Have I ever desperately tried to fix something only to be disappointed with the result? Um, I'm actually coming to the end of a situation like that. It was with a good friend, and essentially have reached a stage where it feels like there're some kind of irrec- irreconcilable -- is that the word? Irreconcilable differences, which is a huge bummer. I don't personally feel like it needed to be that way, but the person that I was having a conflict with is really avoidant and just is not willing to talk about anything, is not willing to take any responsibility, even if I am. And so, it was really hard. And I kept wanting to keep trying to solve it, but you obviously reach a stage where you're just either talking in circles or screaming into the void, or whatever. Like, it was not a two-sided effort. And so, you know, I had to call it -- or, we had to call it, I guess. But, yeah, just -- I don't know, friend breakups are brutal. And I can't say that I've gone through it often, maybe only one other time in my life, but it's just painful, man. And this particular one, like I said, it just started with what could’ve been a relatively small issue, and then, uh, magnified because it was not talked about. I -- that's kinda my interpretation. So yeah, it just really stinks.

Growing up in our house, we had a plate that was, like, for serving deviled eggs. So it had indentations in it, so if you had a deviled egg, you know, you -- in -- on the plate, it would be kind of nestled in. And it held, I don't know, probably 12 or however many indentations there were. And then in the center was a place for two matching salt and pepper shakers. And the salt and pepper shakers each looked like a deviled egg, and so if you nestled them against each other, like, flat side to flat side, they sat very nicely. And I took it when my -- after my mom died, I took it home with me. And I don't know, I don't know necessarily why. I mean, I always liked deviled eggs and I Iiked the plate, and I knew I wouldn't use it often, but when I did I would, you know, think of home.  Unfortunately, one of my cats knocked it off the counter and it broke in a whole bunch of pieces. And I wasn't willing to just sweep it into the trash. I got some glue and started to -- I tried to fix it. The problem is, is the kind of, um, material that it is -- I don't know. I hesitate to use the word porcelain because it was kind of a -- I don't know what kind of clay or, you know, what kind of ceramics it was. But, when I would put the glue on the s- -- you know, the side of the -- you know, the raw edge of the plate, you know, to, to glue two pieces together, it would immediately soak into the broken, unglazed part. And, um, I tried a couple different kinds of glue and that problem kept occurring. You know, I would put ‘em together, and then it, it ju- -- would just break apart. So, I think in my utter frustration, I put all of the pieces into a bag and put it on top of my kitchen cupboards where there's, um -- there's a little bit of a lip at the top of my cupboard, so if you put something there, you wouldn't necessarily see it, especially with, like, the angle. You know, the cupboards are up high, so if you're looking, you just can't see what's…

This is a good story, which is why we decided to feature it even though there are some issues with the audio quality. Overall, yesterday was such an amazing experience. We sticky noted the entirety of my teacher's car. Okay, wait, I have to tell you the story now. So, I never thought that I was going to be the person to plan my senior prank, but somehow it ended up being me. I'm known to be, like, not really a jokester, not something that I would particularly do. But in my friend group chat, my one friend said, "Hey, we don't have a senior prank." And then my other friend said, "Let's sticky note someone's car." And then I'm like, "Okay, let's do our chem teacher." So we decided to sticky note our chem teacher's car. So essentially how this worked is that, once they brought up this idea, I went and got it approved with the principal, because senior pranks have to get approved by the principal. And then I went out and I bought like 3,000 sticky notes and I spread the information to our school Discord server, and just generally our Google Classroom, and eventually what turned into something that two of my friends and I were going to do turned into, like, our full class like senior prank. Like this was the senior prank, is sticky noting the chemistry teacher's car. So, on the day of it, about 50 kids came outside and we were just putting all of these sticky notes on this teacher's car. And you know what was even funnier is that he left his door open and we had actually brought balloons, so we blew up like 50 balloons and shoved them in his car. So then here was the end of the joke, of how we were going to get him outside to see the car while we were all watching, is this chemistry and -- teacher and I park right by each other every day. He always parks behind me. So he parked behind me today like always, so after I had moved my car so it was more visible, I went inside and told him, "When I was cleaning out my locker, I had to move my car to try to get in my trunk, and when I backed into the spot, I hit your car. It's not…