Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating

At her first college party, freshman Hazel Bradford drinks too much, propositions fellow student Josh Im, and vomits on his shoes after taking a body shot off another student. About a year later, Josh walks in on Hazel having sex with his roommate. During the spring of Hazel’s sophomore year, Josh is the teaching assistant for her anatomy class.

After having her wisdom teeth removed, a medicated Hazel emails Josh to ask for an extension on her assigned essay and professes her love. Josh replies kindly, referencing their unusual past encounters. Hazel decides they are meant to be friends and thinks of Josh as her ideal. They lose contact after he graduates. Josh keeps the email exchange printed out as a memento and later frames it.

Seven years later, in Portland, Oregon, elementary school third-grade teacher Hazel Bradford is packing her classroom on the last day of school when her best friend, Emily Goldrich, invites her to a barbecue at her house. Emily is a fifth-grade teacher and is married to Dave, the principal at Riverview, a public school at which Hazel has recently applied to teach. 

At the party, Hazel meets potential future colleagues. Suddenly,