where I'm putting your cash. So today she goes to take out stuff looking for notes. Out comes a notebook. Here comes cash falling on the ground, and she's like, Oh, there's the money from my I'm like three times. Yeah, it's been in there for what, five days? But what a nice surprise to have hundreds of dollars falling out of your notebook. It's not a terrible problem. Although I didn't find the Dawson's notes, and then she takes out more notebooks, more folders, so many folders, folders and looking through. Who knows? I don't know what these notes are. She's like, Well, I don't think I have, but I brought it last week. Oh, maybe it's still in my desk over there. And I'm like, nope, it's not. Girl, anyway. So I know I mentioned, remember when I talked about Oliver Hudson on the show? Um, and then he went on to be on a pretty popular sitcom called Rules of Engagement, which I never really watched when it was live, but um my husband liked it, so here and there we would watch it. His wife on that show is the actress playing Natasha. Oh, crazy. Yeah. So they were both on Dawson's around the same time, and then they ended up wearing probably. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, just his wife on the show, not his wife, really. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, they were just on a different sitcom. Oh, that's funny. And then they ended up. And they're not a couple on Dawson's, but it's just I was like, I was like, oh, I know her. She was in rules of engagement. And I was like, wait a minute, that's so weird. That's so funny. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I wrote that down. I don't know why we're doing this, Professor. Anyway, that was Katie's note adventure. So and I found money. Yay! I mean, not a bad problem to have on a Thursday morning, is just finding money you forgot you owned. Um not bad. That's lunch right there. Well, and another another fun fact is we just had to establish her book was number one in time management. She goes, How do you got the number one book in time management? I said it didn't say money management. Well, I also I think that that's a weird category to put that book in. It's weird, it's an odd one. I mean, other than I there are exercises in the book where you look at how you're spending your time. I know and you reassess it. It's not about a small component of yeah, right. Like because you think of things like a productivity journal or something like how to organize your daily skills. Like, what is it? The Pomodoro method. Yeah. You work for 20 minutes and take a break. Like that's what I think of. Look, I'm not complaining. No, no, no. I got to break your title. But like, yeah, it's kind of interesting. The other categories made sense because the other one was the other ones are success and um like goal setting. Yeah, that's success slash goal setting. And there's literally hundreds of thousands of books in that category. Even the new ones, they only have a hundred on the new release list. Wow. But it made it in the top 25. And then the other one is mindset growth, which yeah, personal growth. Those all make sense. I think so too. And those two, I mean, we'll see, but at least on release, I don't think I'm gonna like hit number one for those because there's just so so many. And a lot of them are repeat authors, so they already have like a follow-up, which makes sense because they're, you know, this is what they do for a living, or they're life coaches, or they're therapists, or whatever. Um, if I go to a conference or get on a popular podcast or something like that, then I might see it spike. Yeah. But but I was happy to be in the top 25. Hey, take it. Great. Who the fuck cares what categories? Who cares? Number one, great. Number number one in fantasy planning. Hey, does it make sense? But what's fantasy planning? I mean, if yeah, why not? I'm saying, like, whatever. Let's take it. Who cares? I love it. Take it. Number one's number one. Number one. All right, let's move on because I don't have nothing else and I don't remember anything else about that either. All right. I did watch these two weeks ago, so oh well, you said it was the one where Pacey, the guy stumbles him out of the thing. I guess we should talk about that for a second. I was just like, well, of course he's gonna take it. They're like sleazy stock market people, right? So he motivates Pacey, right, to to land this big deal. And then takes credit for it. Takes credit for it. And Pacey's upset. But it's a life lesson because especially in a career like that, you gotta be out for yourself, which is which I guess now he learned, which he didn't. Okay. That storyline, I don't like it. I don't like it either. All right, season six, episode four, is called Instant Karma Exclamation Point. I don't know why there's an exclamation point. That was weird. I know. That was weird. I was like, huh? Okay. Uh, here's a summary. As the arrival of the film star creates problems for Dawson, Audrey catches Pacey out on the town when he's supposed to be studying. Yes. So I thought the twist of Natasha, the star, being the one that Dawson broke up with when he slept with Joe. Oh, yeah. I didn't see that coming. I thought that was funny. That was really well written, I felt like, because he picks her up and she's annoyed at the airport. So you just think she's like an annoyed diva. And she's drunk. And and she's drunk. And