S05.E07: Tell Me You Fucking Need Me - Shameless

I was shocked that Jimmy acquiesced to Fiona's request and left. Of course, to counter that, I was not at all shocked when his partner in crime revealed that the Dubai job got canceled that morning by the client and that Jimmy was just lying to Fiona about giving it up.

As annoying as I find Sammi, it's a good thing she is around to take care of Liam while Debbie and Carl are in school because obviously Fiona isn't watching him at all anymore. I found it kind of hilarious that everyone freaked out when Sammi pulled a gun on Frank. You can do a lot in the Gallagher house that no one will even blink at, but I guess we just saw what constitutes crossing the crazy line in that family.

When I was in college, we each had a campus mailing address and that's where all of our official campus mail went. I'm not sure why his financial aid package was sent registered mail to his house though. I'm pretty sure that the last two years I was in school, I got stuff like that emailed to me and I could see all my financial aid/registration stuff by logging in to the school website.

Schools can do all kinds of things to help you in situations like Lip's (especially private schools). They can temporarily waive your fees, they can get you private loans, etc. I had something similar happen to me one semester. I couldn't register for classes and was told that I had a hold because of my financial aid. When I went to the financial aid office, they said I had an outstanding balance of several thousand dollars. I don't remember exactly what happened, but what I do remember is that I ended up having to take out a supplemental loan, as did my parents.

Another option for Lip would be to see if he can withdraw for the semester and then start again next term once his financial aid is all straightened out. It might be a pain in the ass because he's an RA (meaning they would have to find someone else to take over his floor for the current semester) but it's doable.

Poor Mickey. I thought Fiona might have to hug him after they saw Ian.

I hope Ian gets some actual hope, and not just institutionalization. Mickey probably needs to meet with somone if he's going to be caretaking for the rest of his life.

I think the first thing that needs to happen is Ian needs to admit he is bipolar. Until he does that, he is not going to get any better. Right now he thinks he isn't bipolar just because he hasn't done any of the exact same things that Monica did. He still can't admit that he left the baby alone in the car for 20 minutes or that he was saying crazy things. That may very well be because he still believes that the police were trying to steal the baby from him but that is the point. He needs to be able to see what has happened, admit what happened, and want to prevent it from happening again.

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