Three years ago he tried to tell me not to be a teacher. I was insistant that it's what I wanted to do. I was passionate. I was sure I'd love it. And I did, for a while. And now I can't manage it. He thinks I should've listened to him to begin with. Says I should've listened to him and now it's going to cost him money. I understand the frustration, but he's not leaving room for me having independent thought. I told him I thought he was supporting me. He said he is, but then he said I'm going to keep paying for stuff until my savings dries up and then keep tabs on what I owe him after that. I asked him if he just wanted me to go back to work and he said I couldn't manage the stress and that I shouldn't. Days ago he was saying he'd pay for stuff and that I should keep my last paycheck and just save my savings.

He might change his mind when he calms down. He often does. But in this moment, I feel stressed. In this moment, he is stressed. He still loves me. He still cares... But he's definitely feeling overwhelmed by the financial burden of taking care of me. And I'm feeling overwhelmed. He's expressed before that he wants me to always have savings so that I never feel like I have to stay with him for logistical reasons.... I doubt his opinion on that has changed, so hopefully when he calms down he'll re-evaluate. I'm second guessing my desicion to apply for FMLA. And what if I don't get it? I don't know. I'm stressed.

Another one down, we're almost done. I'd be hard pressed to pick between this and 2 because yeah neither of them did much of anything for me. This one looks pretty nice, the training montage and spirit realm scenes being the highlight, plus they go for slightly more stylised animation in general so I wasn't as disgusted by like the lips as I had been in the first movie and just didn't talk about. The main narrative was like, okay? Po's arc is good enough although I didn't really enjoy the way his dads were acting, and then Kai is definitely the worst villain, like Shen was hype moments and aura but Kai doesn't even get those. Kinda hated the panda village as well, it feels the most like cynical corporate marketing thing out of anything in this trilogy, like focus tested to high hell and back to make for good McDonald's toys and shit, they managed to give it good narrative relevance such that I wouldn't say cut it from the movie but I was still annoyed by quite literally everyone there. Your mind/body/spirit trilogy idea is all there and then as an overarching narrative you've got Po continuing to understand his origins and love his dad even more, plus going from student to teacher and all that, like yeah no I can call attention to the things that these movies are doing reasonably well. But I think having gone into this series of movies with those old Schafrillas videos as my main expectation I think I just expected that these movies would be a lot more compelling than they have been, and instead they're just pretty good kids movies that get progressively worse and worse.