yes, annoyed and drunk. Which also would get you fired immediately. Immediately, especially like a not known person. Like she is. But I think she is known. It's weird because then the ones I watched for for this week, which is jumping ahead, I guess, they they make it sound like this is the first chance she's ever had and she's gonna prove herself. Okay. But either way, so she's still on there? She's still on there. The two that I just watched, she was on. She's watched them, yeah. She and one's a Halloween episode. And you know what? I got I started to watch, I was like, ooh, Halloween. And then I was like, oh, what's our last Halloween episode of Dawson? Oh, that I was really sad because I really like their Halloween episode. I know they're fine. They're really good. Uh so yeah, so she's so it turns out she's the one that he like broke up with on the phone or whatever after he stuck with Joey. Yeah. And I thought that that was I was like, oh, oh damn, you know, like that is kind of like crazy that now she's there on this set and they've got to work together and he had to pick her up from the airport and all that stuff. Awkward. Awkward. Awkward. Yeah, I thought that was funny. And then I wrote, speaking of awkward, in all the whole entire fucking town of Boston, Audrey just happens to run into Pacey. That was odd. The only thing I can think is if there's like a row of bars that everyone goes to. Is that the thing? You guys do towns have rows of bars? I think you mean like just a street or something, but I guess it's a road. Well, why does it call it like the road? Like in Orlando Wall Street. Everybody goes to Wall Street. It's it's it sounds like fancy, like New York Wall Street. It's not, that's just the name of the street. It's in downtown Orlando, but it's like everybody goes to the bars and stuff there. So I was just thinking maybe it's something like that. Maybe. But yes, and then right, he's supposed to be studying, but then his boss kind of peer pressureslash bullies him into going out. He's like, these are the guys who are gonna play. And of course, I go to a strip club, which is so gross and toxic. So gross hated it. And then, and he had turned down going out with Audrey that night. Let me clarify you can go to a strip club as much as you want as a grown person. I don't mean that that's gross. What I mean is gross is peer pressuring somebody else who's a younger employee of yours to go with you. Correct. Who didn't want to go? Who said no? Yeah. Right. Okay. And so yeah, and it feels it feels like a gateway to them pressuring him into other things. Right. Which is not fun. No, not fun. Is this the episode where then Audrey's at the party with the guy? Okay. Yeah. That was so hard to watch. That was really hard to watch. And the thing that I liked but also didn't like was how Jen was trying to like protect her. But Jen was also intoxicated, and I don't know if she would have had the wherewithal to really pick up on what was going on. Uh-huh. Um, but then the one guy, the friend, he was sober. The guy who steps in to help. I can't remember his name. Yeah. Because he was like the counselor driver or something. Right. Yeah. I don't know. It was so hard to watch because it made me like I remember being in so many situations like that on both parts, like with a friend and myself. Yep. And I know whenever my husband sees like dramatizations or something like that, he's like, God, it makes it seem, or he'll be, he just can't believe it. I'm like, you don't understand. Like, this is common. It was hard to watch because it was relatable. Right. And I'm like, I can't tell you how many situations I was in like that. Some I got out of, some I didn't. Yeah. And some I didn't even realize what they were until years later. Yes. Yes. Years later, right? Yes. And that that, anyway, there I feel like there's way more awareness and way more chatting about it. Now than when we than when Dawson was even on air. I agree. Um yeah, it was it, yeah. So that was hard to watch. And you know she's mad at Pacey, and you know she's overly intoxicated. So her judgment is not at a stable level. And then, like you said, Jen's drinking too, which thankfully Jen, and then the guy that like stands in Jen's way. And then also remember that's another guy to push through there to even like get there. It's gross. And she she grabs Audrey and they leave. And thankfully, she removed her from that, you know. But anyway, on the flip side, I had to laugh because they were playing quarters. Yes. I was terrible at that game. Really? I'm kind of good at quarters. I listen, we know my coordination, so like give me a few drinks and tell me to be coordinated. Hello, that ain't happening. Quarters, I was bad at beer pong. I wasn't too bad at. Wasn't too bad at beer pong, wasn't great at it, but quarters I was terrible. What was the other one? Flip cup. Did you ever play Flip Flip Cup? Also bad at that. So right. But drinking games are so dumb. Like, I was just like, they're so stupid. I guess because now we're grown ass people. And like if I'm having a drink, I want it to enjoy it. I want it to taste good. I'm not trying to see how much, and it's not cheap gross stuff anymore. Like I'm drinking quality craft beer. Absolutely. Some hazy IPA situation. Yeah. Or a glass of wine. Like, I man, you know what I used to be good at? This is so stupid. Did you ever funnel beer? Yes, but I don't think many times. You were good at that? That's so funny. What a dumb ass thing. That's kind of funny. Because you can't enjoy it. No. Like it's just it's gone in a second. I mean, you're not supposed to, I get, I don't know. It's so stupid. But anyway, I was just laughing because I was like, oh, quarters. I hadn't thought about that all the time. I hadn't either. Excuse me. Thinking about quarters vater burp. I was like, beer time to burn. But I'm but and then her old cell phone. Yeah, Spinocchia. Yes, like that. Everybody had. And then she just threw it in a cup. We wouldn't, I wouldn't do that now. I definitely wouldn't have done it back then. No way. No way. They were expensive. But that she was saying, like, oh, I'm so rich. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah. But the ring, when I heard the ringtone, it made me laugh. So yeah. Do you remember when you could first start buying ringtones? And everyone did. And now nobody wants their phone to ring. No, I haven't heard my phone ring in years. Years. I remember when my daughter London was like a toddler. My husband was so excited about when she got older, her ringtone was going to be London Calling, the song. London Calling. By the time she had a ringtone, no ringtone, no ringtone. We just sing that to her instead. It's fine. I I might, you know what my ringtone used to be? What? Who can it be now? I love that. I love that. I had different ones. I I had Barbie Girl as mine for a while. I love that song. Mine probably stupid. Chores was an Elvis song. Vernon Love was his special ringtone. That's cute. What was another one? Um, but my my generic one was Who Can It Be Now for years because I just thought it was so funny. Because like you'd be sitting there and all of a sudden cracking yourself, who can it? And everybody'd be like, Whose phone is that? I'm like, I know it's so funny. You're like, I know, it's me. Go ahead. You can laugh. You can laugh. It's fine. Yeah, you pay like 99 cents for that stuff and then just keep buying them. And now it's like, no, thank you. I know. I don't want my phone to ring. Uh I literally had nothing else. I'm trying to think if there's anything else from that episode. Okay, so Joey was at the party. I was just trying to think what everyone was doing in the episode. Oh, well, okay, and the professor with Jack. Oh, yeah, we gotta talk about that. And he's married to a woman, to a woman. He has it. No, that doesn't mean I mean that doesn't mean anything. He does have a kid, but I think I think he thought it meant something about his sexuality that now he's questioning. Correct. It's correct. And the teachers basically I don't know, would you want him to have enough he's kissing? He's he's propositioning. He's like, you just let me know. And then Jack was like, because poor Jack was like wondering if he was gay, first of all, and then realized he wasn't. And he was like, okay, fine. So I'll just get over that. And then he just hung out with it. Which also I've never hung out with a professor. And that professor at that party, just like hanging out. Weird. He was like, What are you doing here? And he was like, Oh, you know, sometimes I just like like to see what my students are up to. No, thank you. Never saw a professor at a party. Here at like the studio, they'll be like, We're going out to eat after the show. I'm like, bye, see you tomorrow. I'm not going with you, you know. Like, obviously, they're going like Applebee's or something. It'd be fine. But like, I know I'm just like, that's y'all's space. Yeah. Like, I'm gonna go do something else. And so for him to just be like there, and then yeah, and then the propositioning was whoo. And it was like pretty overt. Oh, yeah. It wasn't like, oh, let me think about what he said. He's like, you just let me know. And I thought that um Per Smith had really good acting and all that because you could see him like processing and also feeling panic. Right. Well, because he's a married man, like he's not trying to get involved with that. No. Well, I mean, I don't know, but I'm just saying. Well, I know. I watched the next two, so don't tell me. Don't tell me. Uh, but yeah, yeah. Oof. Anyway, okay. Well, I am ahead and you saw me put my notes in my planner. That means nothing with me, which means zero. You know what I'm gonna do? Means nothing. When you turn off the camera, when we say goodbye to our listeners, I'm going to also take a picture of those notes that are in my planner right now for next week. You know, just in case. Everything would be fixed if you just had a designated notebook. It's almost my birthday. I'm not buying it. You have like a notebook a thousand notebooks. You have so many. Just get one and write on the front. Podcast. My daughter tinged like a week ago. She was like, Mom, have you seen my notebook? Because she has a million notebooks. And I was like, which one? And she was like, It's got like Snoopy, and and I know which one she meant. I had cleared off my desk and had this big stack of notebooks I set in my closet and I put her Snoopy one in there too. Well, we found it. I have a lot of notebooks too. I don't use them for journaling, I use them for other stuff, but I do have a lot of notebooks too. But I usually make sure, well, this is just my this is my weird brain. Once I'm if I use one and then it's unfinished, I have to rip out all the stuff and then use it for a different purpose. I don't like to mix. I sometimes will do that, but even now, I'll grab a notebook out that maybe has notes in it from three years ago, let's say. And then I'm like, well, I don't want to throw this away. It might even be a to-do list, but I'm like, oh, it says take Erin to this, and like she doesn't do gymnastics anymore. Or we one I found this was actually pretty cool. The top of it was like Beachside Performing Arch, which was my studio's name when we first opened. And I had all this stuff about website, get the Facebook going, post-summer camps. So I kept, I was like, okay, I gotta get. But like, not every I know. I have trouble throwing. You know how pages out. I have trouble throwing away um my day planners. I have like 10 years of throwing them away. I don't know why. They're just stacked up in my closet. I will say I re-reference them. I have never yet like for my book I did, and then for like when I'm doing my journaling that I almost didn't make your New Year's Eve party because of the I do pull those out and I'll read back like several years, just flip through or find different things. Because it does give you perspective. And that's one thing I even like about, and I don't even post on Facebook or Instagram. I post in my stories, but not like post-posts as much as I used to when the kids were little. But I like those as forms of microjournaling because it does remind me of things I forgot about. Oh, yeah. It reminds me of all kinds of stuff or pictures or places we went or activities they did or whatever. Um, and I think it's so easy. And I'm saying this coming off a week where my first book published and it hit uh, you know, a number one bestseller on one of one of the many categories, that it's so easy to just keep doing the next thing, whether it's setting the bar higher for something, but it doesn't have to be. Sometimes it's just like, okay, done moving on to this thing. And I do think reflection puts a lot of things into perspective, like how much you have gotten done, what has changed, whether that's for better or worse, and just how finite time is. Also, I should have prefaced. I sent a text to my daughter this morning that said, please enjoy your last day of childhood, all Saturday. Jesus, Katie. I know 10 crying emojis. And she's like, Okay, I love you. That's so uplifting. I know. I woke up this this morning and was like, oh my god, it's the last day, and I'm barely gonna see her. And Brand's like, it's fine, she'll be here tomorrow. But he was also like, But I get it, you know. Well, I get it. I mean, Caden's 18th birthday was our invited dress for Christmas story, and I accidentally made eye contact with him and the audience, which is hard to do. That's really hard to do when I was singing that fucking sad song I had to sing, talking about whatever it said. Yeah. I'm like my brain dump after the movie show. No, I know what you're talking about. The one where you're talking about how your days are full of doing laundry and all these things. No, it's not it wasn't that song, it was the crying song. Remember, I had the loaf song? That was that one. That's the one I'm thinking about. And then I have the crying song. Oh yes. Oh yes. How about how time passes? How time passes. Yeah, and the the two boys are, yeah. I know. I know, and it's like it's not lost on me that like something I've wanted to accomplish my whole life. Oh, yeah. It's not today. Three days. Yeah, it's happened three days publishing a book before my uh I've raised a full human, you know? And it's it's crazy. Oh, it's a lot. And but also sitting her upside back, girl. She, you know, she was like, I don't even know what to say to this. Okay, mom. Oh my god. She's like, okay. She's like, all right, but that's a good one. She's like, and silence. She's like, and goodbye. Um, but anyway, it's quite a week for me. But thank you. Quite a week. Quite a week. We're gonna spite designate a notebook. That's your next task. I'm gonna do it right on the and you know how they say don't wait for January, don't wait for Monday, don't wait for whatever. Don't wait for the next episode of Dawson's. Who cares if there's if we're in the last season of Dawson's? I should start this out. That's why I say don't put Dawson on there. Put podcasts. That's what I'm saying. Because we rewatched lots of things that made notes. I agree. My other one like this had uh your care bear one. Uh yeah, I had a care bearer, and then I had another one like this, and then I had something, and it had all kinds of but I would keep it, and you don't use your pod. See, we have bags that designated for our podcast stuff too, and Katie does not use that for her podcast stuff anymore. I will. I have it, I love it. She's like, actually, I'm going to. I'm going to put the number. Remember? Because that's why we got them. Because we said we're going to say keep it separate. We sure did.

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Sure said that. Sure. All right. You know what? Yes. I'm turning over a new leaf. When I see you next week, it'll be, yeah, it'll be the week before May. It's gonna be May, almost. It's gonna be May almost. Uh will it be May? When I see you, no, it'll be almost one day before one day before May. Wow. All right, all right. Well, thanks guys for listening in on Dawson's Creek, and we will see you next time on Generation in Between. Bye. Free audio post production by Alphonic.com.